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International Journal of Communication Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 1074-5351Verify ISSN ↗1099-1131Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$2,760 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 298 / 1030 | 71st | Q2 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 166 / 568 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.4.
International Journal of Communication Systems is Q2 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 298 of 1030) and Q2 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 166 of 568), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Communication Systems 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 5.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.419, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 73.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,760 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.
International Journal of Communication Systems is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1074-5351 and its online ISSN is 1099-1131.
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.
International Journal of Communication Systems has an h-index of 81 and a 2-year mean of 2.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #287 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
International Journal of Communication Systems published 431 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 449. 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 87 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (67.8%), China (6.7%) and Pakistan (3.8%). 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. 45 retracted papers are recorded (7.4 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 31 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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