Developments in relevant activities [President´s Perspectives]

In this column, I would like to comment on some improvements and ideas we are working on in the Instrumentation and Measurement Society´s Administrative Committee (AdCom). The IEEE uses several metrics to evaluate the performance of all relevant activities. One of the metrics used in publications is the average time in months from submission to publication. I remember some years ago when colleagues complained about how long they had to wait to see their papers published in our Transactions. Two years ago, the members of the Publications Committee established a goal of publishing in print within twelve months of submission. Last year, when we saw the values, we were very satisfied since the time to print went down from more than thirteen months in 2009 to less than ten months in 2011. The goal was achieved, and the time-to-print is even better than expected.