The International Journal of Robotics Research
A leading peer-reviewed journal in its field for more than two decades, The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) was the first scholarly publication on robotics research.
IJRR offers incisive and thought-provoking original research papers and articles, perceptive reviews, and lively editorials on ground-breaking trends issues, technical developments, and theories in robotics by the outstanding scholars and practitioners in the field. The Journal covers more than just narrow technical advances-it embraces a wide variety of topics. IJRR only publishes work of archival value, which is produced to advance science and technology in this field, and stays valuable in time. To do so the work must be original, solid, and useful for others to build upon.
Consistently ranked in top in its category of the Thomson Scientific JCR, IJRR publishes scholarly articles that provides engineers, researchers, and scientists with the very best of current research on robotics research - from applied mathematics to artificial intelligence to computer science, to psychological, cognitive and behavioural sciences, to electrical and mechanical engineering.
IJRR exclusively operates on the basis of peer reviews, with no professional editor external to the research community judging on scientific matters. All submitted manuscripts are reviewed by at least two expert reviewers of appropriate standing in the field of robotics research, in a single-blind scheme (reviewer names are concealed from the submitting authors).
There is no page limit for IJRR submissions. The rule is however that a paper should be as long as necessary, and no longer: conciseness is highly valued.
IJRR also publishes high quality, peer reviewed datasets, accompanied by adequate text material to illustrate them and their usage in the form of a regular manuscript.
Multimedia (mostly video or data) extensions are most welcome parts of an IJRR paper, as they concur to illustrate and demonstrate its results.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
All issues of IJRR are available to browse online.
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijrr.
It is the policy of The International Journal of Robotics Research to encourage the application of theoretical advances to real problems and data in Robotics, intended here in its broadest meaning, as per Sir M. Brady’s definition: “the intelligent link between perception and action”. Results should represent a significant rather than incremental advance, and should be verified appropriately according to the topic. Experimental results are strongly encouraged. There should be an up to date literature review, and meaningful comparisons with previous work to demonstrate any proposed advance. Advancements must be rigorously demonstrated by all relevant and applicable scientific means - be it mathematical proofs, statistically significant and reproducible experimental tests, field demonstrations, or whatever may be needed to convince a duly skeptical, critical scientist.
The five fundamental questions implicitly asked to IJRR authors are: "Why is this problem important?", "Why wasn't it solved before?", "What's the key idea in the solution?", "How do you show that it really works?", and "How can others use your results?"
| Antonio Bicchi | Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and University of Pisa, Italy |
| John Hollerbach | University of Utah, USA |
| Sir J. Michael Brady | University of Oxford, UK |
| Richard Paul | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Arash Ajoudani | Italian Institute of Technology, Italy |
| Ron Alterovitz | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA |
| José-Luis Blanco Claraco | Universidad de Almería, Spain |
| Luca Carlone | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| Greg Chirikjian | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Margarita Chli | ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Matei Ciocarlie | Columbia University, USA |
| Mark Cutkosky | Stanford University, USA |
| Elena De Momi | Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
| Cosimo Della Santina | TU Delft, Netherlands |
| James Forbes | McGill University, Canada |
| Dongjun Lee | Seoul National University, Korea |
| Max Likhachev | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Huaping Liu | Tsinghua University, China |
| Jun Morimoto | Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Japan |
| Trishanta Nanayakkara | Imperial College, London, UK |
| Anibal Ollero | University of Sevilla, Spain |
| Christian Ott | TU Wien Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Austria |
| Jaeheung Park | Seoul National University, Korea |
| Ioannis Poulakakis | University of Delaware, USA |
| Carla Seatzu | University of Cagliari, Italy |
| Adriana Tapus | ENSTA Paris, France |
| Li Wen | Beihang University, Beijing, China |
| Jake J. Abbott | University of Utah, USA |
| Alin Albu- Schäffer | DLR, Germany |
| Ruzena Bajcsy | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Tim Barfoot | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Aude Billard | EPFL, Switzerland |
| Oliver Brock | Technical University Berlin, Germany |
| Henrik Christensen | UC San Diego, USA |
| Peter Corke | Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| Alessandro De Luca | Sapienza University of Rome, Italy |
| Dieter Fox | University of Washington and NVIDIA, USA |
| Ken Goldberg | UC Berkeley, USA |
| Robert Howe | Harvard University, USA |
| David Hsu | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Seth Hutchinson | Georgia Institute of Technology, USA |
| Lydia Kavraki | Rice University, USA |
| Oussama Khatib | Stanford University, USA |
| Vijay Kumar | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Cecilia Laschi | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Matt Mason | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Yoshihiko Nakamura | The University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Paul Newman | University of Oxford, UK |
| Allison Okamura | Stanford University, USA |
| Frank Chongwoo Park | Seoul National University, Korea |
| Nicholas Roy | Massachussets Institute of Technology, USA |
| Daniela Rus | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| Tim Salcudean | University of British Columbia, Canada |
| Giulio Sandini | Italian Institute of Technology, Italy |
| Davide Scaramuzza | University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| Siddhartha Srinivasa | University of Washington, USA |
| Russell H Taylor | Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| Dawn Tilbury | University of Michigan, USA |
| Robert J. Webster III | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| David Abbink | TU Delft, Netherlands |
| Siddarth Agarwal | Ford Motor Company, USA |
| Pulkit Agrawal | MIT, USA |
| Kostas Alexis | Norvegian University Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway |
| Gianluca Antonelli | Cassino University |
| Kim Ayoung | Seoul National University, Korea |
| Yasemin Bekiroglu | Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden |
| Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee | Cornell University, USA |
| Joydeep Biswas | University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Hermann Blum | ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Laura Blumenschein | Purdue University, USA |
| Stjepan Bogdan | University of Zagreb, Croatia |
| Davide Brugali | University of Bergamo, Italy |
| Jessica Burgner-Kahrs | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Roberto Calandra | Facebook AI Research, USA |
| Berk Calli | Worcestershire Politechnic Institute, USA |
| Angelo Cangelosi | University of Manchester, UK |
| Raffaella Carloni | University of Groningen, Netherlands |
| Stephane Caro | CNRS, France |
| Henry Carrillo | Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia |
| Nilanjan Chakraborty | Stony Brook University, USA |
| Andrea Cherubini | LIRMM, France |
| Tat-Jun Chin | University of Adelaide, Australia |
| Pakpong Chirarattananon | City University of Hong Kong, China |
| Han-Lim Choi | KAIST, Korea |
| Sanjiban Choudhury | Cornell University, USA |
| Jen Jen Chung | University of Queensland, Australia |
| Javier Civera | University of Zaragoza, Spain |
| Neil Dantam | Colorado School of Mines, USA |
| Mehmet Dogar | University of Leeds, UK |
| Chuchu Fan | MIT, USA |
| Francois Ferland | University of Sherbrooke, Canada |
| Guillermo Gallego | University of Berlin, Germany |
| Jonathan Gammell | Queen's University, Canada |
| Andrej Gams | Institut Jožef Stefan, Slovenia |
| Junyi Geng | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Igor Gilitschenski | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Francesco Giorgio -Serchi | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Giorgio Grioli | IIT and University of Pisa, Italy |
| Roderich Gross | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Di Guo | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China |
| Ioannis Havoutis | Oxford University, UK |
| Christoffer Heckman | University of Colorado, USA |
| Guillermo Heredia | University of Seville, Spain |
| Shoudong Huang | University of Technology, Sydney, Australia |
| Jeffrey Ichnowski | CMU Robotics institute, USA |
| Vadim Indelman | Technion, Israel |
| Genya Ishigami | Keio University, Japan |
| Edward Johns | Imperial College London, UK |
| Aaron Johnson | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Zhen Kan | University of Science and Technology of China, China |
| Robert Katzschmann | ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Majid Khadiv | Max Planck Institute, Germany |
| Marc Killpack | BYU, USA |
| Hyoun Jin Kim | Seoul National University, Korea |
| Minjun Kim | The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea |
| Wansoo Kim | Hanyang University, Korea |
| Laurent Kneip | ShanghaiTech, China |
| Seong Young Ko | Chonnam National University, Korea |
| Oliver Kroemer | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Yuichi Kurita | Hiroshima University, Japan |
| Jinoh Lee | DLR, Germany |
| Stefan Leutenegger | TUM, Germany |
| Shuguang Li | Tsinghua University, China |
| Xiang Li | Tsinghua University, China |
| Minas Liarokapis | The University of Auckland |
| Lantao Liu | Indiana University, USA |
| Giuseppe Loianno | University of Californmia, Berkeley, USA |
| Shengnan Lyu | Behang U (BUAA), China |
| Martin Magnusson | Örebro University, Sweden |
| Cristian Mahulea | University of Zaragoza, Spain |
| Ann Majewicz | The University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Anirudha Majumdar | Princeton University, USA |
| Ivano Malavolta | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Monica Malvezzi | University of Siena, Italy |
| Joshua Mangelson | Brigham Young University, USA |
| Joshua Marshall | Queen's University, Canada |
| Roberto Martin Martin | The University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Daniel Martins | UFSC, Brazil |
| Takamitsu Matsubara | Nara Institute of Science and Tech, Japan |
| Enrico Mingo Hoffman | Leonardo, Italy |
| Concepción Alicia Monje Micharet | University of Madrid Carlos III, Spain |
| José M Martínez Montiel | University of Zaragoza, Spain |
| Changjoo Nam | Seogang University, Korea |
| Sao Mai Nguyen | ENSTA Paris, IP Paris, France |
| Calogero Oddo | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy |
| Cagdas Onal | Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA |
| Takayuki Osa | University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Lionel Ott | ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Michael Otte | University of Maryland, USA |
| Onur Ozcan | Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey |
| Claudio Pacchierotti | CNRS, France |
| Hae-Won Park | The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea |
| Patricia Pena Nascimento | Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Luka Peternel | TU Delft, The Netherlands |
| Francois Pomerleau | Universite Laval, Canada |
| Marija Popovic | TU Delft, The Netherlands |
| Ioannis Rekleitis | University of South Carolina, USA |
| Federico Renda | Khalifa University, UAE |
| Michela Robba | University of Genoa, Italy |
| Jean-Philippe Roberge | École de technologie supérieure, Canada |
| Matthew Robertson | Queens University, USA |
| Paolo Rocco | Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
| Hugo Rodrigue | Sungkyunkwan University, Korea |
| David Rosen | Northeastern University, USA |
| Loris Roveda | DSIA-SUPSI/USI, Switzerland |
| Sheila Russo | Boston University, USA |
| Hamid Sadeghian | TUM, Germany |
| Mahmut Selman Sakar | ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Maria Sakovsky | Stanford University, USA |
| Oren Salzman | Technion University, Israel |
| Evren Samur | Bogazici University, Turkey |
| Guillaume Adrien Sartoretti | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Matteo Saveriano | University of Trento, Italy |
| Cristian Secchi | University of Modena Reggio Emilia, Italy |
| Shen Shaojie | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China |
| Kazuhiro Shimonomura | Ritsumeikan University, Japan |
| Masahiro Shiomi | Advanced Telecommunication Research (ATR), Japan |
| Enrico Simetti | University of Genoa, Italy |
| Harold Soh | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Shuran Song | Columbia University, USA |
| Koushil Sreenath | University of California, USA |
| Cynthia Sung | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Abdalla Swikir | MBZUAI Robotics Dept |
| Mahdi Tavakoli | University of Alberta, Canada. |
| Evangelos Theodorou | Georgia Tech, USA |
| Yulun Tian | University of Michigan, USA |
| Federico Tombari | TUM, Germany and Google |
| Barkan Ugurlu | Ozyegin University, Turkey |
| Abhinav Valada | University of Freiburg, Germany |
| Cristian-Ioan Vasile | Lehigh University, USA |
| Jorn Vogel | DLR, Germany |
| Ankit Vora | Ford Motor Company, USA |
| Weiwei Wan | Osaka University, Japan |
| Chen Wang | State University of New York at Buffalo, USA |
| Wei Wang | Hanyang University, Korea |
| Fei Wen | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
| Sebastian Wolf | DLR, Germany |
| Britta Wrede | Bielefeld University, Germany |
| Helge Wurdemann | University College of London, UK |
| Danfei Xu | Georgia Tech, USA |
| Heng Yang | Harvard University, USA |
| Shenli Yuan | SRI International, USA |
| Wenzhen Yuan | University of Illinois, USA |
| Andrea Zanchettin | Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
Manuscript Submission Guidelines: The International Journal of Robotics Research
This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics
Please read the guidelines below then visit the Journal’s submission site https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijrr to upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned.
Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) will be reviewed.
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal.
As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you.
- What do we publish?
1.1 Aims & Scope
1.2 Article types
1.3 Writing your paper - Editorial policies
2.1 Peer review policy
2.2 Authorship
2.3 Acknowledgements
2.4 Funding
2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
2.6 Data - Publishing policies
3.1 Publication ethics
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
3.3 Open access and author archiving - Preparing your manuscript
4.1 Formatting
4.2 Novelty statement
4.3 Mathematics
4.4 Style for illustrations
4.5 Multimedia
4.6 Data papers
4.7 Page length
4.8 Artwork, figures and other graphics
4.9 Supplementary material
4.10 Reference style
4.11 English language editing services - Submitting your manuscript
5.1 ORCID
5.2 Information required for completing your submission
5.3 Permissions - On acceptance and publication
6.1 SAGE Production
6.2 Online First publication
6.3 Access to your published article
6.4 Promoting your article - Further information
Before submitting your manuscript to The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), please ensure you have read the journal’s Aims & Scope.
Consistently ranked in the top journals in the Robotics Category in the Science Citation Index, The International Journal of Robotics Research publishes peer reviewed, scholarly articles that provide engineers, researchers, and scientists with the very best of current research on robotics, from applied mathematics, artificial intelligence, and computer science, to electrical and mechanical engineering.
The SAGE Author Gateway has some general advice and on how to get published, plus links to further resources.
1.3.1 Make your article discoverable
When writing up your paper, think about how you can make it discoverable. The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article through search engines such as Google. For information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords, have a look at this page on the Gateway: How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online.
Submissions to the journal are assessed by independent referees who make recommendations on the suitability of the articles for publication. We are committed to providing timely assessment of articles and authors are informed of the publication decision as soon as possible.
It should be noted that our refereeing process, common to many other publishers, is single-blind, that is, the referees remain anonymous and their identities are not released to authors. The referees, however, are informed of the authors’ names and affiliations.
As part of the submission process you will be asked to provide the names of three pertinent reviewers who you feel are the most knowledgeable on your topic, and will provide the best review. Recommended reviewers should be experts in their fields and should be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript.
This request is to be taken seriously, since a poorly chosen set of reviewers will be taken as evidence of a lack of knowledge of the field and the paper will be returned. Please also provide a link to your own personal academic homepage where possible.
At least two reviewers should be chosen from your list of references. An institutional contact address for each reviewer must be provided.
Please be aware of any conflicts of interest when recommending reviewers. Examples of conflicts of interest include (but are not limited to) the below:
- The reviewer should have no prior knowledge of your submission
- The reviewer should not have recently collaborated with any of the authors
- Reviewer nominees from the same institution as any of the authors are not permitted
Please note that the Editors are not obliged to invite any recommended/opposed reviewers to assess your manuscript.
Papers should only be submitted for consideration once consent is given by all contributing authors. Those submitting papers should carefully check that all those whose work contributed to the paper are acknowledged as contributing authors.
The list of authors should include all those who can legitimately claim authorship. This is all those who:
- Made a substantial contribution to the concept or design of the work; or acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data,
- Drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content,
- Approved the version to be published,
- Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.
Authors should meet the conditions of all of the points above. When a large, multicentre group has conducted the work, the group should identify the individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript. These individuals should fully meet the criteria for authorship.
Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group alone does not constitute authorship, although all contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgments section. Please refer to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) authorship guidelines for more information on authorship.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.
Any acknowledgements should appear first at the end of your article prior to your Declaration of Conflicting Interests (if applicable), any notes and your References.
2.3.1 Writing assistance
Individuals who provided writing assistance, e.g. from a specialist communications company, do not qualify as authors and so should be included in the Acknowledgements section. Authors must disclose any writing assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input – and identify the entity that paid for this assistance. It is not necessary to disclose use of language polishing services.
The International Journal of Robotics Research requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading. Please visit the Funding Acknowledgements page on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding, or state that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
It is the policy of The International Journal of Robotics Research to require a declaration of conflicting interests from all authors enabling a statement to be carried within the paginated pages of all published articles.
Please ensure that a ‘Declaration of Conflicting Interests’ statement is included at the end of your manuscript, after any acknowledgements and prior to the references. If no conflict exists, please state that ‘The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest’. For guidance on conflict of interest statements, please see the ICMJE recommendations here.
SAGE acknowledges the importance of research data availability as an integral part of the research and verification process for academic journal articles.
The International Journal of Robotics Research requests all authors submitting any primary data used in their research articles alongside their article submissions to be published in the online version of the journal, or provide detailed information in their articles on how the data can be obtained. This information should include links to third-party data repositories or detailed contact information for third-party data sources. Data available only on an author-maintained website will need to be loaded onto either the journal’s platform or a third-party platform to ensure continuing accessibility. Examples of data types include but are not limited to statistical data files, replication code, text files, audio files, images, videos, appendices, and additional charts and graphs necessary to understand the original research. The editor may consider limited embargoes on proprietary data. The editor can also grant exceptions for data that cannot legally or ethically be released. All data submitted should comply with Institutional or Ethical Review Board requirements and applicable government regulations. For further information, please contact the editorial office at ijrr.admin@sagepub.co.uk.
SAGE is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the SAGE Author Gateway.
3.1.1 Plagiarism
The International Journal of Robotics Research and SAGE take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.
3.1.2 Prior publication
If material has been previously published it is not generally acceptable for publication in a SAGE journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the SAGE Author Gateway or if in doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
Before publication, SAGE requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. SAGE’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement is an exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants SAGE the sole and exclusive right and licence to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than SAGE. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit the SAGE Author Gateway.
3.3 Open access and author archiving
The International Journal of Robotics Research offers optional open access publishing via the SAGE Choice programme. For more information please visit the SAGE Choice website. For information on funding body compliance, and depositing your article in repositories, please visit SAGE Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.
4. Preparing your manuscript for submission
The preferred format for your manuscript is Word. LaTeX files are also accepted. Word and (La)Tex templates are available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines page of our Author Gateway.
During the submission process authors will be required to provide a novelty statement to accompany their submission to IJRR. Compliance is essential.
As part of the submission process please include a short statement of no more than 80 words summarising the contributions made by the paper including the reasons your paper is novel and of specific relevance to IJRR’s Aims & Scope. This statement should be different from the abstract. This statement will be considered by the Editors when assigning your paper for peer review and only papers with justifiable novelty statements will be moved to the next stage of the peer review process.
Type mathematical copy exactly as it should appear in print. Journal style for letter symbols is as follows: variables, italic type; constants, roman text type; matrices and vectors, boldface type. Indicate best breaks for equations in case they will not fit on one line.
A sharp image and good contrast are essential for quality reproduction. Keep in mind that most illustrations will be reproduced in a 3" column width. Show only essential information on charts and graphs, for example, coordinate axis, major grid lines, and lines on points of interest.
Provide captions for all illustrations. Label them clearly and concisely (Fig1a, Fig10, etc.).
IJRR will consider the publication of archival quality multimedia extensions which are submitted together with their technical papers. Such material should enhance the contents of a paper, both in clarity and in added value. Please ensure guidelines are followed for all multimedia types as stated below.
Multimedia extensions can include video, image sequences, experimental data or code. Instructions on how to submit Multimedia Extensions can be found here:
Multimedia Extension Submission Guidelines
Data papers are short (circa 5 - 6 pages) submissions that support and summarize a substantial archival data set which has itself been peer reviewed with the same diligence that regular submissions receive. The contribution is expected to be in the quality and utility of the data to the robotics community.
In the first instance anyone interested in submitting a Data Paper should contact one of the Multimedia Editors to discuss their submission:
Tim Barfoot - tim.barfoot@utoronto.ca
Jose Luis Blanco - jlblanco@ual.es
Nicholas Roy - nickroy@mit.edu
Sidd Srinivasa - siddh@cs.cmu.edu
Instructions on what is defined as a Data Paper and how to submit can be found here:
Data Paper Submission Guidelines
It is required that you submit a paper no less than 12 pages in length. Submissions below this minimum may be considered if they are of sufficient merit. Please contact the Managing Editor to discuss your submission if it does not meet the 12 page minimum length.
4.8 Artwork, figures and other graphics
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit SAGE’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines.
Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from SAGE after receipt of your accepted article.
This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplementary files.
The International Journal of Robotics Research adheres to the SAGE Harvard reference style. View the SAGE Harvard guidelines to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.
Please note: While observing Harvard reference style, we do ask that you include all names in the references. ‘Et al’ should not be included in any references.
If you use EndNote to manage references, you can download the SAGE Harvard EndNote output file.
4.11 English language editing services
Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using SAGE Language Services. Visit SAGE Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.
The International Journal of Robotics Research is hosted on SAGE Track, a web based online submission and peer review system powered by ScholarOne™ Manuscripts. Visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijrr to log in and submit your article online.
IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created. For further guidance on submitting your manuscript online please visit ScholarOne Online Help.
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process SAGE is a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities ensuring that their work is recognised.
We encourage all authors to add their ORCIDs to their SAGE Track accounts and include their ORCIDs as part of the submission process. If you don’t already have one you can create one here.
5.2 Information required for completing your submission
You will be asked to provide contact details and academic affiliations for all co-authors via the submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. These details must match what appears on your manuscript. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files (including reporting guidelines where relevant).
Please also ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see the Copyright and Permissions page on the SAGE Author Gateway.
6. On acceptance and publication
Your SAGE Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be sent by PDF to the corresponding author and should be returned promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate. Please note that if there are any changes to the author list at this stage all authors will be required to complete and sign a form authorising the change.
Online First allows final articles (completed and approved articles awaiting assignment to a future issue) to be published online prior to their inclusion in a journal issue, which significantly reduces the lead time between submission and publication. Visit the SAGE Journals help page for more details, including how to cite Online First articles.
6.3 Access to your published article
SAGE provides authors with online access to their final article.
Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is as widely read and cited as possible. The SAGE Author Gateway has numerous resources to help you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article page on the Gateway for tips and advice. In addition, SAGE is partnered with Kudos, a free service that allows authors to explain, enrich, share, and measure the impact of their article. Find out how to maximise your article’s impact with Kudos.
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to The International Journal of Robotics Research editorial office at ijrr.admin@sagepub.co.uk.