Journal of Social Cognition and Communication is an international, peer-reviewed, biannual scholarly journal devoted to advancing research at the intersection of social cognition, communication, media, and contemporary society. The journal publishes original and rigorous scholarship that examines how individuals, groups, institutions, and technological systems shape perception, interpretation, judgment, meaning-making, and public discourse across diverse communicative environments.

The journal provides an interdisciplinary forum for theoretical, empirical, and methodological studies in communication studies, social psychology, media and information research, digital society studies, political communication, cultural analysis, and related fields. It particularly welcomes research addressing cognitive processes in communication contexts, including mediated perception, audience interpretation, information credibility, identity construction, symbolic interaction, social judgment, and the formation of collective understanding in contemporary societies.

The journal seeks to promote internationally relevant scholarship with clear conceptual grounding, methodological rigor, and scholarly originality. Submissions may adopt qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, comparative, or computational approaches, provided that they make a meaningful contribution to the study of cognition in communicative and social settings.

By bringing together research on cognition, communication, and social meaning, the journal aims to support sustained academic dialogue on how communication structures shape knowledge production, public understanding, cultural interpretation, and social behavior in changing media and social environments.

The journal is published twice a year and operates through a formal peer-review process. It is committed to editorial rigor, publication regularity, academic integrity, and the development of an internationally visible platform for interdisciplinary scholarship.

Research approaches and readership

The journal welcomes research that explains how cognitive processes operate in a specific communicative setting. Empirical work should identify the population, materials and analytical approach; conceptual work should define its central terms and show how its argument advances the relevant literature.

JSCC addresses researchers and practitioners in communication, social psychology, media and related disciplines. Authors should explain specialist methods and concepts clearly enough for readers across these fields to assess the contribution.