Visual Communication (journal)
Visual Communication is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers on the visual dimension of language and communication. The journal's editors are Louise Ravelli (University of New South Wales) and Janina Wildfeuer (University of Groningen). The editorial team also features Jana Pflaeging (University of Salzburg), Michele Zappavigna (University of New South Wales), Robert Tovey (University of Loughborough), Martin Thomas (University of Leeds), Søren Vigild Poulsen (University of Southern Denmark), Dušan Stamenković (University of Niš). It has been in publication since 2002 and is currently published by SAGE Publications. Scope. "Visual Communication" provides an international forum  for the growing body of work in numerous interrelated disciplines. Its broad coverage includes, but is not limited to: still and moving images; graphic design and typography; visual phenomena such as fashion, professional vision, posture and interaction; the built and landscaped environment; the role of the visual in relation to language, music, sound, action and other resources. Photography has been the visual form most studied within the journal during its first two decades and this is followed by video, drawings and illustrations, places, advertisements, television, graphic and interior design, books, cartoons and comics, websites, films, artworks and exhibitions. Abstracting and  indexing. "Visual Communication" is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", its 2017 impact factor is 0.773, ranking it 64 out of 84 journals in the category ‘Communication’.