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IEEE Communications Magazine Template

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About the IEEE Communications Magazine format

IEEE Communications Magazine is a peer-reviewed journal published by IEEE, covering Human auditory perception and evaluation, Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, Educational Robotics and Engineering. Over its lifetime it has published 14,288 papers, which have received 619,568 citations.

PublisherIEEE
Reference styleNumbered (IEEE)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
[1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, "A representative article title," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 45–58, 2023.

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Abbreviation (ISO-4)CM
Publishes research inHuman auditory perception and evaluation Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies Educational Robotics and Engineering Advanced Optical Network Technologies Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization
ISSN0163-6804
Citation impact (2-yr)2.76
h-index338
i10-index5,469
Top institutions publishing hereAT&T (United States)
Journal websitewww.comsoc.org
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Papers published in IEEE Communications Magazine per year

391
2014
478
2015
476
2016
632
2017
529
2018
387
2019
329
2020
406
2021
434
2022
668
2023
528
2024
581
2025

Citation impact of IEEE Communications Magazine by publication year

52.1K
2014
37.8K
2015
28.6K
2016
41.4K
2017
32.7K
2018
14.6K
2019
10.3K
2020
8.9K
2021
8K
2022
7.3K
2023
2.6K
2024
1.2K
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in IEEE Communications Magazine

A survey on sensor networks

Ian F. Akyildiz, Weilian Su, Yogesh Sankarasubramaniam et al. · 1 Aug 2002

The advancement in wireless communications and electronics has enabled the development of low-cost sensor networks. The sensor networks can be used for various application areas (e.g., health, military, home). For different application areas, there are different technical issues that researchers are currently resolving. The current state of the art of sensor networks is captured in…

13,684 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Massive MIMO for next generation wireless systems

Erik G. Larsson, Ove Edfors, Fredrik Tufvesson et al. · 1 Feb 2014

Multi-user MIMO offers big advantages over conventional point-to-point MIMO: it works with cheap single-antenna terminals, a rich scattering environment is not required, and resource allocation is simplified because every active terminal utilizes all of the time-frequency bins. However, multi-user MIMO, as originally envisioned, with roughly equal numbers of service antennas and terminals and frequency-division duplex…

6,885 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Towards Smart and Reconfigurable Environment: Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Wireless Network

Qingqing Wu, Rui Zhang · 22 Nov 2019

IRS is a new and revolutionizing technology that is able to significantly improve the performance of wireless communication networks, by smartly reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment with the use of massive low-cost passive reflecting elements integrated on a planar surface. Specifically, different elements of an IRS can independently reflect the incident signal by controlling its…

4,330 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Wireless communications with unmanned aerial vehicles: opportunities and challenges

Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang, Teng Joon Lim · 1 May 2016

Wireless communication systems that include unmanned aerial vehicles promise to provide cost-effective wireless connectivity for devices without infrastructure coverage. Compared to terrestrial communications or those based on high-altitude platforms, on-demand wireless systems with low-altitude UAVs are in general faster to deploy, more flexibly reconfigured, and likely to have better communication channels due to the presence…

4,068 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Five disruptive technology directions for 5G

Federico Boccardi, Robert W. Heath, Angel Lozano et al. · 1 Feb 2014

New research directions will lead to fundamental changes in the design of future fifth generation (5G) cellular networks. This article describes five technologies that could lead to both architectural and component disruptive design changes: device-centric architectures, millimeter wave, massive MIMO, smarter devices, and native support for machine-to-machine communications. The key ideas for each technology are…

3,840 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

IEEE Communications Magazine template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the IEEE Communications Magazine format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the IEEE Communications Magazine template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official IEEE format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does IEEE Communications Magazine use?
IEEE Communications Magazine uses Numbered (IEEE) references, shown as numbered [1], [2] markers in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, "A representative article title," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 45–58, 2023.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to IEEE Communications Magazine?
No. DocuGuru generates the IEEEtran LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a IEEE-ready IEEE Communications Magazine document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the IEEE Communications Magazine template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the IEEE Communications Magazine format with correct headings, figures, tables, and numbered citations.
Who publishes IEEE Communications Magazine?
IEEE Communications Magazine is a engineering and computer science journal published by IEEE. DocuGuru's IEEE Communications Magazine template matches IEEE's official submission format.
Can I export a submission-ready IEEE Communications Magazine PDF?
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