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Open Access Media studies Journals
A list of Open Access Media studies journals for you to publish your manuscript in
Media studies is discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history and effects of various media
Open Access journals publish papers that are free to the reader to download. OA papers have undergone peer review and are not more or less stringent than papers in closed journals — the main difference is in the business model.
This list of Media studies Open Access journals will hopefully make it easier for you to decide where to publish your Media studies manuscript.
We have thousands of high-impact factor Media studies journals in our list.In many cases, you only see lists of Media studies journals, nonetheless, in our case we have made the list with open access Media studies journals in mind.Use our different columns — number of papers, number of citations, and relevance — to find the best Media studies venue for your manuscript.
The DOAJ columns refers to the The Directory of Open Access Journals, a list of open access journals, maintained by Infrastructure Services for Open Access.
There are certain criteria a journal must meet to be indexed by DOAJ, and thus inclusion in the DOAJ index is seen by scholars as a mark of quality.
All the open access Media studies journals in this list are indexed in OA.mg.
If you spot any mistakes in this table of Media studies OA journals, don’t hesitate to send us an email.
| Name | ISSN | DOAJ | Publisher | No. of Papers | Citations | Relevance▼ | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridging humanities | 2542-5099 | Brill | 2 | 1 | 100 | ||
| The journal of media literacy education | 2167-8715 | ☑ | University of Rhode Island | 380 | 1852 | 90 | Website |
| Pacific Journalism Review | 1023-9499 | ☑ | Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library | 1242 | 1802 | 85.6 | Website |
| Aboriginal History | 0314-8769 | ANU Press | 1219 | 2438 | 74.2 | ||
| Pacific journalism monographs | 2253-4113 | 11 | 3 | 72.7 | |||
| Cultural Studies Review | 1446-8123 | University of Technology, Sydney | 164 | 54 | 70.1 | ||
| International journal of communications and networks | 2637-6571 | eSciPub LLC | 3 | 0 | 66.7 | ||
| Journalism and media | 2673-5172 | ☑ | MDPI AG | 91 | 99 | 64.8 | Website |
| Nordicom Review | 1403-1108 | ☑ | 699 | 5194 | 61.8 | ||
| View : Journal of European Television History and Culture | 2213-0969 | ☑ | Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision | 304 | 298 | 58.6 | Website |
| For(e)dialogue | 2398-0532 | University of Leicester | 22 | 13 | 54.5 | ||
| Social media and society | 2056-3051 | ☑ | SAGE | 1091 | 11528 | 54.2 | Website |
| Transformative Works and Cultures | 1941-2258 | ☑ | Transformative Works and Cultures | 907 | 1749 | 51.7 | Website |
| Westminster papers in communication and culture | 1744-6708 | ☑ | University of Westminster Press | 303 | 2068 | 50.2 | |
| Cuadernos de información | 0716-162X | Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile | 6 | 4 | 50 | ||
| Film education journal | 2515-7086 | ☑ | UCL Press | 67 | 71 | 47.8 | Website |
| Nordic journal of media studies | 2003-184X | ☑ | De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o. | 42 | 63 | 47.6 | |
| Media and Communication | 2183-2439 | ☑ | Cogitatio | 620 | 4591 | 47.4 | Website |
| museum and society | 1479-8360 | ☑ | University of Leicester | 498 | 2435 | 47.4 | Website |
| Social Communication | 2299-5382 | ☑ | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 80 | 136 | 46.3 | |
| Communication cultures in Africa | 2631-5408 | ☑ | Winchester University Press | 13 | 4 | 46.2 | Website |
| Brazilian journalism research | 1808-4079 | ☑ | Associacao Brasileira de Pesquisadores de Jornalismo | 91 | 14 | 45.1 | Website |
| Central European journal of communication | 1899-5101 | 324 | 434 | 44.1 | |||
| CM | 1452-7405 | Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science | 104 | 169 | 43.3 | ||
| Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net | 1916-1441 | Consortium Erudit | 455 | 182 | 43.1 | ||
| JOMEC Journal | 2049-2340 | Cardiff University Press | 174 | 264 | 42 | ||
| The Deakin review of children's literature | 1927-1484 | University of Alberta - The Deakin Review of Childrens Literature | 67 | 0 | 41.8 | ||
| Writers in conversation | 2203-4293 | Flinders University Library | 48 | 5 | 41.7 | ||
| Writers | 2688-9595 | University of Oklahoma Libraries | 24 | 0 | 41.7 | ||
| مجلة اريد الدولية للدراسات الاعلامية وعلوم الإتصال | 2709-2062 | Arabic Researcher ID | 29 | 0 | 41.4 | ||
| CM | 2466-541X | ☑ | Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science | 93 | 74 | 40.9 | Website |
| Journal of corpora and discourse studies | 2515-0251 | Cardiff University Press | 32 | 27 | 40.6 | ||
| Insight-News media | 2661-3107 | PiscoMed Publishing Pte Ltd | 10 | 2 | 40 | ||
| Review of journalism and mass communication | 2333-5742 | American Research Institute for Policy Development | 10 | 2 | 40 | ||
| Journal of European Periodical Studies | 2506-6587 | ☑ | Ghent University | 160 | 70 | 40 | Website |
| Global media and China | 2059-4372 | ☑ | SAGE | 221 | 581 | 39.8 | Website |
| Open screens | 2516-2888 | ☑ | Open Library of Humanities | 56 | 2 | 39.3 | Website |
| The Journal of media innovations | 1894-5562 | ☑ | University of Oslo Library | 83 | 628 | 38.6 | |
| Journal of Media and Communication Studies | 2141-2545 | Academic Journals | 114 | 147 | 37.7 | ||
| International Conference on Cultural Informatics, Communication & Media Studies | 2654-1866 | National Documentation Centre (EKT) | 16 | 8 | 37.5 | ||
| Public History Review | 1037-9851 | ☑ | 166 | 249 | 37.3 | ||
| MEDIANZ: Media Studies Journal of Aotearoa New Zealand | 2382-218X | 139 | 153 | 36.7 | |||
| Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi | 2301-6051 | Institute of Research and Community Services Diponegoro University (LPPM UNDIP) | 95 | 17 | 35.8 | ||
| Digital Age in Semiotics & Communication | 2603-3585 | New Bulgarian University | 31 | 12 | 35.5 | ||
| Habaršy | 1563-0242 | al-Farabi Kazakh National University | 166 | 6 | 35.5 | ||
| International journal of crisis communication | 2617-121X | Green Publishers | 34 | 10 | 35.3 | ||
| The Fibreculture Journal | 1449-1443 | ☑ | The Fibreculture Journal | 192 | 1155 | 34.4 | Website |
| Mediatization Studies | 2451-1188 | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-SkÅodowskiej w Lublinie | 44 | 29 | 34.1 | ||
| Harmonia : Jurnal Pengetahuan dan Pemikiran Seni (e-journal) | 2355-3820 | ☑ | Universitas Negeri Semarang | 3 | 0 | 33.3 | |
| International journal of journalism & mass communication | 2349-2635 | Graphy Publications | 3 | 1 | 33.3 | ||
| Journal of research in humanities and social science | 2321-9467 | IOSR Journals | 3 | 5 | 33.3 | ||
| World of media | 2307-1605 | ☑ | Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University | 63 | 42 | 33.3 | Website |
| Probe-Media and communication studies | 2661-4111 | Universe Scientific Publishing Pte. Ltd. | 28 | 0 | 32.1 | ||
| Advances in journalism and communication | 2328-4927 | Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 124 | 105 | 31.5 | ||
| Studies in Media and Communication | 2325-8071 | Redfame Publishing | 252 | 488 | 31.3 | ||
| Contemporary voices | 2516-3159 | ☑ | University of St. Andrews Library | 42 | 8 | 31 | Website |
| Žurnalistikos tyrimai | 2029-1132 | Vilnius University | 139 | 40 | 30.9 | ||
| AJMC (Asian Journal of Media and Communication) | 2579-6100 | Universitas Islam Indonesia (Islamic University of Indonesia) | 13 | 2 | 30.8 | ||
| International journal of media, journalism and mass communications | 2454-9479 | ARC Publications Pvt Ltd. | 82 | 22 | 30.5 | ||
| Journal of Public Pedagogies | 2207-4422 | Victoria University | 56 | 25 | 30.4 | ||
| The Journal of New Zealand Studies | 1176-306X | 744 | 361 | 30.4 | |||
| Advanced humanities and social sciences | 2520-5986 | Intellectual Consortium of Drug Discovery and Technology Development Incorporation | 10 | 0 | 30 | ||
| Persona Studies | 2205-5258 | ☑ | Deakin University | 110 | 308 | 30 | Website |
| Journalistica | 1901-6220 | ☑ | Aarhus University Library | 120 | 69 | 30 | |
| Intersections | 2068-3472 | ☑ | Universitate din Bucuresti (University of Bucharest) | 10 | 0 | 30 | Website |
| Mutual images | 2496-1868 | Mutual Images | 100 | 13 | 30 | ||
| Social Communication | 2450-7563 | De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o. | 31 | 3 | 29 | ||
| Media industries | 2373-9037 | ☑ | University of Michigan Library | 166 | 386 | 28.9 | Website |
| The Southeastern Librarian | 0038-3686 | Kennesaw State University, Horace W. Sturgis Library | 436 | 301 | 28.7 | ||
| Authorship | 2034-4643 | ☑ | Ghent University | 108 | 47 | 28.7 | Website |
| Smithsonian contributions to history and technology | 1948-6006 | Smithsonian Institution | 7 | 1 | 28.6 | ||
| Actographe | 2490-9459 | Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University | 7 | 0 | 28.6 | ||
| TESOL in context | 2209-0916 | Deakin University | 32 | 11 | 28.1 | ||
| Journal of Human Security | 1835-3800 | ☑ | Librello | 197 | 329 | 27.9 | Website |
| Л.Н. Гумилев атындағы Еуразия ұлттық университетінің хабаршысы | 2616-7174 | L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University | 112 | 0 | 27.7 | ||
| Journal of Professional Communication | 1920-6852 | McMaster University Library | 134 | 110 | 27.6 | ||
| Loading .. | 1923-2691 | Consortium Erudit | 40 | 17 | 27.5 | ||
| Medijske studije | 1847-9758 | ☑ | Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb | 91 | 80 | 27.5 | Website |
| International Research Journal of Library, Information and Archival Studies | 2276-6502 | International Research Journals (OMICS) | 11 | 7 | 27.3 | ||
| Kinema | 1192-6252 | University of Waterloo | 490 | 117 | 27.3 | ||
| Jurnal komunikasi ikatan sarjana komunikasi Indonesia | 2503-0795 | Jurnal Komuniksi ISKI | 143 | 61 | 27.3 | ||
| Online journal of communication and media technologies | 1986-3497 | Bastas Publications | 494 | 902 | 27.3 | ||
| Jurnal kajian media | 2579-9436 | Dr. Soetomo University | 63 | 5 | 27 | ||
| Philippine Studies | 0031-7837 | Ateneo de Manila University | 668 | 1298 | 26.6 | ||
| The Entertainment and Sports Law Journal | 1748-944X | ☑ | University of Westminster Press | 211 | 498 | 26.5 | Website |
| Medijska istraživanja | 1330-6928 | ☑ | Media Research | 53 | 10 | 26.4 | Website |
| Journal of Aesthetics & Culture | 2000-4214 | ☑ | Taylor & Francis | 235 | 772 | 26.4 | Website |
| Voprosy teorii i praktiki žurnalistiki | 2308-6203 | Baikal State University | 357 | 102 | 26.3 | ||
| The comics grid | 2048-0792 | ☑ | Open Library of Humanities | 145 | 156 | 26.2 | Website |
| Journal of peace, development & communication | 2663-7898 | Peace and Development Foundation - PDF | 130 | 4 | 26.2 | ||
| Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications | 2407-9499 | ☑ | Athens Institute for Education and Research ATINER | 157 | 107 | 26.1 | Website |
| IAFOR journal of Asian studies | 2187-6037 | The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) | 23 | 25 | 26.1 | ||
| Jurnal the messenger | 2086-1559 | ☑ | Universitas Semarang | 239 | 106 | 25.9 | Website |
| Index Comunicación | 2174-1859 | ☑ | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos | 370 | 225 | 25.9 | Website |
| Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts | 2006-1838 | African Journals Online | 109 | 9 | 25.7 | ||
| Estudos em comunicação | 1646-4974 | ☑ | Universidade da Beira Interior | 156 | 80 | 25.6 | Website |
| Journal of festive studies | 2641-9939 | H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online | 55 | 20 | 25.5 | Website | |
| Preferencje Polityczne | 2083-327X | 20 | 0 | 25 | |||
| Conjunctions | 2246-3755 | De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o. | 28 | 16 | 25 | ||
| National journal of multidisciplinary research and development | 2455-9040 | AkiNik Publications | 4 | 0 | 25 |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I publish my Media studies paper?
You can publish your Media studies paper in the Open Access journals in this list
What is Open Access (OA)?
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and practices through which research is freely distributed online
What does “relevance” mean in the table?
Relevance is used to quantify the level of association between a journal and the concept it is listed under, from 0-100. For example, “Brain Stimulation” has a relevance of “24” when listed under “Open Access Computer Science Journals” because it is somewhat related to the field of Computer Science.
How do you count total number of citations?
The citations show how often works from this journal are referenced in other research papers. This data is obtained from OpenAlex. Even though the accuracy is debatable, it could help you determine how prestigious a journal is on the whole.
Where can I find other lists like this one?
If you are looking for an author or journal article, you can type it in the name, title, or DOI in the search box above to see more results. If you want to see a similar list to this one, take a look on OA.mg
How can I publish my paper on OA.mg?
That's exactly why we made these lists, so you can find a journal that will publish your paper. We at OA.mg don't offer publishing services.
What is an APC?
In some cases, articles published in journals are made open access and freely available online, immediately upon publication. This is made usually made possible by an article-processing charge (APC) that covers the range of publishing services provided.
What are the different Open Access types?
The most common types are “Green Open Access”, “Gold Open Access” and “Hybrid Open Access”.