IEEE Multimedia

IEEE Multimedia is published by IEEE Computer Society and is in Zone 4 of Computer Science in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Video Analysis and Summarization, Multimedia Communication and Technology and Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, together about 31.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The magazine contains technical information covering a broad range of issues in multimedia systems and applications. Articles discuss research as well as advanced practice in hardware/software and are expected to span the range from theory to working systems. Especially encouraged are papers discussing experiences with new or advanced systems and subsystems. To avoid unnecessary overlap with existing publications, acceptable papers must have a significant focus on aspects unique to multimedia systems and applications. These aspects are likely to be related to the special needs of multimedia information compared to other electronic data, for example, the size requirements of digital media and the importance of time in the representation of such media. The following list is not exhaustive, but is representative of the topics that are covered: Hardware and software for media compression, coding & processing; Media representations & standards for storage, editing, interchange, transmission & presentation; Hardware platforms supporting multimedia applications; Operating systems suitable for multimedia applications; Storage devices & technologies for multimedia information; Network technologies, protocols, architectures & delivery techniques intended for multimedia; Synchronization issues; Multimedia databases; Formalisms for multimedia information systems & applications; Programming paradigms & languages for multimedia; Multimedia user interfaces; Media creation integration editing & management; Creation & modification of multimedia applications.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): Computer Science, Theory & Methods

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

2.91LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

6.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.54LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.92LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

62LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

93OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

735OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.48OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

3.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0.9%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

42LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

ISSN

1070-986X

Electronic ISSN

1941-0166

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub