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Journal of Communications and Information Networks is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.5). Published by Posts and Telecom Press Co Ltd.
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ISSN 2096-1081Verify ISSN ↗2509-3312Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Posts and Telecom Press Co Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$1,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 186 / 1030 | 81st | Q1 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 116 / 568 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.5.
Journal of Communications and Information Networks is Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 186 of 1030) and Q1 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 116 of 568), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Communications and Information Networks is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.5, quartile Q1, 81st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.266, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 28.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,990 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.
Journal of Communications and Information Networks is published by Posts and Telecom Press Co Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2096-1081 and its online ISSN is 2509-3312.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Communications and Information Networks has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 3.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #228 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Journal of Communications and Information Networks published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 50. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (75.9%), Hong Kong SAR China (6.9%) and India (6.3%). 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. 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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