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IEEE Multimedia is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by IEEE Computer Society.
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ISSN 1070-986XVerify ISSN ↗1941-0166Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Media Technology | 13 / 83 | 84th | Q1 |
| Signal Processing | 39 / 203 | 81st | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 273 / 1022 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Hardware and Architecture | 70 / 245 | 71st | Q2 |
| Software | 149 / 503 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.6.
IEEE Multimedia is Q1 in Media Technology (rank 13 of 83), Q1 in Signal Processing (rank 39 of 203) and Q2 in Computer Science Applications (rank 273 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
IEEE Multimedia 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 6.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.541, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 78.
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 Multimedia is published by IEEE Computer Society. Its print ISSN is 1070-986X and its online ISSN is 1941-0166.
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 Multimedia has an h-index of 93 and a 2-year mean of 1.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #21 of 54 Scopus journals in Media Technology.
IEEE Multimedia published 106 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 106. 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 61 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (42.2%), India (21%) and United States (9.6%).
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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