81 Communication journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals with at least 10 papers in 2025. DOAJ is an independent, openly published list of open-access journals that meet its criteria.
As of 2 October 2026. From OpenAlex, Crossref and DOAJ. ORBIT Tier is our own ranking within a field, not a Scopus or Web of Science quartile.
| Journal | ISSN | Papers in 2025 | ORBIT Tier | Fee to publish | Open access | DOAJ | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journalism and Media | 2673-5172 | 210 | 1 | ≈ ₹1,15,325 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| Social Media + Society | 2056-3051 | 193 | 1 | ≈ ₹96,329 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Media and Communication | 2183-2439 | 151 | 1 | ≈ ₹1,46,923 to publish | Yes | Yes | Portugal |
| Question | 1669-6581 | 81 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Argentina |
| Observatorio (OBS*) | 1646-5954 | 62 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Portugal |
| Revista Mediterránea de Comunicación | 1989-872X | 57 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Spain |
| Writings in Romance-Germanic Philology | 2307-4604 | 55 | 4 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Ukraine |
| Prisma social | 1989-3469 | 54 | 1 | ≈ ₹8,162 to publish | Yes | Yes | Spain |
| Doxa Comunicación Revista interdisciplinar de estudios de comunicación y ciencias sociales | 1696-019X | 52 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Spain |
| South African journal of information management | 1560-683X | 51 | 1 | ≈ ₹74,841 to publish | Yes | Yes | South Africa |
| Rhetoric and Communications | 1314-4464 | 50 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | |
| Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft | 1615-634X | 48 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Germany |
| VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture | 2213-0969 | 48 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Netherlands |
| Avatares de la comunicación y la cultura. | 1853-5925 | 47 | 4 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Antigua & Barbuda |
| Virtual Communication and Social Networks | 2782-4799 | 44 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | |
| PROBLEMS OF SEMANTICS PRAGMATICS AND COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS | 2413-5593 | 42 | 3 | UAH 1,800 to publish | Yes | Yes | Ukraine |
| Anuario electrónico de estudios en Comunicación Social Disertaciones | 1856-9536 | 41 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Colombia |
| Linguistics & Polyglot Studies | 2410-2423 | 40 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Russia |
| Armenian Folia Anglistika | 1829-0337 | 39 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Armenia |
| Norsk medietidsskrift | 0804-8452 | 37 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Norway |
| deSignis | 1578-4223 | 36 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | France |
| The Journal of V N Karazin Kharkiv National University Series Foreign Philology Methods of Foreign Language Teaching | 2786-5312 | 36 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | |
| PSYCHOLINGUISTICS | 2309-1797 | 32 | 1 | ≈ ₹28,899 to publish | Yes | Yes | Ukraine |
| Language Studies and Modern Humanities | 2686-830X | 31 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Russia |
| Studies in Communication and Media | 2192-4007 | 31 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Germany |
| grafica | 2014-9298 | 30 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Spain |
| Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication | 1083-6101 | 30 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | United States |
| Hipertext net Revista Académica sobre Documentación Digital y Comunicación Interactiva | 1695-5498 | 29 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Spain |
| InMediaciones de la Comunicación | 1510-5091 | 29 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Uruguay |
| Professional Discourse & Communication | 2687-0126 | 29 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Russia |
| Communicare Journal for Communication Studies in Africa | 0259-0069 | 26 | 1 | ≈ ₹34,932 to publish | Yes | Yes | South Africa |
| NAWA Journal of Language and Communication | 1993-3835 | 26 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | |
| Tendencias Sociales Revista de Sociología | 2603-8366 | 26 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Spain |
| URU Revista de Comunicación y Cultura | 2631-2514 | 26 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Ecuador |
| Vivat Academia | 1575-2844 | 26 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Spain |
| Journal of Quantitative Description Digital Media | 2673-8813 | 25 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE COMUNICACIÓN EN SALUD | 1989-9882 | 25 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Spain |
| Communication and the Public | 2057-0473 | 24 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | |
| Sintaxis | 2594-1682 | 24 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Mexico |
| Kepes | 1794-7111 | 23 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Colombia |
| MedieKultur Journal of media and communication research | 0900-9671 | 23 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Denmark |
| Ñeatá | 2718-7268 | 23 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Argentina |
| Nordicom review/NORDICOM review | 1403-1108 | 23 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Sweden |
| Revista Panamericana de Comunicación | 2683-2208 | 23 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Mexico |
| Current Issues of Mass Communication | 2312-5160 | 22 | 1 | ≈ ₹4,816 to publish | Yes | Yes | Ukraine |
| methaodos revista de ciencias sociales | 2340-8413 | 22 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Spain |
| Universitas | 1390-3837 | 22 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Ecuador |
| Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications | 2407-9499 | 20 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Greece |
| Perspectivas de la comunicación | 0718-4867 | 20 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Chile |
| Redmarka Revista de Marketing Aplicado | 1852-2300 | 20 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Spain |
| The Pinnacle A Journal by Scholar-Practitioners | 2994-7502 | 20 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | |
| Comhumanitas | 1390-5619 | 19 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Ecuador |
| Escribanía | 0123-6938 | 19 | 4 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Colombia |
| Journal of Science Communication América Latina | 2611-9986 | 19 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Italy |
| Journal of Deliberative Democracy | 1937-2841 | 18 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Facts & Frictions Emerging Debates Pedagogies and Practices in Contemporary Journalism | 2816-2366 | 17 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | |
| Journalistica - Tidsskrift for forskning i journalistik | 1901-6220 | 17 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Denmark |
| RihumSo Revista de investigación del Departamento de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales | 2250-8139 | 17 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | |
| Studies in Communication Sciences | 1424-4896 | 17 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| Textos y Contextos | 1390-695X | 17 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Ecuador |
| CM Communication and Media | 1452-7405 | 16 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Serbia |
| Cognition communication discourse | 2218-2926 | 16 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Ukraine |
| Conexión | 2305-7467 | 16 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Peru |
| del prudente saber y el máximo posible de sabor | 1515-3576 | 16 | 4 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Argentina |
| IROCAMM-International Review Of Communication And Marketing Mix | 2605-0447 | 16 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Spain |
| Medijske studije | 1847-9758 | 16 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Croatia |
| Hipertextos | 2314-3916 | 15 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Argentina |
| Communication Management Review | 2459-590X | 14 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Croatia |
| Communitas | 1023-0556 | 14 | 1 | ≈ ₹20,959 to publish | Yes | Yes | South Africa |
| Comunicación | 1695-6206 | 14 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Spain |
| Connectist Istanbul University Journal of Communication Sciences | 2636-8943 | 13 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Türkiye |
| Intersecciones en Comunicación | 1515-2332 | 13 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Argentina |
| Questiones Publicitarias | 1133-6870 | 13 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Spain |
| aDResearch ESIC International Journal of Communication Research | 1889-7304 | 12 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Spain |
| KOME | 2063-7330 | 12 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Hungary |
| Research Trends in Modern Linguistics and Literature | 2617-6696 | 12 | 4 | ≈ ₹2,721 to publish | Yes | Yes | Ukraine |
| Revista de Comunicación y Salud | 2173-1675 | 12 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Spain |
| Online Journal of Applied Knowledge Management | 2325-4688 | 11 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | United States |
| Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations | 1454-8100 | 11 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Romania |
| The Journal of Public Interest Communications | 2573-4342 | 11 | 3 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | United States |
| Nordic Journal of Media Studies | 2003-184X | 10 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Sweden |