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Communication Theory is a peer-reviewed journal published by Wiley, covering Media Studies and Communication, Social Media and Politics, Rhetoric and Communication Studies.

PublisherWiley
Reference styleAuthor–year (Chicago)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Communication Theory 12 (3): 45–58.

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Publishes research inMedia Studies and Communication Social Media and Politics Rhetoric and Communication Studies Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
ISSN1050-3293
Citation impact (2-yr)5.76
h-index131
i10-index690
Total citations77,015
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Colorado Boulder
Journal websitewww.wiley.com
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Papers published in Communication Theory per year

30
2014
44
2015
24
2016
47
2017
53
2018
28
2019
49
2020
23
2021
22
2022
15
2023
27
2024
37
2025

Citation impact of Communication Theory by publication year

2.9K
2014
3.7K
2015
1.2K
2016
2.7K
2017
1.4K
2018
906
2019
1.7K
2020
544
2021
392
2022
419
2023
336
2024
77
2025

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

Most-cited papers in Communication Theory

Political Communication in Media Society: Does Democracy Still Enjoy an Epistemic Dimension? The Impact of Normative Theory on Empirical Research

Jürgen Habermas · 1 Nov 2006

I first compare the deliberative to the liberal and the republican models of democracy, and consider possible references to empirical research and then examine what empirical evidence there is for the assumption that political deliberation develops a truth-tracking potential. The main parts of the paper serve to dispel prima facie doubts about the empirical content…

1,822 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Communication Theory as a Field

Robert T. Craig · 1 May 1999

This essay reconstructs communication theory as a dialogical-dialectical field according to two principles: the constitutive model of communication as a metamodel and theory as metadiscursive practice. The essay argues that all communication theories are mutually relevant when addressed to a practical lifeworld in which “communication” is already a richly meaningful term. Each tradition of communication…

1,429 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Presence, Explicated

Kwan Min Lee · 1 Feb 2004

This article reviews previous literature on presence, with a particular focus on its conceptualization and typologies. It first compares various types of presence-related terms (e.g., telepresence, virtual presence, mediated presence, copresence, and presence) and suggests that of those terms the term presence works best for the systematic study of human interaction with media and simulation…

1,422 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Social Identity, Self-Categorization, and the Communication of Group Norms

Michael A. Hogg, Scott A. Reid · 1 Feb 2006

We articulate the role of norms within the social identity perspective as a basis for theorizing a number of manifestly communicative phenomena. We describe how group norms are cognitively represented as context-dependent prototypes that capture the distinctive properties of groups. The same process that governs the psychological salience of different prototypes, and thus generates group…

1,376 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Toward a Theory of Entertainment Persuasion: Explaining the Persuasive Effects of Entertainment-Education Messages

Emily Moyer‐Gusé · 1 Aug 2008

A growing body of research indicates that entertainment-education programming can be an effective way to deliver prosocial and health messages. Some have even speculated that entertainment-education may be more effective than overtly persuasive messages in certain circumstances. Despite empirical advances in this area, more work is needed to understand fully what makes entertainment-education unique from…

1,344 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

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What reference style does Communication Theory use?
Communication Theory uses Author–year (Chicago) 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, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Communication Theory 12 (3): 45–58.
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