Journal History
2012 | The inaugural issue was released, and Actuators was published as a quarterly journal. |
2013 | It was indexed by Inspec (IET) and Genamics JournalSeek. |
2016 | It was indexed by Emerging Sources Citation Index—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics). |
2017 | It was indexed by Scopus from Vol. 6. Actuators started the Travel Award project. |
2019 | Actuators was covered by the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) from Vol. 6 (2017). |
2020 |
Actuators received its first Impact Factor of 1.957 for the year 2019. The journal was divided into 9 topical sections: The year 2020 marks the 10th Anniversary of Actuators. |
2021 | Actuators began publishing monthly from 2021. |
Editors-in-Chief
2012–2020 | Founding Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Delbert Tesar |
2021–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Kenji Uchino 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 |