Each year, the Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) from Clarivate Analytics 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 2019 JCR study, released in June 2020, 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 27 of the top 30 journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering by Journal Impact Factor:
- Nature Electronics
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
- IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
- IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
- IEEE Communications Magazine
- Proceedings of the IEEE
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- IEEE Network
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
- IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
- IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
- Pattern Recognition
- Progress in Quantum Electronics
- IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
- IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
- IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
- IEEE Transactions on Communications
- IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Telecommunications
IEEE has 21 of the top 25 journals in Telecommunications by Journal Impact Factor:
- IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
- IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
- IEEE Communications Magazine
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal
- IEEE Network
- IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
- IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
- IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
- IEEE Transactions on Communications
- Digital Communications and Networks
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
- Internet Research
- Vehicular Communications
- IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
- Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
- IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
- IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine
- IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
- Journal of Lightwave Technology
- IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine
- IEEE Systems Journal
- IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
Other top IEEE journals
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- Acoustics
#5 IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
- Acoustics
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- Automation and Control Systems
#1 IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
#2 IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
#3 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
#4 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
#5 IEEE Control Systems Magazine
- Automation and Control Systems
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- Computer Science—Artificial Intelligence
#1 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
#3 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
#5 IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
- Computer Science—Artificial Intelligence
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- Computer Science—Cybernetics
#1 IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
#2 IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
#3 IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
- Computer Science—Cybernetics
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- Computer Science—Hardware & Architecture
#1 IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
#2 IEEE Network
#3 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
#5 IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
- Computer Science—Hardware & Architecture
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- Computer Science—Information Systems
#1 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
#2 IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
#3 IEEE Internet of Things Journal
#4 IEEE Network
- Computer Science—Information Systems
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- Computer Science—Interdisciplinary Applications
#4 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
- Computer Science—Interdisciplinary Applications
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- Computer Science—Software Engineering
#3 IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
#4 IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
#5 IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
- Computer Science—Software Engineering
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- Computer Science—Theory & Methods
#2 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
#3 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
- Computer Science—Theory & Methods
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- Engineering—Aerospace
#3 IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
- Engineering—Aerospace
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- Engineering—Civil
#2 IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Engineering—Civil
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- Engineering—Industrial
#2 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
- Engineering—Industrial
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- Engineering—Manufacturing
#5 IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
- Engineering—Manufacturing
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- Engineering—Ocean
#3 IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
- Engineering—Ocean
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- 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
- Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
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- Instruments and Instrumentation
#1 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
- Instruments and Instrumentation
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- Medical Informatics
#1 IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
- Medical Informatics
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- Quantum Science & Technology
#4 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
- Quantum Science & Technology
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- Remote Sensing
#1 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
#5 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- Remote Sensing
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- Robotics
#2 IEEE Transactions on Robotics
- Robotics
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- Transportation Science & Technology
#2 IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
#3 IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
#5 IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
- Transportation Science & Technology
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:
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
- Sensors
- IEEE Access
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- Automatica
- IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
- IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Telecommunications
IEEE has the top 10 journals in Telecommunications by Eigenfactor Score:
- IEEE Access
- IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
- IEEE Communications Magazine
- IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
- IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
- IEEE Transactions on Communications
- Journal of Lightwave Technology
- IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
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:
- Nature Electronics
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
- IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine
- Proceedings of the IEEE
- IEEE Communications Magazine
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Telecommunications
IEEE has the top 10 journals in Telecommunications by Article Influence Score:
- IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
- IEEE Communications Magazine
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
- IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
- IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal
- IEEE Network
- IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
- IEEE Transactions on Communications