IEEE Microwave Magazine - June 2015 - 6

Welcome to the IMS!
■ Alfy Riddle

S

o your paper was rejected by the
Technical Program Review Committee for the 2015 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
(MTT-S) International Microwave Symposium (IMS2015). If you think your
paper is at least as good as many of the
papers presented this year and even
better than some, then you are in good
company. Having our papers rejected
goes along with having ideas and trying to publish those ideas. Until I began serving on the Technical Program
Review Committee, I had no idea just
how many people worked long hours
to review all those submitted papers.
Figure 1 shows the conference room
during the final selection process. In
the month prior to the final selection
meeting, hundreds of reviewers read
between ten and 60 papers each. Reviewing 60 papers is a daunting task,
so popular areas for papers are eventually broken down into finer areas
so that reviewers have to review only
30 papers or so. Papers are reviewed
based on originality, clarity, quantitative content, and interest to the Society.

submitted manuscript and
In recent years, the Steeralso removing any refering Committee has also
ences to their own work.
selected the most paThis process is also a
pers for special pracbit more difficult for
tical sessions.
reviewers, as imporEach year, the
tant references are
incoming IMS Steerno longer available.
ing Committee looks
Surveys taken reclosely at how the
garding this process
previous year went
show that the majority
and makes changes
opinion is that this douto, hopefully, improve
ble-blind review process is a
the paper selection process.
About four years ago, a IMAGE LICENSED BY GRAPHIC STOCK positive move.
There are nearly 30
double-blind review process
was started in an effort to take every pre- Technical Program Review Commitcaution toward ensuring fair and unbi- tees that review all of the submitted paased reviewing. This process requires the pers. These committees typically have
authors to do a bit more work by remov- six or seven members, so each paper is
ing their names and affiliations from the read and voted on by those members.

Alfy Riddle (ariddle@ieee.org) is with
Kumu Networks, Sunnyvale, California,
United States.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MMM.2015.2410911
Date of publication: 7 May 2015

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Figure 1. A room full of very busy engineers.

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