2019 Report on IEEE TVT

Nei Kato
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular
Technology

Graduate School of Information Sciences

Tohoku University
Editorial Board (January 2020)

● Editor-in-Chief
○ Nei Kato
● Administrators
○ Tiago Koketsu Rodrigues
○ Motoko Shiraishi
● Area Editors
○ Wireless Communications: M. Cenk Gursoy and
Lingyang Song
○ Wireless Networks and Mobile Services: Tomoaki
Ohtsuki and Lin Cai
○ Vehicular Electronics and Systems: Alireza Khaligh
Executive Summary (January 2020)
● Submissions
○ 4032 new original submissions
in 2019
○ 20.4% increase from 2018
● Paper Review
○ 31.35% acceptance ratio
during 2018 (as of Jan. 2020,
2 papers under process)
○ Average time from submission
to final decision in 2018: 54.3
days
● Accepted Papers
○ 951 accepted papers in 2018
● Visibility (latest data)
○ 5.339 Impact Factor (2018)
■ Top Quartile in Communication
○ 1.094 Article Influence Score (2018)
■ Top Quartile in Communication
○ 996,549 Downloads (2018)
■ Ranked 14th (5 ranks up from
2016) in IEEE Xplore
● Future plans
○ New special issues for 2019/2020
○ Special sections on Autonomous /
Connected / Electric Vehicles (two in
2018, more in the future)
Recognition of Top Performers (2019)

● Top Editor Performance Award

○ Kaigui Bian, Peking University, China
○ Sunwoo Kim, Hanyang University, Korea
○ Hicham Chaoui, Carleton University, Canada
○ Guan Gui, Nanjing Univ. of Posts and Telecom., China
● Top Reviewer Award
○ Nader Beigiparast, University of California-Irvine, USA
○ Boya Di, Peking University, China
○ Guido De Angelis, Regione Umbria, Italy
○ Hongzhi Guo, Northwestern Poly. Univ., China
ISI Impact Factor of This Journal

5-year Impact Eigenfactor Article Influence Total

Year Impact Factor
Factor Score Score Cites/Papers

2018 5.339 4.864 0.04657 1.094 26,445/945

2017 4.432 4.275 0.04101 1.116 21384/950

2016 4.066 4.057 0.03713 1.166 17010/894

2015 2.243 2.631 0.03518 1.091 10280/525

2014 1.978 2.483 0.03595 1.019 9390/417

2013 2.642 2.667 0.03380 0.944 9688/436

2012 2.063 2.019 0.02953 0.796 7393/393

2011 1.921 1.910 0.02728 0.801 6506/440

2010 1.490 1.824 0.01968 0.635 5956/446

2009 1.488 2.006 0.01853 0.707 5789/507

2008 1.308 2.239 0.01659 0.722 6060/363

Xplore Downloads (2018)

Year Pdf downloads

2011 524,733 (ranked 21st)

2012 570,270 (ranked 20th)

2013 570,322 (ranked 20th)

2014 580,695 (ranked 19th)

2015 604,934 (ranked 19th)

2016 677,432 (ranked 19th)

2017 918,836 (ranked 17th)

2018 996,549 (ranked 14th)

Xplore Downloads Distribution (Previous years)

Downloads
Year Previous 2 years 3 years 4 years 5 years Previous
year before before before before 5 years

2011 524,733 135,422 95,185 71,410 37,808 33,988

2012 570,270 127,732 105,657 75,305 60,909 33,072

2013 570,322 143,044 82,934 67,206 55,605 48,642

2014 580,695 155,429 86,111 52,369 52,658 43,555

2015 604,934 194,646 77,662 48,668 39,187 40,317

2016 677,432 262,510 89,768 47,774 37,431 30,781

2017 918,836 331,606 172,937 75,561 42,512 39,845

2018 996,549 288,908 224,861 124,569 58,345 37,137

Submission Trend (2011 - 2019)

Year 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Number of
1719 1912 1897 2147 2217 2119 2574 3349 4032
Submissions
Submission Distribution (2013-2019)

Every single month in 2019 broke the

record of submissions for that month
Editorial Decision Statistics (as of Jan 6th 2020)

Year 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Accepted 738 751 745 863 1050 568

Rejected 1278 1348 1309 1690 2271 2402

Under Process 0 0 0 0 2 1023

Withdrawn 132 118 64 21 26 39

Total No. of
2148 2217 2119 2574 3349 4032
Submissions

Year 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Accepted 34.36% 33.87% 35.16% 33.53% 31.35% 14.09%

Rejected 59.50% 60.82% 61.77% 65.66% 67.81% 59.57%

Under Process 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.06% 25.37%

Withdrawn 6.15% 5.32% 3.02% 0.82% 0.78% 0.97%

Total No. of
2148 2217 2119 2574 3349 4032
Submissions
2011-2019 1st Round Processing Time

Year 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Avg. 1st-Round Processing Time 2.25 2.38 2.57 2.80 2.60 2.45 2.03 1.81 1.65
(in Month)

S.d. 1st-Round Processing Time 1.21 1.29 1.42 1.73 1.54 1.68 1.63 1.43 1.42
(in Month)
Turnaround and Overall Processing Time
2012 - 2019 Publication Data

Year Number of Papers (SCI used number of papers) Total pages

2012 393 4269

2013 436 4771

2014 417 4827

2015 525 6031

2016 894 10242

2017 957 11434

2018 1106 12631

2019 1092 12452

Special Sections on Electric Vehicles
● May 2018 (Volume 67, Number 5):
○ First special section on Electric Vehicles
○ Already published
○ 7 papers on the area
● June 2018 (Volume 67, Number 6):
○ Second special section on Electric Vehicles
○ Already published
○ 6 papers on the area
● More special sections about Autonomous / Connected
/ Electric Vehicle Areas on the future