Bibliometric study of the five communication journals indexed in Web of Science 2021
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In this document, a bibliometric study of the five Communication journals indexed in the first quartile in the Web of Science database is carried out, their general data is presented and their impact factor and the number of citations are broken down, the main countries that contribute knowledge to the area of communication in the analyzed journals, on the other hand, the immediacy index of the published articles is presented, the immediacy index is the possibility that an article is cited by another researcher the same year of its publication. . As results we find that the main countries that contribute documents to these journals are: United States of America, England, China, Germany and Canada, among others, it can also be seen that the five journals have an index immediacy close to one.
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