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IEEE Communications Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
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ISSN 1089-7798Verify ISSN ↗1558-2558Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$2,645 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modeling and Simulation | 20 / 397 | 95th | Q1 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 135 / 1030 | 86th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 169 / 1022 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.2.
IEEE Communications Letters is Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 20 of 397), Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 135 of 1030) and Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 169 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025.
IEEE Communications Letters 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 9.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.601, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 181.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,645 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 Communications Letters is published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Its print ISSN is 1089-7798 and its online ISSN is 1558-2558.
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.
IEEE Communications Letters has an h-index of 196 and a 2-year mean of 3.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #49 of 323 Scopus journals in Modeling and Simulation.
IEEE Communications Letters published 687 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 832. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (50.5%), United Kingdom (6.6%) and India (6.6%). 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.
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