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IEEE Wireless Communications is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 21.9), 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 1536-1284Verify ISSN ↗1558-0687Verify 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 21 / 1030 | 98th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 22 / 1022 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 21.9.
IEEE Wireless Communications is Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 21 of 1030) and Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 22 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025.
IEEE Wireless Communications 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 21.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.523, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 206.
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 Wireless Communications is published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Its print ISSN is 1536-1284 and its online ISSN is 1558-0687.
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 Wireless Communications has an h-index of 208 and a 2-year mean of 10.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 21.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #20 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
IEEE Wireless Communications published 361 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 76 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (41.4%), United States (17.9%) and United Kingdom (5.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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