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Microwave and Optical Technology Letters
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Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 223 151 355 16
Computer Science 665 27 32 8
Engineering and Technology 693 36 62 12
Materials Science 704 47 57 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 280
Documents by Best Scientists*: 488
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 84
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.311
Impact Factor: 1.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Microwave and Optical Technology Letters?

The concepts of Microwave, Optics, Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering and Optoelectronics are tackled in Microwave and Optical Technology Letters. The research on Microwave featured in the journal combines topics in other fields like Planar, Bandwidth (signal processing), Dielectric, Electrical impedance and Resonator. Issues in Optics were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Ground plane and Radiation pattern.

The Electrical engineering research presented places emphasis on topics like Antenna (radio), Monopole antenna, Microstrip antenna, Antenna measurement and Slot antenna. The studies in Monopole antenna featured incorporate elements of Coaxial antenna and Omnidirectional antenna. The journal centers on topics in Microstrip antenna, with a focus on Folded inverted conformal antenna.

Topics in Antenna measurement explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Antenna efficiency and Dipole antenna. While Microwave and Optical Technology Letters focused on Electronic engineering, it was also able to explore topics like Acoustics and Filter (video). Insertion loss is a focus of the Optoelectronics works in the journal.

  • Microwave (40.30%)
  • Optics (38.06%)
  • Electrical engineering (33.80%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A 3D perfectly matched medium from modified maxwell's equations with stretched coordinates (1340 citations)
  • Convolution PML (CPML): An efficient FDTD implementation of the CFS–PML for arbitrary media (904 citations)
  • Multilevel fast-multipole algorithm for solving combined field integral equations of electromagnetic scattering (739 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Microwave and Optical Technology Letters:

The published articles are mainly concerned with subjects like Microwave, Optics, Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering and Antenna (radio). The journal articles focus on Microwave but sometimes tackle the closely related topic of Bandwidth (signal processing) which is concerned with Wideband. While Optics is the focus of the journal publications, it also provides insights into the studies of Microstrip antenna, Mathematical analysis and Radiation pattern.

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

  • Optics
  • Quantum mechanics
  • Electrical engineering

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters is organized to address concerns in the fields of Optoelectronics, Optics, Electrical engineering, Antenna (radio) and Wideband. In addition to Optoelectronics research, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters aims to explore topics under Waveguide (electromagnetism), Band-pass filter and Substrate (printing). It addresses concerns in Optics which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Circularly polarized antenna and Multi-band device.

It features Electrical engineering research that overlaps with concepts in Power (physics).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Enhanced radiation gain and efficiency of a metamaterial-inspired wideband microstrip antenna using substrate integrated waveguide technology for sub-6 GHz wireless communication systems (9 citations)
  • Enhancing distributed feedback‐standard single mode fiber‐radio over fiber links performance by neural network digital predistortion (5 citations)
  • Performance enhancement of DFBL based near‐infrared CH4 telemetry system using a focus tunable lens (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 Microwave and Optical Technology Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Kin-Lu Wong (384 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Raj Mittra (121 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Yo-Sheng Lin (93 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Sheng-Lyang Jang (82 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Akhlesh Lakhtakia (80 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 Microwave and Optical Technology Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Xidian University (461 papers) published 22 papers at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
  • National Sun Yat-sen University (412 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (403 papers) published 32 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • City University of Hong Kong (342 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Nanyang Technological University (248 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more 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, 7.41% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 15.80% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.31% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 11.69% of all publications and 63.20% 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

  • Tunable, reconfigurable, and programmable metamaterials

    Lei Bao;Tie Jun Cui

    (2020)
    69 Citations
  • Encrypted and tunable graphene-based metasurface refractive index sensor

    Juveriya Parmar;Shobhit K. Patel

    (2022)
    58 Citations
  • Silicon photonic filters

    Dajian Liu;Hongnan Xu;Ying Tan;Yaocheng Shi

    (2020)
    56 Citations
  • Investigation and design of enhanced decoupled UWB MIMO antenna for wearable applications

    (2020)
    50 Citations
  • A metamaterial‐based compact broadband planar monopole MIMO antenna with high isolation

    Chao Wang;Xue‐Song Yang;Bing‐Zhong Wang

    (2020)
    41 Citations
  • Broadband graphene‐based metasurface solar absorber

    Shreyas Charola;Shobhit K. Patel;Juveriya Parmar;Mayurkumar Ladumor

    (2020)
    29 Citations
  • Ultrawideband microstrip patch antenna with quadruple band notch characteristic using negative permittivity unit cells

    Min Joo Jeong;Niamat Hussain;Han‐Ul Bong;Ji Woong Park

    (2020)
    26 Citations
  • Flexible EBG‐backed PIFA based on conductive textile and PDMS for wearable applications

    Guoping Gao;Shaofei Wang;Ruifeng Zhang;Chen Yang

    (2020)
    25 Citations
  • Manipulating pattern periods via external bias for graphene-based THz Dual-Band absorber

    Toktam Aghaee;Ali A. Orouji

    (2021)
    24 Citations

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