(On Behalf of Steering Committee) IEEE Journal on Special Topics in Information Theory (JSTIT) Update and Status Jeff Andrews (On Behalf of Steering Committee) ISIT BOG Meeting July 2018

Status Summary Last BOG Meeting at ITA, 2 motions passed: Steering Committee approved Submission of Phase 1 Proposal approved Phase 1 Proposal Submitted May 4 Addresses comments from IEEE on preliminary version Includes results of Readership Survey Phase 1 Presentation to IEEE TAB and Periodicals Committee this Thursday, June 21 Future timeline (inc. Phase 2 Proposal) will be determined shortly

Steering Committee Key Responsibilities: Chair: Jeffrey Andrews, UT Austin (EIC of Trans. Wireless Comm., 2014-16, BOG Member 2013-19) Rob Calderbank, Duke (EIC of Trans IT 1995-98, Hamming Medal, Shannon Award, NAE) Muriel Medard, MIT (EIC of JSAC 2014-2017, ITSoc President 2012, Founding SC of IEEE TNSE 2013-17) Vince Poor, Princeton (EIC of Trans. IT 2004-7, ITSoc President 1990, Bell Medal, NAE, NAS) Rudi Urbanke, EPFL (Hamming Medal, Kobayashi Award, ITSoc President 2017) Key Responsibilities: Directing the journal to technical and financial success Selecting EIC (both initial and future) Helping select initial Senior Editors Seeding early special issues to ensure ultra-high quality Drafting JSTIT Bylaws (for BOG approval)

Phase 1 Proposal Summary Phase 1 Proposal is on agenda webpage (16 pages) A key goal is to convince IEEE that JSTIT can be successful in a way that SIs added to the existing Transactions cannot be Strong evidence from ComSoc (JSAC) and SPSoc (JSTSP) that this is the case A key initial and ongoing challenge will be to attract top theoretical papers in areas not firmly within IT ComSoc and SPSoc leadership have been helpful and pledged to support the proposal

Visual Landscape of JSTIT Scope (plus core IT hot topics)

IEEE J. on Sel. Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP) Financials vs IEEE J. on Sel. Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP) Financials vs. Trans SP Year Expenses Revenues Net ($K) Issues Pages TSP Net TSP pages 2007 82.4 48.8 -33.5 4 757 1031 5952 2008 124 64.1 -59.8 6 1047 856.8 6180 2009 141.8 63.7 -78.1 1158 976.8 5032 2010 130.6 93.6 -37.1 1141 783.5 6496 2011 168.2 105.2 -63 8 1646 915.7 6384 2012 119 131.7 12.8 1020 1024.2 6828 2013 118.1 190.2 72 1185 1192 6513 2014 99 198 1216 916.7 6687 2015 132 215 83 1700 940.7 6785 2016 101 114 1596 873.2 6739 2017* 122 223 7a 1234a 898.8 6634 2018* 104 233 129 N/A 819.4* *projected a appeared so far

Proposed Next Steps/Timeline Await IEEE Decision on Phase I Proposal Assuming Success: Phase II Proposal, late 2018 [BOG Vote] Recruit Senior Editors (about 50% of total), late 2018 Begin lining up first special issues, through end of 2018 Identify first EIC, late 2018 or early 2019 [BOG Vote] Draft Policies and Procedures [BOG Vote] Recruit more Senior Editors (done mostly by EIC) Launch journal, mid 2019