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IEEE Communications Standards Magazine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.6), WoS ESCI. 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 2471-2825Verify ISSN ↗2471-2833Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$2,995 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 8 / 1162 | 99th | Q1 |
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 10 / 282 | 96th | Q1 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 43 / 568 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 40 / 317 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.6.
IEEE Communications Standards Magazine is Q1 in Law (rank 8 of 1162), Q1 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 10 of 282) and Q1 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 43 of 568), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
IEEE Communications Standards Magazine is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 12.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.629, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 50.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,995 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 Standards Magazine is published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Its print ISSN is 2471-2825 and its online ISSN is 2471-2833.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
IEEE Communications Standards Magazine has an h-index of 57 and a 2-year mean of 2.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #64 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
IEEE Communications Standards Magazine published 200 papers in 2025. 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 82 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (22.8%), India (15.9%) and United States (10.3%).
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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