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Drones MDPI
International Peer-Reviewed Open Access journal on Drones, UAV, UAS, RPAS by MDPI. IF 2025: 5.2; CiteScore 2025: 10.0
About Drones MDPI
Drones (ISSN 2504-446X) is an international open access, peer reviewed journal. The journal focuses on design and applications of drones, including unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), etc. Likewise, contributions based on unmanned water/underwater drones and unmanned ground vehicles are also welcomed. Drones was indexed in Scopus and SCIE, the first CiteScore is 5.4, will receive its first Impact Factor in 2022.
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Drones MDPI published a Special Issue titled Advanced Optimization Strategies for UAV Mission Planning and Operation with a deadline approaching on 1 December 2026.
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Drones MDPI published a highly cited paper titled A Lightweight Insulator Defect Detection Model Based on Drone Images by Yang Lu, Dahua Li, Dong Li, Xuan Li, and Qiang Gao and Xiao Yu.
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Drones MDPI published a highly cited paper titled The Use of Unoccupied Aerial Systems for Quantifying Shallow Coral Reef Restoration Success in Belize by Emily Adria Peterson, Lisa Carne, Jamani Balderamos, Victor Faux, and Steven R. Schill.
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Drones MDPI published a highly cited paper estimating the effective leaf area index of winter wheat using UAV point cloud data.
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Drones MDPI published a paper titled WRRT-DETR: Weather-Robust RT-DETR for Drone-View Object Detection in Adverse Weather by Bei Liu, Jiangliang Jin, Yihong Zhang, and Chen Sun.
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Drones MDPI published a paper titled Thermal Management for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Payloads: Mechanisms, Systems, and Applications by Ganapathi Pamula and Ashwin Ramachandran.
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Drones MDPI published a Review article titled Impact of Drone Disturbances on Wildlife by Saadia Afridi, Lucie Laporte-Devylder, Guy Maalouf, Jenna M. Kline, Samuel G. Penny, Kasper Hlebowicz, and Ulrik Schultz Lundquist.
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Drones MDPI published a paper titled Joint Task Offloading and Resource Allocation for Space–Air–Ground Collaborative Network by Chengli Mei, Cheng Gao, Heng Wang, Yanxia Xing, Ningyao Ju, and Bo Hu.
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Drones MDPI published a research paper titled UGV Parking Planning Based on Swarm Optimization and Improved CBS in High-Density Scenarios for Innovative Urban Mobility by Dequan Zeng, Haotian Chen, Yinquan Yu, Yiming Hu, Zhenwen Deng, Bo Leng, and Lu Xiong.
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