publishing – Human Robot Interaction

Thesis for sale

What do you do if somebody else publishes your thesis as a book? This is what happened to Andrew Vonasch. Together, we investigated this new type of scam. We discovered a flood of stolen theses and the thieves’ method to publish them on Amazon and through other resellers. I interviewed Richard Elliott and sought legal advice from Ursula Cheer. We confronted IngramSpark with this scam. They removed the theses from their system but made it practically impossible to prosecute the offenders.

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The HRI Journal Publishing Guide

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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

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Flaky Conferences and Journals in Human-Robot Interaction

Ask your librarian

In this episode we discuss the evolving landscape of academic publishing.

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Publishing scientific papers and books is a difficult task. The arrival of the internet has the potential to dramatically change the business models, but also the review and publishing process. I discussed the changing world of publishing with Anton Angelo, Data Librarian at the University of Canterbury. We discussed Open Access, Print-on-Demand and the changing roles of libraries. We even spotted some dangerous predators in the publishing jungle. And in case of any trouble, always ask you librarian!

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Legal Deposit of the National Library of New Zealand
IngramSpark – print on demand publisher
Science Citation Index
Centering our values: Open Access for Aotearoa
Plan S – Making full and immediate Open Access a reality, European Commission
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Open Access Policy
NSF’s public access policy
Sci-Hub, all scientific articles for free
ArXiv, pre-print platform
ResearchGate – social network for scientists
Nonsense paper written by iOS autocomplete accepted for conference
Omics Group Lawsuit
Open Journal System – free software to run a journal
Scholastica – journal management platform
Ubiquity Partner Network – independent university and society presses

Conventional Journals for HRI:

International Journal of Social Robotics – Springer
Interaction Studies – John Benjamins
Science Robotics – AAAS
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction – ACM

Open Access Journals for HRI:

Paladyn – Journal of Behavioral Robotics

Problematic Open Access Journals for HRI:

Journal of Robotics – Hindawi
Lovotics – Omics
Advances in Robotics & Automation – Omics (now Hilaris)
Robotics – MDPI
Journal of Future Robot Life – IOS Press
Transactions on Leading-edge Synergistic Robots – PubPub