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Journals for “Social Robot Interaction and HRI”
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Topic match is relative to the best match in this search (100% = best). Under each journal, "Publishes on" shows which of the matched topics it publishes and what share of its recent papers they make up. Fees are shown only where DOAJ records them; "Not recorded" does not mean the journal is free.
| # | Journal | Topic match | ITS Journal Score | Global rank | Papers 2021–2025 | Open access | Fee (APC) | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | International Journal of Social Robotics Springer Science+Business Media · The Netherlands Publishes on: Social Robot Interaction and HRI (38%) | 100% | 76.9 | #3,323 | 612 | 73% | Not recorded | |
| 2 | ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction Association for Computing Machinery · United States Publishes on: Social Robot Interaction and HRI (33%) | 85% | 74.3 | #4,423 | 331 | 80% | Not recorded | |
| 3 | Human-Machine Communication Communication and Social Robotics Labs · United States · DOAJ Publishes on: Social Robot Interaction and HRI (30%) | 79% | 59.7 | #13,116 | 110 | 100% | Not recorded | |
| 4 | Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics De Gruyter Open · Poland · DOAJ Publishes on: Social Robot Interaction and HRI (26%) | 68% | 48.2 | #20,851 | 80 | 100% | Not recorded | |
| 5 | Frontiers in Robotics and AI Frontiers Media · Switzerland · DOAJ Publishes on: Social Robot Interaction and HRI (15%) | 38% | 79.7 | #2,259 | 1,600 | 100% | 1,950 CHF | |
| 6 | Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems John Benjamins Publishing Company · The Netherlands Publishes on: Social Robot Interaction and HRI (19%) | 50% | 56.6 | #15,099 | 112 | 31% | Not recorded | |
| 7 | Current Robotics Reports Springer Science+Business Media · Switzerland Publishes on: Social Robot Interaction and HRI (16%) | 41% | 65.3 | #9,587 | 79 | 72% | Not recorded | |
| 8 | International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Elsevier BV · United Kingdom Publishes on: Social Robot Interaction and HRI (10%) | 27% | 82.7 | #1,329 | 700 | 52% | Not recorded | |
| 9 | ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems Association for Computing Machinery · United States Publishes on: Social Robot Interaction and HRI (9%) | 23% | 73.4 | #4,916 | 169 | 58% | Not recorded | |
| 10 | International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction Taylor & Francis · United States Publishes on: Social Robot Interaction and HRI (5%) | 14% | 83.1 | #1,239 | 2,733 | 24% | Not recorded | |
| 11 | Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces Springer Science+Business Media · Germany Publishes on: Social Robot Interaction and HRI (9%) | 24% | 60.0 | #12,946 | 118 | 55% | Not recorded | |
| 12 | Human-Intelligent Systems Integration Springer Science+Business Media · Switzerland Publishes on: Social Robot Interaction and HRI (8%) | 21% | 53.4 | #17,125 | 71 | 52% | Not recorded | |
| 13 | Journal of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics · Japan Publishes on: Social Robot Interaction and HRI (9%) | 24% | 41.2 | #27,077 | 434 | 100% | Not recorded | |
| 14 | Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting SAGE Publishing · United States Publishes on: Social Robot Interaction and HRI (4%) | 10% | 66.2 | #9,068 | 2,172 | 33% | Not recorded | |
| 15 | International Journal of Humanoid Robotics World Scientific · Singapore Publishes on: Social Robot Interaction and HRI (6%) | 16% | 54.5 | #16,435 | 155 | 8% | Not recorded | |
| 16 | Communication Research Reports Routledge · United States Publishes on: Social Robot Interaction and HRI (3%) | 9% | 62.8 | #11,159 | 146 | 22% | Not recorded | |
| 17 | Artificial Life The MIT Press · United States Publishes on: Social Robot Interaction and HRI (3%) | 9% | 61.9 | #11,701 | 150 | 47% | Not recorded | |
| 18 | PSYCHOLOGIA Psychologia Society · Japan Publishes on: Social Robot Interaction and HRI (3%) | 8% | 45.1 | #23,409 | 69 | 100% | Not recorded | |
| 19 | Revista de la Asociación Interacción Persona Ordenador (AIPO) Asociación Interacción Persona-Ordenador · Spain Publishes on: Social Robot Interaction and HRI (8%) | 22% | 13.4 | #58,554 | 72 | 100% | Not recorded | |
| 20 | McNair Scholars Research Journal University of Texas at Arlington Libraries · United States Publishes on: Social Robot Interaction and HRI (3%) | 9% | 21.6 | #50,952 | 77 | 100% | Not recorded |
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