--- title: "Speech Communication: impact and top papers" description: "Speech Communication has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.29 and an h-index of 153 in OpenAlex, #37 of 41 tracked AI journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 106 papers, and its papers received 5,350 citations." url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/speech-communication markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/speech-communication.md license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) share_text: "Speech Communication has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.29 and an h-index of 153 in OpenAlex, #37 of 41 tracked AI journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 106 papers, and its papers received 5,350 citations. (as of 2026-11-03)" data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00 window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03 source: OpenAlex (CC0) --- # Speech Communication - 1 paper in the last 7 days - category: AI - publisher: Elsevier BV - ISSN 0167-6393 - Journal website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/speech-communication - ISSN portal: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/0167-6393 - OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/S128025751 Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journals.md Rankings of AI: [AI dashboard](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) · [AI journal rankings by citations](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/ai.md) · [Top AI institutions, 2023–2025](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/ai.md) · [Top funders of AI research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders/ai.md) · [Companies in AI research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/ai.md) · [Open access in AI journals](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/ai.md) · [Top AI conferences](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/categories/ai.md) ## Key findings - Speech Communication has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.29 and an h-index of 153 in OpenAlex, #37 of 41 tracked AI journals by citedness. - In 2025 it published 106 papers, and its papers received 5,350 citations. - Speech Communication published 4 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #250 of 480 journals. - Leading institutions: University of Florida (1), University of Regensburg (1) and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (1). - Countries: Germany (2), United States (1) and Israel (1). - From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, Speech Communication published 3 papers (0 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex). - Its most frequent keywords over that period were “Catalan” (1), “German” (1) and “conformational isomers” (1). ## Citation metrics *Citation metrics (OpenAlex)* | Metric | Value | |---|---:| | 2-year mean citedness | 3.29 | | h-index | 153 | | i10-index | 1,882 | | Papers in OpenAlex | 3,646 | | Citations in OpenAlex | 128,797 | | Rank among tracked AI journals | [#37 of 41](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/ai.md) | *Papers per year and the citations the journal's papers received that year (OpenAlex)* | Year | Papers | Citations received | |---|---:|---:| | 2026 (so far) | 90 | 3,919 | | 2025 | 106 | 5,350 | | 2024 | 89 | 5,945 | | 2023 | 93 | 6,068 | | 2022 | 99 | 6,487 | | 2021 | 77 | 6,648 | | 2020 | 86 | 6,514 | | 2019 | 74 | 6,093 | | 2018 | 110 | 5,791 | | 2017 | 122 | 5,854 | | 2016 | 83 | 6,261 | 2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly. Official metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate) and CiteScore (Scopus) are licensed by their owners and not copied here; the publisher shows them on the journal's website. Journal website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/speech-communication ## The last 36 months *Papers by publication date, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026* | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months | |---:|---:|---:|---:| | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | *Most frequent keywords, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026* | # | Keyword | Papers | |---:|---|---:| | 1 | Catalan | 1 | | 2 | German | 1 | | 3 | conformational isomers | 1 | | 4 | context switching | 1 | | 5 | contrastive focus | 1 | | 6 | contrastivity | 1 | | 7 | emotion perception | 1 | | 8 | end-to-end speech recognition | 1 | | 9 | intonation | 1 | | 10 | metacognitive monitoring | 1 | *Papers, newest first.* | Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations | |---|---|---|---|---| | 2026-11-01 | [A sociolinguistic analysis of automatic speech recognition bias in Newcastle English](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2026.103494) | [Speech Communication](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/speech-communication.md) | Dana Serditova, Kevin Tang | University of Regensburg; University of Florida; Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf | | 2026-10-17 | [Acoustic predictors of metacognitive monitoring in vocal emotion recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2026.103493) | [Speech Communication](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/speech-communication.md) | Rachel-Tzofia Sinvani | Talpiot College of Education | | 2026-10-13 | [Multimodal prominence as an indicator of increasing degrees of contrastivity: focus type marking in Catalan and German](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2026.103491) | [Speech Communication](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/speech-communication.md) | Paula G. Sánchez-Ramón, Alina Gregori, Frank Kügler et al. | Goethe University Frankfurt; Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats | | 2026-10-08 | [Swichformer: Switch context powered chunk-wise conformer for end-to-end streaming automatic speech recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2026.103490) | [Speech Communication](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/speech-communication.md) | Fangyuan Wang, Xiyuan Wang, Taocun Yang et al. | Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Automation | ## Cite this page Scholar4AI. (2026). Speech Communication. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/journals/speech-communication ```bibtex @misc{scholar4ai-journals-speech-communication, author = {{Scholar4AI}}, title = {Speech Communication}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/journals/speech-communication}}, urldate = {2026-11-03}, note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0} } ``` License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).