IEEE announced today that two more of IEEE’s recently launched fully open access journals were also accepted for indexing by Clarivate and received their first Journal Impact Factors according to the 2023 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) from Clarivate, released in late June 2024.
The annual JCR study examines the influence and impact of scholarly research and offers a well-established, objective means to evaluate the world’s leading journals. By compiling articles’ cited references, the JCR’s Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is one of several measurements available to authors to gauge quality, impact, and trustworthiness of publications. These measurements are especially important to help new authors navigate the publications landscape as they make important decisions as to where to publish their research and helps them avoid journals of a predatory nature. Each year, IEEE journals continue to excel in the citation rankings across multiple technology fields.
The IEEE fully open access journals that were awarded their first Journal Impact Factors and accepted into the Web of Science Core Collection™ in 2024 are:
Please note that this is in addition to 12 other IEEE fully open access journals that received their first Journal Impact Factors in 2023. Learn More
According to Clarivate, the Web of Science Core Collection™ follows a unique selection process conducted by expert in-house editors using a set of 24 quality criteria designed to select for editorial rigor and best practice at the journal level. Journals that meet the quality criteria, a criteria that less than 20% of submitted journals are able to meet, are entered into the Clarivate Emerging Sources Citation Index™ (ESCI). The IEEE journals listed above successfully met this set of quality criteria within just a few short years of launch and were entered into the Web of Science index.