The HRI Journal Publishing Guide – Human Robot Interaction

Publishing your human-robot interaction study in a journal is an excellent way to share your insights. But in which journal should you publish and what do the journals expect? In this episode, we talk to editors from the three dedicated HRI journals, Agnieszka Wykowska (International Journal of Social Robotics), Selma Sabanovic (ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction) and Bilge Mutlu (Frontiers in Robotics and AI | Human-Robot Interaction). We talk about Open Access publishing and what the future of scientific publishing might look like. Besides the three dedicated journals, there are also some journals that encourage HRI topics without focusing completely on them. I talked with Kerstin Dautenhahn from the Interaction Studies journal and Ramanarayan Vasudevan from the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

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Here is a table with all the key indicators for the journals. The full table is available online.

Name	IEEE TRO	IJO Social Robotics	Interaction Studies	Frontiers in Robotics and AI HRI	ACM THRI
Publisher	IEEE	Springer	John Benjamins	Frontiers	ACM
Founded in	1985	2009	2004	2018	2012
Acceptance rate	20	36	48		67
Average papers are published per year	183	113	22	22	52
Average number of revisions for accepted papers	2.5	2	2		2
Average number of reviewers per submitted paper	3	2	2.5	3	3
Number of associate editors	72	53	27	11	44
Average duration of peer review	90	23	125	123	107
Peer review type	Single blind	Single blind	Single blind	Single blind	Single blind
Average duration publishing process	60	310		147	270
Listed in Scopus	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Publications quartile in Scopus	not available	Q1	Q1	Q2	not available
CiteScore	12.7	6.9	3.7	4.9	5.3
Listed on Web of Science	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Impact Factor	7.8	4.7	1.5	3.4	5.1
Ppen access option	Yes (optional)	Yes (optional)	Yes (optional)	Yes (required)	Yes (required)
Article Publication Fee	2345	3690	1927	2125	$0 required, $1300 optional
Pre-publication allowed	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

ISSN 2703-4054

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Author: bartneck

Dr. Christoph Bartneck is an associate professor and director of postgraduate studies at the HIT Lab NZ of the University of Canterbury. He has a background in Industrial Design and Human-Computer Interaction, and his projects and studies have been published in leading journals, newspapers, and conferences. His interests lie in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction, Science and Technology Studies, and Visual Design. View all posts by bartneck

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