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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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HRI-Podcast-Episode-025-The-HRI-Journal-Publishing-GuideHere 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 |