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Manuscript Auditing →01Impact factor
Impact factor of IEEE Transactions on Communications (2026)
The impact factor shown here is the 2-year mean citedness: citations received in a year by the papers IEEE Transactions on Communications published in the two previous years, divided by the number of those papers. That is the same formula as the Journal Impact Factor, applied to the open citation data of OpenAlex. The journal is listed in JCR 2024, so it also has an official Journal Impact Factor published by Clarivate, which can differ because it counts citations from Web of Science journals only.
Rank in its subject categories
- Q1Engineering, Electrical & Electronicrank 45 of 382 journals
- Q1Telecommunicationsrank 17 of 124 journals
Quartiles here rank journals of the same Web of Science category by 2-year citedness; they are not the official JCR quartiles.
Citations and papers per year
Article processing charge listed at about US$2,645.
02Indexing
Indexing of IEEE Transactions on Communications
- ISSN
- 0090-6778
- eISSN
- 1558-0857
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Scopus source type
- Journal
- Web of Science categories
- Engineering, Electrical & Electronic, Telecommunications
From the indexing lists used on ScholarsColab, updated 1 March 2026. Indexing can change: confirm on the Web of Science Master Journal List or the Scopus source list before submitting. Official Journal Impact Factors and JCR quartiles are published by Clarivate; the impact factor and quartile on this page are calculated from OpenAlex open data (see how the impact factor works).
03What it publishes
What IEEE Transactions on Communications publishes: real papers
Words that appear most often in the titles of papers our mentors published here:
04Papers by our mentors
Papers by ScholarsColab mentors in IEEE Transactions on Communications
- Bounds for multihop relayed communications in Nakagami-m fading2006463 citations
Theodoros Tsiftsis - Free-space optical communication with nonzero boresight pointing errors2014461 citationsTheodoros Tsiftsis
- Reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted two–way communications: Performance analysis and optimization2020342 citationsTheodoros Tsiftsis
- Closed-form statistics for the sum of squared Nakagami-m variates and its applications2006236 citationsTheodoros Tsiftsis
- Wireless information and power transfer in relay systems with multiple antennas and interference2015171 citationsTheodoros Tsiftsis
- Physical-layer authentication for ambient backscatter-aided NOMA symbiotic systems2023162 citationsTheodoros Tsiftsis
- Energy efficient beamforming schemes for satellite-aerial-terrestrial networks2020131 citationsTheodoros Tsiftsis
- On the performance of LMS communication with hardware impairments and interference2018117 citationsTheodoros Tsiftsis
- Joint power and bandwidth allocation for energy-efficient heterogeneous cellular networks201984 citationsTheodoros Tsiftsis
- An improved energy detector for mobile cognitive users over generalized fading channels201769 citationsTheodoros Tsiftsis
- Deep reinforcement learning-based energy efficiency optimization for RIS-aided integrated satellite-aerial-terrestrial relay networks202467 citationsTheodoros Tsiftsis
- Optimal relay node placement and flow allocation in underwater acoustic sensor networks201764 citations
Maode Ma - Multi-metric waveform optimization for multiple-input single-output joint communication and radar sensing202162 citationsTheodoros Tsiftsis
- Secrecy performance of wirelessly powered wiretap channels201657 citationsTheodoros Tsiftsis
- Bit-interleaved coded SCMA with iterative multiuser detection: Multidimensional constellations design201756 citationsTheodoros Tsiftsis
- Base station cooperation in millimeter wave cellular networks: Performance enhancement of cell-edge users201845 citationsTheodoros Tsiftsis
- On the performance of wireless powered cognitive relay network with interference alignment201841 citationsTheodoros Tsiftsis
- Energy-efficient cooperative network coding with joint relay scheduling and power allocation201638 citationsTheodoros Tsiftsis
05Reviewer comments
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07Journal Finder
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How it works: no AI or language model is used. Your words are matched against the titles of real published papers by our mentors; journals are ranked by how many closely matching papers they published. Indexing comes from the SCIE, SSCI, AHCI, ESCI, Scopus and JCR 2024 lists, matched by journal name; “not found in our indexing lists” does not prove a journal is unindexed. Always check a journal’s scope and current indexing before submitting.
08Questions
Frequently asked questions
What is the impact factor of IEEE Transactions on Communications?
Based on OpenAlex citation data (October 2026), the 2-year impact factor of IEEE Transactions on Communications is 6.44: papers it published in the two previous years were cited 6.44 times on average in a year. The journal is listed in JCR 2024, so Clarivate also publishes an official Journal Impact Factor, which can differ.
What is the h-index of IEEE Transactions on Communications?
The h-index of IEEE Transactions on Communications is 313 (OpenAlex, October 2026): 313 of its papers have each been cited at least 313 times. Its i10-index is 10,196.
What is the APC of IEEE Transactions on Communications?
OpenAlex lists an article processing charge (APC) of about US$2,645 for IEEE Transactions on Communications (data from October 2026). APCs change and can differ by article type, country or discounts, so confirm the current charge on the journal’s website before submitting.
Is IEEE Transactions on Communications a Q1 journal?
By 2-year citedness, IEEE Transactions on Communications ranks 45 of 382 journals in Engineering, Electrical & Electronic, which places it in Q1 of that Web of Science category. This ranking is calculated by ScholarsColab from OpenAlex data; the official JCR quartile can differ.
Is IEEE Transactions on Communications indexed in Scopus?
Yes. IEEE Transactions on Communications appears in the Scopus list, according to the indexing lists used on ScholarsColab (updated 1 March 2026). Always confirm the current status on the official list before submitting.
Is IEEE Transactions on Communications an SCIE journal?
Yes. IEEE Transactions on Communications is listed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), according to the indexing lists used on ScholarsColab (updated 1 March 2026). Always confirm the current status on the official list before submitting.
Is IEEE Transactions on Communications in Journal Citation Reports (JCR)?
Yes. IEEE Transactions on Communications is listed in JCR 2024, so it has a Journal Impact Factor. For the current impact factor and quartile, check Journal Citation Reports.
What topics does IEEE Transactions on Communications publish?
Papers by ScholarsColab mentors in IEEE Transactions on Communications most often mention network, communication, performance, relay, optimization, power. Check the journal’s aims and scope for its full coverage.
Have ScholarsColab mentors published in IEEE Transactions on Communications?
Yes. 18 papers by 2 mentors were published in IEEE Transactions on Communications between 2006 and 2024, with 2,666 citations in total.
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