''Visual Communication Quarterly'' (''VCQ'') is a quarterly
peer-reviewed
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academic journal covering all areas of
visual communication. It is an official journal of the
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's Visual Communication Division and was established in 1994. It is published by
Routledge and the
editor-in-chief is Lawrence Mullen (
University of Nevada, Las Vegas).
During its first 11 years, the journal was affiliated with the
National Press Photographers Association and was mailed to professionals along with ''News Photographer'' magazine.
Over its first 25 years, more than two-thirds of the research published in ''VCQ'' focused on the United States and more than half of it focused on photography.
Other visual matter the journal has explored include, in descending order, television, film, graphs and graphics, advertisements, editorial cartoons, newspaper design, illustrations, logos and symbols, and websites and blogs.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
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EBSCO databases
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ProQuest databases
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Scopus
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English-language journals
Communication journals
Quarterly journals
Routledge academic journals
Academic journals established in 1994
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