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IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 112 196 287 28

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 627
Documents by Best Scientists*: 886
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 13
SCIMAGO H-index: 167
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.938
Impact Factor: 3.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at IEEE Signal Processing Letters?

IEEE Signal Processing Letters investigates areas of study like Algorithm, Artificial intelligence, Pattern recognition, Computer vision and Mathematical optimization. While the journal focused on Algorithm, it was also able to explore topics like Control theory, Speech recognition, Estimator and Signal, Signal processing. Control theory research discussed connects with the study of MIMO.

In IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Speech enhancement and Noise are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Speech recognition research. Studies on Artificial intelligence discussed in it link to the field of Machine learning. The Pattern recognition study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Robustness (computer science).

The study on Mathematical optimization presented is investigated in conjunction with research in Applied mathematics.

  • Algorithm (38.19%)
  • Artificial intelligence (31.88%)
  • Pattern recognition (21.03%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A universal image quality index (4138 citations)
  • Joint Face Detection and Alignment Using Multitask Cascaded Convolutional Networks (2536 citations)
  • Making a “Completely Blind” Image Quality Analyzer (1917 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at IEEE Signal Processing Letters:

The most cited publications mainly deal with areas of study such as Artificial intelligence, Algorithm, Pattern recognition, Computer vision and Mathematical optimization. The most cited articles deal with Artificial intelligence in conjunction with Speech recognition and similar fields in Noise and Speech enhancement. The published papers tackle studies in Control theory and the interrelated subject of MIMO to gain insights into Algorithm.

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

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Statistics
  • Quantum mechanics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

IEEE Signal Processing Letters mainly tackles studies in Artificial intelligence, Algorithm, Feature extraction, Pattern recognition and Computer vision. The presentations discussing Artificial intelligence offer insights in topics such as Deep learning, Feature (computer vision), Convolutional neural network, Artificial neural network and Visualization. Issues in Algorithm were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Noise measurement, Signal, Filter (signal processing) and Estimator.

The work on Feature extraction tackled in it brings together disciplines like Segmentation, Task analysis, Focus (optics), Semantics and Convolution. The journal investigates Convolution research which frequently intersects with Kernel (image processing). Some problems in Pattern recognition that were presented in IEEE Signal Processing Letters overlapped with concepts under Image (mathematics), Graph (abstract data type) and Benchmark (computing).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • One-Class Learning Towards Synthetic Voice Spoofing Detection (12 citations)
  • SAGRNN: Self-Attentive Gated RNN For Binaural Speaker Separation With Interaural Cue Preservation (10 citations)
  • TRICE: A Channel Estimation Framework for RIS-Aided Millimeter-Wave MIMO Systems (9 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 Signal Processing Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Hongbin Li (35 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Nam Soo Kim (34 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Petre Stoica (31 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Lajos Hanzo (31 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jun Fang (25 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as 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 Signal Processing Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Tsinghua University (146 papers) published 14 papers at the last edition, 6 more than at the previous edition,
  • Nanyang Technological University (143 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (120 papers) published 19 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (100 papers) published 10 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • KAIST (82 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 4 less 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, 9.13% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 19.35% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.80% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.83% of all publications and 53.02% 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

  • On Mean Absolute Error for Deep Neural Network Based Vector-to-Vector Regression

    Jun Qi;Jun Du;Sabato Marco Siniscalchi;Xiaoli Ma

    (2020)
    474 Citations
  • Compressed Channel Estimation for Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted Millimeter Wave Systems

    Peilan Wang;Jun Fang;Huiping Duan;Hongbin Li

    (2020)
    411 Citations
  • Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces Assisted Secure Transmission Without Eavesdropper's CSI

    Hui-Ming Wang;Jiale Bai;Limeng Dong

    (2020)
    225 Citations
  • TRICE: A Channel Estimation Framework for RIS-Aided Millimeter-Wave MIMO Systems

    Khaled Ardah;Sepideh Gherekhloo;Andre L. F. de Almeida;Martin Haardt

    (2021)
    223 Citations
  • Direction-of-Arrival Estimation of Coherent Signals via Coprime Array Interpolation

    Zhi Zheng;Yixiao Huang;Wen-Qin Wang;Hing Cheung So

    (2020)
    148 Citations
  • Improving GANs for Speech Enhancement

    Huy Phan;Ian V. McLoughlin;Lam Pham;Oliver Y. Chen

    (2020)
    121 Citations
  • Rethinking Low-Light Enhancement via Transformer-GAN

    Unknown

    (2022)
    106 Citations
  • Coupled Coarray Tensor CPD for DOA Estimation With Coprime L-Shaped Array

    Hang Zheng;Zhiguo Shi;Chengwei Zhou;Martin Haardt

    (2021)
    90 Citations
  • Radar Target Detection Aided by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

    Stefano Buzzi;Emanuele Grossi;Marco Lops;Luca Venturino

    (2021)
    87 Citations
  • A Hybrid Downlink NOMA With OFDM and OFDM-IM for Beyond 5G Wireless Networks

    Armed Tusha;Seda Dogan;Huseyin Arslan

    (2020)
    71 Citations

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