Journal History
| 2012 | The inaugural issue is released, and Actuators is published as a quarterly journal. |
| 2013 | It is indexed by Inspec (IET) and Genamics JournalSeek. |
| 2016 | It is indexed by Emerging Sources Citation Index—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics). |
| 2017 | It is indexed by Scopus from Vol. 6. Actuators starts the Travel Award project. |
| 2019 | Actuators is covered by the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) from Vol. 6 (2017) |
| 2020 |
Actuators receives its first Impact Factor of 1.957 for the year 2019. The journal is divided into 9 topical sections: |
| 2021 | Actuators begins publishing monthly from 2021. |
Editors-in-Chief
| until 2020 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Delbert Tesar |
| 2021- | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Kenji Uchino (2021-) Associate Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. André Preumont Associate Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Manfred Kohl Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Hai Wang for the section on Actuators for Land Transport Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Matteo Cianchetti for the section on Actuators for Robotics Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Eihab M. Abdel-Rahman for the section on Precision Actuators Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Nicola Pio Belfiore for the section on Miniaturized and Micro Actuators |
