''Human Communication Research'' is a quarterly

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covering empirical work in any area of human communication and human symbolic processes. It was established in 1974 and the current

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is Yariv Tsfati ( University of Hafai) and Steven R. Wilson (

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). It is published by

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on behalf of the

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 5.333, ranking it 11th out of 94 journals in the category "Communication".

Editors

The following persons have been previous editors-in-chief:

References

External links

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