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IEEE Transactions on Multimedia is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 15.7), 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 1520-9210Verify ISSN ↗1941-0077Verify 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Media Technology | 3 / 83 | 96th | Q1 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 40 / 1030 | 96th | Q1 |
| Signal Processing | 10 / 203 | 95th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 53 / 1022 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 15.7.
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia is Q1 in Media Technology (rank 3 of 83), Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 40 of 1030) and Q1 in Signal Processing (rank 10 of 203), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
IEEE Transactions on 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 15.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.989, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 173.
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 Transactions on Multimedia is published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Its print ISSN is 1520-9210 and its online ISSN is 1941-0077.
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 Transactions on Multimedia has an h-index of 196 and a 2-year mean of 5.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 15.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 54 Scopus journals in Media Technology.
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia published 722 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (72.3%), United States (3.8%) and United Kingdom (3.7%). 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.
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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