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IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
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IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 60 300 1254 44

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 454
Documents by Best Scientists*: 1449
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 12
SCIMAGO H-index: 159
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.682
Impact Factor: 4.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters?

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters investigates areas of study like Optics, Antenna (radio), Electronic engineering, Microstrip antenna and Antenna measurement. The research on Optics featured in the journal combines topics in other fields like Slot antenna and Radiation pattern. The work on Antenna (radio) tackled in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters brings together disciplines like Acoustics and Optoelectronics.

The concepts on Electronic engineering presented in it can also apply to other research fields, including Wireless, MIMO, Algorithm, Reconfigurable antenna and Topology. The Microstrip antenna works featured in it incorporate elements from Microstrip, Ground plane and Patch antenna. The studies in Antenna measurement featured incorporate elements of Monopole antenna and Antenna efficiency, Dipole antenna, Coaxial antenna.

Helical antenna is a major topic of Monopole antenna research presented in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. Dipole antenna research presented in it encompasses a variety of subjects, including Dipole and Antenna array. In addition to Bandwidth (signal processing) research, it aims to explore topics under Electrical impedance, Radiation and Broadband.

  • Optics (41.32%)
  • Antenna (radio) (29.14%)
  • Electronic engineering (24.16%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • An idea for thin subwavelength cavity resonators using metamaterials with negative permittivity and permeability (531 citations)
  • Local Metamaterial-Based Waveguides in Gaps Between Parallel Metal Plates (506 citations)
  • Compact linear lead/lag metamaterial phase shifters for broadband applications (342 citations)

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

The most cited papers aim to foster the development of research in Optics, Microstrip antenna, Electronic engineering, Antenna measurement and Monopole antenna. While work presented in the journal papers provide substantial information on Optics, it also covers topics in Turnstile antenna and Radiation pattern. Issues in Antenna measurement were discussed in the journal papers, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Antenna efficiency, Dipole antenna and Coaxial antenna.

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

  • Optics
  • Quantum mechanics
  • Artificial intelligence

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters facilitates discussions on Antenna (radio), Optics, Wideband, Bandwidth (signal processing) and Optoelectronics. Microstrip antenna is a focus of the Antenna (radio) works in it. Microstrip antenna and Patch antenna are closely related fields of research discussed in it.

The presentations discussing Optics offer insights in topics such as Aperture, Polarization (waves), Beam (structure), Broadband and Axial ratio. It encompasses Axial ratio studies in the context of Circular polarization as a whole. While IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters focused on Wideband, it was also able to explore topics like Wavelength, Dipole antenna and Radiation pattern.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Accuracy Improvement Model for Predicting Propagation Delay of Loran-C Signal Over a Long Distance (4 citations)
  • Reconfigurable Sum and Difference Beams Based on a Binary Programmable Metasurface (4 citations)
  • Feasibility of Heating Brain Tumors Using a 915 MHz Annular Phased-Array (4 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 Wireless Propagation Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Wei Hong (51 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Zhijun Zhang (51 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Zhenghe Feng (50 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tayeb A. Denidni (50 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Bing-Zhong Wang (49 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous 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 Wireless Propagation Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Xidian University (395 papers) published 52 papers at the last edition, 14 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (310 papers) published 65 papers at the last edition, 33 more than at the previous edition,
  • Tsinghua University (141 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Nanjing University of Science and Technology (131 papers) published 12 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Southeast University (124 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition, 2 less than 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, 15.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 40.52% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.93% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 11.76% of all publications and 38.78% 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

  • A Portable Very Low Frequency (VLF) Communication System Based on Acoustically Actuated Magnetoelectric Antennas

    Cunzheng Dong;Xinjun Wang;Hwaider Lin;Yuan Gao

    (2020)
    208 Citations
  • Sub-6 GHz Dual-Band 8 × 8 MIMO Antenna for 5G Smartphones

    Demos Serghiou;Mohsen Khalily;Vikrant Singh;Ali Araghi

    (2020)
    128 Citations
  • Wideband MIMO Antenna Array Design for Future Mobile Devices Operating in the 5G NR Frequency Bands n77/n78/n79 and LTE Band 46

    Chow-Yen-Desmond Sim;Heng-You Liu;Ci-Jin Huang

    (2020)
    124 Citations
  • Low-Profile All-Textile Multiband Microstrip Circular Patch Antenna for WBAN Applications

    Unknown

    (2022)
    121 Citations
  • High-Gain On-Chip Antenna Design on Silicon Layer With Aperture Excitation for Terahertz Applications

    Mohammad Alibakhshikenari;Bal S. Virdee;Mohsen Khalily;Chan H. See

    (2020)
    111 Citations
  • Broadband Eight-Antenna Array Design for Sub-6 GHz 5G NR Bands Metal-Frame Smartphone Applications

    Horng-Dean Chen;Yuan-Chung Tsai;Chow-Yen-Desmond Sim;Colin Kuo

    (2020)
    106 Citations
  • Wideband RCS Reduction of Microstrip Antenna Array Using Coding Metasurface With Low Q Resonators and Fast Optimization Method

    (2022)
    92 Citations
  • On the Design of Ultrawideband Circuit Analog Absorber Based on Quasi-Single-Layer FSS

    Zhixin Yao;Shaoqiu Xiao;Zhiguo Jiang;Li Yan

    (2020)
    76 Citations
  • Reconfigurable Sum and Difference Beams Based on a Binary Programmable Metasurface

    Xiang Wan;Qiang Xiao;Ying Zhe Zhang;Yueheng Li

    (2021)
    74 Citations
  • Very-Low-Profile Grounded Coplanar Waveguide-Fed Dual-Band WLAN Slot Antenna for On-Body Antenna Application

    Kin-Lu Wong;Hsuan-Jui Chang;Chung-Ying Wang;Shao-Yu Wang

    (2020)
    72 Citations

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