Journal profile · Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine
ISSN 1531-636X · eISSN 1558-0830 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. · UNITED STATES · Quarterly · Founded 2001
IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine: CAS Zone 2 · Engineering (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 6.41; subscription journal; review over 12 weeks (community reports); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 98 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine is published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. and is in Zone 2 of Engineering in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, Human auditory perception and evaluation and Educational Robotics and Engineering, together about 39.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Electrical and Electronic Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine covers the subject areas represented by the Society's transactions, including: analog, passive, switch capacitor, and digital filters; electronic circuits, networks, graph theory, and RF communication circuits; system theory; discrete, IC, and VLSI circuit design; multidimensional circuits and systems; large-scale systems and power networks; nonlinear circuits and systems, wavelets, filter banks, and applications; neural networks; and signal processing. Content also covers the areas represented by the Society technical committees: analog signal processing, cellular neural networks and array computing, circuits and systems for communications, computer-aided network design, digital signal processing, multimedia systems and applications, neural systems and applications, nonlinear circuits and systems, power systems and power electronics and circuits, sensors and micromaching, visual signal processing and communication, and VLSI systems and applications. Lastly, the magazine covers the interests represented by the widespread conference activity of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. In addition to the technical articles, the magazine also covers Society administrative activities, as for instance the meetings of the Board of Governors, Society People, as for instance the stories of award winners-fellows, medalists, and so forth, and Places reached by the Society, including readable reports from the Society's conferences around the world.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Editor-in-chief Keshab K. ParhiPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance15%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering12.9%
- Educational Robotics and EngineeringComputer Science11.4%
- Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance DevicesEngineering5.9%
- Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit DesignEngineering4.9%
- Big Data and Digital EconomyComputer Science4.7%
- Earthquake and Disaster Impact StudiesSocial Sciences4.7%
- Advanced Memory and Neural ComputingEngineering3.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Engineering Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Engineering, Electrical & Electronic | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Engineering Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Engineering, Electrical & Electronic | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Engineering Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Engineering, Electrical & Electronic | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 6.41LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 5.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.4LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 6.4Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.76LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.8LetPub ·
- h-index
- 45LetPub ·
- h-index
- 76OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 259OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.26OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 23.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 23LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,686 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 67 | 2 | 5 |
| 2025 | 98 | 2 | 119 |
| 2024 | 101 | 23 | 211 |
| 2023 | 78 | 62 | 504 |
| 2022 | 70 | 46 | 370 |
| 2021 | 57 | 32 | 1,136 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- Fairly easyLetPub ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 2001
- ISSN
- 1531-636X
- Electronic ISSN
- 1558-0830
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine
What CAS zone is IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine is in Zone 2 of Engineering, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Engineering, Electrical & Electronic. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Engineering. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 6.41; CiteScore 6.4, h-index 76.
How long does peer review take at IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine?
Authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly easy”. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine open access, and what is the APC?
IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-24). Last updated: .