Sensor Review

Sensor Review is a peer-reviewed title from Emerald Publishing, issued six times a year, and it deals with sensors themselves, the instruments built around them, and the applications those instruments serve.《传感器评论》由 Emerald Publishing 出版，每年六期，实行同行评议，内容涵盖传感器件本身、围绕器件搭建的仪器，以及这些仪器所服务的应用。

First published in 1981, it carries a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 1.9 and a five-year figure of 1.8, and it ranks 51st among 81 titles in instruments and instrumentation.该刊 1981 年创刊，2025 年影响因子为 1.9，五年影响因子 1.8，在仪器仪表类目的 81 种期刊中列第 51 位。

Scope

• The remit is set out in a single sentence about breadth, and that sentence is honoured literally, since each issue carries material from across the whole field.范围以一句强调广度的话交代清楚，这句话按字面执行，每一期都收进覆盖整个领域的稿件。
• Weight falls on detailed regular papers, and on reviews that identify the full range of sensors currently available for one specific application.重心落在详尽的常规论文，以及针对某一具体用途清点现有全部传感器的综述。
• Mechanical sensing begins with position, displacement and proximity, and runs through velocity, acceleration and vibration to force, torque, pressure and flow.机械传感从位置、位移与接近量起头，经速度与加速度、振动，延伸到力与力矩、压力与流量。
• Electrical and magnetic devices come next, among them resistive, inductive, capacitive and piezoelectric types, eddy-current and electromagnetic designs, photoelectric and thermoelectric elements.电磁类器件紧随其后，电阻式、电感式、电容式与压电式都在其中，涡流与电磁结构以及光电与热电元件同样在内。
• Temperature, infrared and humidity measurement forms a third cluster, the part of the field nearest to process control and to building services.温度、红外与湿度的测量构成第三组，也是与过程控制和楼宇设施最贴近的一块。
• Optical work stretches from electro-optical assemblies to fibre-optic sensing systems and onward to photonic devices, where light is manipulated rather than merely detected.光学方向从电光组件铺展到光纤传感系统，再推进到光子器件，后者对光做的是操控，探测只是其中一环。
• Biosensors appear beside wearable and implantable systems and immunosensors, a corner of the remit that touches clinical measurement and rehabilitation engineering.生物传感器与可穿戴系统、可植入系统及免疫传感器并列，这一角与临床测量和康复工程相接。
• Gas and chemical sensing is named outright, polymer sensors with it, which fits a title that has followed industrial safety and environmental monitoring for decades.气体与化学传感被直接点名，聚合物传感器一并列入，这与刊物数十年跟踪工业安全与环境监测的路子相符。
• Acoustic and ultrasonic devices hold a section of their own, and haptic sensors and devices follow, the pair that teleoperation and surgical rigs depend on.声学与超声器件自成一节，触觉传感器与触觉装置随后，遥操作与手术装置所依赖的正是这一对。
• Smart and intelligent sensors and systems take in the processing that sits inside the housing, from self-calibration through to decisions made on the device itself.智能传感器与智能系统把封装内部的处理一并纳入，从自校准到在器件上直接作出判断皆属此列。
• Nanosensors are listed with NEMS, MEMS and BioMEMS, so microfabricated devices stand beside the chemical and biological routes to miniaturisation.纳米传感器与 NEMS、MEMS 及 BioMEMS 同列，微加工器件因此与化学、生物两条小型化路线并置。
• Quantum sensors get a line to themselves, a late addition that admits devices whose precision rests on superposition and entanglement.量子传感器单独占一行，属于较晚加入的条目，纳入精度倚赖叠加与纠缠的器件。
• Sensor systems close the list, and the terms attached to them are data fusion, signal processing and signal conditioning, plus the interfacing that turns a transducer into an instrument.传感器系统收束这份清单，附在其后的是数据融合与信号调理，以及把换能器变成仪器的接口工程。
• Authors are asked to weigh the practical and social consequences of what they describe, and the readership is drawn as much from engineering management as from the laboratory.刊物请作者权衡所描述技术的实际后果与社会后果，读者既来自实验室，也来自工程管理一侧。
• The multidisciplinary label is no decoration, since a paper on a micromachined accelerometer and a report on a vision-guided assembly cell can sit in the same issue.多学科的标签并非装饰，一篇微机械加速度计论文与一份视觉引导装配单元的报道可以同处一期。

History

• Volume 1, number 1 appeared in 1981, and its opening pages carried a piece whose title described automated factories as something other than castles in the air.第 1 卷第 1 期于 1981 年面世，开篇那篇五页文章在标题里把自动化工厂说成可以落地的设想，基调由此定下。^[1]
• The first volume reads like a trade magazine, with articles on image scanners as the eyes of tomorrow's machines and on how voice and laser could raise distribution efficiency.首卷读来像一份行业杂志，其中有把图像扫描器比作明日机器之眼的文章，也有讨论语音与激光如何提升配送效率的报道。^[2]
• Machine vision dominates the middle of the decade, while speech technology takes a block of its own, with recognisers and synthesis covered across 1983 and 1984.机器视觉占据那十年的中段，语音技术则自成一块，1983 年与 1984 年的版面里识别器与语音合成都有涉及。^[3]
• Four issues made a volume in those years, a quarterly rhythm that ran without interruption from volume 1 through volume 38 in 2018.当年每卷四期，这种季刊节奏从第 1 卷一路延续到 2018 年的第 38 卷，中途未改。
• The imprint behind the early volumes was MCB University Press of Bradford, and the old archive still carries it in DOI suffixes that begin with eb.早期各卷的出版方是布拉德福德的 MCB University Press，旧档至今保留这一印记，其 DOI 后缀以 eb 开头。
• That house renamed itself Emerald in 2001, and the publishing office moved to Bingley in West Yorkshire, where it still answers at Howard House on Wagon Lane.该社于 2001 年更名 Emerald，出版办公室迁至西约克郡的宾利，如今仍在 Wagon Lane 的 Howard House 办公。
• Six issues a year replaced the quarterly run in 2019, when volume 39 shipped numbers 1 to 6, and the arrangement has held ever since.2019 年六期制取代季刊，第 39 卷一次排到第 6 期，此后一直沿用。
• One volume still covers twelve months, so volume 45 gathered the issues of 2025 and volume 46 opened in January 2026.每年仍为一卷，第 45 卷收拢 2025 年的各期，第 46 卷于 2026 年 1 月开卷。
• Article identifiers changed with the platform, and a 2026 paper now reads sr-06-2026-0654, with the month and year of submission folded into the suffix.文章标识随平台更替，2026 年的一篇写作 sr-06-2026-0654，投稿的月份与年份折在后缀里。
• Of roughly 3687 DOIs registered under the title, 3394 belong to the digitised backfile, which is what a forty-five year archive looks like once it goes online.该刊名下注册了约 3687 个 DOI，其中 3394 个属于数字化旧档，四十五年存量的规模由此可以想见。
• The impact factor moved from 1.583 in 2021 to 1.544, then 1.6 and 1.4, before returning to 1.9 in the 2025 release.影响因子从 2021 年的 1.583 走到 1.544，其后为 1.6 与 1.4，到 2025 年版回升至 1.9。
• About 84 papers were counted in the latest year, total citations stand near 1364, and a cited half-life of 7.2 years suggests the back list is still consulted.最近一个统计年度计得约 84 篇论文，总被引接近 1364 次，被引半衰期 7.2 年，说明旧卷仍有人翻阅。
• The title sits at the 37.7th percentile of its category with a JCI of 0.39, positions that place it in the lower middle of a crowded instrumentation field.该刊位于类目第 37.7 百分位，JCI 为 0.39，在拥挤的仪器仪表领域里处于中下位置。

Editors

• Kean C. Aw, professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Auckland, holds the editor-in-chief post.主编为奥克兰大学机械与机电工程系的教授 Kean C. Aw。
• He was born in Georgetown, Malaysia, took a master's degree at Brunel in 1998 and a doctorate in applied physics in 2002, and spent eleven years in industry before academia.他生于马来西亚乔治市，1998 年在布鲁内尔取得硕士学位，2002 年获应用物理学博士，进入学界之前在企业任职十一年。
• His own research runs through microsystems and through conducting polymers and metal oxides used as sensors and actuators, and reaches into biosensors, rehabilitation robotics and energy harvesters.他本人的研究贯穿微系统，以及用作敏感元件与执行器的导电聚合物与金属氧化物，并延伸到生物传感器、康复机器人与能量采集器。
• Beyond this title he serves as an associate editor of the International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, which keeps him close to the robotics sensing community.除本刊之外，他还担任 International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications 的副编辑，与机器人传感圈子保持往来。
• Every article passes a double-blind review, with author and referee identities withheld from each other, a policy stated plainly in the journal's own description.所有文章都走双盲评审，作者与审稿人彼此匿名，这一政策在刊物自述中写明。
• Before referees are approached, the editorial team screens each submission for fit, and papers judged out of scope can be declined without review.送审之前，编辑团队先判断来稿是否合于范围，判定越界的稿件可以不送审直接退回。
• Those that pass go to at least two specialists in the field, the minimum number of referees the journal commits to in print.通过初筛的稿件至少送两位同行专家，这是刊物公开承诺的审稿人下限。
• Reviews are commissioned rather than volunteered, which is why the scope statement calls them specially commissioned technology reviews and invites a proposal first.综述由编辑部约稿而非自由投递，故范围声明称其为特别委托的技术评论，并建议作者先提交选题设想。
• Research papers follow the publisher's house format, opening with a structured abstract that sets out purpose and approach, then findings and originality, before the text begins.研究论文沿用出版方的固定格式，正文之前先给结构式摘要，先交代目的与方法，再交代发现与原创性。
• Manuscripts enter through ScholarOne, at the address mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sr listed beside the journal's submission guidance.稿件经 ScholarOne 提交，入口为 mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sr，该地址列在刊物的投稿指引之旁。
• Enquiries about accepted papers go to the publishing office at Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, and not to the editor's Auckland laboratory.录用之后的往来信件寄往宾利 Howard House 的出版办公室，邮编 BD16 1WA，而非主编在奥克兰的实验室。