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 (such as quantitative data analysis). 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 (questionnaires or stimulus materials used in experiments), 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 (Pennsylvania State University). Dave Keating (University of New Mexico) is currently serving as the editor of vols. 40–42.
Past editors
Years Editor Institution (at time of Editorship) 1984-1988 James C. McCroskey West Virginia University 1988-1992 Michael J. Beatty Cleveland State University 1995 James C. McCroskey West Virginia University 1996-1998 Jerry L. Allen University of New Haven 1999-2001 Andrew S. Rancer University of Akron 2002-2004 John C. Sherblom University of Maine 2005-2007 Lisa Sparks George Mason University 2008-2010 Wendy Samter Bryant University 2011-2013 Theodore Avtgis West Virginia University/Ashland University 2014-2016 Don Stacks University of Miami 2017-2019 Nicholas David Bowman West Virginia University (until August 2019)/Texas Tech University (as of September 2019) 2020-2022 Keith Weber Chapman University
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