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Journal of Business and Technical Communication Template

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About the Journal of Business and Technical Communication format

Journal of Business and Technical Communication is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Discourse Analysis in Language Studies, Human auditory perception and evaluation, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inDiscourse Analysis in Language Studies Human auditory perception and evaluation Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Rhetoric and Communication Studies Knowledge Management and Sharing
ISSN1050-6519
Citation impact (2-yr)4.29
h-index63
i10-index422
Total citations17,728
Top institutions publishing hereIowa State University
Journal websitewww.sagepub.com
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Papers published in Journal of Business and Technical Communication per year

27
2014
26
2015
22
2016
16
2017
18
2018
21
2019
41
2020
21
2021
20
2022
16
2023
23
2024
20
2025

Citation impact of Journal of Business and Technical Communication by publication year

351
2014
616
2015
342
2016
719
2017
490
2018
589
2019
658
2020
186
2021
151
2022
68
2023
193
2024
23
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Working Alone Together

Clay Spinuzzi · 30 May 2012

Mobile professionals can choose to work in offices, executive suites, home offices, or other spaces. But some have instead chosen to work at coworking spaces: open-plan office environments in which they work alongside other unaffiliated professionals for a fee of approximately $250 a month. But what service are they actually purchasing with that monthly fee?…

Qualitative Sampling Methods

Amy Koerber, Lonie McMichael · 15 Jul 2008

Qualitative sampling methods have been largely ignored in technical communication texts, making this concept difficult to teach in graduate courses on research methods. Using concepts from qualitative health research, this article provides a primer on qualitative methods as an initial effort to fill this gap in the technical communication literature. Specifically, the authors attempt to…

Race, Rhetoric, and Technology

Angela M. Haas · 25 Apr 2012

This article engages disciplinary (and interdisciplinary) conversations at the intersections of race, rhetoric, technology, and technical communication and offers a case study of curriculum development that supports disciplinary inquiry at these complex interstices. Specifically, informed by a decolonial framework, this article discusses the status of cultural and critical race studies in technical communication scholarship; tentative…

Making Green Stuff? Effects of Corporate Greenwashing on Consumers

Menno D.T. de Jong, Karen M. Harkink, Susanne Barth · 25 Sep 2017

The marketing success of green products has spawned the phenomenon of greenwashing, but studies on the effects of greenwashing on consumers are still limited. Using a 4 × 2 randomized experimental design, this study examines such effects by determining whether consumers respond differently to greenwashing, silent brown, vocal green, and silent green organizations selling hedonic…

Different Shades of Greenwashing: Consumers’ Reactions to Environmental Lies, Half-Lies, and Organizations Taking Credit for Following Legal Obligations

Menno D.T. de Jong, Gabriel Huluba, Ardion Beldad · 18 Sep 2019

Although corporate greenwashing is a widespread phenomenon, few studies have investigated its effects on consumers. In these studies, consumers were exposed to organizations that boldly lied about their green behaviors. Most greenwashing practices in real life, however, do not involve complete lies. This article describes a randomized 3 × 2 experimental study in the cruise…

Journal of Business and Technical Communication template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Journal of Business and Technical Communication format?
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What reference style does Journal of Business and Technical Communication use?
Journal of Business and Technical Communication uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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