This is the update of a note regarding The Journal of the Microwave Power Energy in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) by Thomson Reuters posted in January 13^th.

The status presented to Thomson Reuters by IMPI last February 16^th was:

a) Volume 43 (2009) is on line and  is being distributed in print to subscribers.

b) Volume 44 (2010) is completed and available in line. (Printed version is currently in release).

c) Volume 45 (2011) issue 1 is going to be released on line by the end of March.

Thomson Reuters agrees that the following statement is good to them

"The Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy, JMPEE (www.jmpee.org), is the quarterly, peer-reviewed, technical journal of the International Microwave Power Institute, IMPI (www.impi.org), focusing on the industrial, scientific, medical, and instrumentation interest areas of the profession. This journal is issued online quarterly and available in print, by volume, at the end of each year".

It is also necessary that the annual archival print version is identical to the online version, especially following  the same same pagination scheme. Since Thomson Reuters calculate an Impact Factor for a journal and collect citations to each individual articles of each journals, accurate citation information is very important to them. Currently if an article appears online in Vol. A No. B page (c-d), this same article is marked as Vol. A No. B page (c-d) as well when it appears in the print version. So when audiences cite this article, no matter from online or print version, the citation information would be the same. JMPEE is following this scheme so no further action is necessary.

Thomson Reuters also say that the publication date for a quarterly journal could be the end of each quarter, this is the scheme that JMPEE will follow, therefore the issue of the first quarter of 2011 will be released by the end of March. IMPI will send an alert to Thomson Reuters when a new issue becomes available online.
 
The time for getting back to the JCR list was not specified, there are even confusions in term and often the list is referred as Thomson Reuters, ISI, SCI, Web of Science or JCR. A Thomson Reuters suggestion is to say something like “ this journal is currently under review for coverage in Thomson Reuters (ISI) Web of Science”, indeed IMPI is working on that challenge.