IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Information Theory Society. It covers information theory and the mathematics of communications. It was established in 1953 as IRE Transactions on Information Theory. The editor-in-chief is Muriel Médard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). As of 2007, the journal allows the posting of preprints on arXiv.^[1]

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Discipline	Electrical engineering, computer science, communications
Language	English
Edited by	Venugopal V. Veeravalli
Publication details
Former name(s)	IRE Transactions on Information Theory
History	1953–present
Publisher	IEEE Information Theory Society
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	No
Impact factor	2.501 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory
MathSciNet	IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	IETTAW
ISSN	0018-9448 (print) 1557-9654 (web)
LCCN	58035217
OCLC no.	1752552
Links
Journal homepage Online access

According to Jack van Lint, it is the leading research journal in the whole field of coding theory.^[2] A 2006 study using the PageRank network analysis algorithm found that, among hundreds of computer science-related journals, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory had the highest ranking and was thus deemed the most prestigious. ACM Computing Surveys, with the highest impact factor, was deemed the most popular.^[3]