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Electronics and Communications in Japan is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 1942-9533Verify ISSN ↗1942-9541Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$3,570 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signal Processing | 164 / 203 | 19th | Q4 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 458 / 568 | 19th | Q4 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 851 / 1030 | 17th | Q4 |
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 214 / 248 | 13th | Q4 |
| Applied Mathematics | 592 / 680 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 1975), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Electronics and Communications in Japan is Q4 in Signal Processing (rank 164 of 203), Q4 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 458 of 568) and Q4 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 851 of 1030), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Electronics and Communications in Japan is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0.7, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 19th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.142, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 31.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,570 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Electronics and Communications in Japan is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 1942-9533 and its online ISSN is 1942-9541.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Electronics and Communications in Japan has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #110 of 127 Scopus journals in Signal Processing.
Electronics and Communications in Japan published 62 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 125. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Japan (98.8%), Germany (0.5%) and China (0.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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