IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society

The IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society is an open-access electronic journal of the IEEE Communications Society, launched in 2020 and covering telecommunications systems and networks, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 6.2《IEEE 通信学会开放期刊》是 IEEE 通信学会的开放获取电子期刊，2020 年创刊，聚焦电信系统与网络，2025 年影响因子为 6.2。

Scope

• It publishes original high-quality manuscripts on advances in the state of the art of telecommunications systems and networks, spanning theoretical findings and practical contributions such as experiments and prototype development其刊载电信系统与网络最新进展的原创高质量稿件，涵盖理论发现与实验、原型开发等实践贡献。
• Survey and tutorial articles are also considered, and special issues track emerging research areas综述与教程性文章亦在考虑之列，特刊则追踪新兴研究方向。
• Core topics include systems and network architecture, control and management, protocols, software and middleware, and quality of service, reliability and security核心主题包括系统与网络架构及控制与管理、协议、软件与中间件以及服务质量、可靠性与安全。
• Modulation, detection, coding and signaling, switching and routing, and mobile and portable communications fall within its remit调制、检测、编码与信令、交换与路由以及移动与便携通信均属其范围。
• It also covers terminals and end-user devices, networks for content distribution and distributed computing, and communications-based control of distributed resources其还覆盖终端与用户设备、内容分发与分布式计算网络以及基于通信的分布式资源控制。
• The broad scope extends to big data and machine learning for communications, cloud, edge and IoT, quantum communications, and vehicular, aerial and satellite networks广义范围延伸至面向通信的大数据与机器学习、云计算、边缘计算与物联网、量子通信以及车辆、空中与卫星网络。
• Hallmarks of the journal are a rapid peer review process and open access of all published papers快速同行评审与全部论文开放获取是该刊的标志性特征。

History

• The journal was launched in 2020 by the IEEE Communications Society as a fully open-access, electronic-only title该刊由 IEEE 通信学会于 2020 年创办，是完全开放获取的纯电子期刊。
• It is published online only under electronic ISSN 2644-125X其仅以在线形式出版，电子 ISSN 为 2644-125X。
• All articles are published under the CC BY 4.0 license and authors retain copyright所有文章以（CC BY 4.0）许可发表，作者保留版权。
• The article processing charge is 2,075 US dollars for submissions in 2025, rising to 2,160 US dollars in 2026, with discounts for IEEE members and society members2025 年投稿的文章处理费为 2075 美元，2026 年升至 2160 美元，IEEE 会员与学会会员可享折扣。
• Papers exceeding 25 pages are classified as long survey papers with a four-week review due date, while those of 25 pages or fewer are original manuscripts with a two-week date超过 25 页的论文归入长综述类，评审期限 4 周，不超过 25 页的归入原稿类，评审期限 2 周。
• Its Journal Impact Factor rose from 6.1 in 2024 to 6.2 in 2025, ranking 25th among 127 telecommunications journals in the Emerging Sources Citation Index其影响因子由 2024 年的 6.1 升至 2025 年的 6.2，在 ESCI 电信类 127 种期刊中列第 25 位。

Editors

• The Editor-in-Chief is Sinem Coleri of Koc University in Turkey现任主编为土耳其科奇大学的（Sinem Coleri）。
• Rui Dinis, Ana Garcia Armada and Derrick Wing Kwan Ng serve as Associate Editors-in-Chief（Rui Dinis）、（Ana Garcia Armada）与（Derrick Wing Kwan Ng）出任副主编。
• Octavia A. Dobre served from 2019 to 2022 and Angela Yingjun Zhang from 2022 to 2023 as past Editors-in-Chief（Octavia A. Dobre）与（Angela Yingjun Zhang）曾先后出任主编，任期分别为 2019 年至 2022 年与 2022 年至 2023 年。
• The editorial board numbers 215 members from 28 countries and regions, led by China with 60, the United States with 22 and the United Kingdom with 19编委会有 215 位成员，来自 28 个国家和地区，其中中国 60 位、美国 22 位、英国 19 位。
• Each technical area is served by area editors, editors-at-large and associate editors各技术领域分设领域编辑、特邀编辑与领域编委。
• Every paper is reviewed by at least two independent reviewers under single-anonymous peer review, and articles are screened for plagiarism before acceptance每篇论文在单盲同行评审下至少由两位独立审稿人评审，文章录用前还经查重筛查。