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Volume 23,
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9 June 2026

About Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory

High-quality survey and tutorial monographs in Information Theory. Information theory is the mathematical study of the quantification, storage, and communication of information

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Accepted manuscript types

Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory publishes exclusively long (± 100 pages) review and tutorial papers. For full details read the Editorial Aims of the journal. These criteria are strictly applied by the editorial board and your paper must meet them to be considered.

Original research papers will not be considered for publication and we will not acknowledge receipt.

If you intend to write, or are in the process of writing, a paper that meets the criteria in Editorial Aims, we will be pleased to hear from you. In the first instance, send an abstract for initial review to the publisher.

After this initial submission, a preliminary acceptance may follow. The full draft paper will be subject to a reviewing process to ensure quality standards and balance before being finally accepted..

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Single-anonymous peer review.

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Alphabetical reference style. Please find more information on Alphabetical referencing here.

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A maximum of 6 appropriate and short keywords can be added to your ScholarOne submission.

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This journal accepts manuscripts in UK/US English.

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3.9
2025 CiteScore (Scopus)
14.2
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1803

Editorial information

Editor-in-Chief: Alexander Barg, University of Maryland Global Campus, USA 

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