Journal profile · Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
IEEE Transactions on Reliability
ISSN 0018-9529 · eISSN 1558-1721 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. · UNITED STATES · Quarterly
IEEE Transactions on Reliability: CAS Zone 2 · Computer Science (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 5.45; subscription journal; APC about USD 2,645; review about 4.5 months (community reports); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 201 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
IEEE Transactions on Reliability is published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. and is in Zone 2 of Computer Science in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Reliability and Maintenance Optimization, Software Reliability and Analysis Research and Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications, together about 46.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
IEEE Transactions on Reliability is a refereed journal for the reliability and allied disciplines including, but not limited to, maintainability, physics of failure, life testing, prognostics, design and manufacture for reliability, reliability for systems of systems, network availability, mission success, warranty, safety, and various measures of effectiveness. Topics eligible for publication range from hardware to software, from materials to systems, from consumer and industrial devices to manufacturing plants, from individual items to networks, from techniques for making things better to ways of predicting and measuring behavior in the field. As an engineering subject that supports new and existing technologies, we constantly expand into new areas of the assurance sciences.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Editor-in-chief Zhaojun StevenPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Reliability and Maintenance OptimizationEngineering23.8%
- Software Reliability and Analysis ResearchComputer Science12.5%
- Statistical Distribution Estimation and ApplicationsMathematics10.2%
- Probabilistic and Robust Engineering DesignDecision Sciences7.1%
- Risk and Safety AnalysisDecision Sciences6.2%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering4.9%
- Power System Reliability and MaintenanceEngineering2.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Computer Science Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Computer Science | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Software Engineering | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Engineering, Electrical & Electronic | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Computer Science Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Computer Science | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Software Engineering | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Engineering, Electrical & Electronic | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Computer Science Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Computer Science | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Software 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
- 5.45LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 5.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 10LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 10Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.16LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.83LetPub ·
- h-index
- 86LetPub ·
- h-index
- 163OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 3,489OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.9OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 9.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 3.5%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 188LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 8,309 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 254 | 14 | 209 |
| 2025 | 201 | 12 | 940 |
| 2024 | 210 | 25 | 2,110 |
| 2023 | 159 | 38 | 2,439 |
| 2022 | 164 | 33 | 4,465 |
| 2021 | 131 | 39 | 3,450 |
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)
- about 4.5 monthsLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- Fairly easyLetPub ·
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.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 2,645 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 2,800 | — | — |
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
- ISSN
- 0018-9529
- Electronic ISSN
- 1558-1721
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about IEEE Transactions on Reliability
What CAS zone is IEEE Transactions on Reliability in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, IEEE Transactions on Reliability is in Zone 2 of Computer Science, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture / Computer Science, Software Engineering / Engineering, Electrical & Electronic. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Computer Science. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of IEEE Transactions on Reliability?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 5.45; CiteScore 10, h-index 163.
How long does peer review take at IEEE Transactions on Reliability?
Authors report an average review time of about 4.5 months; 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 Transactions on Reliability?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, IEEE Transactions on Reliability is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is IEEE Transactions on Reliability open access, and what is the APC?
IEEE Transactions on Reliability is a subscription journal. APC about USD 2,645.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .