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IEICE Transactions on Communications is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), WoS SCIE. Published by Maruzen Co., Ltd/Maruzen Kabushikikaisha.
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ISSN 0916-8516Verify ISSN ↗1745-1345Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Maruzen Co., Ltd/Maruzen Kabushikikaisha
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Networks and Communications | 340 / 568 | 40th | Q3 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 626 / 1030 | 39th | Q3 |
| Software | 363 / 503 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
IEICE Transactions on Communications is Q3 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 340 of 568), Q3 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 626 of 1030) and Q3 in Software (rank 363 of 503), by CiteScore 2025.
IEICE Transactions on 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 40th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.269, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 61.
IEICE Transactions on Communications is published by Maruzen Co., Ltd/Maruzen Kabushikikaisha. Its print ISSN is 0916-8516 and its online ISSN is 1745-1345.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
IEICE Transactions on Communications has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 2.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #159 of 394 Scopus journals in Computer Networks and Communications.
IEICE Transactions on Communications published 151 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 291. 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 69 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Japan (75.1%), China (14.7%) and Germany (2.2%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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