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ieee-journal-on-selected-areas-in-communications
GitHub用于评估通信网络稿件是否符合IEEE JSAC期刊特刊要求的工具。涵盖选题匹配、影响力与时新性判断、与宽泛事务型期刊的对比，以及基于活跃征稿的特刊适配和拒稿风险预判。
Trigger Scenarios
作者询问稿件是否适合IEEE JSAC特刊
需要针对特定特刊主题重塑稿件的影响力与时新性
在JSAC与IEEE Transactions系列期刊间进行投稿选择
需要了解特刊特有的匹配逻辑和Desk Reject启发式规则
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ieee-journal-on-selected-areas-in-communications -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "ieee-journal-on-selected-areas-in-communications",
"description": "Use when targeting IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) or deciding whether a communications-and-networking manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's call-driven fit, the high-impact-and-topical bar, the route-by-active-call logic, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics."
}
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (ieee-journal-on-selected-areas-in-communications)
Journal positioning
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) publishes high-impact work at the systems and networks frontier of communications, organized largely around topical special issues defined by current calls for papers — next-generation wireless, networking, security, optical and quantum communication, and machine-learning-for-communications, among others. Unlike a broad-scope transaction, JSAC's fit is set by the active call: a paper must match a specific issue's theme and clear a bar of impact and timeliness, not merely be technically correct. Routine, incremental results — even sound ones — that do not advance a call's frontier are a poor fit. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official author guidelines or any call's specific instructions. Before submitting, re-check the live JSAC author information and the target call for papers.
When to trigger
- The author names JSAC for a communications/networking manuscript and wants to check fit against an active or upcoming special-issue call.
- A result must be re-framed to foreground its impact and timeliness for a particular call's frontier theme.
- The author is choosing between JSAC (call-driven, topical) and a broad-scope
transaction (
ieee-transactions-on-communications/ieee-transactions-on-wireless-communications). - The author needs the call-matching logic and desk-reject heuristics specific to a special-issue venue.
Scope & topic fit
- Next-generation wireless and cellular systems, integrated sensing and communication, non-terrestrial and massive-connectivity architectures — when matching a live call.
- Network architecture, protocols, virtualization, edge/cloud, and network management at the systems frontier.
- Security, privacy, and trust in communication systems and networks, including physical-layer and cross-layer security.
- Machine-learning-for-communications and communications-for-AI, where the advance is a communications-systems contribution, not generic ML.
- Optical, quantum, molecular, and emerging communication paradigms when aligned with a dedicated issue; route strictly by the call's stated scope and timeline.
Method & evidence bar
- The contribution must be high-impact and timely for the targeted call — a frontier advance, not a routine increment; the call's aims-and-scope text is the rubric.
- Technical rigor still applies: analysis, simulation, and where appropriate testbed or prototype evidence, with correct, current baselines under realistic models.
- Claims of advancing the frontier must be substantiated against the most recent relevant work, including very recent preprints and standards activity where the topic is fast-moving.
- System-level and cross-layer evaluation is often expected; isolated PHY tweaks rarely match a systems-and-networks call.
- Reproducibility and clear assumptions matter as in any IEEE communications venue; impact claims must be evidence-backed, not aspirational.
Structure & house style
- IEEE format; submissions go to a specific special issue (or, where offered, an ongoing series) — match the manuscript to the call and re-check current article types, limits, and deadlines on the live call page.
- The introduction must connect the work to the call's theme and articulate why it advances that frontier now.
- Figures and evaluation should be system-level and comparative; include architecture diagrams and end-to-end performance, not only link-level curves.
- Hard submission deadlines and guest-editor handling are typical for special issues; confirm the timeline before preparing the manuscript.
Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.mdand../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the IEEE Author Center anchors, then cite the current JSAC page and the specific call for papers you checked. - Search the live site for "IEEE JSAC call for papers" and confirm the active issue, its scope, and its submission deadline.
- Re-check article types, length/overlength policy, the IEEE template, and any issue-specific requirements.
- Confirm reproducibility/simulation-code expectations and overlap/dual-submission policy with sibling journals.
- Re-check ORCID, competing-interests, funding, author-contribution, and AI-use disclosure requirements, and IEEE open-access options.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- The manuscript matches a specific active call's theme, scope, and timeline.
- The contribution is framed as a high-impact, timely frontier advance, not a routine increment.
- Frontier claims are substantiated against the most recent relevant work, including recent preprints/standards.
- Evaluation is system-level/cross-layer where the call expects it, with matched, current baselines.
- The JSAC (call-driven) vs. broad-transaction choice is deliberate and justified.
- Article type, length, and the call's deadline are confirmed on the live page.
Common desk-reject triggers
- Out-of-scope for every active call, or submitted after the issue deadline.
- Technically sound but routine/incremental work that does not advance the call's frontier.
- A narrow PHY-layer tweak submitted to a systems-and-networks call with no system-level contribution.
- Generic machine-learning applied to a communications dataset with no communications-systems advance.
- Impact claimed but not benchmarked against the latest relevant work in a fast-moving topic.
Re-routing decision
- Broad-scope general communications result, no matching call →
ieee-transactions-on-communications. - Wireless-specific PHY/MAC, MIMO, channel work →
ieee-transactions-on-wireless-communications. - Fundamental-limit/capacity theorem →
ieee-transactions-on-information-theory. - Signal-processing method with analysis as the core →
ieee-transactions-on-signal-processing. - Broad tutorial/survey of a communications frontier →
proceedings-of-the-ieee.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
[Active call] <matched special-issue theme, or "none — re-route">
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest communications/networking subtopics>
[Impact + timeliness] <why this advances the call's frontier now>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Deadline check] <call submission window confirmed?>
[Official items to re-check] <call scope+deadline / article type / length / disclosures>
[Re-route suggestion] <if no call matches, a better-matched venue>
Version History
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