RAS Publication Activities Bill Hamel Vice President RAS
RAS Publication Activities Bill Hamel Vice President RAS Ad. Com Meeting San Francisco, California October 16, 2005 1
Outline w Status of current publications (R 0 z) n n n RAM (Stefano) TASE (Ken) TRO w Publications Statistics w Haptics-e w Electronic Services Initiative (Stefano) 2
Publication Statistics w Rankings w Xplore Activity 3
2004 JCR Stats: Robotics Rank Title Impact Factor 1 T-RA 2. 126 2 Auton Robot 1. 309 3 Int J Robot Res 1. 168 4 RA-M . 826 5 Robot CIM-INT Manuf . 699 6 Robot Auton Syst . 468 7 Robotica . 400 8 J Robotics Syst . 380 9 Adv Robotics . 254 10 J Intell Robot Syst . 256 11 Ind Robot . 167 4
2004 JCR Stats: RAS Pubs Impact Factor among 80 IEEE Pubs Rank Title 8 J MEMS 1 2. 880 17 T-RA 2 2. 126 63 RA-M . 826 70 T-MECH 3 . 652 1 Published 2 T-ASE Joint w/ ASME Impact Factor & T-RO will not be 3 Published jointly w/ included until 2006 IES & ASME 5
JCR Stats: 6 Years of Impact Factors Title 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 J MEMS 2. 500 2. 034 1. 954 2. 835 2. 759 2. 880 T-RA 0. 984 0. 986 1. 375 1. 048 2. 103 2. 126 RA-M 0. 205 0. 800 0. 824 0. 865 1. 103 0. 826 T-MECH 0. 954 0. 562 0. 696 0. 544 0. 716 0. 652 6
Xplore PDF views 2003 -5 For Ad. Com Use Only--Not for Publication Aug 05 T-RA Jul 05 Jan-Jun 05 2004 2003 13758 15322 79340 176721 123103 T-RO* 3624 3776 13510 7407 NA T-ASE* 1339 1666 7554 4984 NA RA-M 3762 3694 24335 45612 29707 T-MECH 6672 7037 44695 70149 43574 J-MEMS 15498 15762 101486 194655 140502 *began midyear 7
Haptics-related Publication w Previous TVAR initiative is dead, subsumed into TVCG/CS w Haptics-e (Blake Hannaford, Vincent Hayward)…Innovative! n n n 1997: Self-organized and maintained with no financial matters Strong involvement of “soft” scientists Authors retain copyrights “Complete” open access RAS technical co-sponsorship w Observations n n n Comparatively low submission rate 13 papers accepted to date; recognized for good quality Disappointing growth and visibility 8
Haptics-e…win: win situation w More explicit IEEE and RAS involvement and “branding” needed. w Continue dialogue with Blake and Vincent w Study TAB positions and policies on electronic journals and open access models (TAB November) n n Pure electronic publications exist IEEE “positions” on IEL, open access, etc. are evolving w Evaluate 3 alternatives: n n (1) Transfer Haptics-e to RAS oversight and administration Consider new RAS publication based on the Haptic-e model l l (2) electronic and open (3) traditional IEEE publication 9
Electronic Services Update 10
Thank You! 11
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