The Editor-in-Chief's presentation
The Editor-in-Chief's presentation at the reviewers luncheon at this year's APS Symposium in Charleston can be downloaded here.

Misuse of Return Loss
May 19, 2009. Perhaps over 30% of all antenna papers submitted to the Transactions in the past twelve months have used return loss incorrectly. This misuse of the term is occurring in other allied disciplines as well. For passive structures, return loss is a positive quantity and has the opposite sign of reflection coefficient expressed in dB. Read the full story. [pdf 29 KB]

Submission of Final Manuscripts Via ScholarOne
May 6, 2009. The final submission of accepted manuscripts is now via ScholarOne Manuscript (previously called Manuscript Central). From now on authors should submit their final material via ScholarOne Manuscript. The process is described in the decision email when a paper is accepted.

Migration to TAP Manuscript Central v4 from the current v1.8 took place on October 4, 2008. Read the full story

The Editor-in-Chief gave a status report on the Transactions at the AP-S Symposium in Hawaii.
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Recent articles by the Editor-in-Chief on the Transactions
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Special Issues:
Calls for papers for issues on - Antennas for Next Generation Radio Telescopes.
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Publication Time Metrics

Submission-to-Publication:

First Submission-to-First Decision:
In 2008, 50% of papers submitted for review received a decision within 80 days.

Journal Impact Factor

The ISI Web of Knowledge Impact Factor for the Transactions in 2008 was 2.479 (2-year) and 2.716 (5-year). Over 15,000 citations were made. The Immediacy Index was 0.235 and Cited Half-life was 9.1 years.