IEEE Journals Continue to Excel in Citation Rankings

IEEE journals lead the field in the latest Journal 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 released in 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 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:

• 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
• IEEE journals ranked No. 1 in JIF in several categories including Automation and Control, Cybernetics, Imaging Science, Information Systems, Remote Sensing, and Telecommunications.

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
• IEEE Journals ranked No. 1 in several categories including Electrical Engineering, General Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Earth and Planetary Sciences

In other bibliometric measurements, IEEE has 8 of the top 10 journals in Electrical Engineering and 10 of the top 10 in Telecommunications by Eigenfactor® Score. IEEE Access, IEEE’s largest fully open access publication, is ranked as the No. 1 journal by Eigenfactor in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications. 

Thank you to IEEE authors, reviewers, and editors for their important contributions to help IEEE continue to publish the highest quality publications. For more detailed information on IEEE rankings and how each bibliometric measurement is calculated, please see the full results.