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IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

0733-8716

Published by: IEEE

http://www.comsoc.org/jsac

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 5 409 806 98
Computer Science 14 508 822 98

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 759
Documents by Best Scientists*: 1049
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 24
SCIMAGO H-index: 274
SCIMAGO SJR: 7.023
Impact Factor: 17.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications?

The concepts of Computer network, Communication channel, Telecommunications, Distributed computing and Wireless are tackled in the journal. Computer network research presented in it encompasses a variety of subjects, including Wireless network and Throughput. The studies in Communication channel featured incorporate elements of Transmitter, Algorithm and Code division multiple access.

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications explores issues in Algorithm which can be linked to other research areas like Spread spectrum, Theoretical computer science and Bit error rate. The journal focuses on Telecommunications but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Optical communication and Interference (wave propagation). The study of Resource allocation and how it intertwines with concepts under Resource management were explored in the presented Distributed computing research.

The Wireless research presented in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications explores the relationship between Base station and the closely related topic of Telecommunications link. Studies on Network packet discussed in it link to the field of Real-time computing. The work tackled in it goes beyond the discipline of Fading as it also encompasses Multipath propagation.

  • Computer network (43.79%)
  • Communication channel (21.05%)
  • Telecommunications (16.37%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A simple transmit diversity technique for wireless communications (12508 citations)
  • Cognitive radio: brain-empowered wireless communications (10856 citations)
  • Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (7864 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications:

The journal publications are mainly concerned with subjects like Computer network, Communication channel, Wireless, Distributed computing and Telecommunications. The published papers hold forums on Computer network that merge themes from other disciplines such as Wireless network and Throughput. The journal papers with studies in Communication channel featured incorporate elements of Transmitter and Algorithm, Decoding methods.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Computer network
  • Operating system
  • The Internet

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal explores disciplines such as Distributed computing, Wireless, Communication channel, Artificial intelligence and Computer network. Topics in Distributed computing were tackled in line with various other fields like Resource allocation, Quality of service, Wireless network, Server and Reinforcement learning. While Wireless is the focus of the journal, it also provided insights into the studies of Fading, Wireless sensor network, Scheduling (computing), Spectral efficiency and Optimization problem.

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications tackles studies in Base station and the interrelated subject of Beamforming to gain insights into Communication channel. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Computer network, it also covered topics in Cloud computing and Throughput. The MIMO works featured in it incorporate elements from Random access and Wideband.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Massive Access for 5G and Beyond (117 citations)
  • Accelerating DNN Training in Wireless Federated Edge Learning Systems (61 citations)
  • Age of Information: An Introduction and Survey (52 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Zhu Han (58 papers) published 11 papers at the last edition, 6 more than at the previous edition,
  • H. Vincent Poor (46 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition, 6 more than at the previous edition,
  • Xuemin Shen (39 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Xiaodong Wang (39 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Victor C. M. Leung (36 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Bell Labs (318 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Tsinghua University (161 papers) published 22 papers at the last edition, 7 more than at the previous edition,
  • IBM (146 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (144 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Princeton University (127 papers) published 15 papers at the last edition, 8 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 9.68% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 27.78% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.73% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 20.24% of all publications and 43.25% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Smart Radio Environments Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How It Works, State of Research, and The Road Ahead

    Marco Di Renzo;Alessio Zappone;Merouane Debbah;Mohamed-Slim Alouini

    (2020)
    2861 Citations
  • Integrated Sensing and Communications: Toward Dual-Functional Wireless Networks for 6G and Beyond

    (2021)
    1474 Citations
  • Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided MIMO Broadcasting for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer

    Cunhua Pan;Hong Ren;Kezhi Wang;Maged Elkashlan

    (2020)
    906 Citations
  • Age of Information: An Introduction and Survey

    Roy D. Yates;Yin Sun;D. Richard Brown;Sanjit K. Kaul

    (2021)
    713 Citations
  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Multiuser MISO Systems Exploiting Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Chongwen Huang;Ronghong Mo;Chau Yuen

    (2020)
    711 Citations

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