CJoC (Chinese Journal of Communication) Accepted into Thomson Reuters Social Sciences Citation Index® (SSCI)

The School is most delighted to announce that CJoC (Chinese Journal of Communication) has been accepted into SSCI! All our articles of CJoC, starting from Volume 1, Issue 1, April 2008, will be indexed and abstracted in SSCI. Its first impact factor will be published in July-August 2012. This is, of no doubt, a remarkable achievement. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors, reviewers, editorial advisory board members and readers. It would not be possible without their generous support over the years.

CJoC is published by Routledge and institutionally based at the Center for Communication Research, the School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Launched in 2008, the CJOC is a scholarly publication and a refereed journal aimed at elevating Chinese communication studies along theoretical, empirical, and methodological dimensions, while contributing to the understanding of media, information, and communication phenomena around the world. The journal publishes papers using social scientific or humanistic approaches on such topics as mass communication, journalism studies, telecommunications, rhetoric, cultural studies, media effects, new communication technologies, organizational communication, interpersonal communication, advertising and public relations, political communication, and communications law and policy.

CJoC welcomes research articles using social scientific or humanistic approaches on such topics as mass communication, journalism studies, telecommunications, rhetoric, cultural studies, media effects, new communication technologies, organizational communication, interpersonal communication, advertising and PR, political communication, communications law and policy, and so on. Articles comparing communication phenomena between China and other parts of the world are particularly welcome. 




Editorial Board of CJoC: Prof. Louis Leung, Prof. Clement Y.K. So, 
Prof. Paul S.N. Lee, Prof. Jack L.C. Qiu and Prof. Francis L.F. Lee