Wireless Personal Communications

Wireless Personal Communications is an archival, peer-reviewed journal from Springer that covers mobile communications and computing, and since 1994 it has carried theoretical, engineering and experimental work on radio links, voice, data, images and multimedia.《无线个人通信》（Wireless Personal Communications）由 Springer 出版，属档案型同行评议期刊，覆盖移动通信与计算，自 1994 年起刊载无线电链路、话音、数据、图像与多媒体的理论、工程与实验研究。

Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor stands at 1.9 against a five-year figure of 1.8, with 11,419 citations accumulated and about 154 citable articles added in the year, a profile that ranks the title 96th of 127 in TELECOMMUNICATIONS.2025 年期刊影响因子为 1.9，五年影响因子 1.8，累计被引 11419 次，当年新增可引论文约 154 篇，在 TELECOMMUNICATIONS 类目 127 种刊物中列第 96 位。

Scope

• The stated remit is mobile communications and computing, and theoretical, engineering and experimental work all fall inside it.刊物申明的范围是移动通信与计算，理论、工程与实验三个层面的工作都在其中。
• Radio communications form the core, and voice, data, images and multimedia are treated as the four traffic types the field has to carry.无线电通信构成核心，话音、数据、图像与多媒体被当作本领域必须承载的四类业务。
• Propagation heads the published list of topics, an acknowledgement that coverage, delay spread and interference margins decide whether a link design survives contact with a real city.传播排在公布的主题清单之首，这等于是承认链路设计能否在真实城市中成立，取决于覆盖、时延扩展与干扰余量。
• System models come next, covering the link, network and traffic abstractions that let researchers compare competing schemes long before anything is built.系统模型紧随其后，涵盖链路、网络与业务三个层面的抽象，研究者可据此在实物建成之前比较互相竞争的方案。
• Speech and image coding are named separately, since compression decides how much of a scarce radio channel a single conversation or picture consumes.话音编码与图像编码被单独列出，压缩效率决定一次通话或一幅图像占用多少稀缺的无线信道。
• Multiple access techniques take a category of their own, running from the classical division schemes to the non-orthogonal arrangements now used to pack more users into one band.多址技术自成一类，从经典的分割方式一直延伸到当下把更多用户容纳进同一频段的非正交方案。
• Protocol performance evaluation is listed as well, which keeps measurement and simulation studies in scope even when they propose no new air interface.协议性能评估同在其列，测量与仿真类研究因此也在范围之内，即便这些研究并未提出新的空中接口。
• Radio local area networks belong to the enumeration too, a category that has grown from office networks into the short-range links embedded in homes and factories.无线局域网也属于这份列举，这一类从办公网络扩展到如今嵌在家居与车间里的短距链路。
• Networking and architectures close the list, taking in the backhaul, core and cross-layer arrangements that connect access points to everything behind them.网络与体系结构收束了这份清单，接入点与其后方设施之间的中传、核心网与跨层安排都在其中。
• Five formats carry the content, namely full technical papers, short papers, contributions on the technical aspects of policy and standardization, letters offering new research thoughts, and invited papers from established experts.内容由五种体裁承载，即完整技术论文、短文、政策与标准化技术层面的稿件、提出新研究设想的快报，以及资深专家撰写的约稿。
• Tutorial and survey articles sit beside original research, so a reader entering a subfield can do it through the journal without first hunting for a textbook.教程与综述文章同原创研究并列，初入某一分支的读者可以借该刊入门，无须先去找教科书。
• The policy and standardization slot is uncommon among telecommunications titles, and it gives regulators, operators and standards delegates room for technical argument.政策与标准化栏目在电信类刊物中并不常见，监管机构、运营商与标准会议的代表因此有地方展开技术论证。
• Computing is named in the title for a reason, and mobile edge processing, resource allocation and network management sit inside the same remit as the radio work.刊名里的「计算」有其实际所指，移动边缘处理、资源分配与网络管理与无线电技术同属受理范围。
• Invited papers on emerging topics are commissioned from recognised researchers, which is how a subject gets covered before the first wave of free submissions arrives.新兴主题的约稿由知名研究者承担，某一方向在首批自由投稿到来之前，先由这类文章铺路。

History

• Volume 1 appeared in 1994 under Kluwer Academic Publishers of Dordrecht, and the National Library of Medicine still records that firm as the journal's original publisher.第 1 卷于 1994 年由荷兰多德雷赫特的 Kluwer Academic Publishers 出版，美国国家医学图书馆至今把这家出版社记为该刊的初始出版方。
• Kluwer Academic Publishers was merged into Springer in 2004, and from 2005 the imprint line reads Springer in Heidelberg, a change the NLM catalogue dates precisely.Kluwer Academic Publishers 于 2004 年并入 Springer，自 2005 年起版本项写作海德堡的 Springer，国家医学图书馆的著录对此给出了确切年份。
• The early volumes ran on a quarterly rhythm, the cadence the NLM record still carries, and that printed schedule has since been overtaken by online publication.早期各卷按季度节奏出版，国家医学图书馆至今沿用这一著录，此后的印本刊期已被线上出版节奏取代。
• Output now runs to roughly two dozen issue numbers a year, grouped four to a volume, so one calendar year spans several volumes at once.目前每年出二十多个期号，每卷编四个期号，一个印本年因此同时横跨数卷。
• Crossref shows the scale plainly, with volumes 140 to 146 opened in 2025 alone and issues numbered 1, 2 and a combined 3-4.Crossref 的记录把这种规模写得很直白，仅 2025 年就开出第 140 至 146 卷，各卷按期号 1、2 与合刊 3 至 4 编排。
• The archive is long, with 13,584 DOIs registered and 12,281 of them in the backfile, a ratio few telecommunications journals of this age can match.存档规模可观，已登记 DOI 13584 个，其中 12281 个属于回溯文档，同龄的电信类刊物少有能比的。
• Output in the current year is 154 citable articles by the Journal Citation Reports count and 167 records by the Crossref count, the difference coming from items the citation report leaves out.按期刊引证报告统计，当年可引论文 154 篇，按 Crossref 记录则有 167 条，差额来自引证报告不计的条目。
• Citations total 11,419 with a cited half-life of 4.6 years, a short memory that suits a field where each generation of standards displaces the previous one.总被引 11419 次，被引半衰期 4.6 年，记忆偏短，这与每代标准迅速取代上一代的领域特征相符。
• The impact factor moved from 1.671 in 2021 to 2.017 in 2022, held near 1.9 through 2023, rose to 2.2 in 2024 and settled back at 1.9 in 2025.影响因子由 2021 年的 1.671 升到 2022 年的 2.017，2023 年维持在 1.9 附近，2024 年升至 2.2，2025 年回落到 1.9。
• The five-year figure of 1.8 sits just under the two-year one, and a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.4 puts the title in the lowest quartile of its sole category.五年影响因子 1.8 略低于两年值，期刊引文指标 0.4，在唯一的学科类目里处于最低四分位。
• Classification is single, TELECOMMUNICATIONS in the Science Citation Index Expanded, where the 2025 data rank the journal 96 of 127 for a Q4 placement and a percentile of 24.8.学科归类只有一项，即 Science Citation Index Expanded 的 TELECOMMUNICATIONS，2025 年数据把该刊排在 127 种刊物中的第 96 位，属 Q4，百分位 24.8。
• Access is hybrid, with gold open access reaching 2.87 percent of 2025 content while the subscription edition continues alongside.该刊走混合模式，2025 年金色开放获取内容占 2.87%，订阅版同时继续发行。
• PubMed carries selected citations only and the title is absent from MEDLINE, so clinical readers reach it through abstracts and links rather than through a complete indexed record.PubMed 只收录部分被引条目，该刊也不在 MEDLINE 之内，临床读者只能借助摘要与链接找到它，索引记录并不完整。

Editors

• Ramjee Prasad of Aalborg University in Denmark is listed as editor-in-chief, the single name the publisher places at the head of the title.主编一栏署名为（Ramjee Prasad），所属单位为丹麦的 Aalborg University，出版方在刊物首脑位置只列这一人。
• His research belongs to mobile radio and personal communication systems, the ground the journal was founded to cover, and his career has run through the European wireless research community.其研究方向为移动无线电与个人通信系统，正是该刊创刊时设定的领域，其学术生涯一直在欧洲无线研究共同体之中。
• Below the editor-in-chief the publisher lists associate editors, and each manuscript is assigned to one of them for handling.主编之下，出版方另列若干副编辑，每篇稿件交由其中一人负责处理。
• Every research paper carries reports from outside referees before acceptance, a condition the journal states when it describes itself as archival and peer reviewed.研究论文在录用之前都经过外部审稿人评议，这一点写在该刊自述的档案型同行评议定位里。
• The five formats do not face identical scrutiny, since a letter of new research thoughts is read more quickly than a thirty-page technical paper.五种体裁所受的审视并不完全一致，提出新设想的快报读起来比三十页的技术论文要快。
• Policy and standardization contributions bring a different readership, and editors have to weigh them on technical content rather than on the standing of the body behind them.政策与标准化类稿件带来另一批读者，编者要按技术内容衡量其价值，机构的分量不能替代论证。
• Ethical questions follow the publisher's global policy, and Springer is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.伦理事务按出版方的全球政策处理，Springer 是出版伦理委员会（COPE）的成员。
• Manuscripts arrive through the publisher's online submission system, which also carries the formatting rules and the policy on prior publication.稿件经出版方的在线投稿系统递交，格式规范与重复发表政策也在同一处公布。
• Indexing has an editorial consequence, since PubMed's selected-citation coverage means medical-adjacent work on body-area networks reaches clinicians slowly.收录范围会反过来影响编辑取舍，PubMed 只收部分条目，涉及体域网的医学相邻研究传到临床读者手里的速度因此偏慢。
• For authors the practical question is fit, and the first filter is whether a paper concerns mobile communications or computing at all.对作者而言，实际问题在于契合度，第一道筛子就是稿件是否真的落在移动通信或计算的范围内。