Conceptualization, operationalization, and performance of longitudinal studies in communication research: a systematic review.

We report a systematic review of longitudinal studies published in SSCI-Communication journals over the 50 years, focusing on how time is conceived, measured, and analyzed as a scientific concept. To facilitate the review, we devised two novel classification schemes to distinguish between longitudin...

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Published in:	Journal of Communication Vol. 76; no. 1; pp. 92 - 107
Main Authors:	Zhu, Jonathan J H, Lin, Wei, Gao, Jingwei, Lu, Heng
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Feb2026
Subjects:	Communications research Inference (Logic) Longitudinal method Time series analysis Systematic reviews Communication periodicals
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