IEEE Sensors Alert is an online digest which publishes two articles per week. These articles are the condensed versions of the selected research papers published in the IEEE Sensors Journal. The summary of the selected papers you read here is re-produced mostly by the original authors and for the rest by our appointed technical writers. The objective is to provide the sensor enthusiasts with a one-stop destination to know about the evolution of sensors, sensing systems and sensor technologies of their interest. It will give you a 50-75 words teaser of the topic and a 400-500 words condensed article as well in a lucid and layman’s language which will make your reading a pleasure. We believe that in this format the IEEE Sensors Alert ezine will make sense to a large segment of the users, including practicing engineers, scientists, technology professionals, industry managers and executives, and even pre-university and university students. Each article gives the IEEE Xplore link of the original research paper besides the teaser and condensed version. It also gives you the link of some similar articles for quick reference.
This eZine started in 2020 as a new initiative of IEEE Sensors Council. It was made public in its beta phase in 2021. Now it has matured enough to run as a regular service of IEEE Sensors Council for the community. We started with 1 article per month (Oct 2020), then 2 articles per month (May 2021), 1 article per week (from Nov 2022, i.e., 4 articles per month) and now we are publishing 2 articles per week (from Oct 2024) i.e., 8 articles per month. It is planned to take noteworthy papers from our other 100% sponsored journals, such as IEEE Sensors Letters, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Sensors (J-SAS), and IEEE Sensors Reviews in the next phase.
Selection of articles for Sensors Alert has been now automated for last over one year. We pick up the most accessed papers of our Sensors Journal of last 24 months in each alternative month through the Xplore Analytics service. Then we give the original authors rights to submit its summary (teaser and condensed version). When we started, we appointed some Content Managers who used to recommend us some of the extraordinary papers from Sensors Journal. Then we got them summarized by our technical writers. We are happy to inform you that 75% of the articles posted on Sensors Alert are now contributed by the authors themselves. We highlight that by writing, "Summary Contributed by: <name> (Author)".
This effort and the quality of our summarized articles resulted into the growth of the subscription of IEEE Sensors Alert:
till Oct 2022 - 27
till Oct 2023 - 83
till Oct 2024 - 361
till Oct 2025 - 2360
This is managed by its Steering Committee.
