EiC Farewell and Welcome to New EiC

It has been with great honor and responsibility that I have served as the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of IEEE C ommunications L xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">etters for last four years (2019–2023). The role EiC become part my everyday life allowed me to work directly a truly committed team over 150 Editors, including Review Senior Area Expert Editors invited papers, Executive Editors. During two terms EiC, we handled more than 3000 manuscripts annually, which processed rigorously timely ensuring turnaround time no 40 days 90% submitted papers while reducing number reviewed beyond 50 just handful. Despite large short time, our secured high-quality reviews spent significant amount in justifying their editorial decisions all papers. To ensure better distribution tasks, restructured board, by grouping into 13 thematic areas, each led one Editor Editor, who instrumental coherence between technical content scope Communications Letters, well assisting highest quality timeliness review process. We introduced worked daily analyzing assigning promote some emerging solicited from distinguished researchers, analysis these years, 46 5-page were published . an informed process, custom questions at submission, us conduct thorough before initiating This avoid cases pre-publishing or plagiarism. offer authors preferred given them option select types processes: single-blind double-blind. received approximately 50% are now according double-blind peer-review process) Also, present journal, reorganized table contents introducing areas aligned structure board) At present, impact factor is since journal was established.