Journal of Field Robotics

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Field Robotics seeks to promote scholarly publications dealing with the fundamentals of robotics in unstructured and dynamic environments.

Articles describing robotics research with applications to the environment, construction, forestry, agriculture, mining, subsea, intelligent highways, search and rescue, military, and space (orbital and planetary) are encouraged.

Papers in sensing, sensors, mechanical design, computing architectures, communication, planning, learning, and control, applied to field applications are encouraged.

The Journal focuses on experimental robotics and encourages publication of work that has both theoretical and practical significance.

Authors will be encouraged to implement their work and demonstrate its utility on significant problems with emphasis on the underlying principles.

That is, the Journal will encourage reporting on what was learned in doing the work, rather than merely on what was done.

Also encouraged are comparative or meta-studies and verification of previously published results as well as reports of extended field experiments that seek to validate autonomous systems in representative environments.

Systems papers will be welcome but they must include analysis and insight into why approaches work and the challenges still to be addressed.

Studies of systems that have been fielded over extended durations are encouraged.

The journal will publish only articles of high quality rather than achieving a particular number of papers or a ratio of accepted papers to those submitted.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	5.2
2024	4.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.075

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	120

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	4277

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	11208

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Computer Science and Engineering, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Stanley: The robot that won the DARPA Grand Challenge

  Citation: 1593

  Authors: Sebastian, Mike, Hendrik, David, Andrei, James, Philip, John, Morgan, Gabriel, Kenny, Celia, Mark, Vaughan, Pascal, Sven, Cedric, Lars‐Erik, Christian, Charles, Carlo, Joe, Eric, Philippe, Gary, Bob, Scott, Adrian, Ara, Pamela

• Autonomous driving in urban environments: Boss and the Urban Challenge

  Citation: 1313

  Authors: Chris, Joshua, Drew, Christopher, Robert, M. N., John, Dave, Tugrul, Chris, Michele, Sam, Martial, Thomas M., Sascha, Alonzo, Maxim, Matt, Nick, Kevin, Brian, Raj, Paul, Bryan, Young‐Woo, Sanjiv, Jarrod, Anthony, William “Red”, Ziv, Jason, Hong, Thomas, Daniel, Bakhtiar, Jim, Varsha, Wende, Joshua, Michael, Michael, Dave

• A survey of deep learning techniques for autonomous driving

  Citation: 1290

  Authors: Sorin, Bogdan, Tiberiu, Gigel

• Junior: The Stanford entry in the Urban Challenge

  Citation: 914

  Authors: Michael, Jan, Suhrid, Hendrik, Dmitri, Scott, Dirk, Tim, Gabe, Burkhard, Doug, Stefan, Dirk, Anthony, Jesse, Julien, David, Johannes, Isaac, Anna, Mike, Ganymed, David, Antone, Sebastian

• RTAB‐Map as an open‐source lidar and visual simultaneous localization and mapping library for large‐scale and long‐term online operation

  Citation: 720

  Authors: Mathieu, François

• Scan registration for autonomous mining vehicles using 3D‐NDT

  Citation: 621

  Authors: Martin, Achim, Tom

• Unmanned Aircraft Capture and Control Via GPS Spoofing

  Citation: 542

  Authors: Andrew J., Daniel P., Jahshan A., Todd E.

• Survey of advances in guidance, navigation, and control of unmanned rotorcraft systems

  Citation: 540

  Authors: Farid

• Harvesting Robots for High‐value Crops: State‐of‐the‐art Review and Challenges Ahead

  Citation: 507

  Authors: C. Wouter, Eldert J., Jochen, Yael

• Two years of Visual Odometry on the Mars Exploration Rovers

  Citation: 499

  Authors: Mark, Yang, Larry

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