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IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.6), ABDC B, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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ISSN 0361-1434Verify ISSN ↗1558-1500Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 133 / 1221 | 89th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 170 / 744 | 77th | Q1 |
| Communication | 129 / 541 | 76th | Q1 |
| Industrial Relations | 24 / 61 | 61st | Q2 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 434 / 1030 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1972–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.6.
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 133 of 1221), Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 170 of 744) and Q1 in Communication (rank 129 of 541), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.491, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 58.
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 Professional Communication is published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Its print ISSN is 0361-1434 and its online ISSN is 1558-1500.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication has an h-index of 79 and a 2-year mean of 1.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #257 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication published 62 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 76. 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 94 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (62.1%), China (19%) and Spain (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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