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IEEE Embedded Systems Letters

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. · United States · Est. 2009

ISSN1943-0663eISSN1943-0671

SJR Q2✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.447

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.037

Total Worksi

1,206

Total Citationsi

8,333

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.17

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

The IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (ESL), provides a forum for rapid dissemination of latest technical advances in embedded systems and related areas in embedded software. The emphasis is on models, methods, and tools that ensure secure, correct, efficient and robust design of embedded systems and their applications.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2009

Frequency4

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,206

Publisher OrgInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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Submission Info

Peer Reviewsingle and/or double anonymous

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

8/11 · 73%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1943-0663 / 1943-0671

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

single and/or double anonymous

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

399

2019

522

2020

605

2021

583

2022

511

2023

129

441

2024

153

164

2025

120

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Computer Science (miscellaneous)Q2

Control and Systems EngineeringQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Computer Science, Hardware & ArchitectureComputer Science, Software Engineering

Scopus Categories

Computer Science (miscellaneous)Control and Systems Engineering

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Parallel Computing and Optimization TechniquesEmbedded Systems Design TechniquesDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesFerroelectric and Negative Capacitance DevicesReal-Time Systems SchedulingInterconnection Networks and SystemsLegal Cases and CommentaryPhysical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware SecurityIoT-based Smart Home SystemsAdvanced Memory and Neural Computing

Frequently asked questions about IEEE Embedded Systems Letters

Is IEEE Embedded Systems Letters a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for IEEE Embedded Systems Letters: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of IEEE Embedded Systems Letters?

IEEE Embedded Systems Letters is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.17.

Is IEEE Embedded Systems Letters indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

IEEE Embedded Systems Letters is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.