IEEE Network

Aims & Scope

IEEE Network, published bimonthly, offers readers topics of interest to the networking community.

As such, IEEE Network provides a focus for highlighting and discussing major computer communications issues and developments.

The articles are intended to be surveys or tutorials, slanted towards the practical, and comprehensible to the nonspecialist, as well as practitioners.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	6.3
2024	6.80

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	943

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	5685

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	2.516

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	160

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Computer Science, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• A Vision of 6G Wireless Systems: Applications, Trends, Technologies, and Open Research Problems

  Citation: 3468

  Authors: Walid, Mehdi, Mingzhe

• Learning IoT in Edge: Deep Learning for the Internet of Things with Edge Computing

  Citation: 1312

  Authors: He, Kaoru, Mianxiong

• Securing ad hoc networks

  Citation: 1195

  Authors: Z.J.

• A survey on position-based routing in mobile ad hoc networks

  Citation: 1008

  Authors: M., J., H.

• 6G Wireless Communications: Vision and Potential Techniques

  Citation: 902

  Authors: Ping, Yue, Ming, Shaoqian

• RSVP: a new resource ReSerVation Protocol

  Citation: 897

  Authors: L., S., D., S., D.

• In-Edge AI: Intelligentizing Mobile Edge Computing, Caching and Communication by Federated Learning

  Citation: 838

  Authors: Xiaofei, Yiwen, Chenyang, Qiyang, Xu, Min

• Disseminating active map information to mobile hosts

  Citation: 824

  Authors: B.N., M.M.

• Integrating Sensing and Communications for Ubiquitous IoT: Applications, Trends, and Challenges

  Citation: 777

  Authors: Yuanhao, Fan, Xiaojun, Junsheng

• Wide-area Internet traffic patterns and characteristics

  Citation: 760

  Authors: K., G.J., R.

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