2021 article
IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL'S School-Age Years (2004-2011)
Nagle, H. T., & Katz, E. (2021, June 1). IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL, Vol. 21, pp. 12358–12359.
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Added: June 21, 2021
In January 2004, the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) Vladimir Lumelsky passed the IEEE Sensors Journal (SJ) to H. Troy Nagle (North Carolina State University). At that time, the administrative support for the SJ was by the staff of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS). Its initial success had generated a large queue of manuscripts in the review process and the queue was growing monthly. Paper copies of manuscripts were being distributed by the postal service and follow-up checking was very difficult. This prompted the SJ Editorial Board to explore online manuscript processing using the ScholarOne tools. The IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) had previously moved all its journals to that platform. We requested their help and the LEOS staff answered and took charge of the SJ administration. With their help, the submitted manuscript backlog reversed course and began diminishing. After about 18 months, the queue reached a minimum, and then slowly returned to expansion as the SJ gained popularity with the academic and industrial sensor community.