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Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ15734664 ↗
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The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication JCMC is a quarterly open access peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the interdisciplinary field of computer-mediated communication.

It was established in 1994 and is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Communication Association.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2018 impact factor was 4.896, ranking 1st out of 88 in the category "Communication" and 2nd out of 89 in the category "Information Science & Library Science".

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“Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication” enters the record as journal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Journal, Computer-Mediated and Communication can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Journal, Computer-Mediated and Communication.
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This entry incorporates text from “Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.