What you see there is ONE issue of the journal IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. This single issue is two volumes, over two hundred articles, comprising three THOUSAND pages.
I haven’t read the issue – it came in the mailbox today – so I can’t vouch for the quality of the articles. But, according to the overview article, their acceptance rate is down near 10%, which is pretty selective.
Even that being said, two hundred articles seems excessive. I don’t see how this is serving the community; you can’t read two hundred papers, nor skim two hundred abstracts to see what’s relevant – at least, not in a timely fashion. Heck, you can’t even fully search that, as some articles might use different terminology for the same thing (e.g., “multi-goal reinforcement learning” for “goal-conditioned reinforcement learning” or even “universal value function approximators” for essentially the same concept).
And the survey paper itself needs a little editing. The title appears to be a bit of a word salad, and the first bullet point duplicates words (“We have received 4,726 submissions have received last year.”) I just went over one of my own papers with a colleague, and we found similar errors, so I don’t want to sound too harsh, but I still think this needed a round of copyedits – and perhaps needs to be forked into several more specialized journals.
Or … hey … it DID arrive on April 1st. You don’t think …
-the Centaur
Pictured: the very real horse-choking tome that is the two volumes of the January 2024 edition of TIV, which is, as far as I can determine, not actually an April Fool’s prank, but just a journal that is fricking huge.
