IEEE Transactions on Communications

IEEE Transactions on Communications is a monthly journal published by the IEEE Communications Society, founded in 1972 and covering wireless, wireline, optical and quantum communications with a focus on the physical layer, indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus, with a 2025 impact factor of 8.4IEEE Transactions on Communications 是由 IEEE 通信学会出版的月刊，1972 年创刊，涵盖无线、有线、光与量子通信，聚焦物理层，被科学引文索引扩展版与 Scopus 收录，2025 年影响因子为 8.4。

Scope

• Wireless communications including modulation, coding and multiple antenna systems涵盖调制、编码与多天线系统的无线通信。
• Wireline communications and optical communications有线通信与光通信。
• Quantum communications and quantum networks量子通信与量子网络。
• Cross layer design and networking grounded in realistic physical layer models以真实物理层模型为基础的跨层设计与组网。
• Emerging topics such as molecular communications, terahertz communications and wireless power transfer分子通信、太赫兹通信与无线能量传输等新兴方向。

History

• The journal traces its origins to the Transactions of the IRE Professional Group on Communications Systems, first published in 1953该刊可追溯至 1953 年创办的 Transactions of the IRE Professional Group on Communications Systems。
• It was renamed several times and took its present title in 1972该刊历经多次更名，1972 年定为现名。
• It is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society and published by the IEEE该刊由 IEEE 通信学会主办，IEEE 出版。
• It publishes twelve issues a year该刊每年出版 12 期。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is George K. Karagiannidis of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, who took office in 2024现任主编为希腊塞萨洛尼基亚里士多德大学的 George K. Karagiannidis，于 2024 年上任。
• The editorial board is organised into area editors and editors covering the journal technical fields编委会按技术领域划分为领域编辑与编辑。
• It operates a single anonymised peer review process with at least two independent reviewers per manuscript该刊采用单盲同行评审，每篇稿件至少由两位独立审稿人评审。
• The journal is hybrid open access, offering an open access option alongside the subscription model该刊为混合开放获取，在订阅模式之外提供开放获取选项。