IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
Title	IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelectr., Freq. Control
Discipline	Ultrasonics; Ferroelectrics; Frequency control
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Country	United States
Frequency	Monthly
History	1954–present

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IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers that covers research on acoustic, piezoelectric, and timing technologies. The journal addresses topics relevant to researchers associated with institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Harvard University, California Institute of Technology and industry laboratories including Bell Labs, Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Honeywell International, and General Electric. It serves communities linked to organizations like the Acoustical Society of America, American Physical Society, American Institute of Physics, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and European Physical Society.

History

The journal traces lineage to specialized publications and conference proceedings originating in the 1950s, influenced by research hubs such as Bell Labs, RCA Corporation, Philips, Siemens, AT&T, and academic centers including Columbia University, Cornell University, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. Editorial leadership and contributor networks have included figures affiliated with IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society, IEEE Standards Association, National Academy of Engineering, Royal Society, and governmental laboratories like Argonne National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Over decades the publication evolved alongside milestones such as developments at NIST, advances in transducer design at Sandia National Laboratories, and commercial applications spearheaded by Sony, Samsung, Intel, and Texas Instruments.

The journal's remit overlaps technologies and phenomena investigated at entities like MIT Lincoln Laboratory, DARPA, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, European Space Agency, and CERN. It encompasses experimental and theoretical work on piezoelectric materials studied at Bell Labs Research, ferroelectric thin films developed at IBM Research, ultrasonic imaging methods advanced at Johns Hopkins University, and precision timing systems created by teams at Broadcom, Qualcomm, Seiko Epson Corporation, and NIST Time and Frequency Division. Topics include acoustic wave devices used in products by Apple Inc., sensors relevant to Bosch, resonator design linked to Microchip Technology, and materials characterization pursued at ETH Zurich, Max Planck Society, Imperial College London, and Tsinghua University.

The editorial office coordinates with associate editors and reviewers drawn from universities and companies such as Princeton University, Yale University, University of Cambridge, McGill University, University of Tokyo, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Intel Labs, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and University of Michigan. Manuscripts undergo blinded peer review modeled on practices used by Nature Publishing Group, Science (journal), and Proceedings of the IEEE; reviewers often hold affiliations with societies including IEEE, Optical Society of America, Materials Research Society, and Institute of Physics. Editorial policies align with standards promulgated by institutions like Committee on Publication Ethics, National Institutes of Health, and European Research Council where conflicts of interest and reproducibility requirements are managed.

The journal is indexed in major services and bibliographic platforms such as Scopus, Web of Science, INSPEC, Google Scholar, and PubMed Central for cross-disciplinary visibility. Citation data are harvested by aggregators associated with Clarivate Analytics, Elsevier, and CrossRef, and metadata are interoperable with infrastructures from ORCID, DOI Foundation, and CAS to support discoverability across university libraries like Library of Congress, British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and consortiums such as JSTOR and Project MUSE.

Impact indicators for the journal are reported within frameworks used by Clarivate, Elsevier, SCImago, Google Scholar Metrics, and national assessment agencies like Horizon 2020 evaluators and research councils at UK Research and Innovation, National Science Foundation, and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Metrics include citation counts linked to authors affiliated with MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Imperial College London, and University of California, San Diego, and influence measured via institutional repositories at arXiv and HAL (open archive).

The journal is published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and participates in subscription and hybrid open access models similar to publishers like Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley-Blackwell, and Taylor & Francis. Authors affiliated with institutions that manage agreements with consortia such as CARL, CERN Document Server, and national libraries may deposit preprints in repositories like arXiv or institutional archives at MIT DSpace under publisher policies consistent with funders including Wellcome Trust, European Research Council, and National Institutes of Health.