Research Paper Submission for the 2006 SAAS Agricultural Communication Section Meeting

Abstract

A content analysis of academic and professional literature published in the Journal of Applied Communications (JAC) from 2000 through 2004, this study reports findings related to research themes, authorship, and citations in the journal. Using qualitative and quantitative content analysis methods, researchers examined 56 articles, 119 authors ’ names, and 1,249 entries in the articles ’ reference lists as the units of analysis. Trained coders categorized the collection of articles by research themes and examined frequencies of authorships and citations to report the most prolific authors and the most commonly cited authors within themes. Communications management was the most popular theme (11 articles), followed by Information Technology, Media Relations, Distance Education, and Publications. New themes that have emerged sinc