Transactions Report Michael Steer June 2004

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Transactions Report Michael SteerJune 2004
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Xplore Downloads in 2003

• Currently revenue comes from ASPP.
• Costs are based on actual pages published.
• Future revenue to T-MTT will be dominated by
  Xplore usage.
• Breakdown (from 2008) for T-MTT (ballpark) 80
  Xplore 20 ASPP
• Being phased in from 2006.

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Time From Submit to Publication
3 MONTH MOVING AVERAGE
80
70
PROJECTED
60
50
WEEKS
40
IEEE GOAL (39) 9 months
30
REGULAR ISSUE
20
10
0
2003
2004
2005
Special, Mini-Special Issues
No regular papers will be published in Oct-Dec.
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Page Budget
Expecting a 500 page backlog at the end of 2004
extending average delay to 44 weeks for Jan. 2005.
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Manuscript Submissions(By Half Year)
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
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Manuscript Status
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EIC Handling Conference Special Issues

• IMS2003 submissions 134 (Guest Editor)
• IMS2004 submissions126
• IMS2004 late submissions 6
• RFIC2003 submissions 28 (Guest Editor)
• RFIC2004 submissions 49 (Guest Editor)
• MIKON2004 submissions 21

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Dual SubmissionsConferences T-MTT

• SINCE JULY 2003
• IMS2004
• Four papers.
• RAWCON2003
• One paper
• EuMC2003
• One paper
• Other Journals
• Five papers

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2004 Special Issues
1.

• January 2004, Special Issue
• Electromagnetics-Based Optimization
• Guest Editor John Bandler, Mauro
  Mongiardo Status Sent to IEEE for production
  Oct. 17, 2003
• February, 2004, Special Issue (NOW mini-special
  OCTOBER)
• Terahertz Technology
• Now Edited by EIC
• February, 2004, Mini-Special Issue Status
  CANCELLED, NO ACCEPTED PAPERS
• ARFTG
• March, 2004, Mini-Special Issue (NOW SEPTEMBER)
• Ultra Wideband
• Guest Editor Roger Kaul, Greg Lyons
• April IMS Mini-Special Issue, Published in March
• IMS (Overflow)
• September, 2004, Special Issue (NOW AUGUST)
• Medical Applications and Biological Effects of
  RF/Microwaves
• Guest Editors Gianluca Lazzi (USA), Om Ghandi
  (USA) Shoogo Ueno (Japan) (42 week cycle)
• October, 2004, Special Issue (NOW SEPTEMBER)
• Model Order Reduction Methods for Computer-Aided
  Design of RF/Microwave
• and Mixed-Signal ICs and Systems

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3.
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2005 Special Issues
1.

• February 2005, Special Issue (Approved Oct. 2003)
• Multifunctional RF Systems
• Guest Editor Marc Calcatera, Johann-Friedrich
  Luy, Dev Palmer, Eric Adler, Dan Purdy
• February, 2005, Mini-Special Issue
• Mikon 2004 International Conference on Microwave
  Radar and Wireless Communications
• Handled By Regular Transactions Editors
• April, 2005, Special Issue (Approved Oct. 2003)
• Metamaterial Structures, Phenomena and
  Applications
• Guest Editors Tatsuo Itoh, Art Oliner July,
  2005
• Special Issue (Approved Oct. 2003)
• 34 th European Microwave Conference Special
  Issue
• Will be Handled By Regular Transactions Editors
• Editorial Liaison Peter Russer
• November, 2005, Mini-Special Issue (continuing)
• RFIC
• December, 2005, IMS Regular Issue (continuing)
• IMS Symposium
• Handled By Regular Transactions Editors

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3.
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Why Publish in T-MTT?

• Historically T-MTT has been a strong brand.
• With Xplore does it matter anymore?
• We have rapid turn around.
• But we cost authors more.
• Low OPC limit (OPC after 6 pages from 2005).
• Our IEEE peers charge OPC above 8 pages.
• Cost models
• Author pays, Usage free Public Library of
  Science cost is 1,500 per article.
• No charge to authors, high subscription (usage)
  Elsevier
• Author pays OPC moderate usage fee
  (subsdownload) T-MTT
• No cost to authors, moderate usage fee most of
  IEEE publications.
• Concerns
• Competitive position.
• Make sure the best microwave papers are published
  in T-MTT
• Barriers to globalization.
• Paper subscription (25) is below incremental
  cost.

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Page Count Before Mandatory Pages Charges(as of
Jan. 1, 2005)
35
31
Median 10 pages
30
25
22
20
Transactions
15
10
6
3
4
3
5
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
NONE
OPC Page Threshold
T-MTT
T-Plasma Science
Electron Devices NONE CPMT, Transactions 8, OPC
175 Antennas and Propagation 8, OPC
200 Circuits and Systems, Transactions 10, OPC
175 Solid State Circuits NONE Lightwave
Technology 8, OPC 260 (highest OPC)
T-MTT OPC 200
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Overlength Page Charges(IEEE Transactions)
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Page Counts of Papers (2003)
OPC Over length Page Current OPC 200/page
6 page threshold as of 1/05
Number of pages affected by moving OPC limit 6
to 7 348 (cost 29k) 6 to 8 448 (cost 49k)
Move OPC from 200 per page to 260 At 7 page
threshold Raise 16.5k At 8 page Raise
10.5k Raise (paper) subscription of T-MTT from
25 to 31 Raise 30k from 25 to 36 Raise
55k from 25 to 50 Raise 125k
Editorials, Letters
¾ Page per paper devoted to Biographies. Should
we eliminate biographies? Specify Format (e.g. 1)
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Rapid Post System

• Starts January 2005
• Send manuscripts to IEEE as they arrive.
• Each paper will be processed as received and sent
  to Xplore once the full editorial/production
  cycle, including author review of galley proofs,
  has been completed. (This process can take up to
  6 weeks.)
• Papers will be posted to Xplore in an "Accepted
  for Future Publication" section on the TMTT home
  page, without final pagination.
• Once the articles are gathered into an issue,
  pagination will be applied.

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Associate Editor Appointment

• Zoya Popovic from January 2005.

TARGET DURING TERM Associate Editors 200
MANUSCRIPTS Associate Editors who are Conference
Liaisons 80 MANUSCRIPTS CURRENTLY 6
ASSOCIATE EDITORS Receiving new manuscripts AS OF
1/2005 5 ASSOCIATE EDITORS Receiving new
manuscripts
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Editors
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