The journal for rapid, open access publishing
IEEE Access is a multidisciplinary, online-only, gold fully open access journal, continuously presenting the results of original research or development across all IEEE fields of interest. Supported by article processing charges (APCs), its hallmarks are rapid peer review, a submission-to-publication time of 4 to 6 weeks, and articles that are freely available to all readers.
A Scope Covering All IEEE Fields of Interest
IEEE Access publishes articles that are of high interest to readers: original, technically correct, and clearly presented. The scope of the journal comprises all of IEEE’s fields of interest, emphasizing applications-oriented and interdisciplinary articles.
IEEE Access has also launched discipline-specific sections aligned with IEEE technical communities.
Bibliometrics
IEEE Access was included in the 2023 Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR)† and received:
- a Journal Impact Factor™ of 3.4 *Impact factor = citations in 2023 to articles published in 2021 and 2022/articles published in 2021 and 2022
- an Eigenfactor® Score of 0.35701 *Measured by counting the total number of citations a journal receives over a five-year period
- an Article Influence® Score of 0.698 *This is a journal-specific Eigenfactor score. It is calculated by dividing the Eigenfactor score of the journal by the number of articles published. It tells the average impact of an article published in a journal from a five-year period after the publication of the article.
- an Immediacy Index of 0.6 *Immediacy index = citations in 2022 to articles published in 2023
IEEE Access was also included in the 2023 Scopus citation data† and received:
- a CiteScore™ of 9.8 *2023 CiteScore counts the citations received in 2020-2023 to articles, reviews, conference papers, book chapters and data papers published in 2020-2023, and divides this by the number of publications published in 2020-2023.
- a SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) of 0.960 *SJR measures weighted citations received by the journal. Citation weighting depends on subject field and prestige (SJR) of the citing journal.
†Released in June 2024
