IEEE periodicals rank highly in nearly 25 of the approximately 170 categories in the 2003 Journal Citation Reports. Published in early summer, the Journal Citation Reports include virtually all science and technology disciplines." IEEE published 9 of the top 10 and 12 of the top 20 in the Telecommunications category; the top 10 of the 56 publications in this category are listed below. along with the impact factor**

1. IEEE Network 3.871
2. IEEE Personal Communications 3.366
3. IEEE Communications Magazine 2.406
4. IEEE Trans. on Multimedia 2.253
5. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 1.967
6. ETRI Journal 1.773
7. IEEE Trans. on Communications 1.665
8. IEEE Wireless Communications 1.583
9. IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications 1.232
10. IEEE Communications Letters 1.196


*** The impact factor is defined as the average number of times
articles published in a specific journal in the previous two years were
cited in a particular year, 2003 in this case.