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IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
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IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 91 84 153 33

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 312
Documents by Best Scientists*: 335
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 9
SCIMAGO H-index: 219
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.685
Impact Factor: 9.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at IEEE Signal Processing Magazine?

The concepts of Signal processing, Artificial intelligence, Multimedia, Telecommunications and Computer vision are tackled in the journal. The concepts on Signal processing presented in it can also apply to other research fields, including Algorithm, Digital signal processing and Theoretical computer science. The work on Artificial intelligence tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Machine learning, Speech recognition and Pattern recognition.

  • Signal processing (27.11%)
  • Artificial intelligence (20.47%)
  • Multimedia (10.08%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • An Introduction To Compressive Sampling (7811 citations)
  • Deep Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling in Speech Recognition: The Shared Views of Four Research Groups (6578 citations)
  • Scaling Up MIMO: Opportunities and Challenges with Very Large Arrays (4317 citations)

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

The published articles are organized to reinforce research efforts on Artificial intelligence, Signal processing, Computer vision, Computer network and Speech recognition. The works on Artificial intelligence tackled in the journal articles bring together disciplines like Machine learning and Pattern recognition. The journal publications focus on Signal processing but sometimes tackle the closely related topic of Theoretical computer science which is concerned with Computer engineering.

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

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Statistics
  • Operating system

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Signal processing, Artificial intelligence, Human–computer interaction, Deep learning and Algorithm are among the topics commonly tackled in the journal. The field of Telecommunications is the anchor for the Signal processing studies presented in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. Issues in Artificial intelligence were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Task analysis and Perception.

The studies in Perception featured incorporate elements of Field (computer science) and Machine learning. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine focuses on Deep learning research which is adjacent to topics in Data science. Studies in Focus (computing) and Special section are the key highlights in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Algorithm Unrolling: Interpretable, Efficient Deep Learning for Signal and Image Processing (65 citations)
  • Snapshot Compressive Imaging: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (26 citations)
  • 3D Point Cloud Processing and Learning for Autonomous Driving: Impacting Map Creation, Localization, and Perception (11 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 Magazine (based on the number of publications) are:

  • John Edwards (51 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Li Deng (33 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Abdelhak M. Zoubir (27 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Robert W. Heath (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ali H. Sayed (23 papers) absent at the last 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 Magazine (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Princeton University (49 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (44 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (39 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (39 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Carnegie Mellon University (37 papers) absent at the last 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, 23.61% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 16.36% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.45% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 18.18% of all publications and 60.00% 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

  • Algorithm Unrolling: Interpretable, Efficient Deep Learning for Signal and Image Processing

    Vishal Monga;Yuelong Li;Yonina C. Eldar

    (2021)
    986 Citations
  • MIMO Radar for Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems and Autonomous Driving: Advantages and Challenges

    Shunqiao Sun;Athina P. Petropulu;H. Vincent Poor

    (2020)
    539 Citations
  • Snapshot Compressive Imaging: Principle, Implementation, Theory, Algorithms and Applications.

    Xin Yuan;David J. Brady;Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

    (2021)
    350 Citations
  • Joint Radar-Communication Strategies for Autonomous Vehicles: Combining Two Key Automotive Technologies

    Dingyou Ma;Nir Shlezinger;Tianyao Huang;Yimin Liu

    (2020)
    337 Citations
  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: A signal processing perspective with wireless applications

    (2021)
    306 Citations
  • Event-Based Neuromorphic Vision for Autonomous Driving: A Paradigm Shift for Bio-Inspired Visual Sensing and Perception

    Guang Chen;Hu Cao;Jorg Conradt;Huajin Tang

    (2020)
    252 Citations
  • Plug-and-Play Methods for Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Using Denoisers for Image Recovery

    Rizwan Ahmad;Charles A. Bouman;Gregery T. Buzzard;Stanley Chan

    (2020)
    213 Citations
  • Rethinking Bayesian Learning for Data Analysis: The art of prior and inference in sparsity-aware modeling

    Unknown

    (2022)
    163 Citations
  • A Primer on Zeroth-Order Optimization in Signal Processing and Machine Learning: Principals, Recent Advances, and Applications

    Sijia Liu;Pin-Yu Chen;Bhavya Kailkhura;Gaoyuan Zhang

    (2020)
    152 Citations
  • Graphs, Convolutions, and Neural Networks: From Graph Filters to Graph Neural Networks

    Fernando Gama;Elvin Isufi;Geert Leus;Alejandro Ribeiro

    (2020)
    138 Citations

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