Introduction to the Spring 2023 Issue

Abstract

In this release of IEEE JOURNAL OF MICROWAVES we complete our MTT 70th Anniversary issue with an additional six papers that did not make our deadline for the original January publication date. We also bring you fifteen regular papers on a wide variety of microwave topics and applications from wireless signaling inside oil and gas pipelines to textile-based wearable transmission lines. Our performance statistics continue to rise, with January 2023 usage data exceeding 35,000, thus doubling our previous record set in January 2021 with our Inaugural issue. We have also now bubbled up in the popularity charts to #3 out of 233 IEEE journals for usage per article published in 2021 and 2022 -an exceedingly proud moment for a journal that has yet to be archived on any database other than IEEE Xplore and will likely not receive an impact factor for another two years! INDEX TERMS Spring issue, opening editorial, MTT 70th Anniversary Special Issue, usage per article.