International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology, ICACT

About International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology, ICACT

International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT): A Korean-Based IEEE Conference Proceedings Profile

The International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology, ICACT — also styled Advanced Communications Technology in some recent edition titles — is a long-running annual conference held in South Korea, and the title recorded here is its proceedings, not a journal. This Journals World record gives a single ISSN, 1738-9445, names the publisher as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. in the United States, classifies the subject as Engineering, and shows an h-index of 49 and an SJR of 0.246, with the SJR year unverified on the record itself and no quartile or impact factor displayed. The ISSN Portal's record for 1738-9445 independently confirms the essentials behind that listing: title proper International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology, variant title ICACT, print medium, and country of publication the Republic of Korea. The conference and its American publisher are therefore both part of the identity: ICACT is organised in Korea — in recent years at the Phoenix Park Hotel in PyeongChang — with sponsorship recorded for editions including the Global IT Research Institute and the IEEE Communications Society, while its proceedings are published through IEEE and distributed in IEEE Xplore, which is why the publisher of record is IEEE in the United States.

That combination — a national research community's flagship communications meeting, published through a global engineering publisher — explains both the scale of ICACT's footprint and the shape of its proceedings. An h-index of 49 is substantial for a conference series and reflects more than two decades of annual volumes, each containing large numbers of papers across the whole span of communications technology, from radio and optical transmission to network security, artificial intelligence and smart-city applications. This profile explains what ICACT is, how its editions are numbered and where they meet, what its programme covers, how publication and indexing work, how to read its indicators, and how to judge whether a future edition fits your research.

Quick Facts

The Conference and Its Numbering

ICACT's edition numbers give a reliable chronology, because the conference itself uses them consistently. The 15th edition met in January 2013, the 16th in February 2014, the 18th from 31 January to 3 February 2016, the 19th from 19 February 2017, the 20th from 11 February 2018, the 21st in February 2019, the 23rd from 7 to 10 February 2021, the 24th from 13 to 16 February 2022, the 25th from 19 to 22 February 2023 and the 26th from 4 to 7 February 2024, each of those in PyeongChang, South Korea, in the listings that record them. The 27th edition, ICACT 2025, met from 16 to 19 February 2025 at the Phoenix Park Hotel, PyeongChang, under the theme rendered in its publicity as moving toward a secure and comfortable life in an era of rapid artificial-intelligence expansion; its IEEE conference record number and Xplore publication details were published in advance, as is normal for IEEE-sponsored meetings. Counting back from the 15th edition in 2013 places the first edition at the end of the 1990s, and the SCImago-derived coverage beginning in 2007 reflects database coverage of the proceedings rather than the conference's founding.

The February timing and the PyeongChang venue are themselves identifying features. ICACT is a winter conference, held in a mountain resort town that hosted the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, and it draws a predominantly Korean and wider Asian research community alongside international participants. The sponsoring Global IT Research Institute and the technical involvement of the IEEE Communications Society connect the meeting to Korea's telecommunications industry and research institutes as well as to the global IEEE community. For citation purposes, note the small title variation in recent years — Communication in the long-standing title, Communications in some 2024–2025 edition titles. Both forms refer to this same series, identified by the ISSN and the edition numbering; cite the form printed on the volume you used.

Scope: The Whole Communications Stack, and Beyond It

ICACT's programme is deliberately wide. The topic list published for the 27th edition runs to twenty-one areas, and reading it as a map of the field is instructive. At the physical and link layers sit wireless communication and satellite communication, mobile communication including 5G and 6G, optical communication, and communication networks including networks-on-chip. At the network and internet layers sit future networks in their many named generations and architectures — next-generation networking, information-centric networking, software-defined networking and network function virtualisation among them — together with network management, operation and maintenance. A large security block covers quantum security, application and web security, network forensics, authentication and biometrics, information and network security, intrusion and malware topics, and blockchain and distributed-application security. A computing block covers cloud and distributed systems, parallel and distributed computing, processing-in-memory, enterprise information systems, databases, e-government and e-commerce systems, and software engineering methods. An intelligence and media block covers artificial intelligence, deep and machine learning, recommender systems, big data and data mining, computer vision, graphics and image processing, and extended-reality topics. Finally, an applications block covers robotics, smart cities, smart farming and factories, autonomous driving, the internet of things, drones and unmanned aerial vehicles, intelligent transport, location-based services and telematics — and digital-twin and smart-service platforms.

Two conclusions follow for authors and readers. First, breadth is a feature of this venue, not a warning sign by itself: ICACT is a general communications conference, and a paper is placed by session and topic rather than by belonging to a narrow subcommunity. Second, breadth makes the individual paper, not the venue name, the unit of quality. A reader evaluating an ICACT paper should look at the work itself — its method, its evaluation, its authors' track record — rather than assuming that proceedings-wide indicators describe it. That advice applies to many large conferences, but it applies with particular force to a series whose annual volumes span this many topics.

How Publication and Indexing Work

Papers are submitted to a specific edition, reviewed for that edition, and, if accepted and presented, published in that edition's proceedings through IEEE, with the volume carrying both the continuing ISSN 1738-9445 and its own ISBNs. The bibliographic record of the 25th edition, for example, shows an IEEE catalog number, a print-on-demand ISBN and a distinct online ISBN alongside the ISSN — the standard IEEE pattern in which the serial identity persists while each year's volume is also a discrete book. Print-on-demand copies of IEEE proceedings volumes have historically been supplied through Curran Associates, whose details appear in the front matter of those volumes. The authoritative full-text home of the proceedings is IEEE Xplore, where each paper carries its own record and DOI.

On indexing, precision matters. SCImago-derived listings show coverage of this title in Scopus-based data from 2007 to 2025, and the h-index of 49 on this record derives from that kind of citation base. That is evidence of a real, continuing, cited proceedings series. It is not a promise that every paper in every edition is indexed identically in every database, and authors with institutional requirements should verify their own paper's presence in Scopus or Web of Science after publication. Nor should the proceedings be described as a journal in a curriculum vitae or a thesis list: the correct description is a paper in the proceedings of the numbered edition, with place, dates and pages or article number as given in Xplore.

Reading the Indicators

The h-index of 49 shown here means forty-nine papers under this title have each been cited at least forty-nine times in the underlying database — a strong cumulative record that reflects the series' longevity and volume as much as the influence of its best papers. Large annual conferences accumulate h-index steadily because they publish many papers over many years; the figure confirms that ICACT is an established series whose papers are used, and it should not be read as evidence that a typical ICACT paper is cited forty-nine times, since citation distributions are heavily skewed toward a minority of papers. The SJR of 0.246 displayed on this record, year unverified, sits in the range typical of broad conference proceedings; SCImago-derived year tables for this title show values moving roughly between 0.17 and 0.30 across the 2014–2024 period, which illustrates why a single unattributed SJR figure should never be treated as a current ranking. No Journal Citation Reports impact factor exists for this proceedings title on this record, and any website that quotes one for ICACT is mislabelling a different kind of metric.

For comparison, compare like with like: other large IEEE communications conferences and their proceedings, in the same database and the same year. Against that peer set, ICACT reads as what it is — a durable, mid-tier, regionally anchored international conference with global publication infrastructure — rather than as a competitor to the small, highly selective flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society, whose acceptance patterns and citation profiles are different in kind.

Who ICACT Suits

ICACT suits researchers — particularly those in Korea and the wider Asia-Pacific region, and those collaborating with them — who want a broad communications audience, an IEEE-published proceedings paper, and a conference whose topics will accommodate work at the boundaries between communications, computing, security and intelligent applications. Its winter Korean venue and its mix of academic, institute and industry participation reflect the structure of the Korean ICT research ecosystem, in which universities, government research institutes and telecommunications firms publish together. It can also suit application-oriented work — a smart-farm deployment, a telematics system, a network-security experiment — that might struggle for space at a narrow theory venue.

It suits less well an author who needs a journal article for evaluation purposes, an author whose work requires the extended length and revision cycle of a journal, or an author who cannot travel to present, since IEEE proceedings publication is normally tied to presentation under the edition's policy. Authors should also read the current edition's call carefully for page limits, format, the submission system and any workshops or special sessions, and should confirm sponsorship and IEEE record details for the specific edition — the 2025 edition, for instance, published its IEEE conference record number in its own publicity, and that kind of check is the right way to confirm an edition's standing.

A Note on Namesakes

The acronym ICACT is used by unrelated events, including conferences with similar-sounding names in other countries that are not connected to the Korean series and do not publish under ISSN 1738-9445. Before submitting or paying any fee, verify that the event is the numbered edition of this series: check the edition number against the sequence given above, the PyeongChang venue pattern, the GIRI and IEEE Communications Society connection, and the presence of the proceedings in IEEE Xplore under this ISSN. An event that cannot be verified against those markers should not be assumed to be this conference, whatever its website claims.

How the Field Has Moved Through These Proceedings

Because ICACT has run annually for more than two decades, its successive volumes form a useful record of how communication technology itself has changed. Editions from the period when database coverage begins in 2007 were preoccupied with broadband convergence networks, third- and fourth-generation mobile systems, internet telephony and the early architecture of the future internet — concerns that matched Korea's position as an early adopter of broadband and mobile services. The middle years added cloud computing, software-defined networks and the first wave of internet-of-things work, as sensors, vehicles and household devices joined phones and computers as network endpoints. The most recent editions show the centre of gravity shifting again: fifth- and sixth-generation mobile research now shares the programme with machine learning applied to networks, with security for distributed and cloud systems, with digital twins of factories and cities, and with artificial intelligence as both a user of networks and a tool for managing them. The twenty-one topic areas of the 27th edition make that trajectory visible in a single list: a topic such as quantum security or processing-in-memory would have had no natural home in the programme of twenty years ago, while topics such as network operation and enterprise information systems have persisted throughout, because the work of running real networks never disappears.

For a literature reviewer, that continuity is practical value. A question about, for example, how quality-of-service provisioning was approached before and after software-defined networking can be traced through successive ICACT volumes in a way that a single journal's archive, with its narrower remit, may not allow. The breadth that makes any one edition diffuse makes the run of editions, taken together, a wide-angle lens on the field — provided the reviewer remembers that conference papers report work at a moment in time, often before the extended evaluation that a later journal version would add, and checks for those later versions where they matter.

Preparing and Presenting a Paper

Authors preparing for ICACT should write for a knowledgeable but general communications audience. In a specialist workshop, a paper on, say, channel coding can assume its readers know the surrounding literature; at ICACT, the same paper may be read by researchers whose home ground is network security or intelligent transport, so the problem's motivation and the result's significance need one more paragraph of honest explanation than a narrow venue would require. The reverse discipline also applies: an applications paper should state its communications content precisely — what is transmitted, over what link, under what constraints — rather than presenting a system description in which the network is a magic ingredient. Reviewers for broad conferences reward papers that locate themselves clearly in the programme's topic structure, so choose the topic area deliberately and make the fit visible in the abstract.

On the practical side, work only from the current edition's own call for papers and submission system. Confirm the paper length and IEEE format required, the deadline and whether it is stated in Korean time, the review and notification schedule, the camera-ready and copyright steps for IEEE publication, the registration requirement for presenting authors, and whether the edition offers any remote presentation arrangement or whether attendance in PyeongChang is required. None of those details is fixed across editions, and none is stated in this profile, because quoting last year's arrangements as this year's rules is how authors miss deadlines. Budget questions, including registration fees and what they cover, should likewise be taken from the edition's official pages at the time you submit.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is ICACT a journal?

No. It is an annual international conference held in South Korea; the title recorded here is its proceedings, published by IEEE under ISSN 1738-9445.

What is its ISSN and where is it registered?

ISSN 1738-9445. The ISSN Portal records the title proper as International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology, variant ICACT, print medium, country of publication the Republic of Korea.

Where and when does it meet?

In February in recent years at the Phoenix Park Hotel, PyeongChang, South Korea: the 25th edition on 19–22 February 2023, the 26th on 4–7 February 2024 and the 27th on 16–19 February 2025.

Who sponsors and publishes it?

Recent editions record sponsorship by the Global IT Research Institute and the IEEE Communications Society; the proceedings publisher of record is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., and papers appear in IEEE Xplore.

Does it have an impact factor?

No impact factor is shown on this record. The indicators displayed are an h-index of 49 and an SJR of 0.246 with the year unverified on the record; SCImago-derived tables put the title's SJR roughly between 0.17 and 0.30 across 2014–2024.

How far back does database coverage run?

SCImago-derived listings show coverage from 2007 to 2025, and the edition numbering — 15th in 2013 through 27th in 2025 — traces the conference itself to the end of the 1990s.

Verification Checklist

Identify the series by ISSN 1738-9445 and edition number together; confirm a paper in IEEE Xplore and cite it with its edition, place, dates and DOI; confirm a future edition's call, fees and deadlines only from that edition's official materials; and treat any impact factor, quartile or acceptance rate quoted for this title by third-party sites as unverified, since none is published on this record and acceptance rates for individual editions are not publicly disclosed in the sources consulted.

Profile basis: this Journals World record (publisher, ISSN, subject, h-index and SJR as displayed); the ISSN Portal record for 1738-9445; IEEE proceedings bibliographic records for the 2017, 2018 and 2023 editions showing the ISSN, IEEE catalog numbers and ISBNs; conference listings recording edition numbers, dates and venues from the 15th edition in 2013 to the 26th in 2024 and sponsorship by GIRI and the IEEE Communications Society; the published topic list and IEEE record details for the 27th edition in 2025; and the SCImago-derived coverage and SJR history summarised by Resurchify. Edition-specific fees and deadlines are left to each edition's official call.