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The journal traces its origins to 1909, when it was published as the Proceedings of the Wireless Institute. The first issue under the Proceedings of the IRE name appeared in January 1913, and it became the Proceedings of the IEEE in 1963 following a merger.
Alfred Norton Goldsmith and Greenleaf Pickard produced the original six issues as the Proceedings of the Wireless Institute starting in 1909. Goldsmith went on to serve as the journal's first editor-in-chief for 42 years.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the Proceedings of the IEEE had an impact factor of 9.107 in 2017, ranking sixth in the electrical and electronic engineering category. In 2018, the impact factor rose to 10.694, moving the journal to fifth in that category.
In 1963, the Institute of Radio Engineers merged with the American Institute of Electrical Engineers to form the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The journal adopted its current name at that point to reflect the new institution.
The journal publishes three types of coverage: reviews that trace a technology from inception to the present, surveys that examine a technology's applications and implications, and tutorials that explain how a technology works. It also publishes roughly ten Special Issues and two regular paper issues per year.
The journal is indexed by the Science Citation Index, the Science Citation Index Expanded, Current Contents (Engineering, Computing and Technology), and the Chemical Abstracts Service.