ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks is a quarterly journal published by the Association for Computing Machinery, the largest computing society in the world, that covers research on sensor networks and networked sensing systems, and it has been published since 2005 with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 4.7ACM 传感器网络汇刊（ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks）是美国计算机协会（Association for Computing Machinery）出版的季刊，该协会是世界上规模最大的计算学界组织，该刊自 2005 年起出版，报道传感器网络与联网传感系统的研究，2025 年影响因子为 4.7。

Scope

• The journal publishes original research on sensor networks and networked sensing systems, from laboratory prototypes to deployed installations该刊发表关于传感器网络与联网传感系统的原创研究，涵盖从实验室原型到实际部署的各种形态。

• It addresses the design, analysis and implementation of networked sensor systems, and the algorithms, protocols and architectures that support them该刊关注联网传感系统的设计、分析与实现，以及支撑这些系统的算法、协议与体系结构。

• Energy efficiency and energy harvesting are core themes, since sensor networks operate for long periods under strict power budgets能效与能量收集是该刊的核心主题之一，因为传感器网络往往要在严格的功率预算下长期运行。

• Security and privacy, distributed signal processing, and the data management and analytics that follow from them are also covered安全与隐私、分布式信号处理，以及由此延伸出的数据管理与数据分析，同样在其覆盖范围之内。

• Applications include environmental monitoring, healthcare, smart infrastructure, industrial sensing and the connected vehicles of the internet of things应用方向包括环境监测、医疗健康、智慧基础设施、工业传感，以及物联网背景下的网联车辆。

• Work that combines theory, systems engineering and experimental validation is particularly welcome该刊特别欢迎把理论、系统工程与实验验证结合起来的研究。

• It also publishes surveys, tutorials and position papers that help readers entering the field to map out its current state该刊还刊发综述、教程与立场论文，帮助新进入这一领域的读者梳理学科现状。

History

• The journal was launched in 2005 to serve the sensor networks research community, which had grown quickly around the spread of wireless sensor network technology该刊于 2005 年创办，服务于伴随无线传感器网络技术普及而迅速成长的研究群体。

• It has been published quarterly throughout its life and has always been hosted on the ACM Digital Library该刊自创刊起一直按季出版，并始终托管在（ACM Digital Library）之上。

• For most of its history it followed the standard ACM model of subscription articles with an open access option available for individual papers在大部分历史时期，该刊遵循（ACM）的常规模式，即以订阅文章为主，同时允许单篇论文选择开放获取。

• From 1 January 2026 all journals published by the ACM became open access, so the journal now places every article in the public domain without an author-facing charge自 2026 年 1 月 1 日起，（ACM）出版的全部期刊转为开放获取，该刊自此把每一篇文章都置于公开可取的状态，作者无需为此付费。

• It is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 4.7 matches the 4.7 recorded for 2024该刊被科学引文索引扩展版与（Scopus）收录，其 2025 年影响因子 4.7，与 2024 年记录的 4.7 持平。

• The wider ACM programme publishes more than seventy scholarly journals, with an emphasis on rapid publication and on the highest scientific quality in each field covered（ACM）的出版体系拥有七十余种学术期刊，整体上强调出版速度，并要求每一学科分支的稿件都达到相应的科学水准。

Editors

• The journal is edited by an international group of specialists drawn from university laboratories and industrial research centres in sensor networks, wireless networking and embedded systems该刊由一个国际化的专家组主持，成员来自高校实验室与产业研究机构，专长覆盖传感器网络、无线网络与嵌入式系统。

• Associate editors look after the algorithm, protocol and systems streams, and guest editors are recruited for each special issue so that a theme can be handled by people working on it副编辑分管算法、协议与系统这几条稿件线，每期专题专辑另设客座编辑，以便由身处该主题的一线学者主持。

• The editorial board is international, with members from several continents and from both the networking and the embedded systems communities编委队伍具有国际性，成员来自多个大洲，既来自网络系统领域，也来自嵌入式系统领域。

• Peer review is organised by the journal editors in line with the ACM review process and with the core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics同行评审由期刊编辑部依（ACM）的评审流程并参照出版伦理委员会的核心准则组织实施。

• ACM applies a zero tolerance policy to plagiarism, inappropriate author credit and falsification of data, and its artifact and badging programme lets reviewers certify the completeness of the code and data behind a paper（ACM）对抄袭、不当署名与数据造假实行零容忍政策，其制品与徽章计划还允许评审人对论文所附代码与数据的完备性作出认证。

• No pre-submission enquiry is required, manuscripts are submitted through the ACM Digital Library submission system, and the journal runs special issues on topics such as networked sensing, energy harvesting and edge intelligence该刊不要求投稿前预先征询，稿件通过（ACM Digital Library）的投稿系统提交，并围绕联网传感、能量收集与边缘智能等主题出版专题专辑。