Platinum Jubilee of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Abstract

The IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation celebrated seventy years since its inception in 2022. This history concentrates on the last forty years of publication as the first thirty years is covered in an earlier article. The issues faced by each of the past eleven Editors-in-Chief since 1982 are outlined. In the first twenty years of this period, the main issue was the limited number of publishable pages which was determined by Society finances. The last twenty years have seen an exponential increase in submissions and the number of TAP pages published. The major reason for this increase has been the wireless revolution which began in the late 1990s. Other changes have been the editorial board has evolved from one or two non-North American members to today where it is now fully international and gender diverse.