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Journal of Communications and Networks is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.1), WoS SCIE. Published by Korean Institute of Communications Information Sciences.
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ISSN 1229-2370Verify ISSN ↗1976-5541Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Institute of Communications Information Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Networks and Communications | 86 / 568 | 84th | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 91 / 519 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.1.
Journal of Communications and Networks is Q1 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 86 of 568) and Q1 in Information Systems (rank 91 of 519), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Communications and Networks 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 9.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.868, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 63.
Journal of Communications and Networks is published by Korean Institute of Communications Information Sciences. Its print ISSN is 1229-2370 and its online ISSN is 1976-5541.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Communications and Networks has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 1.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #238 of 394 Scopus journals in Computer Networks and Communications.
Journal of Communications and Networks published 80 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 123. 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 77 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (39%), South Korea (27.1%) and Italy (3.9%).
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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