Industrial Robot-The International Journal of Robotics Research and Application

Industrial Robot-The International Journal of Robotics Research and Application is published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. and is in Zone 4 of Computer Science in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Robot Manipulation and Learning, Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence, together about 29.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Control and Systems Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Industrial Robot publishes peer reviewed research articles, technology reviews and specially commissioned case studies. Each issue includes high quality content covering all aspects of robotic technology, and reflecting the most interesting and strategically important research and development activities from around the world. The journal’s policy of not publishing work that has only been tested in simulation means that only the very best and most practical research articles are included. This ensures that the material that is published has real relevance and value for commercial manufacturing and research organizations. Industrial Robot's coverage includes, but is not restricted to: Automatic assembly Flexible manufacturing Programming optimisation Simulation and offline programming Service robots Autonomous robots Swarm intelligence Humanoid robots Prosthetics and exoskeletons Machine intelligence Military robots Underwater and aerial robots Cooperative robots Flexible grippers and tactile sensing Robot vision Teleoperation Mobile robots Search and rescue robots Robot welding Collision avoidance Robotic machining Surgical robots Call for Papers 2020 AI for Autonomous Unmanned Systems Agricultural Robot Brain-Computer Interfaces for Human-Robot Interaction Cooperative Robots Robots for Environmental Monitoring Rehabilitation Robots Wearable Robotics/Exoskeletons.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): Engineering, Industrial

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

2.05LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

6.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.52LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.92LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

43LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

85OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,007OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.19OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

9.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

1.47%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

100LetPub · 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)

6–12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

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.

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

Publisher

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Bimonthly

ISSN

0143-991X

Electronic ISSN

1758-5791

Official links

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• Submission system ↗LetPub