Internet of Things

Internet of Things, subtitled Engineering Cyber Physical Human Systems, is an Elsevier journal founded in 2018 that spans the theory, software, applications and societal consequences of the Internet of Things, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 7.1.《物联网》（Internet of Things）副题为（Engineering Cyber Physical Human Systems），是（Elsevier）于 2018 年创办的期刊，覆盖物联网的理论、软件、应用及其社会影响，2025 年影响因子为 7.1。

Scope

• Theory and fundamental research, including formal methods for abstractions, formalisms and semantics at the IoT layer, Artificial Intelligence of Things and explainable machine learning for IoT, security, reliability and privacy challenges, and high-level policy languages.理论与基础研究，包括物联网层的抽象、形式体系与语义的形式化方法、物联网人工智能与面向物联网的可解释机器学习、安全与可靠性及隐私难题，以及高层策略语言。
• Software development, technology and engineering, covering device software such as minimal operating systems, the cloud-to-thing continuum, secure communication from edge computing to the cloud, security by design, test beds, quality assurance, sensors and actuators, remote operations and digital twins.软件开发、技术与工程，涵盖极简操作系统等设备软件、云物连续体、从边缘计算到云端的安全通信、设计即安全、试验平台、质量保证、传感器与执行器、远程运营与数字孪生。
• Applications across energy and smart grids, transportation and critical infrastructures, manufacturing and advanced robotics, business and finance, urban life and smart buildings, behavioural sciences and sustainable digital transformation, e-learning, ecology and precision agriculture, medicine and healthcare with wearables, and nano IoT.应用领域，涵盖能源与智能电网、交通与关键基础设施、制造与先进机器人、商业与金融、城市生活与智能建筑、行为科学与可持续数字转型、在线学习、生态与精准农业、医药与可穿戴医疗，以及纳米物联网。
• Societal aspects of IoT, including social and political impacts, ethics and proposed laws and regulations, IoT governance, solutions for pandemics and disaster management and public safety, human-technology interaction at scale and emerging standards.物联网的社会面向，包括社会与政治影响、伦理与拟议法律法规、物联网治理、面向大流行与灾害管理与公共安全的方案、大规模的人技交互以及新兴标准。
• Article types comprise full research papers, survey papers, open software and data, tutorials and best practices, case studies and whitepapers.文章类型包括完整研究论文、综述论文、开放软件与数据、教程与最佳实践、案例研究与白皮书。
• Topical special issues are published on any aspect of IoT, with proposals submitted through the Elsevier special issue portal.该刊围绕物联网的各个方面出版专题特刊，选题提案经（Elsevier）专刊平台提交。
• The journal encourages cross collaboration between researchers, engineers and practitioners and places a high priority on timely publication.该刊鼓励研究者、工程师与从业者之间的跨领域协作，并把及时发表置于高度优先。

History

• The journal was founded in 2018 and published from Amsterdam by Elsevier B.V., with volumes 1 and 2 appearing in September 2018.该刊于 2018 年创刊，由（Elsevier B.V.）在阿姆斯特丹出版，第 1 卷与第 2 卷于 2018 年 9 月面世。^[1]
• The country of publication is the Netherlands.出版国别为荷兰。
• Articles are added to volumes on a continual basis, and each volume is completed after about three months.论文持续加入各卷，每卷约在三个月内完成。
• It is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, INSPEC, SJR and SNIP.该刊被（Science Citation Index Expanded）、（Scopus）、（INSPEC）、（SJR）与（SNIP）收录。
• Its Journal Impact Factor moved from 5.711 in 2022 to 7.6 in 2024 and 7.1 in 2025, with a 2025 CiteScore of 16.3 and median times of 5 days to first decision and 117 days to acceptance.其影响因子由 2022 年的 5.711 变为 2024 年的 7.6 与 2025 年的 7.1，2025 年 CiteScore 为 16.3，首次决定中位时间为 5 天、到录用中位时间为 117 天。
• It is a hybrid journal, free to authors who publish by subscription and open access for an article publishing charge of 2010 US dollars.该刊为混合型期刊，以订阅模式发表不收费，开放获取则需支付 2010 美元的文章处理费。

Editors

• The journal was founded by Fatos Xhafa of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona Tech, who remains editor in chief and works on parallel and distributed algorithms, massive data processing, optimization and IoT networking.该刊由西班牙（Polytechnic University of Catalonia）的（Fatos Xhafa）创办并任主编，其研究方向为并行与分布式算法、大规模数据处理、优化与物联网网络。
• Executive editors are Suayb Arslan of Bogazici University in Istanbul and Sukhpal Singh Gill of Queen Mary University of London.执行编辑为伊斯坦布尔（Bogazici University）的（Suayb Arslan）与（Queen Mary University of London）的（Sukhpal Singh Gill）。
• The international advisory board includes Solange Ghernaouti of the University of Lausanne, David de Roure of the University of Oxford, Yunchuan Sun of Beijing Normal University, Ian Thomas of Fujitsu RunMyProcess and Albert Zomaya of the University of Sydney.国际顾问委员会包括（University of Lausanne）的（Solange Ghernaouti）、（University of Oxford）的（David de Roure）、（Beijing Normal University）的（Yunchuan Sun）、（Fujitsu RunMyProcess）的（Ian Thomas）与（University of Sydney）的（Albert Zomaya）。
• The editorial board gathers specialists in edge and cloud computing, cybersecurity, wireless sensor networks, digital twins and smart agriculture from Europe, Asia, the Americas and Oceania.编委会汇集来自欧洲、亚洲、美洲与大洋洲的成员，专长覆盖边缘与云计算、网络安全、无线传感器网络、数字孪生与智慧农业。
• Members include Rolando Herrero of Northeastern University, Marilia Curado of the University of Coimbra, Carlos Kamienski of the Federal University of the ABC, Sokol Kosta of Aalborg University, Nhien-An Le-Khac of University College Dublin, Rahim Rahmani of Stockholm University and C.H. Wu of the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong.成员包括（Northeastern University）的（Rolando Herrero）、（University of Coimbra）的（Marilia Curado）、（Federal University of the ABC）的（Carlos Kamienski）、（Aalborg University）的（Sokol Kosta）、（University College Dublin）的（Nhien-An Le-Khac）、（Stockholm University）的（Rahim Rahmani）与（Hang Seng University of Hong Kong）的（C.H. Wu）。
• Original software publications may be submitted through a dedicated template and are charged 500 US dollars for open access, while software updates referring to them are made open access free of charge.原创软件论文可通过专用模板投稿，开放获取收费 500 美元；对其作出更新的软件更新论文则免费开放获取。