IEEE Xplore Journal/Conference Browse

Browse journal or conference information, metrics, and articles on IEEE Xplore.

URL Patterns

Page	URL
Journal home	{BASE_URL}/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber={PUNUMBER}
Popular articles	{BASE_URL}/xpl/topAccessedArticles.jsp?punumber={PUNUMBER}
Current issue	{BASE_URL}/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber={PUNUMBER}
All issues	{BASE_URL}/xpl/issues?punumber={PUNUMBER}
About journal	{BASE_URL}/xpl/aboutJournal.jsp?punumber={PUNUMBER}
Early access	{BASE_URL}/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber={ISNUMBER}
Conference home	{BASE_URL}/xpl/conhome/{PUNUMBER}/proceeding

The punumber (publication number) is the unique identifier for journals and conferences on IEEE Xplore.

Common Journal PUNUMBERs

Journal	punumber
IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)	34
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)	5962
IEEE Trans. Image Processing (TIP)	83
IEEE Access	6287639
IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)	10206
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials	9739
IEEE Internet of Things Journal	6488907

If the user provides a journal name instead of a punumber, search for the journal first, or try constructing the URL from the name.

Steps

Step 1: Navigate to journal page

Use navigate_page with initScript:

navigate_page({
  url: "{BASE_URL}/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber={PUNUMBER}",
  initScript: "Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'webdriver', {get: () => undefined})"
})

For conferences, use:

{BASE_URL}/xpl/conhome/{PUNUMBER}/proceeding

Step 2: Extract journal info

Use evaluate_script with built-in waiting. Do NOT use wait_for.

async () => {
  // Wait for journal content to load (up to 15s)
  for (let i = 0; i < 30; i++) {
    if (document.querySelector('h1') && document.querySelectorAll('a[href*="/document/"]').length > 0) break;
    await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 500));
  }

  const result = {};

  // Journal name
  result.name = document.querySelector('h1')?.textContent?.trim() || '';

  // Metrics
  const metricsContainer = document.querySelector('[class*="publication-info"]') || document.body;
  const allText = metricsContainer.innerText || '';

  const ifMatch = allText.match(/([\d.]+)\s*Impact Factor/);
  const efMatch = allText.match(/([\d.]+)\s*Eigenfactor/);
  const aiMatch = allText.match(/([\d.]+)\s*Article Influence/);
  const csMatch = allText.match(/([\d.]+)\s*CiteScore/);

  result.impactFactor = ifMatch ? ifMatch[1] : '';
  result.eigenfactor = efMatch ? efMatch[1] : '';
  result.articleInfluence = aiMatch ? aiMatch[1] : '';
  result.citeScore = csMatch ? csMatch[1] : '';

  // Tabs available
  const tabs = [...document.querySelectorAll('.tabs a, .nav-tabs a, [class*="tab-link"]')];
  result.tabs = tabs.map(a => ({
    text: a.textContent.trim(),
    href: a.href || ''
  })).filter(t => t.text).slice(0, 10);

  // Latest/popular articles on the page
  result.articles = [];
  const articleLinks = document.querySelectorAll('a[href*="/document/"]');
  const seen = new Set();
  articleLinks.forEach(link => {
    const title = link.textContent.trim();
    const arnumber = link.href.match(/\/document\/(\d+)/)?.[1] || '';
    if (title && arnumber && !seen.has(arnumber) && title.length > 10) {
      seen.add(arnumber);
      result.articles.push({ title: title.substring(0, 150), arnumber, url: link.href });
    }
  });
  result.articles = result.articles.slice(0, 15);

  // ISSN from page
  const pageText = document.body.innerText;
  const issnMatch = pageText.match(/ISSN[:\s]*([\d-X]+)/i);
  result.issn = issnMatch ? issnMatch[1] : '';

  // Publication number
  const urlMatch = window.location.href.match(/punumber=(\d+)/);
  result.punumber = urlMatch ? urlMatch[1] : '';

  return result;
}

Step 3: Present journal info

## {name}

**Impact Factor**: {impactFactor}
**CiteScore**: {citeScore}
**Eigenfactor**: {eigenfactor}
**Article Influence Score**: {articleInfluence}
**ISSN**: {issn}
**PUNUMBER**: {punumber}

### Available Sections
{tabs}

### Articles
1. {title} (Article #: {arnumber})
2. ...

Browsing a specific issue

If the user asks for a specific volume/issue, navigate to {BASE_URL}/xpl/tocresult.jsp?punumber={PUNUMBER}&isnumber={ISNUMBER} and extract the article list.

To find issue numbers, navigate to the "All Issues" page first:

{BASE_URL}/xpl/issues?punumber={PUNUMBER}

Notes

• punumber is the primary identifier for journals and conferences on IEEE Xplore.
• Journal pages show latest published articles, early access, popular articles, etc.
• Conference pages show proceedings grouped by conference year.
• Always include initScript on every navigate_page call.
• Use 2 tool calls: navigate_page + evaluate_script.