''IEEE Transactions on Information Theory'' is a monthly

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published by the

IEEE Information Theory Society The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE ...

. It covers

information theory Information theory is the mathematical study of the quantification (science), quantification, Data storage, storage, and telecommunications, communication of information. The field was established and formalized by Claude Shannon in the 1940s, ...

and the

mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

communications Communication is commonly defined as the transmission of information. Its precise definition is disputed and there are disagreements about whether Intention, unintentional or failed transmissions are included and whether communication not onl ...

. It was established in 1953 as ''IRE Transactions on Information Theory''. The

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is Venugopal V. Veeravalli (

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). As of 2007, the journal allows the posting of preprints on

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. According to Jack van Lint, it is the leading research journal in the whole field of

coding theory Coding theory is the study of the properties of codes and their respective fitness for specific applications. Codes are used for data compression, cryptography, error detection and correction, data transmission and computer data storage, data sto ...

. A 2006 study using the

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network analysis

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found that, among hundreds of

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

-related journals, ''IEEE Transactions on Information Theory'' had the highest ranking and was thus deemed the most prestigious. ''

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'', with the highest

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, was deemed the most popular.

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List of past editors-in-chief
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