IEEE Communications Magazine

The IEEE Communications Magazine is a monthly magazine published by the IEEE Communications Society dealing with all areas of communications including light-wave telecommunications, high-speed data communications, personal communications systems (PCS), ISDN, and more. It includes special features, technical articles, book reviews, conferences, short courses, standards, governmental regulations and legislation, new products, and Society news. The magazine is published as IEEE Communications Magazine since 1979, replacing the IEEE Communications Society Magazine (1977–1978) and the Communications Society (1973–1976). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the magazine has a 2013 impact factor of 4.460.^[1] It is abstracted and indexed in most of the major bibliographic databases.^[2] The current editor-in-chief is Tarek S. El-Bawab.

IEEE Communications Magazine

Language	English
Edited by	Tarek S. El-Bawab
Publication details
History	1979–present
Publisher	IEEE Communications Society
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	11.05 (2019)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	IEEE Commun. Mag.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0163-6804
Links
Journal homepage Online access

Editors

• Tarek S. El-Bawab (Jackson State University), 2018–present
• Osman Gebizlioglu (Huawei Technologies), 2015–2017
• Sean Moore (Centripetal Networks), 2013–2014
• Steve Gorshe (PMC-Sierra, Inc.), 2010–2012
• Nim K. Cheung (Telcordia Tech., Inc.), –2009