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Journal of Aerospace Information Systems
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Journal of Aerospace Information Systems

Published by: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

https://arc.aiaa.org/journal/jais

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 302 15 36 8
Engineering and Technology 1023 15 33 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 55
Documents by Best Scientists*: 111
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 46
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.6
Impact Factor: 1.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Aerospace Information Systems?

The foci of Journal of Aerospace Information Systems are Real-time computing, Artificial intelligence, Systems engineering, Simulation and Control theory. The research on Real-time computing featured in Journal of Aerospace Information Systems combines topics in other fields like Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast and Global Positioning System. Markov decision process and Computer vision are some topics wherein Artificial intelligence research discussed in Journal of Aerospace Information Systems have an impact.

Computer vision research is the primary subject tackled in it with a focus on Inertial measurement unit. Systems engineering study tackled is connected to the field of Aerospace. Journal of Aerospace Information Systems focuses on Simulation as well as the interrelated topic of Trajectory.

  • Real-time computing (15.16%)
  • Artificial intelligence (13.52%)
  • Systems engineering (10.04%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Analysis of flight data using clustering techniques for detecting abnormal operations (78 citations)
  • Autonomous flight in GPS-denied environments using monocular vision and inertial sensors (57 citations)
  • Discovering Anomalous Aviation Safety Events Using Scalable Data Mining Algorithms (50 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Aerospace Information Systems:

Systems engineering, Simulation, Anomaly detection, Data mining and Computer security are the main subjects of interest in the published articles. While Simulation is the focus of the most cited papers, it also provides insights into the studies of Fault injection, Cruise and Trajectory, Trajectory optimization. While work presented in the journal publications provide substantial information on Computer security, it also covers topics in Inertial navigation system, Model checking, Inertial measurement unit, Global Positioning System and Cyber-physical system.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Statistics
  • Programming language

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Journal of Aerospace Information Systems facilitates discussions on Artificial intelligence, Real-time computing, Reinforcement learning, Convolutional neural network and Aerospace engineering. The overlapping concepts between Computer vision and Stochastic gradient descent are the key highlights of Artificial intelligence study. In the journal, Model predictive control, Artificial neural network, Tracking (particle physics), Real-time operating system and Telemetry are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Real-time computing research.

The study of Tracking (particle physics) encompasses disciplines such as Extended Kalman filter, as well as fields such as Inertial measurement unit, all of which overlap with one another. The concepts on Reinforcement learning presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Control engineering, Particle swarm optimization, Markov decision process and Motion planning. Research on Flight simulator presented in it concerns the broader topic of Simulation.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Wind sensing and estimation using small fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles: A survey (4 citations)
  • Enabling Limited Resource-Bounded Disjunction in Scheduling (3 citations)
  • Anomaly Detection and Cause Analysis During Landing Approach Using Recurrent Neural Network (2 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Journal of Aerospace Information Systems (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ella M. Atkins (16 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Inseok Hwang (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Han-Lim Choi (11 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Steve Chien (9 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Ruxandra Mihaela Botez (9 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Journal of Aerospace Information Systems (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (24 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Georgia Institute of Technology (23 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Purdue University (23 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Ames Research Center (22 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Michigan (20 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 7.06% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 39.24% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.13% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 17.72% of all publications and 32.91% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • ADflow: An Open-Source Computational Fluid Dynamics Solver for Aerodynamic and Multidisciplinary Optimization

    Charles A. Mader;Gaetan K. W. Kenway;Anil Yildirim;Joaquim R. R. A. Martins

    (2020)
    121 Citations
  • Basilisk: A Flexible, Scalable and Modular Astrodynamics Simulation Framework

    Patrick W. Kenneally;Scott Piggott;Hanspeter Schaub

    (2020)
    32 Citations
  • Cooperative Pursuit by Multiple Pursuers of a Single Evader

    Meir Pachter;Alexander Von Moll;Eloy Garcia;David Casbeer

    (2020)
    23 Citations
  • Identification of Instantaneous Anomalies in General Aviation Operations Using Energy Metrics

    Tejas G. Puranik;Dimitri N. Mavris

    (2020)
    19 Citations
  • Probabilistic Risk-Based Operational Safety Bound for Rotary-Wing Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management

    Jueming Hu;Heinz Erzberger;Kai Goebel;Kai Goebel;Yongming Liu

    (2020)
    18 Citations
  • Data-Driven Approach Using Machine Learning for Real-Time Flight Path Optimization

    Junghyun Kim;Cedric Justin;Dimitri Mavris;Simon Briceno

    (2021)
    14 Citations
  • Automated Aerial Docking System Using Onboard Vision-Based Deep Learning

    (2022)
    13 Citations
  • Method for Calculating Aircraft Flight Trajectories in Presence of Winds

    (2021)
    12 Citations
  • Monte Carlo Tree Search Methods for the Earth-Observing Satellite Scheduling Problem

    Adam P. Herrmann;Hanspeter Schaub

    (2021)
    12 Citations

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