Preface

Last fall, as part of an ongoing evaluation of IEEE publications, a small-sample survey was made of U.S. subscribers to the various Transactions and Journals. Preliminary analysis suggests a small toot of our own horn. In terms of raw data, unadjusted for differences in content, size, and frequency among the publications, one question brought an outstanding response about this Transactions: Two-thirds of the readers read one-third or more of the papers! The overall range of response in this category was nine to 67 percent, with a median at 23 percent.