Abstract
This study profiles scholarly publishing in the domain of mediated communication, based on an analysis of media-themed communication journals—as indexed in the CIOS’s ComAbstracts database—from 1970–2020. Analysis of 22,300 articles from media-themed scholarly journals paints a portrait of scholarly publishing configurations across the domains of Journalism and Communication. Criterion articles were subjected to cluster analysis that yielded a comprehensive unified field portrait of interlinkages among topical pairings encompassing 58 topical categories. Results suggest that just 7 of our 37 criterion journal outlets date to the 1970s, 6 additional titles were launched in the 1980s, 10 more in the 1990s, and 14 during the 1990s. As a consequence of this growth in outlets, the bulk of the literature in these journals appeared in the current century.
Author ORCID Identifier
David J. Atkin: 0000-0002-0087-597X
Kenneth A. Lachlan: 0000-0002-7856-2797
Timothy Stephen: 0000-0003-1424-4156
Carolyn Lagoe: 0000-0001-7409-1783
Recommended Citation
Atkin, D. J., Lachlan, K. A., Stephen, T., & Lagoe, C. (2024). Mapping the ferment: Mass communication research in CIOS-indexed journals from 1970–2020. Journal of the Association for Communication Administration, 41, 49-64
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