IEEE Communications Society journals

IEEE Communications Society journals
Title	IEEE Communications Society journals
Discipline	Telecommunications; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Abbreviation	IEEE Commun. Soc. journals
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Country	United States
History	20th–21st century
Frequency	Monthly; bimonthly; quarterly

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IEEE Communications Society journals

The IEEE Communications Society journals are a portfolio of peer-reviewed periodicals published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers that serve researchers, engineers, and practitioners in telecommunications. They complement conferences such as IEEE International Conference on Communications, liaise with societies like IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Signal Processing Society, and interact with standards bodies such as ITU and 3GPP. Leading authors affiliated with institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Tsinghua University, University of Cambridge, and University of Oxford regularly publish in these venues.

Overview

The portfolio includes flagship titles that trace lineage to landmark developments associated with entities such as Bell Laboratories, AT&T, Nokia Bell Labs, Ericsson Research, and Fujitsu Laboratories. Editorial leadership often comprises academics from Carnegie Mellon University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Toronto, University of Melbourne, and industry researchers from Google Research, Microsoft Research, Huawei, Samsung Research, and Intel Corporation. The journals publish work that builds on standards and protocols developed by IEEE 802, IETF, ETSI, 3GPP, and NGMN Alliance and that employ methods used in projects like Human Genome Project-scale data handling and Large Hadron Collider-style experimental design in communications testbeds.

Key titles within the Society’s suite include flagship and specialized journals that have appeared alongside publications from Nature Communications, Science Advances, ACM SIGCOMM, Elsevier, Springer Nature, and Wiley-Blackwell. Representative journals are editorially aligned with topics covered at meetings like ACM MobiCom, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE WCNC, and workshops tied to SIGMETRICS. Senior editors often have prior appointments at Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of California, Los Angeles, and Imperial College London.

Subject matter encompasses theoretical and applied research linking work from laboratories and centers including Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Nokia Bell Labs, and Broadcom Corporation. Core topics mirror technologies developed in collaborations with companies such as Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Qualcomm, Broadcom, and ARM Holdings and include areas relevant to initiatives by European Commission, Horizon 2020, DARPA, and NSF. Typical article themes connect to signal processing advances referenced by IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, machine learning methods used at NeurIPS, network architectures discussed at IETF, and hardware-software co-design exemplified by projects at Intel Labs and IBM Research.

Editorial boards recruit editors and reviewers from universities and organizations such as ETH Zurich, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Peking University, Zhejiang University, Seoul National University, KAIST, Australian National University, University of Hong Kong, and National University of Singapore. The peer-review model follows policies comparable to those at Nature, Science, and Proceedings of the IEEE, emphasizing double-blind or single-blind review depending on the journal title. Manuscripts often reference standards work by RFC 791, RFC 793, RFC 2460, and specifications from IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.3, and 3GPP Release documents; reviewers include contributors to these standards and recipients of awards like the IEEE Fellow and ACM Fellow honors.

Impact indicators include traditional bibliometrics tracked by services such as Clarivate Analytics, Scopus, Google Scholar, and Dimensions. Citation patterns in these journals interlink with high-impact venues like IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, ACM Computing Surveys, and Communications of the ACM. Authors frequently hold grants from National Science Foundation, EPSRC, DST (India), NSFC, and program offices like DARPA, influencing metrics such as impact factor, h-index, and CiteScore measured by the above providers.

Access is provided through the IEEE Xplore digital library, institutional subscriptions often held by universities including Harvard University, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Sydney, and McGill University, and consortia such as CRKN and Jisc. Licensing options range from subscription access to open access under Creative Commons models used by publishers like Elsevier and Springer Nature; authors may have APC support from funders like Wellcome Trust, European Research Council, Horizon Europe, and national agencies such as NSF and NWO. Archival preservation aligns with services like CLOCKSS, Portico, and institutional repositories maintained by the aforementioned universities.