Journal Impact
I am maintaining a graph of the ups' and downs of impact of journals that are relevant for Machine Learning and for Robotics (Note: omitting specialty journals such as Humanoids, JFR, TASE, ROBOT CIM-INT MANUF, etc as it would be comparing apples with oranges). If you think a major journal is missing, then please drop me a line. Note that in 2011 the impact of robotics as a field was 1.056, which means that Robotics and Autonomous Systems is a truly average journal. IJRR and TRo are exceptional...
All scores are directly taken from the respective publishers websites of the respective journals.
![](https://www.ias.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/uploads/Miscellaneous/JournalImpactFactors/robotics.png)
Here are the same plots for machine learning. Note that in 2011 the impact of artificial intelligence as as a field was 1.213, which means that most machine learning journals are above average AI journals but only few are exceptional...
![](https://www.ias.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/uploads/Miscellaneous/JournalImpactFactors/machinelearning.png)
Somewhat bizarre are the results from Google Scholar on Robotics and Machine Learning/AI as the H-Index is not a good measure for journals.
Finally, this is a quick tool for knowing copyright policies of various journals (to know which allows self-archiving). A similar list can also be found on Wikipedia.