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IEEE Access is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
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ISSN 2169-3536Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (all) | 31 / 351 | 91st | Q1 |
| Computer Science (all) | 37 / 241 | 84th | Q1 |
| Materials Science (all) | 88 / 475 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.3.
IEEE Access is Q1 in Engineering (all) (rank 31 of 351), Q1 in Computer Science (all) (rank 37 of 241) and Q1 in Materials Science (all) (rank 88 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
IEEE Access 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 9.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.884, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 338.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,075 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.
IEEE Access is published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Its ISSN is 2169-3536.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
IEEE Access has an h-index of 375 and a 2-year mean of 6.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #19 of 299 Scopus journals in Engineering (all).
IEEE Access published 13,615 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 17,900. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (19.8%), South Korea (12.1%) and Japan (7.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 114 retracted papers are recorded (1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 157 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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