IEEE Journals Continue to Excel in Citation Rankings

Journal Rankings by Journal 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 listed below. In fact, IEEE also has more top quartile journals in IEEE core fields of interest than any other publisher.*

• 14 of the top 20 journals in Electrical & Electronic Engineering
• 16 of the top 20 journals in Telecommunications
• 8 of the top 25 journals in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
• 6 of the top 10 journals in Automation and Control Systems
• 5 of the top 10 journals in Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
• 4 of the top 10 journals in Computer Science, Information Systems
• 4 of the top 10 journals in Imaging Science
• 3 of the top 5 journals in Computer Science, Cybernetics

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: 50.6)
• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine—#1 in Imaging Science, #1 in Remote Sensing (JIF: 13.7)
• IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica—#1 in Automation and Control (JIF: 18.3)
• IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics—#2 in Computer Science, Cybernetics, #3 in Automation & Control (JIF: 11.3)
• Proceedings of the IEEE—#3 in Electrical Engineering (JIF: 30.9)
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence—#4 in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence; #4 in Electrical Engineering (JIF: 20.4)
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication—#2 in Telecommunications (JIF: 16.8)
• IEEE Wireless Communications—#1 in Computer Science, Hardware and Architecture; #3 in Telecommunications (JIF: 13.4)
• IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing—#1 in Computer Science, Cybernetics (JIF: 11.3)
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems—#2 in Computer Science, Hardware and Architecture (JIF: 9.7)

Details of current journal rankings in a few sample categories appear below.

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
IEEE has 14 of the top 20 journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering by Journal Impact Factor:

3. Proceedings of the IEEE
4. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
6. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
8. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
10. IEEE Wireless Communications
11. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
12. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
13. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
14. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
16. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
17. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
18. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
19. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
20. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Telecommunications
IEEE has 16 of the top 20 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
5. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
6. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
7. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
9. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
10. IEEE Network
11. IEEE Internet of Things Journal
12. IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
13. IEEE Transactions on Communications
14. IEEE Communications Magazine
15. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
16. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
19. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
20. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking

Journal Rankings by CiteScore

CiteScore is a popular and widely accepted citation metric developed from Elsevier’s Scopus data. The 2025 CiteScore is calculated by dividing the total number of citations to peer-reviewed articles in a journal in 2022–2025 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

• 10 of the top 25 publications in Electrical Engineering
• 9 of the top 20 publications in Computer Software
• 7 of the top 20 publications in Signal Processing
• 6 of the top 10 publications in Automotive Engineering
• 4 of the top 5 publications in Computational Theory and Mathematics
• 3 of the top 5 publications in Applied Mathematics
• 2 of the top 5 publications in Control & Systems Engineering

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—#1/1030 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (CiteScore: 98.7)
• Proceedings of the IEEE— #3/1030 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, #2/241 in General Computer Science (CiteScore 60.3)
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence—#1/680 title in Applied Mathematics, #1/203 in Computational Theory and Mathematics (CiteScore: 41.1)
• IEEE Signal Processing Magazine—#3/680 in Applied Mathematics, #4/203 in Signal Processing (CiteScore: 20.8)
• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation—#3/203 in Computational Theory and Mathematics, #4/135 in Theoretical Computer Science (CiteScore 22.1)
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems—#2/143 in Automotive Engineering (CiteScore: 20.5)
• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine—#2/201 in Earth and Planetary Sciences, #2/206 in Instrumentation (CiteScore: 27.0)
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing—#3/131 in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design (CiteScore: 21.7)
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications—#4/568 in Computer Networks and Communications (CiteScore: 32.8)
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering—#2/203 in Computational Theory and Mathematics (CiteScore: 22.7)

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
IEEE has 10 of the top 25 publications in Electrical and Electronic Engineering by CiteScore:

1. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
3. Proceedings of the IEEE
7. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
10. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
11. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
18. IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing
20. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
21. IEEE Wireless Communications
22. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
24. IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Computer Software
IEEE has 9 of the top 20 publications in Computer Software by CiteScore:

2. Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
3. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
6. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
12. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
13. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
14. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
15. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
16. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
20. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems

Journal Rankings by Eigenfactor® Score

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
• 4 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.

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
IEEE has 8 of the top 10 journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering by Eigenfactor Score:

1. IEEE Access
3. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
4. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
6. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
7. IEEE Internet of Things Journal
8. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
9. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
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 Transactions on Multimedia
9. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
10. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters

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
3. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
4. 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:

• 7 of the top 10 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• 9 of the top 10 in Telecommunications
• 6 of the top 10 in Computer Hardware and Architecture
• 5 of the top 10 in Automation and Control Systems
• 5 of the top 10 in Cybernetics

Details of current journal rankings in a few sample categories appear below.

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
IEEE has 7 of the top 10 journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering by Article Influence Score:

3. Proceedings of the IEEE
4. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
5. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
6. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
7. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
8. IEEE Wireless Communications
10. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing

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
5. IEEE Communications Magazine
6. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
7. IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
8. IEEE Transactions on Communications
9. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
10. IEEE Network