Journal Impact Factors

카테고리 없음 2009. 12. 26. 19:54

I have started monitoring the Robotics and Machine Learning journals. Based on this list of ISI impact factors for 2006 and based on ISIKNOWLEDGE.COM for 2007, I have created a list of the most current impact factors. As impact factors for 2008 are measured on 2008 publications, the impact factors for 2008 will not be available until mid-2009. My best tools right now are ISI-KNOWLEDGE and SCImago Rank. NL mean "Not Listed".

Robotics Journals ISI Impact
Factor 2006
ISI Impact
Factor 2007
ISI Half-
Life 2007
H-Index
2007
SCImago
SJR 2007
IEEE Transactions on Robotics 1.763 1.976 9.5 15 0.067
International Journal of Robotics Research 1.591 1.318 8.5 42 0.084
Autonomous Robots 1.578 1.413 5.9 36 0.091
International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted 0.917 0.700 NL 6 0,064
Robotics & Autonomous Systems 0.832 0.633 6.1 33 0,094
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing 0.810 0.804 6.0 24 0,056
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 0.652 0.892 5.9 22 0,081
Robotica 0.483 0.410 6.7 21 0,050
International Journal of Robotics & Automation 0.404 0.203 NL 8 0,043
Advanced Robotics 0.318 0.504 5.0 17 0,051
Industrial Robot 0.278 NL NL NL NL
Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 0.265 0.459 6.0 NL NL
Journal of Robotic Systems 0.402 0.483 9.4 NL NL
Note that the IEEE Transactions on Robotics was originally much lower (only 0.813 in 2007). The editor-in-chief Alessandro De Luca achieved a recount which lifted the journal from #5 in Robotics to #1. Subsequently, Thomson Reuters, the official publisher of JCR and ISI Web of Knowledge/Science, corrected their results based on their own data. Upon request, I can provide the printouts of the ISI rankings, but the results can also be obtained from Thomson Reuters upon subscription. I cannot make these printouts publicly available due to legal reasons.

Also note that the SCImago needs to be interpreted with a grain of salt as it is not based on the updated JCR results.
Similarly, I have looked at Machine Learning journals including modern journals as well as old-fashioned ones.
Machine Learning Journals Impact
Factor 2006
Impact
Factor 2007
Half-
Life
H-Index
2007
SCImago
SJR 2007
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE 4.306 3.579 9.7 111 0,128
MACHINE LEARNING 2.654 1.742 >10.0 54 0,128
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS 2.620 2.769 8.1 70 0,108
JOURNAL OF MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH 2.255 2.682 4.3 31 0,127
NEURAL COMPUTATION 2.229 2.335 8.4 67 0,257
NEURAL NETWORKS 2.000 1.951 8.5 54 0,249
PATTERN RECOGNITION 1.822 2.019 7.5 57 0,078
PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS 0.952 0.853 6.0 39 0,065
NEUROCOMPUTING 0.860 0.865 4.8 32 0,076
NEURAL PROCESSING LETTERS 0.753 0.580 7.0 16 0,059
NEURAL COMPUTING & APPLICATIONS 0.610 0.627 5.5 13 0,062
PATTERN ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS 0.400 0.515 5.5 16 0,048

Apologies for the upper cases but cut & paste is soo much easier...

While any quantitative measure on scientific quality is at best dubious, the recent ranking on robotics journal rankings seems to confirm the listing above.

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