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IEEE Spectrum is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.5), WoS SCIE. Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
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ISSN 0018-9235Verify ISSN ↗1939-9340Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 547 / 1030 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1964–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.5.
IEEE Spectrum is Q3 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 547 of 1030), by CiteScore 2025.
IEEE Spectrum 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.278, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 79.
IEEE Spectrum is published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Its print ISSN is 0018-9235 and its online ISSN is 1939-9340.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
IEEE Spectrum has an h-index of 110 and a 2-year mean of 0.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #630 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
IEEE Spectrum published 271 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 288. 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.
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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