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IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ85768039 ↗
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IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Communications Society. It covers the theory and applications of network science and networked systems. The editor-in-chief is Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen).

It is one of the highest quality and most selective journals in the field of network science. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 5.033.

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This entry incorporates text from “IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.