Introduction to the Winter 2022 Issue

As we begin our second year, the
IEEE Journal of Microwaves
hopes to build on its early success in reaching out to both authors and readers in what can only be regarded as an auspicious first step into the realm of fully Open Access publishing within the microwave community. Through a combination of innovative ideas, supportive administrative staff, a technically superb Editorial Board, high quality standards, and a personal focus on our readers, our authors, and our reviewers, we have managed to build up a modicum of community support and a very loyal following. Many of our authors have submitted multiple articles over our first year, despite our lack of rank and impact factor. They have been rewarded by an outstanding number of article views: now over 100,000, putting us near the very top of IEEE's technical journals ranking for downloads/article published. In this first issue of 2022, we bring you twelve regular technical papers, two invited articles, and two more of our special series articles:
Microwave Pioneer Charles Elachi, Dare Mighty Things
and
Women in Microwaves
subject Maria Stuchly, a pioneer in microwaves in medicine. We know you will enjoy these and all of this issue's technical features.