GetMobile-Mobile Computing & Communications Review

GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications is a quarterly magazine that the Association for Computing Machinery publishes for its Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing (SIGMOBILE), founded in 1997 as the Mobile Computing and Communications Review and renamed in 2014, and it holds a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 8.9《GetMobile：移动计算与通信》是（Association for Computing Machinery）为其（SIGMOBILE，系统、用户、数据与计算移动性特别兴趣小组）出版的季刊，1997 年以（Mobile Computing and Communications Review）之名创刊，2014 年更名，2025 年影响因子为 8.9。

Scope

• The magazine covers all areas of mobile computing, systems, applications and services, together with wireless communications and networking and related technologies该刊覆盖移动计算、系统、应用与服务的各个领域，并涵盖无线通信、网络及相关技术。
• Its unifying theme is mobility, and it promotes the convergence of mobility, computing and information organisation with access, services and management其统一主题是移动性，推动移动性、计算与信息组织同访问、服务及管理的融合。
• Representative topics include algorithms and protocols that cope with mobility, limited bandwidth, limited energy and intermittent connectivity代表性主题包括应对移动性、带宽受限、能量受限与连接断续的算法和协议。
• Other domains are mobile and location-dependent applications and services, wireless communication techniques, and data management in mobile environments其他领域有移动与位置相关的应用与服务、无线通信技术，以及移动环境中的数据管理。
• It also reports integration of wired and mobile wireless systems, measurement and performance characterisation of wireless systems, and architectures that support mobility services该刊还报道有线与移动无线系统的集成、无线系统的测量与性能刻画，以及支撑移动服务的体系结构。
• Further areas include wearable computing, body-area networks, vehicular and under-water networks, mobile wireless sensing, and security and privacy in wireless and mobile environments其他方向还包括可穿戴计算、体域网络、车载与水下网络、移动无线感知，以及无线与移动环境中的安全与隐私。
• Emerging domains such as smart grids, the Internet of Things and social media also fall within its remit智能电网、物联网与社交媒体等新兴领域也在其报道范围之内。

History

• GetMobile began in 1997 as the Mobile Computing and Communications Review, known as MC2R, the ACM SIGMOBILE quarterly that served both as a newsletter and as a journal of peer-reviewed research on mobile computing and wireless networking该刊于 1997 年以（Mobile Computing and Communications Review，简称 MC2R）创刊，是（ACM SIGMOBILE）的季刊，既作通讯，也作移动计算与无线网络同行评审研究的期刊。
• It was relaunched as GetMobile with the October 2014 issue, volume 18 number 4, keeping the earlier volume numbering, and volume 19 opened in 2015该刊随 2014 年 10 月出版的第 18 卷第 4 期更名为 GetMobile，并沿用原有卷号，第 19 卷自 2015 年起。^[1]
• The publisher is the Association for Computing Machinery in New York, acting on behalf of ACM SIGMOBILE出版方为位于纽约的（Association for Computing Machinery），代表（ACM SIGMOBILE）出版。
• It is issued four times a year with a controlled distribution to SIGMOBILE members该刊每年出版四期，面向（SIGMOBILE）会员定向发行。
• Its Journal Impact Factor rose from 1.2 in 2024 to 8.9 in 2025, an unusually steep jump for a title indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index其影响因子由 2024 年的 1.2 升至 2025 年的 8.9，对于一本被（Emerging Sources Citation Index）收录的刊物而言，这一升幅异常陡峭。
• The title has always mixed refereed and invited journal-style articles with news items, conference and standards reports and calls for papers该刊始终兼收经评审与约稿的期刊式文章，以及简讯、会议与标准报告和征稿启事。

Editors

• Landon Cox of Microsoft Research is the editor-in-chief主编为（Microsoft Research）的（Landon Cox）。
• Eyal de Lara of the University of Toronto was the founding editor-in-chief who led the creation of GetMobile, and he received the SIGMOBILE Distinguished Service Award in 2020 for that work创刊主编为（University of Toronto）的（Eyal de Lara），他主持了（GetMobile）的创办，并因这一工作获得 2020 年（SIGMOBILE）杰出服务奖。
• Donna Paris serves as managing editor and April Mosqus as the ACM SIGMOBILE programme director supporting the magazine执行编辑为（Donna Paris），（April Mosqus）任（ACM SIGMOBILE）项目主任，为刊物提供支持。
• Senior advisors include Victor Bahl of Microsoft Research, Suman Banerjee of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Srikanth Krishnamurthy of the University of California Riverside, Mani Srivastava of the University of California Los Angeles and Nitin Vaidya of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign资深顾问包括（Microsoft Research）的（Victor Bahl）、（University of Wisconsin-Madison）的（Suman Banerjee）、（University of California Riverside）的（Srikanth Krishnamurthy）、（University of California Los Angeles）的（Mani Srivastava）与（University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign）的（Nitin Vaidya）。
• The magazine is organised into departments covering mobile platforms, education, experimental methods, makers, standards, arm's length topics, almost unpublishable results and retrospectives刊物按专栏组织，涵盖移动平台、教育、实验方法、创客、标准、跨领域议题、几近不可发表的结果与回顾。
• Contributions are limited to about 3,000 words and are proposed first in an abstract of at most 500 words sent to the relevant department editor or to the editor-in-chief来稿篇幅约限于 3000 词，须先提交不超过 500 词的摘要至相应专栏编辑或主编。