IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine

IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine is published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. and is in Zone 3 of Computer Science in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Robotics and Automated Systems, Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence and Robot Manipulation and Learning, together about 27.2% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine is a unique technology publication which is peer-reviewed, readable and substantive. The Magazine is a forum for articles which fall between the academic and theoretical orientation of scholarly journals and vendor sponsored trade publications. IEEE Transactions on Robotics and IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering publish advances in theory and experiment that underpin the science of robotics and automation. The Magazine complements these publications and seeks to present new scientific results to the practicing engineer through a focus on working systems and emphasizing creative solutions to real-world problems and highlighting implementation details. The Magazine publishes regular technical articles that undergo a peer review process overseen by the Magazine's associate editors; special issues on important and emerging topics in which all articles are fully reviewed but managed by guest editors; tutorial articles written by leading experts in their field; and regular columns on topics including education, industry news, IEEE RAS news, technical and regional activity and a calendar of events.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): Robotics

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

5.26LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

9.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

1.25LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

2.19LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

81LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

127OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

916OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.02OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

2%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

15.38%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

48LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly easyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

ISSN

1070-9932

Electronic ISSN

1558-223X

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗LetPub