Conferences and Journals¶
Submitting and having articles accepted for publication in conference proceedings and journals is a necessary part of graduate research. Below is a listing of common venues for papers that are well established in the domains that MItHRIL does work in.
Note: the lists of conferences and journals may be incomplete. Feel free to add relevant venues to these lists.
IEEE Conferences and Journals¶
See this site for a list of IEEE conferences and journals: https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl
Top Journals and Conferences¶
Keep tabs on the top journals and conferences in robotics at this link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=eng_robotics
Copyright Questions¶
You may be wondering about copyright matters and be asked to sign over copyright after you submit a paper to a conference or journal. Visit Queen's Library's Copyright & Fair Dealing website to get answers to your questions.
Predatory journals and venues
Be wary of any conferences and journals that you haven't heard of or that actively solicit manuscripts from you. There are many predatory venues that will actively e-mail you to submit to their conference or journal, sometimes for an upfront fee and without serious peer review. Publishing at these venues is actively discouraged; they add nothing to your CV (in fact, listing an article published at a predatory venue may hurt your chances at future academic positions) or to the scientific community (no serious researchers would consider reading articles published at these venues).
For a listing of predatory journals, see:
- https://beallslist.net/
- https://guides.library.yale.edu/c.php?g=296124&p=1973764
- https://www.openacessjournal.com/blog/predatory-journals-list/
If in doubt, check with Matt.
Journals¶
Journals do not have set deadlines for article submissions unless special issues are announced which are relevant to your research topic. Journal articles tend to be longer and have a more complete description of scientific discoveries and research (usually involving several studies).
| Journal | Abbreviation | Publisher | Website Link | Notes | Date Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IEEE Transactions on Robotics | ToR | IEEE | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=8860 | 08 Sep 2022 | |
| International Journal of Robotics Research | IJRR | Sage | https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ijr | Very prestigious journal | 08 Sep 2022 |
| Transactions on Haptics | ToH | IEEE | https://www.ieee-ras.org/publications/toh | 08 Sep 2022 | |
| IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters | RA-L | IEEE | https://www.ieee-ras.org/publications/ra-l | Very prestigious journal | 08 Sep 2022 |
| Science Robotics | American Association for the Advancement of Science | https://www.science.org/journal/scirobotics | Very prestigious journal | 08 Sep 2022 | |
| ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction | T-HRI | ACM | https://dl.acm.org/journal/thri | Very relevant venue | 08 Sep 2022 |
Migration note: these journal/conference tables are exactly as current as their "Date Updated" columns; worth a refresh pass once this is live on the wiki.
Conferences¶
Conferences happen annually with some exceptions (notably World Haptics and the Haptics Symposium). Each conference has its own paper submission deadlines that need to be met for the paper to be reviewed. As such, this listing of conference dates and venues needs to be updated frequently by the member in charge of maintaining the wiki and website. Once a paper is accepted, you will need to present your work at that conference either via a presentation or poster. Conference papers are generally 6-8 pages in length (specific to each conference) and usually only describe one study or system.
Migration note: the source page's conference listing table did not return any rows during extraction (it may be populated via a linked SharePoint list rather than page content). Check the live "Conferences" list on SharePoint before this page goes live, as the conference dates/venues table itself may need to be pulled in separately.
