buzzwords in the journal of communication
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Fig 2. The correlation of co-occurrence of the ten most prominent words in the most cited JOC publications since 2010
Subhayan Mukerjee - [email protected]
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
What is the h5-index?The h5-index of a journal is defined as the largest number h, such that h articles published in the last five years have at least h citations each.The h5-index of the Journal of Communication as of 2015, is 40.
To see what those forty publications are, scan the QR code, or go to http://bit.ly/joc-h5
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Fig 1. The distribution of the ten most prominent words in the 40 most cited JOC editions since 2010. There have been 22 editions of the Journal of Communication between 2010 and 2013. 4 in 2010, 6 in each of 2011 to 2013. None of the publications from 2014 appear in the h5-index.
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Fig 3. The distribution of frequencies of the ten most prominent words (per journal publication) in the 40 most cited JOC publications since 2010 – without the outliers.
Fig 4. The relative overall frequency of the ten most prominent words
Motivation:What are researchers in the field of Communication talking about? What are the most prominent words in the most cited publications of the flagship journal of Communication in the recent past?To answer this question we turn to a commonly used metric used to measure both, the productivity and scholarly impact of a journal: the h5-index.
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