Happy New Year 2022!

Abstract

In 2021, IEEE Wireless Communications has made tremendous achievements again thanks to the great contributions of readers, authors, reviewers, editors, and the publications staff. In 2021, we published nine special issues and feature topics, with special topics on full duplex communications, edge intelligence, e-health applications, IoT applications, aerial computing, AI-assisted wireless communications, and intelligent surfaces for 5G and beyond. We received 302 submissions and published 71 high-quality articles in those nine special issues and feature topics. In addition, we received 274 open call submissions in 2021 and published 72 excellent articles in the six issues in 2021. Moreover, we also published special column articles in Scanning the Literature, Book Reviews, Industry Perspectives, and Spectrum Policy and Regulatory Issues in each of the six issues in 2021, thanks to the contributions of the column editors. I am very happy to announce that IEEE Wireless Communications received better bibliometrics in the 2020 edition of the Journal Citation Reports. The new impact factor is 11.979, the eigenfactor is 0.01575, and the article influence score is 2.829. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people again who have made significant contributions to this magazine! In the new year 2022, IEEE Wireless Communications will continue to meet the new challenges and serve our community in developing next generation wireless technologies.