人類傳播研究集中于人類傳播領域中的最佳經驗工作。該雜志致力于推進對人類符號過程的理解，著重于理論驅動的研究、傳播中新理論模型的開發以及觀察和測量傳播行為的創新方法的開發。該雜志具有廣泛的社會科學重點，對心理學、社會學、語言學、人類學以及傳播學領域的學者都有重要的應用?！度祟悅鞑パ芯俊肥菄H著名傳播協會的官方刊物之一，有3500多名會員閱讀。它是一本排名第一的傳播研究雜志，也是人類傳播領域十大雜志之一。該雜志的主要主題領域包括語言和社會互動、非語言溝通、人際溝通、組織溝通和新技術、大眾溝通、健康溝通、跨文化溝通以及溝通中的發展問題。

Human Communication Research concentrates on presenting the best empirical work in the area of human communication. The journal works to advance understanding of human symbolic processes with a strong emphasis on theory-driven research, the development of new theoretical models in communication, and the development of innovative methods for observing and measuring communication behavior. The journal has a broad social-science focus and as important applications to scholars in psychology, sociology, linguistics, and anthropology, as well as areas of communication studies.Human Communication Research is one of the official journals of the prestigious International Communication Association and is read by more than 3,500 of its members. It is a top-ranked communication studies journal and one of the top ten journals in the field of human communication. Major topic areas for the journal include language and social interaction, nonverbal communication, interpersonal communication, organizational communication and new technologies, mass communication, health communication, intercultural communication, and developmental issues in communication.