Each year, the Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR) from Clarivate examines the influence and impact of scholarly research journals. JCR reveals the relationship between citing and cited journals, offering a systematic, objective means to evaluate the world’s leading journals.
Journal Citation Reports
The 2022 JCR study, released in June 2023, reveals that IEEE journals continue to maintain rankings at the top of their fields. Below are JCR results for journals in a few major categories, based on three key methods of citation measurement.
Journal Impact Factor™ is the average number of times articles from a journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year. These results are those generally used and relied upon by technical publications and their stakeholders.
Eigenfactor® Score takes into account the number of times articles from a journal published in the last five years have been cited in the JCR year while also considering which journals have contributed these citations. High-scoring journals have a greater influence in the scientific community.
Article Influence® Score formula determines the average influence of a journal's articles over the first five years after publication.
Year after year, IEEE journals are ranked highly across a number of JCR metrics. In addition, twelve of IEEE’s new fully open access topical journals launched in 2020 have now received their first Journal Impact Factors in Clarivate's Emerging Sources Citation Index™ (ESCI).
Details of current journal rankings appear below. IEEE titles appear in bold.
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
IEEE has 15 of the top 20 journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering by Journal Impact Factor:
1. Nature Electronics
2. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
3. Proceedings of the IEEE
4. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
5. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
6. njp Flexible Electronics
7. IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
8. eTransportation
9. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
10. Progress in Quantum Electronics
11. IEEE Communications Magazine
12. Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems
13. IEEE Internet of Things Journal
14. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
15. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
16. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
17. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
18. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
19. IEEE Network
20. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Telecommunications
IEEE has 10 of the top 10 journals in Telecommunications by Journal Impact Factor:
1. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
2. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
3. IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
4. IEEE Communications Magazine
5. IEEE Internet of Things Journal
6. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
7. IEEE Network
8. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
9. IEEE Transactions on Communications
10. IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
Other top IEEE journals
- Automation and Control Systems
#2 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
#3 IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
#4 IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
- Computer Science—Artificial Intelligence
#2 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
#6 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
#8 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
#9 IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
#10 IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
- Computer Science—Cybernetics
#1 IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
#2 IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
#3 IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
- Computer Science—Hardware & Architecture
#2 IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
#3 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
#4 IEEE Network
- Computer Science—Information Systems
#1 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
#3 IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
#4 IEEE Internet of Things Journal
- Computer Science—Interdisciplinary Applications
#3 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
- Computer Science—Software Engineering
#4 IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
#5 IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
- Computer Science—Theory & Methods
#4 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
- Engineering—Aerospace
#5 IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
- Engineering—Biomedical
#3 IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
- Engineering—Civil
#4 IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Engineering—Industrial
#3 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
- Engineering—Ocean
#5 IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
- Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
#1 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
#4 IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
#5 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- Instruments and Instrumentation
#4 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
- Mathematics & Computational Biology
#5 IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
- Medical Informatics
#3 IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, and Medical Imaging
#5 IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
- Remote Sensing
#1 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
#4 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- Transportation Science & Technology
#4 IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Top journals by Eigenfactor Score
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
IEEE has 9 of the top 10 journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering by Eigenfactor Score:
1. IEEE Access
2. Sensors
3. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
4. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
5. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
6. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
7. IEEE Internet of Things Journal
8. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
9. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
10. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Telecommunications
IEEE has the top 10 journals in Telecommunications by Eigenfactor Score:
1. IEEE Access
2. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
3. IEEE Internet of Things Journal
4. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
5. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
6. IEEE Transactions on Communications
7. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
8. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
9. IEEE Communications Magazine
10. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Computer Science—Artificial Intelligence
IEEE has 4 of the top 5 journals in Computer Science—Artificial Intelligence by Eigenfactor Score:
1. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
3. IEEE Internet on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
4. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
5. Neurocomputing
Top journals by Article Influence Score
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
IEEE has 8 of the top 10 journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering by Article Influence Score:
1. Nature Electronics
2. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
3. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
4. Proceedings of the IEEE
5. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
6. IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
7. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
8. IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
9. njp Flexible Electronics
10. IEEE Communications Magazine
Telecommunications
IEEE has the top 10 journals in Telecommunications by Article Influence Score:
1. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
2. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
3. IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
4. IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
5. IEEE Communications Magazine
6. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
7. IEEE Network
8. IEEE Internet of Things Journal
9. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
10. IEEE Transactions on Communications
Computer Science—Artificial Intelligence
IEEE has 3 of the top 5 journals in Computer Science—Artificial Intelligence by Article Influence Score:
1. Nature Machine Intelligence
2. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
3. International Journal of Computer Vision
4. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
5. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
