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An unofficial guide to IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Every T-RO paper since 2004 (volume 20), early access included: who publishes, on what, and with whom. Three ways in:

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Most cited T-RO papers

All time, by citation count in OpenAlex (2026-11-11). Google Scholar counts are higher.

  1. 1ORB-SLAM: A Versatile and Accurate Monocular SLAM System7,616citationsMur-Artal, Montiel, Tardos · 2015 · arXiv
  2. 2ORB-SLAM2: An Open-Source SLAM System for Monocular, Stereo, and RGB-D Cameras7,136citationsMur-Artal, Tardos · 2017 · arXiv
  3. 3ORB-SLAM3: An Accurate Open-Source Library for Visual, Visual–Inertial, and Multimap SLAM4,987citationsCampos et al. · 2021 · arXiv
  4. 4VINS-Mono: A Robust and Versatile Monocular Visual-Inertial State Estimator4,836citationsQin, Li, Shen · 2018 · arXiv · code
  5. 5Past, Present, and Future of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: Toward the Robust-Perception Age4,174citationsCadena et al. · 2016 · arXiv
  6. 6Coverage Control for Mobile Sensing Networks2,736citationsCortes et al. · 2004 · arXiv
  7. 7Improved Techniques for Grid Mapping With Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters2,493citationsGrisetti, Stachniss, Burgard · 2007
  8. 8Bags of Binary Words for Fast Place Recognition in Image Sequences1,948citationsGalvez-López, Tardos · 2012
  9. 9FAST-LIO2: Fast Direct LiDAR-Inertial Odometry1,942citationsXu et al. · 2022 · arXiv
  10. 10Tactile Sensing—From Humans to Humanoids1,890citationsDahiya et al. · 2010

Data: paper metadata from Crossref and OpenAlex for IEEE Transactions on Robotics · snapshot
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How this was made

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  • Papers are every research article Crossref lists for IEEE Transactions on Robotics (ISSN 1552-3098 / 1941-0468), from volume 20 (2004), when IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation split into T-RO and T-ASE, to today, including early-access articles not yet in a volume (snapshot ). Volume 20 issues 1–3 still carry the old T-RA ISSN in Crossref and are included. Journal front matter, editorials and errata are left out. The year is the volume year (volume 20 = 2004); early-access papers use their online date. Since 2024 T-RO has no issue numbers, so newer papers show volume and pages only.
  • Abstracts, institutions, author identities and keywords come from OpenAlex, which links each author's printed affiliation to a registered institution (ROR) with its country and type. Authors with an affiliation OpenAlex could not link are matched by institution name where possible; the rest are not counted for any institution.
  • Counting: a paper counts once for every institution with at least one author on it, so shares add up to more than 100%. The fractional count splits each paper equally across its authors, then across each author's institutions.
  • Research areas use the IEEE RAS keywords that authors pick for ICRA and IROS. All 305 keywords in the ICRA 2026 program are grouped by hand into 16 broad areas, following the themes of the IROS 2026 sessions (IROS 2026 publishes no per-paper keywords). Each of the 2,700+ ICRA 2026 papers gets the area its own keywords point to most (first keyword weighted highest). An T-RO paper then gets the area most common among the 15 ICRA 2026 papers closest to it in meaning (title and abstract). Per-paper T-RO keywords in this list are not public, so areas are an estimate; the keywords shown under each paper are OpenAlex's.
  • Topic search runs entirely in your browser: your text is embedded with bge-small-en-v1.5 (downloaded once, about 33 MB) and compared with every paper's title and abstract. Nothing you type is sent anywhere. If the model can't load, the page falls back to keyword matching on titles.
  • arXiv and code links ( papers on arXiv, with code) were found automatically: from OpenAlex, and by matching titles against every arXiv paper in cs.RO or mentioning T-RO (near-identical title plus at least one shared author surname). Code links are GitHub or GitLab URLs in the paper's abstract or its arXiv abstract and comments.
  • Industry vs academia: institutions OpenAlex types as companies are industry; universities, government labs, hospitals, nonprofits and research facilities are academia.
  • Authors are grouped by OpenAlex author ID. Two IDs with the same name and a shared institution are treated as one person. Download the institution table (CSV).
  • Spotted a wrong mapping? Corrections are welcome.
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