IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

{{Infobox journal

| title = IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

| cover =

| discipline = Electrical engineering, computer science, communications

| former_names = IRE Transactions on Information Theory

| abbreviation = IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory

| mathscinet = IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory

| editor = Venugopal V. Veeravalli

| publisher = IEEE Information Theory Society

| country =

| openaccess = No

| frequency = Monthly

| impact = 2.501

| impact-year = 2020

| history = 1953–present

| website = https://www.itsoc.org/it-trans

| link1 = http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=18

| link1-name = Online access

| JSTOR =

| OCLC = 1752552

| ISSN = 0018-9448

| LCCN = 58035217

| CODEN = IETTAW

| eISSN = 1557-9654

}}

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Information Theory Society. It covers information theory and the mathematics of communications. It was established in 1953 as IRE Transactions on Information Theory. The editor-in-chief is Venugopal V. Veeravalli (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). As of 2007, the journal allows the posting of preprints on arXiv.{{cite web |url=http://www.itsoc.org/publications/arxiv/arxiv-faq |title=ArXiV FAQ |work=itsoc.org}}

According to Jack van Lint, it is the leading research journal in the whole field of coding theory.{{cite book |author=van Lint, J.H. |title=Introduction to Coding Theory |publisher=Springer |year=1998 |edition=3rd}} A 2006 study using the PageRank network analysis algorithm found that, among hundreds of computer science-related journals, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory had the highest ranking and was thus deemed the most prestigious. ACM Computing Surveys, with the highest impact factor, was deemed the most popular.{{cite journal |author=Johan Bollen, Marko A. Rodriquez and Herbert Van de Sompel |title=Journal status |journal=Scientometrics |volume=69 |issue=3 |pages=669–687 |date=December 2006 |doi=10.1007/s11192-006-0176-z |arxiv=cs.GL/0601030 |s2cid=8572274 }}