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IEEE Robotics and Automation Society New Orleans, LA, USA - 29 April 2004AdCom Meeting 1
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Status ReportAdCom Meeting @ ICRA’04
Alessandro De Luca, Editor-in-Chief
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Submissions to T-RA/T-RO
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1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Year Submissions
1997 2891998 2971999 3002000 3432001 412 (70 Automation)2002 440 (60 Automation)
2003 409 = 322 T-RA (41 Automation) + 87 T-RO2004 110 T-RO submissions by April 23 (114 days)• 2003 Robotics & Automation (T-RA+T-RO+61 T-ASE) papers: 470
• 2004 T-RO forecast > 350 • 2004 T-RO + T-ASE forecast > 530 (350 + 180)
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Global indices of T-RA/T-RO
Acceptance rate: 1998 = 28%1999 = 23%2000 = 34%2001 = 30%2002 = 31%2003 = 28,4% (T-RA only)2003 = 24,6% (T-RO only)
Year % Accept
1998 281999 232000 342001 302002 312003 28
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Impact factor:
T-RA #1 in Robotics … new 2003 data coming in May
27,7%
T-RO overall = 31%2004 = 55% (not yet significant)
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IEEE Publication report
..in order to compare
fast first reviewing times…slow post-acceptance…
(authors + limited page budget)
mean # of weeks submission-to-publication
June 2003 issue
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Statistics of T-RA/T-RO
Year 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Page Budget 1248 1024 1024 1024 1024 1024Pages 1196 960 1024 1024 1076 384Regular Papers 78 60 60 67 67 24Short Papers 30 31 39 29 35 16Comm Items 1 0 1 1 1 0Book Reviews 3 1 0 0 1 0Correspondence 1 3 0 0 3 0Pages/RegPaper 12.7 12.6 12.8 12.5 12.3 11.5
Publication
within -5% (‘99-‘00) or +5% (‘03-‘04) of budget
Up to Apr 04
issue
T-RA/T-RO
will go up to 1076
1076
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New T-RO Associate Editors
to be appointed by RAS President
Dieter Fox (U Washington, USA) artificial intelligence in robotics, probabilistic methods for SLAM
Qiang Huang (Beijing IT, China) walking robots and humanoids
Gaurav Sukhatme (USC, USA) distributed and multiple mobile robotics, localization, haptics
Dong Sun (City U, Honk Kong) motion control, aerial robots, smart actuators/structures
Jocelyne Troccaz (TIMC, France) medical robotics
a total of 23 AEs at T-RO start
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RAS journals in IEEE
Xplore
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T-RO in Manuscript Central
version 3.0 will replace current 1.8 with new features it already accepts multimedia attachments at submission time T-ASE on line with 4-tier system (other 70 IEEE Transactions use MC) 3 months to go on line, including testing
customization of procedures, email messages, and access
T-RO plans to move to MC in 2005