Revised JCR Data Bring T-RO Back to the Top [Industry/Research News]

The IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) is the top-ranking journal in the robotics category in the latest 2006 Journal Citation Reports ( JCR), with an impact factor of 1.763, the highest in this category. When the 2006 JCR was published in June 2007, T-RO appeared to have slipped to third place in the impact factor in the robotics category. Editor-in-Chief Alessandro De Luca, with the help of T-RO Associate Editor Juan Tardos, carefully analyzed the data and concluded that a number of 2006 citations to T-RO were missing. This information was conveyed to the JCRpublisher, Thomson Scientific. After doing its own analysis, the publisher concurred and confirmed that the error identified by De Luca and Tardos was the specific cause for the lower and erroneous 2006 citation count for T-RO. Corrected data for T-RO appear in the reissued version of the 2006 JCR that became available in late October 2007.