The International Society of Automation (ISA) has announced that ISA Transactions: The Journal of Automation, dedicated to the science and engineering of measurement and automation, has earned its highest rating ever in a prominent scientific ranking of journal quality and value.
The 2014 Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® (JCR), a quantitative ranking, evaluation and comparison of journals, rated ISA Transactions nearly 40 percent higher than the previous year. The JCR rankings measure the Impact Factor, the frequency with which the average journal article has been cited up to two years after publication. Since 1975, the Impact Factor has been relied upon as an indicator of professional journal relevance and importance.
In the 2014 JCR rankings, ISA Transactions is listed in two categories: ‘Engineering, Multi-disciplinary’ and ‘Instrument & Instrumentation.’ In the ‘Engineering, Multi-Disciplinary’ category, ISA Transactions ranks 11th out of 87 journals, and in the ‘Instruments & Instrumentation’ category, the journal ranks 9th out of 57 journals. The 2014 rankings in both categories reveal significant year-over-year improvement.
ISA Transactions covers advances and state-of-the-art developments in the science and engineering of measurement and automation. The bimonthly journal has increased in popularity over the last several years, with hundreds of industrial practitioners and applied researchers holding subscriptions.
