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IET Communications is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc..
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ISSN 1751-8628Verify ISSN ↗1751-8636Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 292 / 1030 | 71st | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 335 / 1022 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.5.
IET Communications is Q2 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 292 of 1030) and Q2 in Computer Science Applications (rank 335 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025.
IET 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.461, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 74.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,540 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.
IET Communications is published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 1751-8628 and its online ISSN is 1751-8636.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
IET Communications has an h-index of 70 and a 2-year mean of 2.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #326 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
IET Communications published 141 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 474. 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (56.2%), Ghana (4.7%) and Iran (4.7%). 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. 15 retracted papers are recorded (2.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 6 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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