IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization focused on advancing technology, has reported continued strong performance across its portfolio of scholarly publications in the most recent citation rankings. Results from the June 2025 release of Clarivate Analytics’ Journal Citation Reports and Elsevier’s Scopus CiteScore metrics indicate that IEEE journals remain among the most frequently cited across multiple technical domains, including open access and hybrid publishing formats.
In the Journal Citation Reports, IEEE publications were extensively represented in the highest tiers across numerous subject categories. Within disciplines such as Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Imaging Science, Automation and Control Systems, Cybernetics and Hardware & Architecture, a significant share of the most-cited journals belonged to the IEEE portfolio. Several IEEE journals achieved top ranks within their respective fields, demonstrating a broad pattern of citation influence across both established and emerging research areas.
CiteScore data, based on a four-year citation window from Scopus, further confirmed this trend. IEEE journals were prominently featured among the highest-ranked publications in areas such as Computer Software, Hardware, Signal Processing, Mathematics, and Engineering Systems. The consistency of these rankings illustrates the organization’s sustained impact across a diverse range of technical research domains.
The organization emphasized that citation metrics serve as one of several benchmarks researchers use in evaluating journal quality when selecting publication venues. Alongside citation performance, global readership remains a critical factor. IEEE publications are disseminated through the IEEE Xplore digital library, which supports access for over 10 million users each month, providing broad visibility for published work.
IEEE also announced that five of its recently launched fully open access journals were accepted for indexing in the Web of Science Core Collection and received their first Journal Impact Factors in 2025. This development follows the earlier inclusion of 14 other open access titles in 2023 and 2024, marking a continued expansion of the organization’s fully open publishing portfolio.
In addition to Impact Factor and CiteScore, IEEE journals also achieved notable standings in other bibliometric indicators such as Eigenfactor and Article Influence Score. Across these alternative metrics, IEEE consistently placed a high concentration of journals in top positions, particularly within electrical engineering, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence. The organization highlighted these outcomes as reflective of its long-term focus on publishing research that upholds scientific integrity, quality, and trust within the global research community.
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