Linda Putnam

CCA/ISI Sub-Committee

• Council of Communication Association—umbrella organization for 8 communication associations

• Institute for Scientific Information —Thomson Reuters

• Purpose of sub-committee—to nominate communication journals for ISI list; increase the numbers in the communication list

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Update on ISI Journals

• Statistics on the Communication List– 60 total journals; 52 journals 5 yr. ago– Average impact factor 1.064 – Average no. of citations per year 2400

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Status of Journals

• New Journals Added to ISI Communication List– Discourse & Communication– Environmental Communication– Journalism Studies– New Media & Society

• Journals under Review – Journal of Interactive Advertising– Journal of International and Intercultural Communication

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ISI New Guidelines on Reevaluation

• New Journals (Vol. 1-3)– 1st reevaluation within 2 years (or sooner)– 2nd reevaluation in 4 years– 3rd and final reevaluation in 8 years

• Existing journals (Vol. 4 or older)– 1st reevaluation in 3 years (or sooner)– 2nd reevaluation in 6 years– 3rd and final reevaluation in 9 years

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Goals for CCA/ISI Committee

• Diversifying the communication list• Working with publishers to develop strategies

for nominating journals• Finding ways to increase citations to

candidate journals• Developing criteria or ways to assess quality

and impact of humanities journals

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Diversification of ISI Communication List

• Gender, race, ethnicity• Argumentation and rhetoric• International and intercultural• Broadcast and journalism• Mass communication• Communication law• Communication education

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Journals CCA/ISI Committee Considering for Spring 2011

• Communication, Culture & Critique• International Communication Gazette• Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism• Popular Communication• Journalism & Communication Monographs• Argumentation—International Society for the

Study of Argument