Journal profile · Robotics
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH
ISSN 0278-3649 · eISSN 1741-3176 · SAGE Publications Inc. · ENGLAND · Monthly · Founded 1982
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH: CAS Zone 2 · Computer Science (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 6.7; hybrid open access; APC about USD 4,400; review 6–12 weeks (community reports); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 124 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH is published by SAGE Publications Inc. and is in Zone 2 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, Robotic Path Planning Algorithms and Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization, together about 36.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Biomedical Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) was the first scholarly publication on robotics research; it continues to supply scientists and students in robotics and related fields … | View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Robotics
Editorial board by country: 10 in mainland China (about 5%); most named United States 69, Italy 14, South Korea 12, Germany 12, Canada 11 (198 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Robot Manipulation and LearningEngineering14.2%
- Robotic Path Planning AlgorithmsComputer Science12%
- Robotics and Sensor-Based LocalizationEngineering10.5%
- Robotic Mechanisms and DynamicsEngineering9.8%
- Soft Robotics and ApplicationsEngineering6.5%
- Robotic Locomotion and ControlEngineering6.2%
- Modular Robots and Swarm IntelligenceEngineering4.7%
- Teleoperation and Haptic SystemsEngineering3.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Computer Science Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Computer Science | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Robotics | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Computer Science Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Computer Science | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Robotics | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Computer Science Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Computer Science | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Robotics | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 6.7LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 7.7Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 9.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 12.2LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 2.02LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.71LetPub ·
- h-index
- 142LetPub ·
- h-index
- 264OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2,480OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 9.67OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 26.63%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 122LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,258 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 90 | 61 | 67 |
| 2025 | 124 | 63 | 568 |
| 2024 | 115 | 67 | 2,546 |
| 2023 | 95 | 54 | 1,773 |
| 2022 | 35 | 14 | 1,002 |
| 2021 | 52 | 29 | 3,132 |
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.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 2 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- 6–12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- Fairly easyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 16.1%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 11 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 59 daysPublisher website ·
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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,400 / GBP 3,226 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted12
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- original paperThe International Journal of Robotics Research publishes Original Articles; Review Articles; Special Issues; Data Papers; Original Papers IJRR considers origina…Length not stated
- original papersThe International Journal of Robotics Research publishes Original Articles; Review Articles; Special Issues; Data Papers; Original PapersLength not stated
- reviewThe International Journal of Robotics Research publishes Original Articles; Review Articles; Special Issues; Data Papers; Original Papers IJRR considers origina…Length not stated
- review articleThe International Journal of Robotics Research publishes Original Articles; Review Articles; Special Issues; Data Papers; Original Papers IJRR considers origina…Length not stated
- review articlesThe International Journal of Robotics Research publishes Original Articles; Review Articles; Special Issues; Data Papers; Original PapersLength not stated
- special issuesThe International Journal of Robotics Research publishes Original Articles; Review Articles; Special Issues; Data Papers; Original PapersLength not stated
- surveyThe International Journal of Robotics Research publishes Original Articles; Review Articles; Special Issues; Data Papers; Original Papers IJRR considers origina…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review and publication process, this journal has adopted CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy). CRediT is a high-level taxonomy, including 14 roles, which is used to describe each author’s individual contributions to the work. You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Member of COPE Model summary
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures submitted in color will be published in color in the online version of the journal at no cost. If you wish to have color figures in the printed version, the following fees apply: don't include fees. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Access agreements, where authors can…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Single anonymized peer review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal. Please refer to the Guidelines for Editors and Reviewers for detailed information on the IJRR peer review process, timelines and best practice. The International Journal of Robotics Research exclusively operates on the basis of peer reviews, with no professional editor external to the research community judging on scientific…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal endorses the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment. However, consistent with the AllTrials campaign, retrospectively registered trials will be considered if the justification for late registration is acceptable. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be …
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc.
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Founded
- 1982
- ISSN
- 0278-3649
- Electronic ISSN
- 1741-3176
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH
What CAS zone is INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH is in Zone 2 of Computer Science, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Robotics. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Computer Science. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 6.7; CiteScore 12.2, h-index 264.
How long does peer review take at INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH?
Authors report an average review time of 6–12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 16.1%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH based?
Of the 198 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 10 (about 5%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (69), Italy (14) and South Korea (12). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH open access, and what is the APC?
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 4,400.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .