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 2021 JCR study, released in June 2022, reveals that IEEE journals continue to maintain rankings at the top of their fields. Below are JCR results for journals in two 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.

Details of current journal rankings appear below. IEEE titles appear in bold.

Top journals by Journal Impact Factor

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

IEEE has 8 of the top 10 journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering by Journal Impact Factor:

  1. Nature Electronics
  2. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  3. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
  4. Proceedings of the IEEE
  5. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
  6. eTransportation
  7. IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
  8. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  9. IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
  10. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Telecommunications

IEEE has 9 of the top 10 journals in Telecommunications by Journal Impact Factor:

  1. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
  2. IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
  3. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  4. IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
  5. IEEE Network
  6. IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  7. IEEE Communications Magazine
  8. Vehicular Communications
  9. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  10. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Other top IEEE journals

  • Automation and Control Systems
    #1 IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
    #3 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
    #4 IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
  • Computer Science—Artificial Intelligence
    #2 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
    #3 IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
    #5 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
  • 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
    #1 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
    #3 IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
    #4 IEEE Network
  • Computer Science—Information Systems
    #1 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
    #4 IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
    #5 IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
  • Computer Science—Interdisciplinary Applications
    #4 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  • Computer Science—Software Engineering
    #2 IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
    #3 IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
    #5 IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  • Computer Science—Theory & Methods
    #2 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
    #4 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
  • Engineering—Aerospace
    #5 IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
  • Engineering—Civil
    #4 IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Engineering—Industrial
    #2 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
    #3 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
  • 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
    #2 IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
    #5     IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

     

Top journals by Eigenfactor Score

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

IEEE has 8 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 Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  6. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
  7. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  8. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 
  9. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  10. Automatica

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 Communications Surveys and Tutorials
  7. IEEE Transactions on Communications
  8. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  9. IEEE Communications Magazine
  10. Journal of Lightwave Technology

Top journals by Article Influence Score

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

IEEE has 9 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 Transactions on Image Processing
  6. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  7. IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
  8. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
  9. IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
  10. IEEE Industrial Electronics 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 Network
  7. IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  8. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  9. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  10. IEEE Transactions on Communications  
* Source: 2021 Journal Citation Reports from Clarivate, released 6.2022