IEEE Transactions on Information Theory: impact and ranking
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.44 in OpenAlex, which ranks #5,259 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 440. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.44 #5,259 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 440 #146 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.4M #226 of 18,122
- Works
- 21k 67.9 citations per work
What is the impact factor of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory: 2.44, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks IEEE Transactions on Information Theory #5,259 of 18,122 journals, in the top 29%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory?
OpenAlex gives IEEE Transactions on Information Theory an h-index of 440: 440 of its papers have each been cited at least 440 times. That ranks #146 of 18,122 journals.
How much does IEEE Transactions on Information Theory publish?
OpenAlex records 20,505 works in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 1955 to 2026, cited 1,392,151 times in all, 67.9 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #226 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0018-9448
- In OpenAlex
- 1955 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list IEEE Transactions on Information Theory as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$2,645.
- OpenAlex record
- S4502562
Journals ranked near IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
The journals with a page that stand just above and below IEEE Transactions on Information Theory on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5,003 | Surface Science | 2.55 | 270 |
| 5,135 | Journal of Crystal Growth | 2.49 | 207 |
| 5,225 | Personality and Individual Differences | 2.46 | 313 |
| 5,269 | Biometrika | 2.44 | 353 |
| 5,289 | The American Journal of Cardiology | 2.43 | 352 |
| 5,412 | Oecologia | 2.38 | 320 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.