IEEE journals lead the field in the latest Impact Factor and CiteScore rankings
IEEE continues to publish articles of the highest quality and impact according to the latest Journal Citation Reports™ from Clarivate Analytics and CiteScore™ metrics by Scopus, as both released their latest reports in June 2025. Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and CiteScore are two metrics that are commonly used to examine the influence and impact of scholarly research journals and offer a systematic, objective means to evaluate the world’s leading journals. The latest results demonstrate a collective and consistent high-level of performance across IEEE publications in a wide range of technologies in both open access and hybrid journals. It also highlights notable individual achievements as several IEEE journals were ranked at the top of their respective fields.
Below are results for journals in a range of technical categories based on several different methods of citation measurement:
Journal Rankings by Impact Factor
Journal Rankings by Impact Factor
Journal Impact Factor™ (JIF) is a widely used metric relied upon by many in the technical community to measure the impact of scholarly research journals. Journal Impact Factor is developed by calculating the average number of times articles from a journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year. In the most recent JCR report, a wide range of IEEE publications were consistently listed among the most-cited journals in multiple categories:
- 24 of the top 30 journals in Electrical & Electronic Engineering
- 23 of the top 30 journals in Telecommunications
- 9 of the top 20 journals in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
- 5 of the top 10 journals in Computer Science, Information Systems
- 3 of the top 5 journals in Imaging Science
- 3 of the top 5 journals in Automation and Control Systems
- 3 of the top 5 journals in Computer Science, Cybernetics
- 3 of the top 5 journals in Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Top Ranked Journals in Several JCR Categories
The following are examples of IEEE journals that ranked highly in their respective categories:
- IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials – #1 in Telecommunications, #1 in Computer Science, Information Systems (JIF: 46.7)
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine – #1 in Imaging Science, #1 in Remote Sensing (JIF 16.4)
- IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica – #1 in Automation and Control (JIF: 19.2)
- IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics – #1 in Computer Science, Cybernetics (JIF: 10.5)
- Proceedings of the IEEE – # 2 in Electrical Engineering (JIF: 25.9)
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence – #3 in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence; #3 in Electrical Engineering (JIF 18.6)
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication – #2 in Telecommunications (JIF 17.2)
- IEEE Wireless Communications – #2 in Computer Science, Hardware and Architecture; #3 in Telecommunications (JIF: 11.5)
Details of current journal rankings in a few sample categories appear below. IEEE titles appear in bold.
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
IEEE has 24 of the top 30 journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering by Journal Impact Factor:
1 Nature Electronics
2 Proceedings of the IEEE
3 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
4 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications
5 eTransportation
6 npj Flexible Electronics
7 IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
8 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
9 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
10 Progress in Quantum Electronics
11 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
12 Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems
13 IEEE Wireless Communications
14 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
15 IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
16 IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications
17 IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
18 IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
19 IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
20 IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
21 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
22 Progress in Electromagnetics Research-PIER
23 IEEE Internet of Things Journal
24 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
25 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
26 IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
27 IEEE Transactions on Communications
28 IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
29 IEEE Communications Magazine
30 IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society
Telecommunications
IEEE has 23 of the top 30 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
4 IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
5 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
6 Satellite Navigation
7 IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
8 Progress in Electromagnetics Research-PIER
9 IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
10 IEEE Internet of Things Journal
11 IEEE Transactions on Communications
12 IEEE Communications Magazine
13 Internet of Things
14 Digital Communications and Networks
15 IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
16 IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
17 IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
18 Internet Research
19 IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking
20 Vehicular Communications
21 Telecommunications Policy
22 IEEE Network
23 IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
24 IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
25 IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
26 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
27 IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
28 IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
29 IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks
30 Journal of Lightwave Technology
Journal Rankings by CiteScore
CiteScore is a popular and widely accepted citation metric developed from Elsevier’s Scopus data. The 2024 CiteScore is calculated by dividing the total number of citations to peer-reviewed articles in a journal in 2021–2024 by the total number of peer-reviewed articles published in the journal over the same period. In the most recent CiteScore report by Scopus, a wide range of IEEE publications were consistently listed among the most-cited publications in multiple categories:
IEEE Rankings by Category
- 8 of the top 20 publications in Electrical Engineering
- 9 of the top 20 publications in Computer Software
- 8 of top 20 publications in Computer Hardware
- 7 of the top 20 publications in Signal Processing
- 4 of the top 5 publications in Computational Theory and Mathematics
- 3 of the top 5 publications in Automotive Engineering
- 2 of the top 5 publications in Applied Mathematics
- 2 of the top 5 publications in Control & Systems Engineering
- 2 of the top 5 publications in Computer Networks and Communications
Top Ranked Journals in Several CiteScore Categories
Following are examples of IEEE journals that ranked highly in their respective categories:
- IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials – #1/970 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (CiteScore: 86.2)
- Proceedings of the IEEE – #1/239 in General Computer Science, #2/970 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (CiteScore 71.1)
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence – #1/665 title in Applied Mathematics, #1/197 in Computational Theory and Mathematics (CiteScore: 35.0)
- IEEE Signal Processing Magazine – #4/665 in Applied Mathematics, #4/183 in Signal Processing (CiteScore: 20.5)
- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation – #2/197 in Computational Theory and Mathematics, #3/136 in Theoretical Computer Science (CiteScore 23.5)
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems – #2/133 in Automotive Engineering (CiteScore: 17.8)
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine – #1/198 in Earth and Planetary Sciences, #2/174 in Instrumentation (CiteScore: 27.1)
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications – #4/507 in Computer Networks and Communications (CiteScore: 33.6)
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
IEEE has 8 of the top 20 publications in Electrical and Electronic Engineering by CiteScore:
1 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
2 Proceedings of the IEEE
7 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
9 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
11 IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
14 IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing
19 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
20 IEEE Wireless Communications
Computer Networks and Communications
IEEE has 9 of the top 20 publications in Computer Software by CiteScore:
2 Proc. of the IEEE Computer Society Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
3 Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
5 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
9 IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
10 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
13 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
14 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
15 IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
19 IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Journal Rankings by Eigenfactor
Eigenfactor® Score is a metric that calculates 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 are seen as having a greater influence in the scientific community. IEEE publications scored highly in multiple categories:
- 8 of the top 10 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- 10 of the top 10 in Telecommunications
- 5 of the top 5 in Automation and Control Systems
- 4 of the top 5 in Artificial Intelligence
- 3 of the top 5 in Computer Hardware and Architecture
Details of current journal rankings in a few sample categories appear below. IEEE titles appear in bold.
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 Pattern Analysis And Machine Intelligence
4 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
5 IEEE Internet of Things Journal
6 Expert Systems With Applications
7 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
8 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience And Remote Sensing
9 IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
10 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Telecommunications
IEEE has 10 of the top 10 journals in Telecommunications by Eigenfactor Score:
1 IEEE Access
2 IEEE Internet of Things Journal
3 IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
4 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
5 IEEE Transactions on Communications
6 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
7 IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
8 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
9 IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
10 IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Artificial Intelligence
IEEE has 4 of the top 5 journals in Artificial Intelligence by Eigenfactor Score:
1 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
2 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
3 Expert Systems with Applications
4 IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
5 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Journal Rankings by Article Influence Score
Article Influence® Score is a metric that determines the average influence of a journal's articles over the first five years after publication. IEEE publications scored highly in multiple categories:
- 8 of the top 10 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- 9 of the top 10 in Telecommunications
- 6 of the top 10 in Automation and Control Systems
- 6 of the top 10 in Computer Hardware and Architecture
- 5 of the top 10 in Cybernetics
Details of current journal rankings in a few sample categories appear below. IEEE titles appear in bold.
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 Proceedings of the IEEE
3 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
4 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
5 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
6 FT Signal Processing
7 IEEE Wireless Communications
8 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
9 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
10 IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
Telecommunications
IEEE has 9 of 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
4 IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
5 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
6 IEEE Communications Magazine
7 IEEE Transactions on Communications
8 Satellite Navigation
9 IEEE Network
10 IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
