Connectivity and citations, as used by a large number of scholars in different fields, are 

a common measure of the health of a discipline. This paper shows the citation patterns 

for a multinational sample of open access journals in Communication Studies. Their 

citations are similar to those of the main communication journals, but with more 

international citations. Principal component analysis and visual network analysis are 

used to reveal geolinguistic clusters. Direct numerical comparison to the 2007 Journal 

Citation Reports (JCR) is also used. Differences in the citation patterns are attributable 

to the international nature of the sampled journals, not to their open access status, with 

only a very small amount of error, most likely coming from the JCR.