About Electromagnetic Information Engineering

Electromagnetic Information Engineering

Electromagnetic Information Engineering is an English-language, open-access journal published by KeAi Communications in Beijing, China, with publishing services provided by Elsevier. The journal is committed to publishing rigorously peer-reviewed, high-quality original research papers, review articles and perspective articles. Its defining aim is to promote the deep integration of electromagnetic theory and information technology, and to foster original innovation and engineering applications in the related areas. In other words, it is a journal for research in which electromagnetic fields and waves are not only a physical subject in their own right but also the carrier of information — in communications, radar, remote sensing and connected electronic systems.

The title itself signals that positioning. Classical electromagnetics journals concentrate on field theory, antennas and microwave devices; information-engineering journals concentrate on signals, networks and systems. Electromagnetic Information Engineering is scoped for the overlap: the point at which antenna design, wave propagation, computational modelling, signal processing and artificial intelligence meet in working systems such as communication networks, radar installations, Earth-observation payloads and the Internet of Things. That overlap is where a large share of modern electrical engineering now takes place, and the journal provides it with a dedicated, open-access venue rooted in China and addressed to an international authorship.

Publisher and publishing model

The journal is published through KeAi Communications, the Beijing-based open-access publisher co-founded by China Science Publishing & Media and Elsevier. KeAi was repurposed as an open-access journal publishing service provider in 2013 and has developed a portfolio of more than 280 scholarly journals across the scientific disciplines. KeAi draws on its parent companies' publishing and technology capabilities, including ScienceDirect article hosting, Editorial Manager submission handling, data analytics and production systems. Journals in the KeAi programme are fully open access: published articles are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download, with open-access publication supported through the article publishing charge arrangements set out in each journal's author guidance.

Peer review is central to the journal's self-description. It states a commitment to rigorously peer-reviewed, high-quality papers, and it accepts three article forms: original research papers reporting new results, review articles synthesising a research area, and perspective articles setting out considered viewpoints on the direction of the field. That mix indicates a journal intended both to archive new experimental and theoretical findings and to host the interpretive writing through which a fast-moving engineering discipline takes stock of itself.

Antennas, microwaves and wave propagation

The first cluster of topics in the journal's scope is the classical core of electromagnetics, restated for information-bearing systems. Antenna theory and technology covers the design, analysis and application of the radiating elements on which wireless communication, radar and sensing systems depend. Microwave and millimetre-wave theory and technology addresses the frequency ranges in which much modern high-capacity communication and sensing operates, including the components, circuits and systems that generate, guide and process signals at those frequencies. Electromagnetic fields and wave propagation provides the theoretical foundation for both: how fields behave, how waves travel through free space, structures and natural environments, and how that behaviour can be predicted and exploited in engineering design.

Electromagnetic compatibility sits alongside these topics as the discipline's necessary counterweight. As electronic systems multiply and share spectrum and physical space, ensuring that devices operate without interfering with one another — and without being unduly susceptible to interference — becomes a research problem in its own right. Its inclusion in the scope signals that the journal welcomes work on the electromagnetic environment as a whole, not only on individual devices: coexistence, interference, shielding, and the behaviour of complex systems operating together.

Computational electromagnetics and advanced materials

Computational electromagnetics is a named topic, reflecting the fact that modern electromagnetic design is inseparable from numerical simulation. Research in this area develops and applies the methods by which field problems too complex for closed-form analysis are modelled — for antenna optimisation, scattering prediction, device design and system-level simulation. For a journal oriented towards engineering applications, computational work of this kind is a bridge between theory and manufacturable hardware, and it connects naturally to the journal's interest in artificial intelligence, since learning-based methods are increasingly used to accelerate simulation and explore design spaces.

The scope also names metamaterials, metasurfaces and magnetic materials. Metamaterials and metasurfaces — engineered structures whose electromagnetic properties arise from their design rather than only from their composition — have become central to contemporary work on antennas, absorbers, imaging and wave control, because they allow propagation, polarisation and radiation to be manipulated in ways natural materials do not permit. Magnetic materials underpin components across microwave and radio-frequency engineering. A journal covering these materials alongside systems topics can therefore publish the full chain from material concept to device demonstration to system application.

Bioelectromagnetics, photonics and quantum electromagnetics

Two further topics extend the journal beyond conventional radio engineering. Bioelectromagnetics covers the interaction of electromagnetic fields with biological systems — a field spanning the safety and exposure assessment of wireless technologies, medical applications of electromagnetic energy, and the sensing and imaging of biological tissue. Photonics and quantum electromagnetics extend the scope to optical frequencies and to quantum phenomena: photonics addresses the generation, manipulation and detection of light for communication and sensing, while quantum electromagnetics concerns the behaviour of electromagnetic systems at the quantum level, an area of growing importance for quantum communication and sensing technologies.

The inclusion of both areas is consistent with the journal's integration aim. A research community working on electromagnetic information can no longer be divided neatly by frequency band or by classical and quantum regimes: a remote-sensing system may combine microwave radar with optical imaging, and a communication roadmap may combine classical radio links with quantum key distribution. The journal's scope is written to keep those combinations publishable in one place.

Signal processing and artificial intelligence

Electromagnetic information and signal processing is a named topic, covering the extraction of information from electromagnetic measurements: the processing chains by which radar returns become target information, by which received waveforms become decoded data, and by which sensor measurements become images and decisions. This is the point in the scope where electromagnetics most directly becomes information engineering, and it links the journal's hardware-oriented topics to its systems applications.

Artificial intelligence in electromagnetic applications is listed as a topic in its own right. Across the discipline, machine learning is now applied to antenna and metasurface design, to inverse scattering and imaging, to spectrum management, to radar signal classification and to the optimisation of communication systems. By naming AI explicitly rather than treating it as a general method, the journal signals that papers whose primary contribution is a learning method for an electromagnetic problem — as well as papers applying established AI methods to new electromagnetic settings — fall squarely within its remit.

Applications: communications, sensing and connected systems

The final element of the scope is applications. The journal names communication systems; remote sensing and Earth observation; radar systems and technology; the Internet of Things and distributed electronic systems; and complex system integration and operation. Communication systems research addresses the physical layer and hardware of wireless and wired information transfer. Remote sensing and Earth observation covers the use of electromagnetic measurements — from radar and radiometry to optical sensing — to observe the Earth and its environment. Radar systems and technology spans the design and signal processing of systems that detect, locate and characterise objects at a distance.

The Internet of Things and distributed electronic systems extend the scope to networks of many interconnected devices, where antenna performance, propagation environment, compatibility and signal processing must be considered together at system scale. Complex system integration and operation, the scope's closing topic, addresses the engineering of large assemblies in which electromagnetic subsystems interact — the level at which many real-world failures and performance limits actually occur. Work that integrates several of the journal's topics in a deployed or deployable system is therefore explicitly within scope, not an awkward fit between categories.

Readership and place in the field

The journal's natural readership spans university departments of electronic and information engineering, electrical engineering and physics; research institutes working on communications, radar and sensing; and industry laboratories developing antennas, microwave components, materials and connected devices. Its open-access model means that research published in it is available without subscription barriers to that whole community, in China and internationally, immediately on publication. For authors, the journal offers a venue in which a paper can assume an audience fluent in both field theory and information systems, without needing to justify the combination to reviewers from only one side of the discipline.

Within the wider publishing landscape, Electromagnetic Information Engineering complements longer-established society journals in electromagnetics and in communications by taking integration itself as its organising principle. Its scope — from antenna theory through computational methods, engineered materials, bioelectromagnetics and photonics to signal processing, artificial intelligence and complex-system applications — describes a single connected field rather than a set of neighbouring specialisms. That is the journal's contribution: a Beijing-published, internationally addressed, peer-reviewed open-access home for research on how electromagnetic phenomena carry, sense and process information.

Access and identification

The journal's official presence is its KeAi Publishing journal page, which sets out its aims, topic list and editorial information, including its editorial board. Readers and prospective authors can reach the journal through the KeAi website's journals directory, where it is listed among the publisher's English-language open-access titles, and articles are published open access so that they can be read and downloaded freely. Authors preparing a submission should consult the journal's own guide for authors on the KeAi site for current information on manuscript preparation, peer review and any article publishing charge arrangements, including waiver periods that may apply to a newly launched title.