Common sources for technical and professional communication (TPC) research (dates covered by our electronic databases in parentheses*):
- Technical Communication Quarterly (TCQ) (at AU)
- Journal of Business and Technical Communication (JBTC) (at AU)
- Technical Communication (TC) – a split between practitioner and academic interests (at AU)
- Written Communication (WC) (at AU)
- IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication (IEEE TPC) (at AU)
- Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments (Kairos) – an online journal to search separately
- Journal of Technical Writing and Communication (JTWC) (at AU)
- Programmatic Perspectives (ProgP) – an online journal to browse separately (at AU)
- International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) (at AU)
- Journal of Usability Studies (JUS) – an online journal to search separately (at AU)
- Proceedings IPCC, SIGDOC (IPCC SIGDOC)- Proceedings of the International Professional Communication Conference, Special Interest Group on Design of Documentation (at AU)
- Journal of Business Communication (JBC) (at AU)
- Business Communication Quarterly (BCQ) (at AU)
- connextions, international professional communication journal (connexions) – an online journal to browse separately
- Communication Design Quarterly (CDQ) – an online journal to search separately NOTE: Not the same as the earlier Communication Design Quarterly Review, which was a newsletter.
- ACM Journal of Computer Documentation (ACM-JCD) (at AU) NOTE: Not the same as Asterisk The Journal of Computer Documentation, which redirects to Communication Design Quarterly Review, a newsletter.
Other sources directly of interest to TPCers:
- Interactions magazine (an ACM pub on HCI, etc.) (at AU)
- College Composition and Communication (CCC) (at AU)
- Document Design: Journal of Research and Problem Solving in Org Comm (as of 2004, merged with IDJ) (Doc Design) (at AU)
- Information Design Journal + Document Design (now IDJ – see below) (at AU)
- Information Design Journal (IDJ) (at AU)
- Issues in Writing (IW) (at AU)
Other possibilities:
- Rhetoric Society Quarterly (RSQ) (at AU)
- Rhetoric Review (RR) (at AU)
- Rhetoric & Public Affairs (RPA) (at AU)
- Knowledge in Society (now KTP – see below) (at AU)
- Knowledge and Policy: The International Journal of Knowledge Transfer and Utilization (now KTP – see below) (at AU)
- Knowledge, Technology, & Policy (KTP) (at AU)
- STI Bulletin – NASA Science and Technical Information (at AU)
- Writing Commons, a peer-reviewed open textbook on writing
- many of the journals with “communication” in their titles
*Please note that coverage changes occasionally, and this list was last updated in late 2013.
Want more? Check out American Rhetoric’s list of communication journals and Colorado State’s WAC Clearinghouse list of WAC and writing journals.