IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing is published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. and is in Zone 1 of Computer Science in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Emotion and Mood Recognition, Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, together about 46.2% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing is a cross-disciplinary and international archive journal aimed at disseminating results of research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and related affective phenomena. The journal publishes original research on the principles and theories explaining why and how affective factors condition interaction between humans and technology, on how affective sensing and simulation techniques can inform our understanding of human affective processes, and on the design, implementation and evaluation of systems that carefully consider affect among the factors that influence their usability. Surveys of existing work are considered for publication when they propose a new viewpoint on the history and the perspective on this domain. The journal covers but is not limited to the following topics: Sensing & analysis: Algorithms and features for the recognition of affective state from face and body gestures; Analysis of text and spoken language for emotion recognition; Analysis of prosody and voice quality of affective speech; Recognition of auditory and visual affect bursts; Recognition of affective state from central (e.g. fMRI, EEG) and peripheral (e.g. GSR) physiological measures; Methods for multi-modal recognition of affective state; Recognition of group emotion; Methods of data collection with respect to psychological issues as mood induction and elicitation or technical methodology as motion capturing; Tools and methods of annotation for provision of emotional corpora. (Cyber) psychology & behavior: Clarification of concepts related to ‘affective computing’ (e.g., emotion, mood, personality, attitude) in ways that facilitate their use in computing; Computational models of human emotion processes (e.g., decision-making models that account for the influence of emotion; predictive models of user emotional state); Studies on cross-cultural, group and cross-language differences in emotional expression; Contributions to standards and markup language for affective computing. Behavior Generation & User Interaction: Computational models of visual, acoustic and textual emotional expression for synthetic and robotic agents; Models of verbal and nonverbal expression of various forms of affect that facilitate machine implementation; Methods to adapt interaction with technology to the affective state of users; Computational methods for influencing the emotional state of people; New methods

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-COMPUTER SCIENCE, CYBERNETICS

Editor-in-chief Jesse HoeyPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

10.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

11.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

21.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

21.5Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

2.49LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

3.08LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

47LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

138OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

975OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

6.85OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

10.6%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

9.55%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

254LetPub · 2026-09-13

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A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

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Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

ISSN

1949-3045

Official links

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