Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
 PUC | |
Former names | Personal Technologies |
|---|---|
| Discipline | Ubiquitous computing |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Peter James Thomas |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher | |
Publication history | 1997–present |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| Partly | |
| License | CC-BY-NC 2.5 |
| 1.616 | |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN |
1617-4909 (print) 1617-4917 (web) |
| Links | |
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1997. It covers original research on ubiquitous and pervasive computing, ambient intelligence, and handheld, wearable and mobile information devices, with a focus on user experience and interaction design issues. The journal publishes a mixture of issues themed on specific topics, or organised around scientific workshops, and original research papers.
Google Scholar reports the h-index as 36 (h-median:57). According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 1.616 (5-year IF 1.461) ranking it 23rd out of 78 journals (Q2) in the category "Telecommunications" and 39th out of 135 (Q2) in the category "Computer Science/Information Systems".[1] The current altmetrics.com score is 200. The average time between submission and the start of production averaged over 5 years is 157 working days.
PUC has a team of 10 Editors, 14 Associate Editors and an editorial board of 50 academic and commercial researchers. The editor-in-chief is Peter Thomas (Manifesto Group). The journal is published by Springer Science+Business Media.
Editorial Teams (August 2014)
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
- Peter Thomas Manifesto Group / Brunel University / The Leasing Foundation
EDITORS
- Stephen Brewster University of Glasgow, UK
- Anind K. Dey Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Hans-W. Gellersen Lancaster University, UK
- Lars Erik Holmquist Södertörn University, Sweden
- Matt Jones University of Wales, Swansea, UK
- Jofish Kaye, Yahoo Labs, US
- Chris Schmandt MIT Media Lab, US
- Rob Macredie Brunel University, UK
- Phil Stenton BBC, UK
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
- Alan Chamberlain, University of Nottingham, UK
- Albrecht Schmidt, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Alexandra Weilenmann, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Antti Oulasvirta, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany
- Ben Peyton-Jones, Exeter NHS Trust, UK
- Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
- Eija Kaasinen, VTT, Finland
- Emilia Barakova, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
- Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK
- Gillian Hayes, UC Irvine, USA
- Mark Dunlopm University of Glasgow, UK
- Mikael Wiberg, Umeå University, Sweden
- Yunchuan Sun, Beijing Normal University, China
- Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
EDITORIAL BOARD
- Victoria Bellotti, Xerox PARC, USA;
- Mark Billinghurst, University of Washington, USA;
- Staffan Bjork, Victoria Institute, Sweden;
- Luca Chittaro, Universita di Udine, Italy;
- Allison Druin, University of Maryland, USA;
- Mark Dunlop, University of Strathclyde, UK;
- Anne Ekholm, Nokia, Finland;
- Karamjit S. Gill, University of Wales, Newport, UK;
- David Goodman, Rutgers University, USA;
- Richard Harper, Microsoft, UK;
- Kori Inkpen, Simon Fraser University, Canada;
- Steve Jones, University of Waikato, New Zealand;
- James Katz, Bellcore, USA;
- Jay Kistler, DEC Systems Research Labs, USA;
- Richard Ling, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Telenor R&D, Norway;
- Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany;
- Peter Ljungstrand, Play Research Studio, Sweden;
- Patti Maes, MIT Media Laboratory, USA;
- Friedemann Mattern, ETH Zurich Inst Informationssyteme, Switzerland;
- Donald Norman, Nielsen Norman Group, USA;
- Kent L. Norman, University of Maryland, USA;
- Stephan Pink, University of Arizona, USA;
- Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center, Germany;
- Yasuyuki Sumi, Kyoto University, Japan;
- Harold Thimbleby, UCC, UK;
- C-K Toh, University of London, UK;
- Theo Ungerer, Universitat Augsburg Inst. Informatik, Germany;
- Sen Wang, Eastman Kodak Company, USA;
- Terry Winograd, Stanford University, USA;
- Steve Woolgar, Oxford University, UK;
- Shumin Zhai, IBM Almaden, Research Center, USA.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Academic OneFile, Academic Search, Compendex, Computer Science Index, Current Abstracts, Current Contents/Engineering, Computing and Technology, Digital Bibliography & Library Project, Ergonomics Abstracts, Inspec, io-port.net, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Scopus.
References
- ↑ Journal Citation Reports, 2013