Sensors & Transducers

Volume 87 www.sensorsportal.com ISSN 1726-5479

Issue 1
January 2008
Editor-in-Chief: professor Sergey Y. Yurish, phone: +34 696067716, fax: +34 93 4011989,
e-mail: [email protected]
Editors for Western Europe Editor South America
Meijer, Gerard C.M., Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Costa-Felix, Rodrigo, Inmetro, Brazil
Ferrari, Vitorio, Universitá di Brescia, Italy
Editor for Eastern Europe
Editors for North America Sachenko, Anatoly, Ternopil State Economic University, Ukraine
Datskos, Panos G., Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Fabien, J. Josse, Marquette University, USA Editor for Asia
Katz, Evgeny, Clarkson University, USA Ohyama, Shinji, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Editorial Advisory Board

Abdul Rahim, Ruzairi, Universiti Teknologi, Malaysia Dickert, Franz L., Vienna University, Austria
Ahmad, Mohd Noor, Nothern University of Engineering, Malaysia Dieguez, Angel, University of Barcelona, Spain
Annamalai, Karthigeyan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Dimitropoulos, Panos, University of Thessaly, Greece
Science and Technology, Japan Ding Jian, Ning, Jiangsu University, China
Arcega, Francisco, University of Zaragoza, Spain Djordjevich, Alexandar, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Arguel, Philippe, CNRS, France Donato, Nicola, University of Messina, Italy
Ahn, Jae-Pyoung, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Donato, Patricio, Universidad de Mar del Plata, Argentina
Arndt, Michael, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany Dong, Feng, Tianjin University, China
Ascoli, Giorgio, George Mason University, USA Drljaca, Predrag, Instersema Sensoric SA, Switzerland
Atalay, Selcuk, Inonu University, Turkey Dubey, Venketesh, Bournemouth University, UK
Atghiaee, Ahmad, University of Tehran, Iran Enderle, Stefan, University of Ulm and KTB mechatronics GmbH,
Augutis, Vygantas, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Germany
Avachit, Patil Lalchand, North Maharashtra University, India Erdem, Gursan K. Arzum, Ege University, Turkey
Ayesh, Aladdin, De Montfort University, UK Erkmen, Aydan M., Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Bahreyni, Behraad, University of Manitoba, Canada Estelle, Patrice, Insa Rennes, France
Baoxian, Ye, Zhengzhou University, China Estrada, Horacio, University of North Carolina, USA
Barford, Lee, Agilent Laboratories, USA Faiz, Adil, INSA Lyon, France
Barlingay, Ravindra, RF Arrays Systems, India Fericean, Sorin, Balluff GmbH, Germany
Basu, Sukumar, Jadavpur University, India Fernandes, Joana M., University of Porto, Portugal
Beck, Stephen, University of Sheffield, UK Francioso, Luca, CNR-IMM Institute for Microelectronics and
Ben Bouzid, Sihem, Institut National de Recherche Scientifique, Tunisia Microsystems, Italy
Binnie, T. David, Napier University, UK Fu, Weiling, South-Western Hospital, Chongqing, China
Bischoff, Gerlinde, Inst. Analytical Chemistry, Germany Gaura, Elena, Coventry University, UK
Bodas, Dhananjay, IMTEK, Germany Geng, Yanfeng, China University of Petroleum, China
Borges Carval, Nuno, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Gole, James, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Bousbia-Salah, Mounir, University of Annaba, Algeria Gong, Hao, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bouvet, Marcel, CNRS – UPMC, France Gonzalez de la Rosa, Juan Jose, University of Cadiz, Spain
Brudzewski, Kazimierz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Granel, Annette, Goteborg University, Sweden
Cai, Chenxin, Nanjing Normal University, China Graff, Mason, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Cai, Qingyun, Hunan University, China Guan, Shan, Eastman Kodak, USA
Campanella, Luigi, University La Sapienza, Italy Guillet, Bruno, University of Caen, France
Carvalho, Vitor, Minho University, Portugal Guo, Zhen, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Cecelja, Franjo, Brunel University, London, UK Gupta, Narendra Kumar, Napier University, UK
Cerda Belmonte, Judith, Imperial College London, UK Hadjiloucas, Sillas, The University of Reading, UK
Chakrabarty, Chandan Kumar, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia Hashsham, Syed, Michigan State University, USA
Chakravorty, Dipankar, Association for the Cultivation of Science, India Hernandez, Alvaro, University of Alcala, Spain
Changhai, Ru, Harbin Engineering University, China Hernandez, Wilmar, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Chaudhari, Gajanan, Shri Shivaji Science College, India Homentcovschi, Dorel, SUNY Binghamton, USA
Chen, Rongshun, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Horstman, Tom, U.S. Automation Group, LLC, USA
Cheng, Kuo-Sheng, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Hsiai, Tzung (John), University of Southern California, USA
Chiriac, Horia, National Institute of Research and Development, Romania Huang, Jeng-Sheng, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
Chowdhuri, Arijit, University of Delhi, India Huang, Star, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Chung, Wen-Yaw, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan Huang, Wei, PSG Design Center, USA
Corres, Jesus, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain Hui, David, University of New Orleans, USA
Cortes, Camilo A., Universidad de La Salle, Colombia Jaffrezic-Renault, Nicole, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France
Courtois, Christian, Universite de Valenciennes, France Jaime Calvo-Galleg, Jaime, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Cusano, Andrea, University of Sannio, Italy James, Daniel, Griffith University, Australia
D'Amico, Arnaldo, Università di Tor Vergata, Italy Janting, Jakob, DELTA Danish Electronics, Denmark
De Stefano, Luca, Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystem, Italy Jiang, Liudi, University of Southampton, UK
Deshmukh, Kiran, Shri Shivaji Mahavidyalaya, Barshi, India Jiao, Zheng, Shanghai University, China
Kang, Moonho, Sunmoon University, Korea South John, Joachim, IMEC, Belgium
Kaniusas, Eugenijus, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Kalach, Andrew, Voronezh Institute of Ministry of Interior, Russia
Katake, Anup, Texas A&M University, USA Rodriguez, Angel, Universidad Politecnica de Cataluna, Spain
Kausel, Wilfried, University of Music, Vienna, Austria Rothberg, Steve, Loughborough University, UK
Kavasoglu, Nese, Mugla University, Turkey Robert, Michel, University Henri Poincare, France
Ke, Cathy, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland Rezazadeh, Ghader, Urmia University, Iran
Khan, Asif, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India Royo, Santiago, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Kim, Min Young, Koh Young Technology, Inc., Korea South Sadana, Ajit, University of Mississippi, USA
Ko, Sang Choon, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Sadeghian Marnani, Hamed, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Korea South Sandacci, Serghei, Sensor Technology Ltd., UK
Kockar, Hakan, Balikesir University, Turkey Sapozhnikova, Ksenia, D.I.Mendeleyev Institute for Metrology, Russia
Kotulska, Malgorzata, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Saxena, Vibha, Bhbha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
Kratz, Henrik, Uppsala University, Sweden Schneider, John K., Ultra-Scan Corporation, USA
Kumar, Arun, University of South Florida, USA Seif, Selemani, Alabama A & M University, USA
Kumar, Subodh, National Physical Laboratory, India Seifter, Achim, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Kung, Chih-Hsien, Chang-Jung Christian University, Taiwan Sengupta, Deepak, Advance Bio-Photonics, India
Lacnjevac, Caslav, University of Belgrade, Serbia Shearwood, Christopher, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Laurent, Francis, IMEC , Belgium Shin, Kyuho, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea
Lay-Ekuakille, Aime, University of Lecce, Italy Shmaliy, Yuriy, Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics,
Lee, Jang Myung, Pusan National University, Korea South Ukraine
Lee, Jun Su, Amkor Technology, Inc. South Korea Silva Girao, Pedro, Technical University of Lisbon Portugal
Lei, Hua, National Starch and Chemical Company, USA Slomovitz, Daniel, UTE, Uruguay
Li, Genxi, Nanjing University, China Smith, Martin, Open University, UK
Li, Hui, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Soleymanpour, Ahmad, Damghan Basic Science University, Iran
Li, Xian-Fang, Central South University, China Somani, Prakash R., Centre for Materials for Electronics Technol., India
Liang, Yuanchang, University of Washington, USA Srinivas, Talabattula, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Liawruangrath, Saisunee, Chiang Mai University, Thailand Srivastava, Arvind K., Northwestern University
Liew, Kim Meow, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Stefan-van Staden, Raluca-Ioana, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Lin, Hermann, National Kaohsiung University, Taiwan Sumriddetchka, Sarun, National Electronics and Computer Technology
Lin, Paul, Cleveland State University, USA Center, Thailand
Linderholm, Pontus, EPFL - Microsystems Laboratory, Switzerland Sun, Chengliang, Polytechnic University, Hong-Kong
Liu, Aihua, Michigan State University, USA Sun, Dongming, Jilin University, China
Liu Changgeng, Louisiana State University, USA Sun, Junhua, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Liu, Cheng-Hsien, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Sun, Zhiqiang, Central South University, China
Liu, Songqin, Southeast University, China Suri, C. Raman, Institute of Microbial Technology, India
Lodeiro, Carlos, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal Sysoev, Victor, Saratov State Technical University, Russia
Lorenzo, Maria Encarnacio, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Szewczyk, Roman, Industrial Research Institute for Automation and
Lukaszewicz, Jerzy Pawel, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland Measurement, Poland
Ma, Zhanfang, Northeast Normal University, China Tan, Ooi Kiang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,
Majstorovic, Vidosav, University of Belgrade, Serbia Tang, Dianping, Southwest University, China
Marquez, Alfredo, Centro de Investigacion en Materiales Avanzados, Tang, Jaw-Luen, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Mexico Thumbavanam Pad, Kartik, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Matay, Ladislav, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia Tsiantos, Vassilios, Technological Educational Institute of Kaval, Greece
Mathur, Prafull, National Physical Laboratory, India Tsigara, Anna, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece
Maurya, D.K., Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore Twomey, Karen, University College Cork, Ireland
Mekid, Samir, University of Manchester, UK Valente, Antonio, University, Vila Real, - U.T.A.D., Portugal
Melnyk, Ivan, Photon Control Inc., Canada Vaseashta, Ashok, Marshall University, USA
Mendes, Paulo, University of Minho, Portugal Vazques, Carmen, Carlos III University in Madrid, Spain
Mennell, Julie, Northumbria University, UK Vieira, Manuela, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal
Mi, Bin, Boston Scientific Corporation, USA Vigna, Benedetto, STMicroelectronics, Italy
Minas, Graca, University of Minho, Portugal Vrba, Radimir, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Moghavvemi, Mahmoud, University of Malaya, Malaysia Wandelt, Barbara, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
Mohammadi, Mohammad-Reza, University of Cambridge, UK Wang, Jiangping, Xi'an Shiyou University, China
Molina Flores, Esteban, Benemirita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Wang, Kedong, Beihang University, China
Mexico Wang, Liang, Advanced Micro Devices, USA
Moradi, Majid, University of Kerman, Iran Wang, Mi, University of Leeds, UK
Morello, Rosario, DIMET, University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria, Wang, Shinn-Fwu, Ching Yun University, Taiwan
Italy Wang, Wei-Chih, University of Washington, USA
Mounir, Ben Ali, University of Sousse, Tunisia Wang, Wensheng, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Mukhopadhyay, Subhas, Massey University, New Zealand Watson, Steven, Center for NanoSpace Technologies Inc., USA
Neelamegam, Periasamy, Sastra Deemed University, India Weiping, Yan, Dalian University of Technology, China
Neshkova, Milka, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Wells, Stephen, Southern Company Services, USA
Oberhammer, Joachim, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Wolkenberg, Andrzej, Institute of Electron Technology, Poland
Ould Lahoucin, University of Guelma, Algeria Woods, R. Clive, Louisiana State University, USA
Pamidighanta, Sayanu, Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), India Wu, DerHo, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology,
Pan, Jisheng, Institute of Materials Research & Engineering, Singapore Taiwan
Park, Joon-Shik, Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Korea South Wu, Zhaoyang, Hunan University, China
Penza, Michele, ENEA C.R., Italy Xiu Tao, Ge, Chuzhou University, China
Pereira, Jose Miguel, Instituto Politecnico de Setebal, Portugal Xu, Tao, University of California, Irvine, USA
Petsev, Dimiter, University of New Mexico, USA Yang, Dongfang, National Research Council, Canada
Pogacnik, Lea, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Yang, Wuqiang, The University of Manchester, UK
Post, Michael, National Research Council, Canada Ymeti, Aurel, University of Twente, Netherland
Prance, Robert, University of Sussex, UK Yu, Haihu, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Prasad, Ambika, Gulbarga University, India Yufera Garcia, Alberto, Seville University, Spain
Prateepasen, Asa, Kingmoungut's University of Technology, Thailand Zagnoni, Michele, University of Southampton, UK
Pullini, Daniele, Centro Ricerche FIAT, Italy Zeni, Luigi, Second University of Naples, Italy
Pumera, Martin, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan Zhong, Haoxiang, Henan Normal University, China
Radhakrishnan, S. National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India Zhang, Minglong, Shanghai University, China
Rajanna, K., Indian Institute of Science, India Zhang, Qintao, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Ramadan, Qasem, Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore Zhang, Weiping, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Rao, Basuthkar, Tata Inst. of Fundamental Research, India Zhang, Wenming, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Raoof, Kosai, Joseph Fourier University of Grenoble, France Zhou, Zhi-Gang, Tsinghua University, China
Reig, Candid, University of Valencia, Spain Zorzano, Luis, Universidad de La Rioja, Spain
Restivo, Maria Teresa, University of Porto, Portugal Zourob, Mohammed, University of Cambridge, UK
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Contents
Volume 87 www.sensorsportal.com ISSN 1726-5479
Issue 1
January 2008

Editorial

Impact Factor of Sensors Journals: What Does it Really Mean ?

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Sergey Y. Yurish………………………………………………………………………………………………

Research Articles

Minimising Relative Measurement Errors for Sensors Applications

Jerzy Kolanko, Karol Wiśniewski........................................................................................................ 1

Kinetics Analysis of Respiratory Epithelium by Virtual Instrumentation

Libor Hargaš, Dušan Koniar, Miroslav Hrianka, Anna Príkopová ....................................................... 11

Application of DICOM Standard in LabVIEW Environment

Dušan Koniar, Libor Hargaš, Miroslav Hrianka, Pavol Špánik ........................................................... 19

A Modified Design of a Thermocouple Based Digital Temperature Indicator With Opto-

Isolation
S. C. Bera and D. N. Kole................................................................................................................... 24

Pharmaceutical Pill Counting and Inspection Using a Capacitive Sensor

Ganesan Letchumanan, Simon Hawkins, Peter Rockett, Steve Sheard, Conrad Shail,
Kenneth Shail, Peter Dobson ............................................................................................................. 31

An Optoelectronic Sensor Configuration for the Determination of Age Related Indices

Using Blood Volume Pulse
Jayasree V. K, Shaija P. J, Manu P. John, P. Radhakrishnan........................................................... 39

An Embedded Based Digital Controller for Thermal Process

A. Lakshmi Sangeetha and A. Balaji Ganesh .................................................................................... 46

Magneto-Optic Over-Current Detection with Null Optical Tuning

Sarbani Chakraborty and Satish Chandra Bera ................................................................................. 52

Design and Development of a Multi-Degree of Freedom Dextrous Instrumented Robot

Gripper
Sagarika Pal, Subrata Chattopadhyay and Satya Ranjan Deb.......................................................... 63

Design and Testing of a Low Cost PID Controller Combined with Inverse Derivative Control
Action and Its Application in Voltage Control Systems of DC Generator
Subrata Chattopadhyay and Satish Chandra Bera ............................................................................ 74

Modeling & Simulation of Dynamic Voltage Restorer (DVR) for Enhancing Voltage Sag
Amrita Rai and A. K. Nadir ................................................................................................................. 85

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Impact Factor of Sensors Journals: What Does it Really Mean ?

Sergey Y. Yurish
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: + 34 696067716, fax: +34 93 4011989

The topic of Sensors Web Portal survey 2007 was ‘What is the most important factor at article
publication ?’ [1]. Most of our authors and readers assume that it is: 1) High impact factor of scientific
journal (45 %); 2) Rapid publication (24 %); 3) Number of readers who will read an article; 4) Easy
preparation instructions for articles (3 %); 5) Wide readers auditorium of journal (3 %) and 6) Other
(4 %). The survey results are shown in Figure 1.

What does it really mean a ‘high impact factor’ of

journals ? According to [2, 3] the impact factor
was devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of
the Institute for Scientific Information, now part
of Thomson, a large worldwide US-based
publisher. Impact factors are calculated each year
by Thomson Scientific for those journals which it
indexes, and the factors and indices are published
in Journal Citation Reports.

The impact factor for a journal is calculated based

on a 3-year period, and can be viewed as an
approximation of the average number of times
Fig. 1. Most important factors at article publication
published papers are cited in the two calendar (Sensors Web Portal survey 2007 [1]).
years following publication. For example, the
2007 impact factor for a journal would be
calculated as follows:
2007 Impact Factor = A/B,

where A is the number of times articles published in 2005-2006 were cited in tracked journals during
2007; B is the number of articles published in 2005-2006. Please note that the 2007 impact factor will
be actually published in 2008.

Today impact factors have a big, but controversial influence. New journals that are indexed from their
first published issue will receive an Impact Factor only after the completion of two years' indexing [3].
However, the impact factor now is not infallible measures of journal quality. It was introduced when
most of journals were published as “paper” journals. But today’s global Net and online “virtual”
realities introduce many changes.

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There is no any guarantee if an article published in a journal with a high impact factor will be read by
somebody. But a good feedback after publication as well as a big number of readers are the best
factors to measure a research importance and its quality for an author and research team. A high
impact factor does not mean reaching a wide reader auditorium and big number of readers for
particular article. Eugene Garfield warns about the “misuse in evaluating individuals" because there is
"a wide variation from article to article within a single journal" [4]. The citation index (citation impact)
[5] and h-index [6] also do not give an objective result and even provide misleading information about
a scientist's output because of many pioneer researches are pass ahead today’s reality and time. What
are the most cited articles ? As usually, it is some fundamental, tutorial type articles, state-of-the-art
reviews (as a good start point for research) and articles from common, popular research fields, which
contain results that can be improved today by other researchers. While many research articles remain
non-cited after 3 years, nearly all review articles receive at least one citation within three years of
publication [3]. Speaking about really revolution and innovative articles, many people read it, know
and think about it but not cited. It needs much more time for technical progress to improve something
in pioneer achievements.

The second problem consists in that many sensors and measurements related journals that have high
impact factors have also very long publication time (from 1.5 to 2.5 year in average). There are only
few of them, which have a quick time for publication. What readers have in a new issue of journal with
articles submitted two years ago ? Unfortunately, very often such results are outdated, authors now go
ahead in they research, but readers must wait again for a long time to know about a progress. This is
very bad situation for a modern technical progress especially in novel microelectronics technologies.
For well-timed dissemination of new and innovative results to the sensor community the rapid
publication is essential. Furthermore, in a journal, which has long lag time between submission and
publication, it might be impossible to cite articles within the three-year window. Indeed, for some
journals, the time between submission and publication can be over two years, which leaves less than a
year for citation. On the other hand, a longer temporal window would be slow to adjust to changes in
journal impact factors [3].

As it was marked by survey 2008 [1] participants in comments to this survey, “even though a high
impact factor is one of the prime considerations for journal article publishing, from the point of view
of dissemination of knowledge, the number of readers who read an article is fundamental and more
important”.

Due to a lot of sensors and measurements related journals that are also distributed online, today’s
reality needs more advanced metrics for determination of journal quality. Some fist steps were done in
this direction and so-called e-Impact Factor was proposed by Sensors & Transducer journal’s editorial
board. Theoretically, the e-Impact Factor (EIF) can be calculated on any time interval, for example,
per month, per year, overall, etc.:
e-Impact Factor = D/P,

where D is the number of downloaded articles during the particular time period (month, year, overall,
etc.); P is the number of all published articles in the journal in the particular time interval. It is possible
also to determine the EIF for each of journal issue per month, year, etc, as a division of the number
downloaded articles from this particular issue during the investigated period by the number of articles,
published in this issue. The minimal time interval is determined by a journal’s periodicity of
publication (many sensors journals are published normally on the monthly basis). Naturally, the
proposed metrics can be used for any scientific journals. Only the e-Impact Factor can take into
account the real minimal number (at least) of readers for particular article.

Some fist steps include also publications by some journals of lists for most downloaded articles. For
example, the Sensors & Transducers Journal (ISSN 1726-5479) published by IFSA
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(http://www.sensorsportal.com) has started to publish such lists in May 2006 and since this date
publishes every month the 25 Top List of Most Downloaded Articles [7]. All published lists are
available online and let observe some dynamic changes. Of course, there is not any problem to
calculate all downloaded articles per months, per year, overall, etc. or even per issue in order to
determine the EIF.

Of course, such metrics are possible only for journals with a possibility to download published articles
online as well as for peer review international Open Access online journals. Such journals have a big
advantage (one more advantage of Open Access online journals) for wide knowledge dissemination
because of it is free of charge and can provide much more readers and free subscribers.

Today in order to have a quick, timely publication, a good feedback after publication and big number
of readers, authors must obligatory consider online international peer review journals for publication of
new results along with publication in traditional ‘paper’ printed journals. Are you ready for today’s
reality ? Our 290 editorial board members from 47 countries will help you. Starting from 2007 we
have begun the EIF calculation on the annual basis and for 2007 it is 156.504. In addition, for the first
time in the World our authors will have a unique opportunity to see the current download statistics for
their articles, which let them observe a progress in a real time. Good luck !

References and Web Links

[1]. Sensors Polls and Survey at Sensors Web Portal: http://www.sensorsportal.com/HTML/Polls.htm
[2]. Impact Factor: http://www.starrepublic.org/encyclopedia/wikipedia/i/im/impact_factor.html
[3]. Impact Factor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor
[4]. Eugen Garfield, Der Impact Faktor und seine richtige Anwendung, Der Unfallchirurg (1998), 101
(6), pp. 413-414.
[5]. Citation Impact: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_impact
[6]. H-index: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index
[7]. 25 Top List of Most Downloaded Articles: www.sensorsportal.com/HTML/DIGEST/Top_articles.htm

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of physical, chemical sensors and biosensors. It publishes state-of-the-art reviews, regular research and
application specific papers, short notes, letters to Editor and sensors related books reviews as well as
academic, practical and commercial information of interest to its readership. Because it is an open access, peer
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Contributions are invited on all aspects of research, development and application of the science and technology
of sensors, transducers and sensor instrumentations. Topics include, but are not restricted to:

• Physical, chemical and biosensors;

• Digital, frequency, period, duty-cycle, time interval, PWM, pulse number output sensors and transducers;
• Theory, principles, effects, design, standardization and modeling;
• Smart sensors and systems;
• Sensor instrumentation;
• Virtual instruments;
• Sensors interfaces, buses and networks;
• Signal processing;
• Frequency (period, duty-cycle)-to-digital converters, ADC;
• Technologies and materials;
• Nanosensors;
• Microsystems;
• Applications.

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