About Us

The journal for people who change the world.

Research from scholars, communicators, and activists working toward social change and innovative ideas.

Create meaningful social change with open-access research at your fingertips.

To truly make a difference, you need access to quality research, innovative ideas from thought leaders, and a community of like-minded professionals dedicated to driving social impact.

Journal of Public Interest Communications

Your partner in empowering social change

Founded on the belief that academic research should be accessible to all, our open-access journal offers free and unrestricted access to high-quality, peer-reviewed content from leading scholars, communicators, and activists in the field of public interest communications.

Who We Are

The Journal of Public Interest Communications is an open-access, interdisciplinary journal that publishes peer-reviewed research ​​and insights from practitioners in the emerging field of public interest communications.

What We Do

We publish research, case studies, and commentary from communicators, scholars, and activists creating social change, discovering how behavioral, cognitive, and social science can show them how people think, make decisions and behave. We are committed to publishing high-quality, accessible, and peer-reviewed research in the emerging field of public interest communications.

Why We Do It 

We want to help you actually change the world. Through research, we provide evidence-based strategies for communicators and activists to create social change.

What Makes Us Different

As an open-access, peer-reviewed journal, we create space for diverse practitioners and researchers to publish cutting-edge research from around the world on various topics related to the emerging academic field of public interest communications.

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Our Team

Angela Bradbery

Journal Supervisor

University of Florida

Joseph Radice, Ph.D.

Managing Editor

University of Florida

Cody Hays, MAMC

Editor, Practitioner Reports

Marketing Mission, Arizona State University

Kelly Chernin, Ph.D.

Editor, Academic Research

Appalachian State University