Journal History

The Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology (JTIT) was established in 2000 on the initiative of Prof. Andrzej P. Wierzbicki, then Director of the National Institute of Telecommunications. The first issue, published in mid-2000, was a special issue on applications of nonlinear optical phenomena, comprising papers from a COST Action P2 workshop by authors from eight countries. The Journal was assigned ISSN 1509-4553 (print).

The first Editor-in-Chief was Prof. Paweł Szczepański (2000–2019). Initially, the Editorial Board consisted exclusively Polish scientists.

In 2008, the Journal introduced an electronic edition, registered under e-ISSN 1899-8852. For several years, access to its articles was subject to a two-year embargo. Since 2012, the Journal has been indexed in Scopus, and since 2015 it has been published in the open access model, providing free access to all published content.

In 2019, Prof. Adrian Kliks (Poznan University of Technology) became Editor-in-Chief. The Editorial Board was renewed and expanded to include representatives of international academic communities, giving the Journal a more international profile.

In 2021, the Journal moved entirely to electronic publishing and discontinued its print edition. In 2023, it began using the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform at https://jtit.pl, which modernised its editorial and publishing processes. Archival issues published in print have been digitised and supplemented with authors’ affiliations and reference lists.

Publication model and issue numbering

Although JTIT has been a quarterly journal since its establishment, until September 2023 (issue 3/2023) it operated under a continuous publishing model: articles were published as soon as they had completed the editorial and production processes, rather than as part of defined quarterly issues. Since issue 4/2023, articles are published in four regular issues per year; accepted articles are first made available online as Early Access articles.

Up to issue 2/2025, JTIT issues were numbered without a volume number. Since issue 3/2025, each issue has been given a consecutive volume number, starting with Vol. 101.

Funding

The costs of publishing JTIT are covered by the National Institute of Telecommunications. On several occasions, the Journal has also received financial support from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education under programmes promoting science and supporting the development of scientific journals (see Sponsors).