摘要：The International Journal of Communication (IJoC) continues its successful progress, more than fulfilling the hopes that we had when we launched the journal in 2007. One of our goals was to demonstrate that an online-only, open access, Creative Commons licensed publication could manifest the highest standards of scholarly publishing. We believe that we have succeeded in meeting this goal, as evidenced by the growing number of submissions, the quality of the work that we publish, the generous cooperation of literally scores of colleagues around the world who assist us by reviewing articles, the large numbers of readers who visit our site, and, certainly not least, by the decision of the major social science indexing services—Thompson Reuters, EBSCO, and Elsevier, among others—to index our content.
