Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Subfield ranking · 2002
Control and Systems Engineering journal rankings 2002
68 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering has 68 ranked journals in 2002. The median OJR rose 0.18 on 2001 to 1.01, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.84. The top three are IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, and Automatica.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2002. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Engineering (16)
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering215
- Mechanical Engineering174
- Aerospace Engineering115
- Civil and Structural Engineering109
- Biomedical Engineering105
- Mechanics of Materials85
- Computational Mechanics69
- Control and Systems Engineering68
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering36
- Ocean Engineering30
- Building and Construction29
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality16
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68 ranked journals
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2001. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1999–2001 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2002. | Compare |
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1IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.07Q1 | 3.25 1.20 up from 2001 | 221 | 5% | $2,645 | ||
2IEEE Transactions on Robotics and AutomationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.05Q1 | 2.17 0.68 up from 2001 | 301 | 18% | — | ||
3AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.96Q1 | 2.10 0.16 up from 2001 | 640 | 7% | $3,760 | ||
4IEEE Control SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.88Q1 | 2.34 0.38 up from 2001 | 138 | 2% | — | ||
5IEEE Transactions on Control Systems TechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.54Q1 | 1.99 0.76 up from 2001 | 249 | 6% | $2,645 | ||
6IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.93Q1 | 2.12 0.59 up from 2001 | 1,016 | 11% | $2,645 | ||
7Systems & Control LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.15Q1 | 1.44 0.09 up from 2001 | 344 | 7% | $2,910 | ||
8SIAM Journal on Control and OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 3.12Q1 | 1.96 0.38 up from 2001 | 299 | 9% | — | ||
9Journal of Process ControlElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.11Q1 | 1.70 0.11 up from 2001 | 149 | 5% | $3,700 | ||
10The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 1.54 0.35 up from 2001 | 239 | 8% | $4,400 | ||
11IEEE/ASME Transactions on MechatronicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.99Q1 | 1.47 0.46 up from 2001 | 149 | 7% | $2,645 | ||
12International Journal of ControlTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 1.13 0.20 up from 2001 | 434 | 9% | — | ||
13Transportation Research Part C Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 1.06 0.54 up from 2001 | 70 | 3% | $4,040 | ||
14International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear ControlWiley · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 1.14 0.36 up from 2001 | 288 | 23% | $4,270 | ||
15Mathematics of Control Signals and SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.24Q1 | 1.39 0.29 up from 2001 | 46 | 6% | $3,190 | ||
16Control Engineering PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 0.97 0.13 up from 2001 | 403 | 6% | $3,010 | ||
17Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and ControlASM International · United States | 1.84Q1 | 0.81 0.25 up from 2001 | 276 | 1% | — | ||
18IEE Proceedings - Control Theory and ApplicationsInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.79Q2 | 0.78 0.02 up from 2001 | 236 | 5% | — | ||
19ESAIM Control Optimisation and Calculus of VariationsEDP Sciences · France | 1.65Q2 | 1.08 0.04 down from 2001 | 79 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
20Annual Reviews in ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.52Q2 | 0.85 0.17 up from 2001 | 97 | 4% | $3,940 | ||
21Computers & Chemical EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.46Q2 | 1.07 0.37 up from 2001 | 825 | 7% | $4,050 | ||
22Mechanics of Structures and MachinesTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.41Q2 | 0.56 0.29 down from 2001 | 64 | 0% | — | ||
23Industrial Robot the international journal of robotics research and applicationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 0.24 0.48 down from 2001 | 764 | 0% | — | ||
24Journal of Vibration and ControlSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 0.52 0.17 up from 2001 | 171 | 2% | $4,400 | ||
25Multibody System DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.25Q2 | 0.72 0.02 up from 2001 | 77 | 2% | $4,190 | ||
26MechatronicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.16Q2 | 0.57 0.07 up from 2001 | 167 | 1% | $2,940 | ||
27Journal of Robotic SystemsWiley · United States | 1.15Q2 | 0.73 0.36 up from 2001 | 214 | 3% | — | ||
28Dynamics and ControlSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.13Q2 | 0.53 0.20 up from 2001 | 60 | — | — | ||
29International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal ProcessingWiley · United States | 1.12Q2 | 0.74 0.47 up from 2001 | 193 | 12% | $3,460 | ||
30RoboticaCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 0.75 0.52 up from 2001 | 225 | 12% | $3,550 | ||
31Asian Journal of ControlWiley · Australia | 1.11Q2 | 0.34 0.01 down from 2001 | 96 | 7% | $2,850 | ||
32Measurement Science and TechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 1.06 0.24 up from 2001 | 943 | 46% | $3,325 | ||
33Mechanism and Machine TheoryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.06Q2 | 0.48 0.10 up from 2001 | 264 | 4% | $4,060 | ||
34European Journal of ControlElsevier BV · France | 1.03Q2 | 0.50 0.07 up from 2001 | 150 | 6% | $2,850 | ||
35IFAC Proceedings VolumesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.00Q3 | 0.24 0.02 up from 2001 | 6,385 | 5% | — | ||
36IEEE Electrical Insulation MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 0.95Q3 | 0.72 0.32 up from 2001 | 107 | 1% | — | ||
37Modeling Identification and Control A Norwegian Research BulletinOANorwegian Society of Automatic Control · Norway | 0.95Q3 | 0.30 0.05 up from 2001 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
38Systems EngineeringWiley · United States | 0.86Q3 | 0.34 0.21 down from 2001 | 177 | 1% | $3,140 | ||
39International Journal of Systems ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.79Q3 | 0.41 0.01 up from 2001 | 511 | 6% | — | ||
40Journal of the Franklin InstituteElsevier BV · United States | 0.73Q3 | 0.59 0.20 up from 2001 | 191 | 5% | $3,100 | ||
41ISA TransactionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.67Q3 | 0.35 0.08 up from 2001 | 106 | 2% | $4,150 | ||
42Mining Technology Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and MetallurgyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.66Q3 | 0.32 0.20 up from 2001 | 60 | 4% | $4,150 | ||
43Applied Mathematics and ComputationElsevier BV · United States | 0.64Q3 | 0.68 0.14 up from 2001 | 575 | 4% | $3,470 | ||
44Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part I Journal of Systems and Control EngineeringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.63Q3 | 0.21 0.03 up from 2001 | 156 | 9% | $4,150 | ||
45INCOSE International SymposiumWiley · United States | 0.62Q3 | 0.28 0.02 up from 2001 | 504 | 1% | — | ||
46Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and ControlSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.60Q3 | 0.36 0.12 up from 2001 | 91 | 7% | $4,150 | ||
47at - AutomatisierungstechnikR. Oldenbourg Verlag · Germany | 0.48Q3 | 0.32 0.07 up from 2001 | 280 | 1% | $2,712 | ||
48IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and InformationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.48Q3 | 0.36 0.13 up from 2001 | 95 | 6% | $3,718 | ||
49Optimal Control Applications and MethodsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.39Q3 | 0.12 0.16 down from 2001 | 83 | 8% | $4,020 | ||
50CIM bulletinPublisher not listed | 0.34Q3 | 0.16 0.03 down from 2001 | 31 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Control and Systems Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering215
- Mechanical Engineering174
- Aerospace Engineering115
- Civil and Structural Engineering109
- Biomedical Engineering105
- Mechanics of Materials85
- Computational Mechanics69
- Control and Systems Engineering68
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering36
- Ocean Engineering30
- Building and Construction29
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality16
- Automotive Engineering11
- Media Technology10
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2002. Corpus-wide, 69.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
23 additional Control and Systems Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1999–2001, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2002. Publication window: 1999–2001. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 68
- Window papers (baseline)
- 48,030 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 1.01 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1999–2001 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 61 | 66 | 68 | 70 | 72 | 71 | 73 | 79 | 84 | 86 | 90 | 94 | 102 | 109 | 119 | 125 | 130 | 128 | 131 | 128 | 122 | 121 | 124 | 128 | 138 | 135 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 30,535 | 37,839 | 48,030 | 59,973 | 71,093 | 83,563 | 96,893 | 111,023 | 125,315 | 139,312 | 149,616 | 154,765 | 158,747 | 156,565 | 152,924 | 141,106 | 124,863 | 104,705 | 91,866 | 90,317 | 96,422 | 103,592 | 109,096 | 111,495 | 112,219 | 118,416 | |
| Median OJR | 0.862 | 0.829 | 1.01 | 1.06 | 1.09 | 1.03 | 1.23 | 1.220 | 1.222 | 1.30 | 1.47 | 1.48 | 1.35 | 1.24 | 1.10 | 0.996 | 0.995 | 0.89 | 0.856 | 0.835 | 0.78 | 0.74 | 0.726 | 0.732 | 0.68 | 0.67 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.