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Synthesis Lectures on Communications is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1). Published by Springer Nature.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1932-1244Verify ISSN ↗1932-1708Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 986 / 1030 | 4th | Q4 |
| Signal Processing | 196 / 203 | 3rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present (also 2023, 2017–2018, 2012–2015, 2009–2010, 2005–2007), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Synthesis Lectures on Communications is Q4 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 986 of 1030) and Q4 in Signal Processing (rank 196 of 203), by CiteScore 2025.
Synthesis Lectures on Communications 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 0.1, quartile Q4, 4th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Synthesis Lectures on Communications is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 1932-1244 and its online ISSN is 1932-1708.
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.
Synthesis Lectures on Communications has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #610 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Synthesis Lectures on Communications published 33 papers in 2025. 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.
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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