The Journal of Advertising is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 covering significant intellectual development pertaining to advertising

Advertising

Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...

 theories and their relationship with practice. The Journal of Advertising is owned by the American Academy of Advertising and published by M. E. Sharpe

M. E. Sharpe

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Communication Abstracts, Current Contents

Current Contents

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/Social and Behavioral Sciences, Emerald Management Reviews, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

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, Journal Citation Reports

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/Social Sciences Edition, PsycINFO

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, ProQuest

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, Scopus

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, and Social Sciences Citation Index

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Editors

The following persons have been editors-in-chief of the journal:

• Marla Royne
• Russell Laczniak
• Ronald Faber
• Les Carlson
• George Zinkhan
• Len Reid
• Anthony McGann
• H. Keith Hunt
• Thomas Russell
• Daniel Stewart

The current editor-in-chief is Wei-Na Lee (University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

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External links

• American Academy of Advertising