Journal of Electron Devices Society Comes of Age

Abstract

Sitting on the third floor of the Princeton Public Library, Princeton NJ, USA, the hometown of Albert Einstein, I was conducting the business of IEEE Journal of Electron Device (J-EDS). While on the J-EDS website, I noted an interesting statistic. The impact factor of J-EDS was 2.472. In simple language this means that on an average, a paper published in J-EDS, since its inception in 2013, has been cited 2.5 times in the literature. While this may not sound like a large number, let me present some comparisons. The current impact factor of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (T-ED) is 2.512, exceeding that of J-EDS by 0.04. Thus over a short span of two years since its birth [1] , thanks to the patronage of authors and readers alike, coupled with the hard work of the editorial board, the J-EDS is now approaching the performance metric of its big brother T-ED. To provide a further comparison, I dug up my December 1994 presentation to the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Administrative Committee (ADCom) and found that Electron Device Letters (EDL), over the same first two years of its life, had an impact factor of 0.42 back in 1982. Thus the growth pattern of J-EDS has been nothing but spectacular. The gap with highly successful sister publications such as the IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics [2] with an impact factor of 3 is closing.