Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The journal focuses on electrical engineering and computer science. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 9.107, ranking it sixth in the category "Engineering, Electrical & Electronic." [1] In 2018, it became fifth with an enhanced impact factor of 10.694. [2]
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as indexed by Clarivate's Web of Science.
Journal ranking is widely used in academic circles in the evaluation of an academic journal's impact and quality. Journal rankings are intended to reflect the place of a journal within its field, the relative difficulty of being published in that journal, and the prestige associated with it.
The publications of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) constitute around 30% of the world literature in the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science fields, [citation needed] publishing well over 100 peer-reviewed journals. [1]
In any given year, the CiteScore of a journal is the number of citations, received in that year and in previous three years, for documents published in the journal during the total period (four years), divided by the total number of published documents (articles, reviews, conference papers, book chapters, and data papers) in the journal during the same four-year period: [3]
In 1955 the journal name was updated to the IRE Transactions on Telemetry and Remote Control (1955–1958). As the scope of the professional group evolved with the US space program, the professional group changed its name and the journal was renamed IRE Transactions on Space Electronics and Telemetry (1959–1962).
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: PubMed; Science Citation Index Expanded [2] Scopus [3] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 2.250, ranking it 164th out of 276 journals in the category "Engineering, Electrical & Electronic" [4] and 60th out of 101 journals in the category "Optics". [5]
A citation index is a kind of bibliographic index, an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents cite which earlier documents. A form of citation index is first found in 12th-century Hebrew religious literature.