Actuators

Actuators is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that MDPI publishes in Basel on the science and technology of actuators and control systems. It was founded in 2012 and has appeared monthly since 2021. Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4, and it ranks in the second quartile of both JCR categories it holds.《执行器》是 MDPI 在巴塞尔出版的一份国际同行评审开放获取期刊，刊载执行器与控制系统的科学与技术研究。该刊 2012 年创刊，2021 年起按月出版。其 2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，在两个期刊引证报告类别中都处于第二四分位。

Scope

• The aims statement defines the field as devices that turn an input into controlled motion, and it treats the actuator and its control loop as a single subject.宗旨声明将这一领域界定为把输入转化为受控运动的装置，并把执行器与其控制回路视为同一个对象。

• Land transport covers wheel drives for road vehicles, where the editors cite a durability target of 20,000 operating hours and an efficiency near 85 percent.陆路运输方向覆盖道路车辆的车轮驱动，编辑给出的设计目标是 20000 小时运行寿命与约 85% 的效率。

• Aerospace work is grouped around fault tolerance, torque and force density, and distributed control.航空方向围绕容错能力，扭矩与力密度，以及分布式控制展开。

• Medical devices fall inside the scope through their demands on reliability and miniaturization, plus low heat output and quiet operation.医疗器械因其对可靠性与小型化的要求进入范围，同时还要求低发热与低噪声。

• Robotics runs from industrial manipulators to the mobile platforms that move goods inside warehouses and logistics hubs.机器人方向从工业机械臂延伸到在仓库与物流枢纽内搬运货物的移动平台。

• Manufacturing covers the handling of parts during assembly and the machine tools that hold high precision under load.制造方向覆盖装配过程中的零件搬运，以及在负载下保持高精度的机床。

• Actuator materials form a section of their own, aimed at the active materials that produce motion under an applied field or current.执行器材料自成一个分区，关注外加电场或电流作用下产生运动的活性材料。

• Power density and torque density have a separate section, where competing technologies are compared as design targets.功率密度与扭矩密度单独设区，作为设计指标来讨论，不同技术路线之间的比较在那里展开。

• Precision actuators also have their own section, which reflects the journal's interest in positioning at the micrometer and nanometer scale.精密执行器也有独立分区，反映刊物对微米与纳米尺度定位的兴趣。

• Miniaturized and micro actuators deal with devices built by micromachining and other batch processes for space-constrained applications.小型化与微型执行器覆盖以微加工等批量化工艺制造，用于空间受限场合的装置。

• Control systems close the list, and that section covers the modeling, sensing and closed-loop design that make an actuator usable.控制系统收束整份清单，该分区涵盖让执行器真正可用的建模，传感与闭环设计。

• Three manuscript types are accepted, namely full reviews that may assess complete commercial products, research papers and short notes.刊物接收三类稿件，分别是可评估整机产品的综述，研究论文与短札。

• There is no fixed length limit, but the experimental detail has to be complete enough for another laboratory to repeat the measurement.稿件没有固定篇幅上限，但实验细节必须完整到足以让其他实验室重复测量。

• Research proposals are welcome, and software or data sets may be deposited as supplementary material alongside the paper.刊物欢迎研究提案，软件或数据集可以作为补充材料随论文一并提交。

History

• MDPI started the title in 2012, with Basel as its editorial base and actuator technology as its founding brief.MDPI 于 2012 年创办该刊，编辑部设在巴塞尔，创办时的主题就是执行器技术。

• The early volumes kept no steady issue rhythm, and the numbering in the first five years is uneven.早期各卷没有稳定的出版节奏，最初五年的期号编排并不齐整。

• Between 2017 and 2020, volumes six through nine each carried four issues.2017 年至 2020 年，第 6 卷到第 9 卷每年各出 4 期。

• The switch to a monthly cadence came with volume ten in 2021, and twelve issues have appeared in every volume since.2021 年第 10 卷起改为月刊，此后每一卷都出满 12 期。

• The journal is published online only under the electronic ISSN 2076-0825, and no print edition has ever been issued.该刊仅在线出版，使用电子刊号 2076-0825，没有印刷版。

• Every article appears under a CC BY licence, and the publisher charges an article processing charge of 2,400 Swiss francs.所有文章都以 CC BY 许可发表，出版方收取的文章处理费为 2400 瑞士法郎。

• The impact factor moved from 2.523 in 2022 to 2.2 in 2023, 2.3 in 2024 and 2.4 in 2025, with a five-year figure of 2.5.影响因子从 2022 年的 2.523 变为 2023 年的 2.2，2024 年为 2.3，2025 年为 2.4，五年影响因子现为 2.5。

• CiteScore reached 4.3, which places the title in the first quartile of the control and optimization category.CiteScore 达到 4.3，在控制与优化类别中位列第一四分位。

• In the 2025 Journal Citation Reports it holds Q2 in engineering, mechanical at 85 of 184, and Q2 in instruments and instrumentation at 40 of 81.在 2025 年期刊引证报告中，该刊在机械工程类别位列 184 种期刊的第 85 位，属 Q2，在仪器与仪表类别位列 81 种期刊的第 40 位，同样属 Q2。

• Output has settled near 609 articles a year, and 3,327 papers have appeared in total, drawing 5,634 citations over a cited half-life of three years.年发文量稳定在 609 篇上下，累计发表 3327 篇论文，总被引 5634 次，被引半衰期为 3 年。

• Abstracting and indexing cover Science Citation Index Expanded, Current Contents - Engineering, Computing & Technology, Scopus, Inspec, DOAJ, EBSCO and ProQuest.收录范围包括 Science Citation Index Expanded，《Current Contents》工程与计算技术分册，Scopus，Inspec，DOAJ，EBSCO 与 ProQuest。

• PubMed carries selected citations only, rather than the full run of articles.PubMed 仅收录部分被引条目，未覆盖全部文章。

• Speed is reported as a median of 17 days from submission to a first decision, and four days from acceptance to publication online.官方公布的效率数据为投稿到首次决定中位 17 天，录用到在线发表 4 天。

• For the first half of 2026 the publisher quotes 16.6 days and 3.7 days for the same two steps.出版方给出的 2026 年上半年对应数字为 16.6 天与 3.7 天。

Editors

• Kenji Uchino of Pennsylvania State University works on piezoelectric actuators, ultrasonic motors and lead-free piezoceramics, and he holds one of the two editor-in-chief posts.宾夕法尼亚州立大学的（Kenji Uchino）研究压电执行器，超声电机与无铅压电陶瓷，是两位主编之一。

• The other editor-in-chief, Norman M. Wereley of the University of Maryland, works on magnetorheological fluids, vibration control and smart pneumatic systems.另一位主编是马里兰大学的（Norman M. Wereley），研究磁流变流体，振动控制与智能气动系统。

• Eight section editors-in-chief sit below them, each responsible for one of the journal's subject sections.两位主编之下设 8 位分区主编，各自负责刊物的一个学科分区。

• Eihab M. Abdel-Rahman of the University of Waterloo leads the precision actuators section.精密执行器分区由滑铁卢大学的（Eihab M. Abdel-Rahman）主持。

• Zhuming Bi of Purdue University Fort Wayne runs the section on actuators for manufacturing systems.制造系统执行器分区由普渡大学韦恩堡分校的（Zhuming Bi）负责。

• Matteo Cianchetti, who works at the Sant'Anna School in Pisa, covers actuators for robotics.机器人执行器分区由比萨圣安娜高等学校的（Matteo Cianchetti）负责。

• Shuxiang Dong of Peking University handles the actuator materials section.执行器材料分区由北京大学的（Shuxiang Dong）负责。

• Jose Luis Sanchez-Rojas of the University of Castilla-La Mancha takes miniaturized and micro actuators.小型化与微型执行器分区由卡斯蒂利亚拉曼查大学的（Jose Luis Sanchez-Rojas）负责。

• Nariman Sepehri of the University of Manitoba looks after high torque and power density actuators.高扭矩与高功率密度执行器分区由曼尼托巴大学的（Nariman Sepehri）负责。

• Hai Wang at Murdoch University handles actuators for surface vehicles.地面车辆执行器分区由默多克大学的（Hai Wang）负责。

• Guanghong Yang of Northeastern University heads the control systems section and completes the group.控制系统分区由东北大学的（Guanghong Yang）负责，分区主编名单到此齐全。

• Two associate editors support the sections, Manfred Kohl of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and André Preumont of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.另设 2 位副编辑协助各分区，分别是卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院的（Manfred Kohl）与布鲁塞尔自由大学的（André Preumont）。

• Manfred Kohl works on smart materials and microactuators, while André Preumont comes from structural dynamics and vibration control.（Manfred Kohl）研究智能材料与微执行器，（André Preumont）的专长则是结构动力学与振动控制。

• The full board numbers 50 people from 17 countries and territories, counting the two editors-in-chief, the eight section heads and the two associate editors.完整编委会共 50 人，来自 17 个国家与地区，计入两位主编，8 位分区主编与 2 位副编辑。

• China supplies eleven members and the United States ten, followed by Italy with seven, the United Kingdom with five, Canada with four and Spain with two, while eleven other countries contribute one each, among them Australia, Germany, Belgium, Israel, Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, Portugal and Japan.中国 11 人，美国 10 人，其后是意大利 7 人，英国 5 人，加拿大 4 人与西班牙 2 人，另有澳大利亚，德国，比利时，以色列，韩国，瑞典，瑞士，沙特阿拉伯，荷兰，葡萄牙与日本 11 国各出一人。

• Because the board is organized by section, a manuscript is normally handled by an editor who works in its own subfield.编委会按分区组织，稿件通常交给研究同一子领域的编辑处理。