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Nordicom Review

Nordicom Review is a journal devoted to new Nordic media and communication research. The journal adheres to a rigorous double-blind peer review policy and articles are published on a digital-only continuous basis.

SCImago Journal & Country Rank

Journal Impact Factor (2024): 1.7
CiteScore (2024): 4.0

Nordicom Review has an open submission policy year-round.  The journal is included in Web of Science and Scopus, the largest abstract and citation databases for peer-reviewed research.

Journal articles and issues are Open Access and currently published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Issues published since 2000 can be downloaded free of charge and without requirement for registration from the Paradigm publishing platform.

Aims & scope

Nordicom Review is an international peer reviewed journal that provides a dedicated forum for articles that contribute to a wider understanding of media, mediated communication, and journalism in the Nordic region. This includes research on the Nordic countries as well as research with relevance for the Nordic context.

Nordicom Review publishes original articles and book reviews on topics such as journalism, popular culture, media audiences, media history, political communication, public service media, media and information literacy, media education, and media production, structure, policy, and economy.

Nordicom Review welcomes interdisciplinary submissions from a worldwide authorship, including both empirical and theoretical articles.

Journal metrics

Over the past several years, Nordicom Review has experienced strong growth in terms of performance metrics. In 2024, Nordicom Review recorded a Journal Impact Factor of 1.7 (2.0), a CiteScore of 4.0 (2.8), and an H-Index of 25 (23). The acceptance rate for Nordicom Review was 25 per cent (29).

 

Read the article "Nordicom Review Enters Web of Science with a 2.0 Journal Impact Factor" on NordMedia Network 

Editors

Editor-in-chief: Jonas Ohlsson

Editor: Magnus Fredriksson

Book review editor:  Maarit Jaakkola

For inquiries, please contact us at editors@nordicom.gu.se

 

Editorial board

Karen Arriaza Ibarra, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Auksė Balčytienė, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania

Anja Bechmann, Aarhus University, Denmark

Stina Bengtsson, Södertörn University, Sweden

Daniel Biltereyst, Ghent University, Belgium

Peter Bro, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Monica B. Chibita, Uganda Christian University, Uganda

Ramaswami Harindranath, University of New South Wales, Australia

Christina Holtz-Bacha, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Valgerdur Johanssdottir, University of Iceland, Iceland

Michael Karlsson, Karlstad University, Sweden

Kari Karppinen, University of Helsinki, Finland

Andrew Kenyon, University of Melbourne, Australia

Anders Olof Larsson, Kristiania University College, Oslo, Norway

Epp Lauk, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania

Francis L. F. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Gregory F. Lowe, Northwestern University, Qatar, Qatar

Zrinjka Perusko, Zagreb University, Croatia

Kristina Riegert, Södertörn University, Sweden

Kim Christian Schrøder, Roskilde University, Denmark

Gauti Sigthorsson, University of Roehampton, UK

Seamus Simpson, University of Salford, Manchester, UK

Jeanette Steemers, King's College, London, UK

Steen Steensen, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

Jesper Strömbäck, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Miguel Vicente-Marino, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain

Claes de Vreese, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands