InfoGuides: Communication: Find Articles

Key Communication Databases

Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
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Provides indexing, abstracting, and some full text for journals and books related to communication and mass media studies back to 1915.
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Communication Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive source of information about communication-related publications on a world-wide scale. Covers communication-related articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources.
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ComAnalytics This link opens in a new window
Provides data about the relative publication performance of individual scholars and of departments of communication (journalism, mass communication, speech, communication studies, media studies, rhetoric, etc.).

Canadian Journal of Communication
Peer reviewed; publishes Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies
Communication Monographs
Published peer reviewed articles in areas such media studies, interpersonal and relational communication, organizational and group communication, health and family communication, rhetoric, language and social interaction, intercultural communication, and cultural studies
Communication Research
Published peer reviewed articles that explore the processes, antecedents, and consequences of communication in a broad range of societal systems.
Communication Theory
Publishes peer reviewed articles on the theoretical development of communication from across a wide array of disciplines, such as communication studies, sociology, psychology, political science, cultural and gender studies, philosophy, linguistics, and literature
Corporate Communications
Publishes articles that address the issues arising from the increased awareness that an organization's communications are part of the whole organization, and that the relationship an organization has with its external public requires careful management.
Critical Studies in Media Communication
Publishes peer reviewed scholarship in media and mass communication from a cultural studies and critical perspective.

Discourse & Society
Published peer reviewed articles that focus on explicit theory formation and analysis of the relationships between the structures of text, talk, language use, verbal interaction or communication; social, political or cultural micro- and macrostructures and cognitive social representations.
Health Communication
Publishes peer reviewed articles in areas such as provider-patient (or family) interaction, health campaigns, health information, health promotion, interviewing, health public relations, and gerontological concerns.
Human Communication Research
Publishes peer reviewed empirical research, with an emphasis on theory-driven research, the development of new theoretical models in communication, and the development of innovative methods for observing and measuring communication behavior.

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Published peer reviewed applied research on professional communication--including but not limited to technical and business communication.
International Journal of Strategic Communication
Publishes peer reviewed articles that examines the philosophical, theoretical, and applied nature of strategic communication, which is “the purposeful use of communication by an organization to fulfill its mission.”

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
Publishes peer reviewed articles that focus on research in journalism and mass communication.
Journal of Applied Communication Research
Publishes peer reviewed scholarship that addresses or challenges the relation between theory and practice in understanding communication in applied contexts.
Journal of Communication in Healthcare
Publishes peer reviewed articles that analyze contemporary issues, theories, research findings, and evidence-based interventions and innovation across different areas of strategic health communication as applied to the healthcare, public health, and global health fields.
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Publishes peer reviewed articles that focus on social science research on communicating with computer-based media technologies.
Journal of Health Communication
Publishes peer reviewed articles that focus on the communication of health information globally.

Political Communication
Published peer reviewed articles that deploy all research methods and analytical viewpoints that advance understanding of the practices, processes, content, effects, and policy implications of political communication.
Public Relations Review
Publishes peer reviewed articles that examine public relations in depth, with an emphasis on empirical research.