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IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation
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IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 251 158 211 14
Engineering and Technology 1012 19 24 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 210
Documents by Best Scientists*: 261
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 8
SCIMAGO H-index: 86
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.325
Impact Factor: 1.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation?

The main points discussed in the journal deals with Optics, Electronic engineering, Antenna (radio), Microstrip antenna and Electrical engineering. Optics research featured in Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Antenna efficiency, Dipole antenna, Radiation pattern and Monopole antenna. Many of the studies tackled connect Antenna efficiency with a similar field of study like Coaxial antenna.

Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation is focused mainly on Dipole antenna, particularly Antenna factor. The studies on Electronic engineering discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Wireless and Topology. Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation focused on Antenna (radio) research but expanded to cover Acoustics.

The journal dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Microstrip antenna and Patch antenna. The main emphasis of Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation is the subject of Electrical engineering, focusing on Amplifier. While it focused on Bandwidth (signal processing), it was also able to explore topics like Broadband and Wideband.

  • Optics (33.29%)
  • Electronic engineering (30.70%)
  • Antenna (radio) (24.40%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Review of substrate-integrated waveguide circuits and antennas (782 citations)
  • Design and experimental verification of ridge gap waveguide in bed of nails for parallel-plate mode suppression (286 citations)
  • Numerical studies of bandwidth of parallel-plate cut-off realised by a bed of nails, corrugations and mushroom-type electromagnetic bandgap for use in gap waveguides (185 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation:

The most cited articles explore disciplines such as Electronic engineering, Optics, Antenna (radio), Microstrip antenna and Electrical engineering. The published articles focus on Electronic engineering but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Acoustics, Resonator and Wireless. In addition to Optics research, the most cited articles aim to explore topics under Dipole antenna, Ground plane and Radiation pattern.

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

  • Quantum mechanics
  • Optics
  • Electrical engineering

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation explores disciplines such as Optics, Optoelectronics, Wideband, Acoustics and Antenna (radio). Most of the Optics studies addressed also intersect with Dipole antenna. Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation focuses on Optoelectronics but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Substrate (printing), Dual (category theory), Mode (statistics), Waveguide (electromagnetism) and Band-pass filter.

The featured Wideband study falls within the wider topic of Electrical engineering. The journal blends together research topics in Antenna (radio) and 5G.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Metamaterial-based, miniaturised circularly polarised antennas for RFID application (3 citations)
  • Corner reflector tag with RCS frequency coding by dielectric resonators (3 citations)
  • Optimisation-based design of transversal signal-interference microwave bandpass and lowpass filters with extended stopband (3 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 Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Slawomir Koziel (54 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Vincent Fusco (49 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Amin Abbosh (29 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Lei Zhu (28 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Tayeb A. Denidni (26 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 Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (70 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Xidian University (53 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • Queen's University Belfast (40 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Reykjavík University (38 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Nanjing University of Science and Technology (38 papers) published 4 papers at the last 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, 10.98% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 19.18% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 4.11% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 10.27% of all publications and 66.44% 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

  • Four‐hundred gigahertz broadband multi‐branch waveguide coupler

    Bo Zhang;Zhongqian Niu;Jiale Wang;Dongfeng Ji

    (2020)
    81 Citations
  • Orthogonally dual-polarised MIMO antenna array with pattern diversity for use in 5G smartphones

    Naser Ojaroudi Parchin;Yasir I.A. Al-Yasir;Haleh Jahanbakhsh Basherlou;Raed A. Abd-Alhameed

    (2020)
    65 Citations
  • Computationally-efficient design optimisation of antennas by accelerated gradient search with sensitivity and design change monitoring

    Anna Pietrenko-Dabrowska;Slawomir Koziel

    (2020)
    42 Citations
  • Flexible circularly polarized antenna with axial ratio bandwidth enhancement for off-body communications

    Hong Cai Yang;Xiong Ying Liu;Yi Fan;Manos M. Tentzeris

    (2021)
    35 Citations
  • Dual-broadband highly efficient reflective multi-polarisation converter based on multi-order plasmon resonant metasurface

    Qi Zheng;Chenjiang Guo;Guy A.E. Vandenbosch;Pengliang Yuan

    (2020)
    33 Citations
  • Compact parallel-plate waveguide half-Luneburg geodesic lens in the Ka-band

    Nelson J.G. Fonseca;Qingbi Liao;Oscar Quevedo-Teruel

    (2021)
    33 Citations
  • Novel coated differentially fed dual-band fractal antenna for implantable medical devices

    Yi Fan;Hui Liu;XiongYing Liu;Yan Cao

    (2020)
    32 Citations
  • Planar LTE/sub‐6 GHz 5G MIMO antenna integrated with mmWave 5G beamforming phased array antennas for V2X applications

    (2020)
    27 Citations
  • Low-profile microstrip patch antenna with simultaneous enhanced bandwidth, beamwidth, and cross-polarisation under dual resonance

    Neng-Wu Liu;Neng-Wu Liu;Sen Gao;Lei Zhu;Lu-Yang Ji

    (2020)
    24 Citations
  • Dual-band miniaturised FSS with stable resonance frequencies of 3.4/4.9 GHz for 5G communication systems applications

    Hui Wang;Shaobo Qu;Jiafu Wang;Mingbao Yan

    (2020)
    21 Citations

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