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Wireless Networks is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Netherlands.
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ISSN 1022-0038Verify ISSN ↗1572-8196Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Cost to publish: About US$3,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 232 / 1030 | 77th | Q1 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 137 / 568 | 75th | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 146 / 519 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.6.
Wireless Networks is Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 232 of 1030), Q1 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 137 of 568) and Q2 in Information Systems (rank 146 of 519), by CiteScore 2025.
Wireless 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 6.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.529, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 110.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,290 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.
Wireless Networks is published by Springer Netherlands. Its print ISSN is 1022-0038 and its online ISSN is 1572-8196.
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.
Wireless Networks has an h-index of 129 and a 2-year mean of 4.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #126 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Wireless Networks published 179 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 391. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (33.9%), China (21.9%) and Iran (3.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 70 retracted papers are recorded (14.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 12 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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