Bibliometrics

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Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

In the 2025 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), IEEE Access received:

Impact factor of 4.2
Impact factor = citations in 2025 to articles published in 2023 and 2024/articles published in 2023 and 2024
Eigenfactor of 0.32865
Measured by counting the total number of citations a journal receives over a five-year period
Article Influence Score of 0.682
This is a journal-specific Eigenfactor score. It is calculated by dividing the Eigenfactor score of the journal by the number of articles published. It tells the average impact of an article published in a journal from a five-year period after the publication of the article.
Immediacy Index of 0.9
Immediacy index = citations in 2025 to articles published in 2025

Scopus Citation Data

In terms of 2025 Scopus citation data, IEEE Access received:

CiteScore of 9.3
2025 CiteScore counts the citations received in 2022-2025 to articles, reviews, conference papers, book chapters and data papers published in 2022-2025, and divides this by the number of publications published in 2022-2025.
SCImago journal rank (SJR) of 0.884
SJR measures weighted citations received by the journal. Citation weighting depends on subject field and prestige (SJR) of the citing journal.

Indexing Information

IEEE Access has active partnerships with the following abstracting and indexing (A&I) providers. For more information please click here.

  • Current Contents/Engineering, Computing and Technology Edition (Clarivate Analytics)
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  • EBSCOhost
  • Ei Compendex
  • Google Scholar
  • IET Inspec
  • Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics)
  • Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics)
  • Scopus
  • Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)