URSI-JRSM 2026 Special Issue

The URSI Radio Science Letters (RSL) is an electronic journal owned and operated by the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). Its purpose is to rapidly publish original and previously unpublished scientific research work in all areas of radio science, in the form of short contributions that are rigorously reviewed.

The URSI-Japan Radio Science Meeting (URSI-JRSM) is the URSI conference organized by the Japan National Committee of URSI (JNC-URSI). The URSI-JRSM provides a regional scientific forum for radio scientists and engineers in Japan and the Asian region. The “2026 URSI-Japan Radio Science Meeting” (URSI-JRSM 2026) is the fifth URSI-JRSM after the first (2014), second (2015), third (2019), and fourth (2022) editions. The URSI-JRSM special section was published in RSL for its 2022 edition, with a total of 17 papers.

This special section provides a selection of papers presented at the “2026 URSI-Japan Radio Science Meeting” (URSI-JRSM 2026) held in Tokyo, Japan on March 2-3, 2026. It also publishes invited papers authored by the three winners of the Student Paper Competition (SPC). All participants at URSI-JRSM 2026 who presented papers are eligible for submitting papers to this special section.
Topics for this Call for Papers include but are not restricted to:

Commission A: Electromagnetic metrology
Commission B: Fields and waves
Commission C: Radiocommunication systems and signal processing
Commission D: Electronics and photonics
Commission E: Electromagnetic environment and interference
Commission F: Wave propagation and remote sensing
Commission G: Ionospheric radio and propagation
Commission H: Waves in plasmas
Commission J: Radio astronomy
Commission K: Electromagnetics in biology and medicine

Important Dates:

・Submission Open Date: March 1, 2026
・Submission Deadline: November 30, 2026

Submissions:

Manuscripts must be submitted through
・https://www.editorialmanager.com/RSL (for the URSI-JRSM 2026 Special Section)
For more information, including mandatory manuscript templates, please refer to the RSL webpage.
Page Charges: The special reduced rate of 100 USD per page, up to four pages, apply to this Special Section.

Guest Editors:

Kazuya Kobayashi
Lead Guest Editor, Chuo University (Email: kkobayashi001q@g.chuo-u.ac.jp)
Satoshi Yagitani
Kanazawa University (Email: yagitani@is.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp)
Yasuhide Hobara
The University of Electro-Communications (Email: hobara@ee.uec.ac.jp)
Keigo Ishisaka
Toyama Prefectural University (Email: ishisaka@pu-toyama.ac.jp)

Contact:

For any inquiries on this special section, please contact Professor Kazuya Kobayashi, Lead Guest Editor.