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IEEE Transactions on Robotics (IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation) Status Report Ad. Com Meeting @ IROS’ 04 Alessandro De Luca, Editor-in-Chief presented by Bill Hamel, RAS VP Publication Activities IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Sendai, Japan - 3 October 2004 1
Highlights § § § transition from T-RA smoothly completed in August 2004 T-RO submissions are going up T-RO acceptance rate is going down (quality stays high) 2003 impact factor data: T-RA again top in robotics and record high T-RO reviewing times continue to be short end-users needs are being addressed § rapid posting of accepted papers in IEEE Xplore (before publication of issue) § submissions of multimedia material on the way IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Sendai, Japan - 3 October 2004 2
Submissions to T-RO/T-RA • transition in 2003: T-RA for 3 Q only, T-RO starts in last Q • robotics submissions are going up (beating 2002, w/o special issues!) • 2004 T-RO + T-ASE forecast = 585 (405 + 180) papers IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Sendai, Japan - 3 October 2004 3
Global indices of T-RA/T-RO n Acceptance rate: 25, 9% 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 = = 28% 23% 34% 30% = 31% = 27, 6% (T-RA only) = 20, 0% (T-RO only) 2004 = 23, 3% (T-RO up to 3 Q) § Impact factor: T-RA #1 in Robotics for years 2003: #4 over 47 in Automation & Control #20 over 205 in EE Engineering IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Sendai, Japan - 3 October 2004 4
T-RA/T-RO reviewing times T-RA T-RO At date 10/01 5/02 10/02 9/03 10/03 IROS 01 ICRA 02 IROS 02 ICRA 03 Rvw > 9 mo Rvw 6 -9 mo Rvw 3 -6 mo Rvw 0 -3 mo Total in Rvw 1 68 63 70 202 3 7 59 110 179 2 14 84 106 206 IROS 03 4/04 9/04 ICRA 04 IROS 04 0 0 0 10 8 0 2 1 2 63 58 0 0 22 25 104 68 20 0 80 106 177 134 20 2 103 133 Average < 3 months ! IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Sendai, Japan - 3 October 2004 5
T-RO in IEEE Xplore Rapid posting (active from start) Links to T-RA (for cont’ed access) IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Sendai, Japan - 3 October 2004 6
Multimedia in T-RO § authors can submit multimedia material (videos) with their papers § multimedia are "playable" files (. midi, . mov. . mpeg, . wav, etc. ) or § n more complex "dataset" files (e. g. , raw data with programs to manipulate them) review process linked to paper: multimedia possibly rejected even if paper is accepted T-RO will start as soon as possible (following IEEE guidelines) at no additional costs Multimedia in IEEE Xplore (downloadable next to paper) IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Sendai, Japan - 3 October 2004 7
T-RO in Manuscript Central T-RO plans to move to MC v 3 in 2005 § cost estimation by IEEE fits the budget allowed by RAS-VP Finances § § (19 K US$ for first year, 11. 5 K US$/year at site established) T-RO will continue to monitor usage by T-ASE to anticipate problems 3 months to go on line, including testing n configuration requirements document in preparation by T-RO Ei. C IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Ad. Com Meeting Sendai, Japan - 3 October 2004 8
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