Communication Research Reports


Communication Research Reports is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering communication studies. It was established in 1984 and is published by Routledge.
The journal specializes in the publication of reports-style manuscripts using social scientific methods. The most common type of manuscripts published are research reports, which often feature "scales, causal models, novel correlations, and immediate observations — constitute the 'nuts and bolts' of human communication..."
In 2016, the journal was rated as the third-most central to the field of human communication.
Since April 2019, the journal supports several of the open science initiatives sponsored by the Center for Open Science, including the use of badges on certain articles that allow readers unfettered access to research materials, sharing copies of study materials, as well as sharing data analysis files.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in EBSCO databases, PsycINFO, and Scopus.

Editors-in-chief

The founding editor-in-chief of the journal was James C. McCroskey. The current editor is Nicholas David Bowman. At the April 2019 meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Keith Weber was named as the editor-elect and will edit vols. 37-39.

Past editors

YearsEditorInstitution
1984-1988James C. McCroskeyWest Virginia University
1988-1992Michael J. BeattyCleveland State University
1995James C. McCroskeyWest Virginia University
1996-1998Jerry L. AllenUniversity of New Haven
1999-2001Andrew S. RancerUniversity of Akron
2002-2004John C. SherblomUniversity of Maine
2005-2007Lisa SparksGeorge Mason University
2008-2010Wendy SamterBryant University
2011-2013Theodore AvtgisWest Virginia University/Ashland University
2014-2016Don StacksUniversity of Miami
2017-2019Nicholas David BowmanWest Virginia University /Texas Tech University
2020-2022Keith WeberChapman University