Editorial The Impact Factor of IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

In 2020, editors at Clarivate Analytics decided to suppress the 2019 Journal Impact Factor (JIF) for the Transactions on Applied Superconductivity (TAS) from Journal Citation Reports (JCR). This action did not affect the indexing of TAS articles in Web of Science. In this editorial for our authors and readers, we describe why this decision by Clarivate editors was misguided.