More and more scholarly attention is paid to dissecting discipline of communication research under the microscope thereby aiming at revealing foci of scientific interest. The lion’s share of research has hereby focused either on the supply side of research examining what topics scholars write about or at the popularity side of research shedding light on what scientific publications receive the most citations. Building up on this, we argue that these research strands are inadequate to the task of exhaustively identifying foci of scientific interest. Tailoring for the fragmented topical landscape of communication research, we propose an integrative combination of three metrics: supply, popularity, and prestige of research topics. By means of topic modeling, citation counts and citation networks, our study showcases how our approach is able to reveal the intellectual architecture of our discipline in order to identify relevant paths for further scientific inquiry.

在显微镜下解剖通信研究的学科越来越受到学者的关注，从而旨在揭示科学兴趣的焦点。因此，大部分研究都集中在研究学者撰写的主题的研究的提供方，或集中在研究哪些科学出版物获得最多引用的研究的普及方。在此基础上，我们认为这些研究领域不足以详尽地确定科学兴趣的重点。针对沟通研究的零散主题格局，我们提出了三个指标的综合组合：研究主题的供应，受欢迎程度和声望。通过主题建模，引用计数和引用网络，