SMC aims to promote excellence through dissemination of high-quality research findings, specialist knowledge, and discussion of professional issues that reflect the diversity of this field.

The focuses and scopes of the journal include:

• Applied Communication
• Communication Education
• Communication Theory
• Digital Communication
• Electronic Media
• Environmental Communication
• Health Communication
• International and Intercultural Communication
• Interpersonal Communication
• Language and Social Interaction
• Legal Communication
• Mass Communication and Media Literacy
• Mass Media
• Organizational Communication
• Political Communication
• Public Relations
• Semiotics
• Small Group Communication
• Speech Communication
• Theatre and Drama
• Visual Communication

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• COPAC
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• ERA
• EuroPub
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Each paper published in Studies in Media and Communication is assigned a DOI® number, which appears beneath the author's affiliation in the published paper. Click HERE to know what is DOI (Digital Object Identifier)? Click HERE to retrieve Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for journal articles, books, and chapters.

Publication Policies

Submission Preparation

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

- Please read the Author Guide before you submit a manuscript.

- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).

- The submission file is in Microsoft Word file format.

- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guide.

- Add DOIs and persistent links to those references that have DOIs, please see the Author Guide.

- If the paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an Article Processing Charge: 500USD/article.

- Copyrights for articles published in this journal are retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal. The journal/publisher is not responsible for subsequent uses of the work. It is the author's responsibility to bring an infringement action if so desired by the author.

NOTE:
The publisher and journal have a policy of "Zero Tolerance on the Plagiarism". We check the plagiarism issue through two methods: reviewer check and plagiarism prevention tool (ithenticate.com).
All submissions will be checked by iThenticate before being sent to reviewers.

Start a New Submission

• Option 1: Click Here to submit a manuscript online. 
• Option 2: Send your manuscript and supplements (if applicable) to E-mail: smc@redfame.com

Announcements

Studies in Media and Communication      ISSN 2325-8071 (Print)   ISSN 2325-808X (Online)

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