IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters is an annual peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

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 with the goal of rapid dissemination of short manuscripts, in the antennas

Antenna (radio)

An antenna is an electrical device which converts electric currents into radio waves, and vice versa. It is usually used with a radio transmitter or radio receiver...

 and wireless propagation

Wireless

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 domain. It is an official journal of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society

IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society

The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society is a society of the IEEE.- History :Before the merger of AIEE and IRE in 1963, the predecessor of the IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society was the IRE Professional Group on Antennas and Propagation , formed in 1949...

. The current editor in chief

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 is Gianluca Lazzi (North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University

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).

Indexing and impact factor

The journal is abstracted and indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded

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, Current Contents

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/Engineering, Computing & Technology, JournalSeek

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, ResearchGate

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, and SCImago Journal Rank

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, among others. According to the 2008 Journal Citation Reports

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 its impact factor

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 is 0.9.

Brief history

The journal was established in 2002 by Piergiorgio Uslenghit (University of Illinois at Chicago

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) as an avenue for authors (researchers) to publish their results quickly. At the same time the publication was to maintain "very high standards" for the works it accepted. The focus of the rapidly published results were to be, and are, focused on the field of antennas and propagation. Hence, soon after papers are accepted they are available on IEEE Explore for consultation.