Electronics

About Electronics

About Electronics

Electronics is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on the science of electronics and its applications, published semimonthly online by MDPI in Basel, Switzerland. Its ISSN is 2079-9292 — the journal is online-only, and that single number is its complete ISSN identity, as stated on MDPI's own journal pages and confirmed by its OpenAlex source record. The journal was established in 2012 and has grown into one of the largest titles in electrical and electronic engineering: MDPI reports a 2025 Impact Factor of 2.9 with a five-year Impact Factor of 2.8, and a 2025 CiteScore of 7.0. OpenAlex records 32,280 works and 382,522 citations under the journal's source record.

The JournalsWorld record previously published for this journal was a short metrics stub with no ISSN at all. That gap matters more for this title than for most: several unrelated journals share similar names — Nature Electronics from Nature Portfolio is the best-known example — and the ISSN is the only reliable way to tell them apart. This profile therefore records the verified identity first (MDPI, Basel; ISSN 2079-9292; established 2012) and treats every metric below as belonging to that record and no other. The stored stub's publisher, MDPI, was correct, and its SCImago figures are retained and sourced below.

Electronics is organised as a broad-scope journal with named sections, each led by its own section editors, covering the full span of the discipline from semiconductor devices to artificial intelligence. MDPI's stated aim for the journal is to encourage scientists to publish experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible, with no restriction on the maximum length of papers and a requirement that full experimental and methodical details be provided. That editorial stance — completeness over brevity — shapes what a good submission to this journal looks like, and it is discussed in the author guidance section below.

Key Facts

History and Development

Electronics published its first volume in 2012, as part of the generation of MDPI titles built natively for online open access publishing. Its growth followed the standard MDPI milestones, recorded on the journal's own history page: coverage by Scopus followed in the middle of the decade, and the journal entered the Science Citation Index Expanded in 2017, receiving its first Journal Impact Factor — 2.110 for 2017 — in the Journal Citation Reports released in June 2018, when it stood at 113th of 260 titles (Q2) in Engineering, Electrical and Electronic. The Impact Factor then moved through 2.690 for 2021 and 2.9 for 2022, with a CiteScore of 4.7 recorded for 2022, before reaching the current 2025 figures of 2.9 (five-year 2.8) and a CiteScore of 7.0. Authors comparing these numbers across years should note that the Impact Factor and the CiteScore are computed over different citation windows by different organisations — Clarivate and Scopus respectively — so the pair rising together is a stronger signal than either alone.

Editorial leadership has been stable. Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero of Politecnico di Torino, a former Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, was appointed Editor-in-Chief in March 2021, having previously led the journal's Circuit and Signal Processing section. MDPI's journal history records his tenure running to 2026 and Prof. Dr. Sergio Busquets-Monge — previously a section editor for the Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles section — as Editor-in-Chief from 2026 to the present. The journal has also accumulated society affiliations over time; the Polish Society of Applied Electromagnetics is affiliated, with its members receiving a discount on article processing charges, and MDPI's history page records the Association of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems UK becoming an affiliated society in the journal's 2026 entries, alongside the announcement of the first edition of an Editor of Distinction Award.

Scale is the other defining fact. SCImago counted 4,963 documents published by the journal in 2025, and the stored record's three-year window showed 58,005 citations. A semimonthly journal publishing at that volume operates as a set of semi-autonomous sections under one title — which is why the section structure, described next, is the right level at which to judge whether a manuscript fits.

Scope and Sections

MDPI's aims and scope page lists the journal's subject areas in full: Microelectronics; Optoelectronics; Industrial Electronics; Power Electronics; Bioelectronics; Microwave and Wireless Communications; Computer Science and Engineering; Networks; Systems and Control Engineering; Circuit and Signal Processing; Semiconductor Devices; Artificial Intelligence; Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles; Quantum Electronics; Flexible Electronics; Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems; Electronic Multimedia; and Electronic Materials. The journal publishes reviews, research articles, short communications and letters across all of them.

OpenAlex's topic data for the source record shows where the published volume actually concentrates, which does not always match a scope list's order. The largest topic cluster is advanced neural network applications (3,006 works), followed by advanced DC-DC converters (1,515 works) and multilevel inverters and converters (1,246 works) — a profile that reflects the journal's dual centre of gravity in computing-oriented electronics and power electronics. A manuscript in a listed area with little published history is not out of scope, but its author should expect to explain the fit to the section editors explicitly in the cover letter, because the handling editors' expectations are calibrated by the journal's dominant streams.

Companion and cluster relationships also help authors place a paper. MDPI groups Electronics in a journal cluster of electronic engineering and hardware systems with Chips, Hardware, the Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, Microelectronics and Microwave, and names companion titles including Magnetism, Signals, Network, Software and others. A manuscript declined from Electronics for fit reasons will often be pointed towards one of these narrower titles, and authors working at the boundary of two sections should say which section they intend, since section editors differ.

Metrics and What They Mean

The headline figures, each named with its source system, are these. Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports, as reported by MDPI, give a 2025 Impact Factor of 2.9 and a five-year Impact Factor of 2.8, with a JCR rank of Q2 in Engineering, Electrical and Electronic. Scopus-based figures reported by MDPI give a 2025 CiteScore of 7.0, with CiteScore quartile standing at Q1 in Signal Processing and Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. SCImago's 2025 data, also built on Scopus but computed differently, gives an SJR of 0.623 with Q2 standing across the journal's categories — Computer Networks and Communications, Control and Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hardware and Architecture, and Signal Processing — and an H-index of 137. OpenAlex, counting a broader corpus, records an h-index of 158 and a two-year mean citedness of about 4.32, across 32,280 works and 382,522 citations.

Read together, these systems agree on the journal's tier — a solid second-quartile engineering title with pockets of first-quartile CiteScore standing — while disagreeing, predictably, on exact counts. The stored JournalsWorld record carried the SCImago line (SJR 0.623; H-index 137; Q2 categories), and those figures have been verified as internally consistent with SCImago's published 2025 data for this source. The one figure an author should never do is average the systems together or quote the largest number without its source: an h-index of 158 belongs to OpenAlex, 137 to SCImago, and both are correct inside their own counting rules.

Peer Review, Speed and Author Guidance

MDPI describes Electronics as running rigorous peer review under the publisher's publication ethics framework: MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), applies a zero-tolerance approach to plagiarism, data falsification and inappropriate authorship, and screens submissions with iThenticate against previous publications. Articles are published open access under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence, with copyright retained by the authors. MDPI's journal description reports rapid handling, with a median of 2.9 days from acceptance to publication for papers published in the first half of 2026 on the journal's current description page; authors should read the journal's live pages for the current first-decision and review medians at the moment they submit, since MDPI updates those figures each half-year.

The stated editorial aim — full experimental and methodical detail, no maximum length — has concrete consequences for preparation. Reproducibility material that other journals would push into supplements belongs in the main text here; circuit values, device parameters, simulation settings and dataset construction should be reported completely rather than summarised. Conversely, the absence of a length cap is not an invitation to pad: the journal's high submission volume means section editors screen for a clear contribution statement early. Authors should also confirm the current article processing charge before submission — MDPI journal pages state CHF 2,400 for this title, and charges are revised periodically, with discounts applying to members of affiliated societies — and should plan for the charge in grant budgets, since it falls due on acceptance.

One identity check is worth repeating for this journal above all others. Submissions, citations and indexing claims should always be verified against ISSN 2079-9292 and the mdpi.com/journal/electronics address. Nature Electronics (ISSN 2520-1131, Nature Portfolio) is a different journal with different metrics and charges, and bibliometric profiles for the two titles are routinely tangled by name-only matching in third-party databases.

Indexing and Directory Checks

Per MDPI, Electronics is indexed within Scopus, SCIE (Web of Science), CAPlus / SciFinder, Inspec, Ei Compendex and other databases. The SCIE listing is the basis of its Journal Impact Factor, and the Scopus listing underlies both CiteScore and the SCImago figures quoted above. A DOAJ directory search by ISSN, run on the verification date given below, returned no record for 2079-9292; this is reported as a dated check result. It does not contradict the journal's open access status, which is stated on its own pages and visible in its CC BY licensing, and authors whose funders require a DOAJ listing specifically should re-run that check at submission time rather than relying on any secondary profile, including this one.

Reading the Journal's Shape: What Gets Published

Because Electronics publishes at very large volume, its character is best read from its distribution of work rather than from any single article. The OpenAlex topic profile quoted above — neural network applications first, then DC-DC converters and multilevel inverters — tells an author two things. The journal's readership is strongest exactly where computing methods meet electrical hardware, and in power conversion, which is the engineering backbone of renewable energy systems, electric vehicles and modern power supplies. Sections such as Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles, Power Electronics, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science and Engineering sit directly on that centre of gravity, and papers there are handled by editors who see a constant flow of comparable work.

The long tail of the scope list behaves differently. Quantum Electronics, Flexible Electronics, Bioelectronics and Electronic Multimedia are genuine parts of the journal — each has its own section leadership — but they account for a smaller share of published volume. That has practical implications rather than prestige implications: turnaround and reviewer matching in a smaller stream depend more heavily on the individual section editor, and an author in one of those areas gains more than usual from a precise cover letter that names the section, states the contribution in two or three sentences, and identifies the community that will read the result. The journal's own description encourages exactly this completeness of reporting, and in a small stream the editor's screening decision will rest on how clearly the manuscript's audience is defined.

Article types deserve the same deliberate approach. Reviews in this journal are expected to organise a subfield, not merely to summarise it, and the journal's history of publishing bibliometric and survey work on its own community shows the editors' appetite for orientation pieces that help readers navigate fast-moving areas. Short communications and letters serve the opposite need — a single device result, a measurement or a circuit idea that is complete in itself — and authors should resist inflating such a result into a full article, because the shorter formats exist precisely so that a well-bounded contribution is not padded. With no maximum length imposed on full papers, the discipline runs the other way: length must be earned by detail that a reader needs in order to reproduce or build on the work.

Standing Among Neighbouring Titles

Authors usually weigh Electronics against three kinds of alternative. The first is the family of IEEE Transactions titles in the same subfields: older, subscription-based, typically slower, and in several cases higher in Impact Factor, but with strict page limits and charges structured very differently. The second is MDPI's own narrower cluster titles — Chips, Hardware, Microelectronics, Microwave and the Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications among them — which trade the big journal's visibility for a tighter community fit. The third is Nature Electronics, which is not a realistic alternative venue for most manuscripts and is mentioned here only because the shared name causes genuine confusion in citation databases and institutional reporting: it is a Nature Portfolio monthly launched in 2018, with ISSN 2520-1131, and it shares nothing with this journal beyond the word in its title.

Within that landscape, Electronics occupies a defensible position: a Q2 Journal Citation Reports title with first-quartile CiteScore standing in two categories, very fast production after acceptance, full methodological reporting without page pressure, and a readership measured in the tens of thousands of papers it has carried since 2012. Its weaknesses are the mirror image of its strengths — volume means an individual paper competes for attention inside a very large stream, and the article processing charge model means the cost sits with the author or the author's institution rather than with readers. Neither consideration is decisive on its own; both belong in an honest venue decision alongside fit, speed and the indexing requirements of the author's institution and funder.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the ISSN of Electronics? 2079-9292. The journal is online-only and has no separate print ISSN. The previously stored JournalsWorld record carried no ISSN; the verified number comes from MDPI's journal pages and OpenAlex.

Who publishes Electronics? MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), Basel, Switzerland.

Who is the Editor-in-Chief? MDPI's journal history lists Prof. Dr. Sergio Busquets-Monge from 2026, succeeding Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero (2021–2026).

What are the journal's metrics? 2025 Impact Factor 2.9 (five-year 2.8) and CiteScore 7.0, per MDPI; SCImago 2025 SJR 0.623, Q2, H-index 137; OpenAlex h-index 158.

What does it cost to publish? The journal is fully open access; MDPI journal pages state an article processing charge of CHF 2,400. Confirm the current figure on the journal site before submitting.

Is Electronics the same journal as Nature Electronics? No. They are unrelated titles from different publishers with different ISSNs — 2079-9292 for Electronics (MDPI) and 2520-1131 for Nature Electronics (Nature Portfolio).

Sources and Verification

This profile was researched from MDPI's own journal pages for Electronics (aims and scope, subject areas, journal description, indexing claims and licensing; the journal history page for Impact Factor and CiteScore milestones and Editors-in-Chief; MDPI announcements for the 2018 first Impact Factor and the 2021 editor appointment), the OpenAlex source record for ISSN 2079-9292 (works, citations, h-index, i10-index and topic clusters, fetched for this batch), SCImago 2025 data as carried in the stored record and cross-checked against SCImago's published category data (SJR, quartiles, H-index, 2025 document count), and a DOAJ directory search by ISSN run on the verification date, which returned no record. Figures are stated with their source system named, because the systems count differently. Last verified for JournalsWorld batch 794, November 2026.