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Medien und Kommunikationswissenschaftopen access

Country

Germany

Universities and research institutions in Germany
Media Ranking in Germany

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH und Co

H-Index

6

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

1615634X

Coverage

2019-2023

Information

Homepage

How to publish in this journal

info@leibniz-hbi.de

Scope

The open access journal M&K - Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, ISSN 1615-634X, is edited and published on behalf of the Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung │ Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) since 1953. It provides a forum for discussion of media and communications related issues as well as for analyses of current media developments from various perspectives that are directed to all kinds of media. The journal reflects the latest trends in research and public discussion of media. M&K primarily addresses scholars, journalists, media organisations, and all those interested in the media in politics, business, associations, media and educational organisations. M&K is published 4 times a year in print and open access. It runs to approximately 600 pages p.a. and contains articles, reports, contributions to discussions, reviews on literature, a survey of new literature and an overview of new journal publications, as well as of doctoral theses that have been written in the field of media and communication science. Join the conversation about this journal
Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

CategoryYearQuartile
Communication2021Q3
Communication2022Q2
Communication2023Q2
Linguistics and Language2021Q2
Linguistics and Language2022Q2
Linguistics and Language2023Q2
SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

YearSJR
20210.182
20220.269
20230.273
Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

YearDocuments
201917
202018
202123
202219
202315
Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per documentYearValue
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20190.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20200.176
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20210.543
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20220.776
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20230.831
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20190.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20200.176
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20210.543
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20220.776
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20230.867
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20190.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20200.176
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20210.543
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20220.878
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20230.619
Total Cites 
Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

CitesYearValue
Self Cites20190
Self Cites20201
Self Cites20211
Self Cites202211
Self Cites20231
Total Cites20190
Total Cites20203
Total Cites202119
Total Cites202245
Total Cites202352
External Cites per Doc 
Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

CitesYearValue
External Cites per document20190
External Cites per document20200.118
External Cites per document20210.514
External Cites per document20220.586
External Cites per document20230.850
Cites per document20190.000
Cites per document20200.176
Cites per document20210.543
Cites per document20220.776
Cites per document20230.867
% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

YearInternational Collaboration
20190.00
20205.56
20214.35
202210.53
20236.67
Citable documents 
Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

DocumentsYearValue
Non-citable documents20190
Non-citable documents20201
Non-citable documents20212
Non-citable documents20223
Non-citable documents20233
Citable documents20190
Citable documents202016
Citable documents202133
Citable documents202255
Citable documents202357
Cited documents 
Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

DocumentsYearValue
Uncited documents20190
Uncited documents202014
Uncited documents202121
Uncited documents202236
Uncited documents202334
Cited documents20190
Cited documents20203
Cited documents202114
Cited documents202222
Cited documents202326
% Female Authors

Evolution of the percentage of female authors.

YearFemale Percent
201936.84
202075.00
202140.43
202247.62
202330.43
Documents cited by public policy (Overton)

Evolution of the number of documents cited by public policy documents according to Overton database.

DocumentsYearValue
Overton20190
Overton20200
Overton20210
Overton20220
Overton20230
Documents related to SDGs (UN)

Evolution of the number of documents related to Sustainable Development Goals defined by United Nations. Available from 2018 onwards.

DocumentsYearValue
SDG20190
SDG20207
SDG20216
SDG20221
SDG20233
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