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IEEE Wireless Communications Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by IEEE Communications Society.
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ISSN 2162-2337Verify ISSN ↗2162-2345Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IEEE Communications Society
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 131 / 1030 | 87th | Q1 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 54 / 390 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.4.
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters is Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 131 of 1030) and Q1 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 54 of 390), by CiteScore 2025.
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters 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 9.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.894, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 127.
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 Wireless Communications Letters is published by IEEE Communications Society. Its print ISSN is 2162-2337 and its online ISSN is 2162-2345.
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 Letters has an h-index of 136 and a 2-year mean of 4.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #120 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters published 957 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (37.9%), Germany (6.9%) and United Kingdom (6.9%).
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.
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