Journal of Aerospace Information Systems

Journal of Aerospace Information Systems is a monthly journal of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, published from Reston, Virginia, and given to computing, information, networks and communication as they are used in aircraft, spacecraft and the airspace system. It opened in 2004 as the Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication and took its present name in 2013 without breaking the volume sequence. Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, which places it Q2 at 27 of 59 in ENGINEERING, AEROSPACE.《航空航天信息系统杂志》是美国航空航天学会的月刊，在弗吉尼亚州雷斯顿出版，主题为计算、信息、网络与通信在飞机、航天器与空域系统中的运用。该刊 2004 年以《航空航天计算、信息与通信杂志》创刊，2013 年改用现名，卷号没有中断。2025 年影响因子为 1.9，在 SCIE 工程宇航类目列 Q2，排名 27/59。

Scope

• The stated aim is to disseminate original archival papers that report new theoretical developments, novel applications and case studies in aerospace computing, information, and networks and communication systems, provided the work addresses problems specific to aerospace.宗旨页写明，刊物发表原创存档论文，报道航空航天计算、信息以及网络与通信系统方面的新理论、新应用与案例研究，前提是所处理的问题属于航空航天自身。
• A boundary clause keeps it from becoming a general signal-processing or communications outlet, since work on signal processing, electromagnetics, antenna theory and the basic hardware of network transmission falls outside the remit.一条排除条款挡住了一般信号处理与通信类稿件，信号处理、电磁学、天线理论以及网络传输的基础硬件，都划在范围之外。
• Avionics and airborne software carry the heaviest traffic, with papers on flight-critical code, partitioned and time-triggered architectures, integrated modular avionics and the data buses that connect line-replaceable units.航电与机载软件承担最多篇幅，飞行关键代码的验证，分区与时间触发架构，综合模块化航电，以及连接外场可更换单元的数据总线，都有专文。
• Verification and validation of embedded systems receive sustained attention, from model checking and theorem proving to coverage analysis, hardware-in-the-loop testing and the runtime monitors that guard adaptive software in flight.嵌入式系统的验证与确认长期占有一席之地，模型检验与定理证明，覆盖率分析，半实物仿真测试，以及为机上自适应软件把关的运行时监控器，都在讨论范围。
• Certification is treated as an engineering subject in its own right, with work on DO-178C and its supplements for tools, models and object code, on DO-254 for airborne electronic hardware, and on the assurance cases that regulators now expect to see.适航审定被当作独立的工程题目处理，涉及 DO-178C 与它为工具、模型及目标代码所设的补充文件，机载电子硬件适用的 DO-254，以及监管方如今要求提交的保证案例。
• Guidance, navigation and control enter through their information side, including sensor fusion, fault detection and isolation, navigation integrity and receiver autonomous integrity monitoring, relative navigation and the estimation filters that hold a trajectory estimate together.制导、导航与控制从信息侧进入刊物，传感器融合，故障检测与隔离，导航完好性与接收机自主完好性监测，相对导航，以及维持轨迹估计的滤波算法，都属于常见题目。
• Flight management and trajectory work covers four-dimensional trajectory optimisation, required navigation performance, onboard replanning after an upset and the coupling between a flight management computer and ground automation.飞行管理与轨迹方面覆盖四维轨迹优化，所需导航性能，异常之后的机上重规划，以及飞行管理计算机与地面自动化系统之间的耦合。
• Air traffic management is approached as an information problem, with trajectory-based operations, system-wide information management, ground delay programmes, arrival metering and the queueing models used to schedule departures into a constrained airspace.空中交通管理按信息问题处理，基于轨迹的运行，系统级信息管理，地面延误计划，到达间隔管理，以及为受限空域编排离场的排队模型，均有涉及。
• Communication, navigation and surveillance links draw papers on ADS-B and its integrity, controller-pilot datalink, satellite and air-ground networking, spectrum pressure and the surveillance coverage that remote towers depend upon.通信、导航与监视链路吸引来一批稿件，涉及 ADS-B 及其完好性，管制员与飞行员数据链，卫星与空地带宽，频谱压力，以及远程塔台所依赖的监视覆盖。
• Unmanned aircraft bring autonomy and human-automation interaction together, with detect-and-avoid logic, ground control station design, authority transitions between operator and vehicle, and the traffic services that separate small drones from manned flights.无人机把自主性与人机协同放在一起讨论，探测与规避逻辑，地面控制站设计，操作员与飞行器之间的权限移交，以及把小型无人机与有人驾驶飞行分开的交通服务，都是常见主题。
• Machine learning and data analytics are treated as aerospace instruments rather than as general methods, so a paper must show what the learned model does for a mission, a fleet or an airspace that conventional analysis could not deliver.机器学习与数据分析按航空航天工具对待，并不当作通用方法，稿件须说明学到的模型为某项任务、某个机队或某片空域带来了什么常规分析给不出的东西。
• System health management gathers diagnostics and prognostics, structural and component health monitoring, fault accommodation and the maintenance records that let an operator act on a predicted failure before it grounds an aircraft.系统健康管理汇集诊断与预测，结构与部件健康监测，故障容限，以及让运营方在预测故障造成停飞之前就采取行动的维修记录。
• Spacecraft appear through their information systems, among them mission operations software, telemetry processing, onboard autonomy for science targets, delay-tolerant networking and the ground segment that turns a downlink into a usable product.航天器从信息系统角度进入刊物，任务运行软件，遥测处理，面向科学目标的机上自主，容迟网络，以及把下行数据变成可用产品的地面段，都在其中。
• Systems engineering principles, safety and mission assurance sit inside the scope as well, so hazard analysis, requirements traceability and assurance arguments for complex programmes find a home here.系统工程原理、安全与任务保障同样在范围之内，危险分析，需求追溯，以及复杂型号的保证论证，都能在本刊找到位置。
• Formats run from full archival papers and Technical Notes to review articles, and the journal also prints reviews of books, conferences and social media as well as pieces on new models of aerospace education.体裁从完整存档论文与技术札记，延伸到综述文章，刊物另设书评、会议与社交媒体评介，以及讨论航空航天教育新模式的栏目。

History

• The title opened in 2004 as the Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication, a launch that gave AIAA a dedicated outlet for software, data and network research alongside its older airframe and propulsion journals.该刊 2004 年以《航空航天计算、信息与通信杂志》之名创刊，这次创刊让 AIAA 在既有的机体与推进类刊物之外，有了专门承载软件、数据与网络研究的出口。
• Monthly publication was the pattern from the start, and the fourth volume already reached issue 12 in 2007, so no quarterly or bimonthly phase appears anywhere in the record.月刊制从一开始就定下，第四卷在 2007 年已经编到第 12 期，记录里找不到季刊或双月刊的阶段。
• In 2013 the journal was renamed Journal of Aerospace Information Systems and given the ISSN pair 1940-3151 and 2327-3097, a change that widened the brief from the communication channel to the information systems built on top of it.2013 年刊物改用现名，并启用 1940-3151 与 2327-3097 这对新刊号，范围也从通信渠道本身扩到建立在通信之上的信息系统。
• AIAA's own journal list dates the title to 2004 and prints the earlier name in brackets, which makes the two names one journal with one archive rather than a predecessor and a successor.AIAA 的刊物一览把创刊年记为 2004 年，并把旧名放进括号，两个刊名因此是同一份刊物与同一份存档，不当作前后接替的两家。
• Volume numbers run straight through the rename. The old ISSN record stops at volume 9 for 2012, and the new record's earliest deposit is volume 13 for February 2016, which puts volume 10 in 2013.卷号跨过更名一路接续，旧刊号的记录止于 2012 年的第 9 卷，新刊号下最早的存档是 2016 年 2 月的第 13 卷，往前推三年，第 10 卷正是 2013 年。
• Volumes 10 to 12 are thin in Crossref, since few items from 2013 to 2015 carry the new number, and the visible run thickens again at volume 13, a gap in the metadata rather than in the printing.第 10 至 12 卷在 Crossref 里偏薄，2013 至 2015 年挂新刊号的条目不多，可见的记录从第 13 卷重新稠密起来，缺的是元数据，不是纸本。
• Publication has stayed with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics from the first issue, and the editorial office sits at the society's headquarters in Reston, Virginia.出版方自创刊号起就是美国航空航天学会，编辑部设在学会位于弗吉尼亚州雷斯顿的总部。
• Twelve issues a year have held through the recent volumes, with volumes 20 and 21 each carrying issues 1 to 12 and the 2025 volume closing at number 12.近年仍是每年 12 期，第 20 与第 21 卷都编到第 12 期，2025 年的一卷也在第 12 期收尾。
• Access is subscription based with an open access option, and the 2025 Journal Citation Reports put the gold share of its output at 1.25 per cent, a figure that fits a society journal with a small open access budget.访问以订阅为主，另设开放获取选项，2025 年期刊引证报告记下的金色开放获取比例为 1.25%，这个数字与一份开放获取预算有限的学会刊物相称。
• Clarivate indexes the journal in Science Citation Index Expanded under a single category, engineering and aerospace, where the 2025 percentile is 55.1 and the rank is 27 of 59.Clarivate 将该刊收入 SCIE，类目只有一个，即工程宇航，2025 年百分位 55.1，排名 27/59。
• Impact factors have moved unevenly. The 2021 figure was 1.185, 2022 brought 1.444, 2023 fell to 1.3, 2024 reached 1.5 and 2025 closed at 1.9, with a five-year value of 2.2 and a JCI of 0.53.影响因子的走势并不平顺，2021 年为 1.185，2022 年为 1.444，2023 年回落到 1.3，2024 年为 1.5，2025 年收于 1.9，五年影响因子 2.2，JCI 为 0.53。
• Output is modest for an aerospace title, about 77 papers in the 2025 count, with 1256 citations to the whole run and a cited half-life of 4.8 years, both signs of a fast-moving literature.对一份航空航天刊物来说，年发文量不大，2025 年统计约 77 篇，全刊累计被引 1256 次，引用半衰期 4.8 年，两项数字都指向一个更新很快的文献群。
• Several volumes open with a signed year-end review from the editor, a practice visible from the 2017 review in volume 15 through the 2025 review in volume 23, and those pieces read as a running account of what the journal has been accepting.若干卷以主编署名的年度综述开篇，从第 15 卷的 2017 年综述到第 23 卷的 2025 年综述都能看到这一做法，这些文字连起来读，就是一份刊物录用取向的流水账。
• The 2026 volume is the twenty-third, and the whole archive from 2004 can be reached through Aerospace Research Central under the old and the new title alike.2026 年出到第 23 卷，2004 年以来的全部存档在 Aerospace Research Central 上可以按新旧两个刊名调取。

Editors

• Ella Atkins is editor-in-chief. A professor of aerospace engineering, she gives Virginia Tech as her affiliation on the 2022 year-end review and spent many years before that at the University of Michigan.主编为（Ella Atkins），航空航天工程教授，2022 年年度综述上署的单位是弗吉尼亚理工学院（Virginia Tech），此前她在密歇根大学任教多年。
• Her own research runs on autonomous fault-tolerant flight management and unmanned aircraft, a background that matches the journal's steady pull towards autonomy, traffic integration and onboard decision making.她的研究方向是自主容错飞行管理与无人机，这一背景与刊物近年偏向自主性、交通融合与机上决策的取向相合。
• She has used the editor's pages for programmatic statements, among them a 2018 editorial on shepherding what it called a new era of integrated aerospace information systems.她借主编版面作过几次纲领性表态，其中 2018 年的一篇社论提出要引导所谓集成航空航天信息系统的新时代。
• Associate editors are appointed by technical area, and the roster shifts as fields move. Peng Wei, an AIAA Associate Fellow working on air traffic management and aircraft autonomy, is one of the current associate editors.副编辑按技术方向分派，名单随领域迁移而调整。（Peng Wei）是 AIAA 会士，研究空中交通管理与航空器自主性，现为副编辑之一。
• An associate editor owns the file, chooses reviewers and writes the recommendation, while the editor-in-chief takes the final decision and answers for the journal's standards.一篇稿件由一位副编辑负责，挑选评审人并给出处理建议，最终决定与刊物标准由主编承担。
• Review is single anonymised. Reviewers are not named to authors, while author names and affiliations travel with the manuscript, which keeps specialists in a small field willing to report plainly.评审采用单盲方式，评审人姓名不向作者披露，作者姓名与单位则随稿附上，小同行因此更愿意直言。
• AIAA's ethical standards bind the whole chain, and the editor-in-chief is charged with maintaining them for review and acceptance, including the handling of suspected duplicate submission.AIAA 的伦理标准约束整条流程，主编负责在评审与录用中维持这套标准，涉嫌重复投稿的情形也由主编处理。
• Manuscripts arrive through Aerospace Research Central in English only, and there is no pre-submission enquiry step, so a first decision follows the external reports rather than an editorial screening letter.稿件经 Aerospace Research Central 提交，只收英文，投稿前没有预审问询环节，首次决定依据外部评审意见作出，不靠一封编辑筛选信。
• Technical Notes give short results a route into print, and the editors judge them on whether the increment is genuinely new rather than on length alone.技术札记让短小的结果也能发表，编辑判断的标准是增量是否真的新，篇幅本身不作依据。
• Special issues are common. A 2016 collection on intelligent systems for space exploration filled an issue of volume 13, and guest editors are named alongside the regular editors on such occasions.专刊并不罕见，2016 年有一辑专号讨论空间探测智能系统，占满第 13 卷的一期，这类情况下客座编辑与常设编委一同署名。
• The board is drawn mostly from United States universities and laboratories, with members from Europe and Asia added as the traffic management and autonomy communities have grown.编委主要来自美国的高校与实验室，随着空管与自主性研究群体扩大，欧洲与亚洲的成员也陆续加入。