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IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 117 103 238 27
Engineering and Technology 576 24 68 15

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 145
Documents by Best Scientists*: 281
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 105
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.88
Impact Factor: 5.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine?

Electronic engineering, Antenna (radio), Optics, Electrical engineering and Telecommunications are the subjects of interest in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. While IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine focused on Electronic engineering, it was also able to explore topics like Directional antenna, Microstrip antenna, Reconfigurable antenna and Wireless. Research on Directional antenna presented in the journal focuses, in particular, on Slot antenna and Conformal antenna.

Some problems in Microstrip antenna that were presented in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine overlapped with concepts under Microstrip and Patch antenna. The work tackled in it goes beyond the discipline of Antenna (radio) as it also encompasses Acoustics. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine links adjacent topics like Optics with Antenna aperture.

While Antenna measurement is the focus of the journal, it also provided insights into the studies of Antenna efficiency, Coaxial antenna and Omnidirectional antenna. Most of the works presented in it deals with Dipole antenna but it intersects with the subject of Monopole antenna.

  • Electronic engineering (22.37%)
  • Antenna (radio) (20.53%)
  • Optics (15.99%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • An Overview of the Theory and Applications of Metasurfaces: The Two-Dimensional Equivalents of Metamaterials (1309 citations)
  • The fast multipole method for the wave equation: a pedestrian prescription (1303 citations)
  • Using the matrix pencil method to estimate the parameters of a sum of complex exponentials (929 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine:

The most cited publications focus on Electronic engineering, Antenna (radio), Optics, Microstrip antenna and Directional antenna. The published papers focus on Electronic engineering but sometimes tackle the closely related topic of Wireless which is concerned with Wave propagation. The published articles explore issues in Directional antenna which can be linked to other research areas like Antenna measurement and Omnidirectional antenna.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • World War II
  • Quantum mechanics
  • Law

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The foci of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine are Antenna (radio), Optics, Acoustics, Electrical engineering and Electronic engineering. It holds forums on Antenna (radio) that merges themes from other disciplines such as Electrical impedance, Microstrip and Near and far field. The study on Near and far field presented in the journal intersects with the topics under Extremely high frequency.

Extremely high frequency research discussed connects with the study of Antenna measurement. Many of the studies tackled connect Optics with a similar field of study like Radio spectrum.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Metamaterial Circularly Polarized Antennas: Integrating an epsilon negative transmission line and single split ring-type resonator (8 citations)
  • A High-Efficiency Wideband Frequency-Reconfigurable Water Antenna With a Liquid Control System: Usage for VHF and UHF Applications (7 citations)
  • Simulation-Assisted Efficient Computation of the Dispersion Diagram of Periodic Structures: A comprehensive overview with applications to filters, leaky-wave antennas and metasurfaces (5 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Rajeev Bansal (98 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Levent Sevgi (73 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Randy L. Haupt (64 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • James C. Lin (50 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Giuseppe Pelosi (43 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Connecticut (100 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (60 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Doğuş University (51 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Florence (50 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Michigan (46 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 30.23% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 12.22% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 6.67% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 18.89% of all publications and 62.22% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • 3D Printing Materials and Techniques for Antennas and Metamaterials: A survey of the latest advances

    Unknown

    (2023)
    100 Citations
  • Optically Transparent Antennas: A Survey of Transparent Microwave Conductor Performance and Applications

    Zachary J. Silva;Christopher R. Valenta;Gregory D. Durgin

    (2021)
    87 Citations
  • Rectennas for Radio-Frequency Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer: A Review of Antenna Design [Antenna Applications Corner]

    Mahmoud Wagih;Alex S. Weddell;Steve Beeby

    (2020)
    79 Citations
  • Noninvasive Inline Food Inspection via Microwave Imaging Technology: An Application Example in the Food Industry

    Jorge A. Tobon Vasquez;Rosa Scapaticci;Giovanna Turvani;Marco Ricci

    (2020)
    76 Citations
  • Calibration and Direction-of-Arrival Estimation of Millimeter-Wave Radars: A Practical Introduction

    Claudia Vasanelli;Fabian Roos;Andre Durr;Johannes Schlichenmaier

    (2020)
    74 Citations
  • A Multiple-Band Rydberg Atom-Based Receiver: AM/FM Stereo Reception

    Christopher Holloway;Mathew Simons;Abdulaziz H. Haddab;Joshua A Gordon

    (2021)
    61 Citations
  • Electromagnetic Chirality, Part 1: The Microscopic Perspective [Electromagnetic Perspectives]

    Christophe Caloz;Ari Sihvola

    (2020)
    61 Citations
  • Machine Learning in Electromagnetics With Applications to Biomedical Imaging: A Review

    Maokun Li;Rui Guo;Ke Zhang;Zhichao Lin

    (2021)
    53 Citations

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