Abstract:

The paper lists and analyzes the top 100 presses which have published most highly cited books in the field
of journalism and communication studies according to the data taken from CSSCI (2000— 2007). The paper divides the
presses into seven classes: university presses, education presses, people’ s presses, professional presses, general
presses and others, points out that the general presses and university presses are most influential. The paper also analyzes
the presses which have published the top 10 books most highly cited in the field of journalism and communication studies,
draws the conclusion that people’ s presses and university presses publishes most highly cited books. The paper also lists
top 20 presses which have published most highly cited books as core presses and analyzes the features of these presses.