Journalism plays a central role in our daily lives through helping us make sense of the world around us. With the media continuing to shape public opinion, ensure trust, and encourage democratic participation, free and universally accessible research into how it functions and affects society is highly important.

Journalism and Media (ISSN 2673-5172) is an Open Access journal of scientific research on the social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of journalism and the media, with a special interest in their latest developments and transformations.

This edition of our Journal Spotlight series will explore its leadership, aims and scope, and key growth milestones.

Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Andreu Casero-Ripollés

Current Impact Factor: 2.5

Current CiteScore: 3.2

Statistics as of September 2026

A Journalism and Media timeline

• 2020 – Inaugural issue is released
• 2021 – Journalism and Media was indexed in DOAJ and EBSCO
• 2023 – Journalism and Media was indexed in Scopus and ESCI
• 2026 – Journalism and Media surpasses 700 papers published

Editor-in-Chief

Professor Dr. Andreu Casero-Ripollés has served as Journalism and Media’s Editor-in-Chief since it began publishing in 2020.

Currently, Professor Dr. Casero-Ripollés serves as a Full Professor of Journalism at the Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, Spain, with previous roles including the Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Director of the Department of Communication Sciences.

“Our mission is to engage with the academic debates around the field of Communication. This area is impressively dynamic due to the technological disruption and its social centrality. Today our everyday life is moulded by media and digital technologies” – Prof. Dr. Andreu Casero-Ripollés

Aims and Scope

The media arguably shapes nearly every domain of social life; it continues to face new challenges such as emerging digital technologies and the spread of fake news.

Journalism and Media therefore provides an advanced forum for interdisciplinary research on the rapidly evolving field of journalism and media and such challenges.

It publishes research articles, conceptual papers, and review papers, as well as Special Issues covering a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:

• Social media;
• Digital journalism;
• Health communication;
• Political communication;
• International communication;
• News production and consumption;
• Impact of technology in media and journalism;

You can find the journal’s full aims and scopes here.

Metrics

Most cited, viewed, and downloaded

The Journalism and Media publication with the highest number of citations, as of September 2026, is ‘Artificial Intelligence in News Media: Current Perceptions and Future Outlook’ which explores the adoption of AI across contemporary journalism practices.

On the other hand, currently holding the highest total paper downloads is ‘COVID-19-Related Social Media Fake News in India’. This article looks to contribute to the academic understanding of social media fake news during the COVID pandemic, using India as a case study.

Impact Factor

In the recent Journal Citation Reports announcement, Journalism and Media received an updated Impact Factor of 2.5.

This gives the journal it highest Impact Factor to date and places it in the top quartile of journals of the JCR category ‘Communication’.

CiteScore

The journal’s 2025 CiteScore ranking (3.2) also highlights its steady growth across these key metrics.

Journalism and Media’s position in the CiteScore category ranks are as follows:

• Linguistics and Language – Q1
• Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) – Q1
• Social Sciences (miscellaneous) – Q2

Indexing

Journalism and Media is indexed within a vast range of databases and archives, including:

• Scopus (Elsevier)
• ESCI (Web of Science)
• DOAJ
• J-Gate
• Gale
• OpenAIRE
• ProQuest

Click here to see the complete list of associated indexing services which the journal is included in.

Altmetrics

Altmetrics provide insight into how research is shared online.

As of September 2026, Journalism and Media has received 1,981 mentions across social media platforms, 161 mentions across various news outlets, blogs, or podcasts, and 8 mentions across policy documents.

Conferences

Amongst their many benefits, conferences are invaluable for network and facilitating meaningful dialogue between scholars. Furthermore, they allow scholars to connect with peers in related areas and uncover new ideas which may strengthen with their own research.

Journalism and Media invites scholars to attend the 2nd International Online Conference on Administrative Sciences (IOCAS 2027), taking place virtually between 4 & 5 March 2027.

IOCAS aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and highlight both emerging trends and innovative approaches that are shaping organizations, as well as public- and private-sector management.

News organizations are central to understanding the modern dissemination of knowledge and themselves must be led, managed and funded. Therefore, topics such as newsroom leadership, media business models, and public versus private ownership, can be broadly exploring through its sessions.

Keep an eye on the journal’s events page for all upcoming events associated with Journalism and Media.

Testimonials

“I have had a great experience publishing in both Journalism and Media and Social Sciences. My manuscripts were handled in the most professional manner. The reviews were constructive and robust. The editorial teams and proofreaders were quite helpful and enhanced the clarity of my studies.” – Temple Uwalaka, author in Journalism and Media

“My experience as a reviewer for a journal published by MDPI was very interesting and professionally rewarding […] I would also emphasize that the platform leaves enough time for the reviewers to thoroughly study the work and give their constructive opinion” – Ivana Ercegovac, reviewer for Journalism and Media

Submitting a manuscript

Manuscripts for Journalism and Media should be submitted online at susy.mdpi.com.

Prior to submitting, we recommend that authors explore the useful resources on our instructions for authors webpage.

To submit your manuscript, register and login to the submission website. Once you have registered, click here to go to the submission form. The submitting author, who is generally the corresponding author, is responsible for the manuscript during the submission and peer review process.

All co-authors can see the manuscript details in the submission system if they register and login using the e-mail address provided during manuscript submission.

If you’d like to find out more about Journalism and Media and its publication process, please visit the journal website.

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