What are the best journals for Electrical and Electronic Engineering?

From a 17,500-venue index, the highest-ranked Electrical and Electronic Engineering journals include Nature Reviews Materials, Nano-Micro Letters, Nature Energy, Energy & Environmental Science, Joule. The top 40 of 604 ranked venues are listed on this page; all 40 are Scimago Q1. Each shows its open-access status and indexing, and predatory venues are excluded. For a shortlist matched to your specific paper, use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

How were these Electrical and Electronic Engineering journals ranked?

By Scimago quartile first (Q1 → Q4, then venues without one). Within a quartile, venues whose main OpenAlex subfield is Electrical and Electronic Engineering come before those that list it second or third, and ties go to OpenAlex cites/paper over a 2-year window. A venue whose main subfield is unrelated to Electrical and Electronic Engineering — fewer than a quarter of the venues filed under that subfield (or fewer than five) are also filed under Electrical and Electronic Engineering — is listed after all the others. Where cites/paper decides, a journal with fewer than 30 papers in OpenAlex over the four most recent publication years is listed after those with more: a two-year average over so few papers can rest on a single article (3 of the 604 journals ranked here are below that floor; none of them is among the 40 shown). Cites/paper is a transparent citation rate, not a licensed Impact Factor, and journals flagged as predatory are excluded.

How do I find the best journal for my specific Electrical and Electronic Engineering paper?

Paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder — it returns a shortlist matched to your paper's topic from the same index, with acceptance-fit signals, open-access status, and predatory flags. A free account starts with 25 welcome credits; each run costs 15.

Electrical and Electronic Engineering · 604 journals ranked · top 40 listed

Best journals for Electrical and Electronic Engineering

The top 40 of 604 Electrical and Electronic Engineering journals, ranked by Scimago quartile, then by how central Electrical and Electronic Engineering is to each journal, then OpenAlex cites/paper (2-year window), drawn from a 17,500-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded; the FAQ below gives the exact ranking rule. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder (a free account starts with 25 welcome credits).

Data as of 18 October 2026 — the date our venue index was last rebuilt from OpenAlex and Scimago.

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All Best open-access journals

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Nature Reviews Materials
35.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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2
Nano-Micro Letters
33.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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3
Nature Energy
31.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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4
Energy & Environmental Science
31.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
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5
Joule
28.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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6
Advanced Materials
22.9 cites/paper · Q1
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7
Materials Science and Engineering R Reports
20.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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8
Advanced Energy Materials
19.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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9
Nano Energy
19.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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10
Carbon Energy
17.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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11
Nature Electronics
17.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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12
ACS Energy Letters
17.4 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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13
Journal of Energy Chemistry
16.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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14
Advanced Functional Materials
15.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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15
Applied Energy
15.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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16
Energy storage materials
13.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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17
Energy Strategy Reviews
12.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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18
Renewable energy focus
12.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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19
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
12.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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20
Matter
12.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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21
Chemical Engineering Journal
11.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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22
Rare Metals
11.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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23
Advanced Photonics
11.0 cites/paper · Q1
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24
Journal of Energy Storage
10.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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25
Proceedings of the IEEE
10.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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26
National Science Review
10.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University Press
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27
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
9.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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28
ACS Materials Letters
9.7 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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29
Energy Reports
9.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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30
Advanced Science
9.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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31
Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications
9.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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32
Small
9.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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33
Green Energy & Environment
8.8 cites/paper · Q1 · KeAi
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34
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
8.7 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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35
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
8.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
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36
Batteries
8.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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37
Sensors and Actuators B Chemical
8.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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38
Energy & environment materials
8.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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39
Materials Horizons
8.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
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40
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
8.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.