Aims & Scope
Written Communication is an international multidisciplinary journal that publishes theory and research in writing from fields including anthropology, English, education, history, journalism, linguistics, psychology, and rhetoric.
Among topics of interest are the nature of writing ability; the assessment of writing; the impact of technology on writing (and the impact of writing on technology); the social and political consequences of writing and writing instruction; nonacademic writing; literacy (including workplace and emergent literacy and the effects of classroom processes on literacy development); the social construction of knowledge; the nature of writing in disciplinary and professional domains; cognition and composing; the structure of written text and written communication; relationships among gender, race, class and writing; and connections among writing, reading, speaking, and listening.
Also of interest are review essays and reviews of research on topics important to writing researchers.
No worthy topic related to writing is beyond the scope of the journal.
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Impact Factor
| Year | Value |
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| 2025 | 2.2 |
SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | 0.672 |
Quartile
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | Q1 |
h-index
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | 66 |
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Most Cited Articles
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The Method Section as Conceptual Epicenter in Constructing Social Science Research Reports
Citation: 342
Authors: Peter