Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Control and Systems Engineering journal rankings 2004
72 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering has 72 ranked journals in 2004. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.09 against 1.00, up 0.03 on 2003. A journal needs OJR 2.46 to reach Q1. The top three are IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Automatica, and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. 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 2001–2003, the window the 2004 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 Engineering235
- Mechanical Engineering189
- Aerospace Engineering126
- Biomedical Engineering114
- Civil and Structural Engineering114
- Mechanics of Materials89
- Computational Mechanics74
- Control and Systems Engineering72
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering40
- Building and Construction35
- Ocean Engineering32
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality18
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72 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 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 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 2004. | Compare |
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1IEEE Transactions on Robotics and AutomationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 8.22Q1 | 4.65 1.46 up from 2003 | 297 | 2% | — | ||
2AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.08Q1 | 3.39 0.92 up from 2003 | 776 | 5% | $3,760 | ||
3IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.07Q1 | 3.62 1.02 up from 2003 | 963 | 7% | $2,645 | ||
4IEEE Control SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.04Q1 | 3.41 0.59 up from 2003 | 143 | 1% | — | ||
5IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.21Q1 | 3.07 0.03 up from 2003 | 226 | 3% | $2,645 | ||
6IEEE Transactions on Control Systems TechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.93Q1 | 2.44 0.53 up from 2003 | 270 | 7% | $2,645 | ||
7Transportation Research Part C Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.58Q1 | 1.90 0.76 up from 2003 | 82 | 8% | $4,040 | ||
8IEEE/ASME Transactions on MechatronicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.28Q1 | 2.20 0.53 up from 2003 | 168 | 2% | $2,645 | ||
9Journal of Process ControlElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.04Q1 | 1.99 0.45 up from 2003 | 245 | 3% | $3,700 | ||
10SIAM Journal on Control and OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 3.92Q1 | 2.04 0.21 up from 2003 | 283 | 20% | — | ||
11International Journal of ControlTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 1.65 0.34 up from 2003 | 431 | 8% | — | ||
12Systems & Control LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.72Q1 | 1.77 0.16 up from 2003 | 389 | 7% | $2,910 | ||
13The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.56Q1 | 1.87 0.38 up from 2003 | 247 | 10% | $4,400 | ||
14International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear ControlWiley · United Kingdom | 3.52Q1 | 1.75 0.72 up from 2003 | 234 | 22% | $4,270 | ||
15Computers & Chemical EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.75Q1 | 1.88 0.30 up from 2003 | 503 | 7% | $4,050 | ||
16IEE Proceedings - Control Theory and ApplicationsInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 2.73Q1 | 1.28 0.24 up from 2003 | 236 | 5% | — | ||
17Control Engineering PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 1.27 0.14 up from 2003 | 495 | 5% | $3,010 | ||
18Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and ControlASM International · United States | 2.46Q1 | 1.06 0.09 up from 2003 | 194 | 2% | — | ||
19Mathematics of Control Signals and SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.41Q2 | 1.00 0.46 down from 2003 | 40 | 0% | $3,190 | ||
20Annual Reviews in ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.17Q2 | 1.31 0.17 up from 2003 | 59 | 2% | $3,940 | ||
21ESAIM Control Optimisation and Calculus of VariationsEDP Sciences · France | 2.00Q2 | 1.23 0.34 up from 2003 | 129 | 98% | $0 listed | ||
22European Journal of ControlElsevier BV · France | 1.91Q2 | 0.94 0.16 down from 2003 | 169 | 3% | $2,850 | ||
23International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal ProcessingWiley · United States | 1.91Q2 | 1.37 0.50 up from 2003 | 150 | 20% | $3,460 | ||
24Mechanism and Machine TheoryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.72Q2 | 0.77 0.16 up from 2003 | 300 | 4% | $4,060 | ||
25Multibody System DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.56Q2 | 0.86 0.16 down from 2003 | 120 | 13% | $4,190 | ||
26Journal of Vibration and ControlSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.55Q2 | 0.57 0.40 down from 2003 | 212 | 4% | $4,400 | ||
27IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and InformationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.54Q2 | 1.05 0.18 up from 2003 | 90 | 0% | $3,718 | ||
28MechatronicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.52Q2 | 0.84 0.31 up from 2003 | 252 | 0% | $2,940 | ||
29Asian Journal of ControlWiley · Australia | 1.45Q2 | 0.77 0.32 up from 2003 | 157 | 12% | $2,850 | ||
30Journal of the Franklin InstituteElsevier BV · United States | 1.45Q2 | 0.53 0.21 down from 2003 | 126 | 0% | $3,100 | ||
31RoboticaCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.39Q2 | 0.88 0.18 up from 2003 | 208 | 7% | $3,550 | ||
32Measurement Science and TechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.34Q2 | 1.35 0.07 up from 2003 | 1,033 | 45% | $3,325 | ||
33IFAC Proceedings VolumesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.34Q2 | 0.51 0.14 up from 2003 | 5,880 | 4% | — | ||
34Journal of Robotic SystemsWiley · United States | 1.23Q2 | 0.74 0.04 down from 2003 | 180 | 8% | — | ||
35ISA TransactionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.21Q2 | 0.47 0.05 down from 2003 | 132 | 2% | $4,150 | ||
36Optimal Control Applications and MethodsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 0.67 0.36 up from 2003 | 68 | 10% | $4,020 | ||
37Mechanics of Structures and MachinesTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.08Q3 | 0.39 0.35 down from 2003 | 47 | — | — | ||
38IEEE Electrical Insulation MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.06Q3 | 1.07 0.33 up from 2003 | 105 | 1% | — | ||
39International Journal of Systems ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.00Q3 | 0.58 0.07 up from 2003 | 430 | 3% | — | ||
40Organization development journalUnited States | 0.87Q3 | 0.50 0.22 up from 2003 | 30 | 0% | — | ||
41International Journal of Control Automation and SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.85Q3 | 0.43 0.43 up from 2003 | 56 | 0% | — | ||
42Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part I Journal of Systems and Control EngineeringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.78Q3 | 0.38 0.01 down from 2003 | 215 | 8% | $4,150 | ||
43Archives of Control SciencesOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.67Q3 | 0.35 0.03 down from 2003 | 58 | 0% | — | ||
44Applied Mathematics and ComputationElsevier BV · United States | 0.54Q3 | 0.59 0.20 down from 2003 | 1,996 | 3% | $3,470 | ||
45Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and ControlSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.52Q3 | 0.35 0.15 up from 2003 | 82 | 15% | $4,150 | ||
46Mining Technology Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and MetallurgyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.49Q3 | 0.15 0.05 up from 2003 | 79 | 4% | $4,150 | ||
47Acta Automatica SinicaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.48Q3 | 0.19 0.19 up from 2003 | 43 | 0% | — | ||
48Industrial Robot the international journal of robotics research and applicationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.39Q3 | 0.22 0.02 down from 2003 | 807 | 0% | — | ||
49Measurement and ControlOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.37Q3 | 0.22 0.04 up from 2003 | 142 | 81% | $2,000 | ||
50JSME International Journal Series CJapan Society Mechanical Engineers · Japan | 0.36Q3 | 0.28no change | 488 | 97% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Control and Systems Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering235
- Mechanical Engineering189
- Aerospace Engineering126
- Biomedical Engineering114
- Civil and Structural Engineering114
- Mechanics of Materials89
- Computational Mechanics74
- Control and Systems Engineering72
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering40
- Building and Construction35
- Ocean Engineering32
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality18
- Media Technology11
- Automotive Engineering10
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
22 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 2001–2003, 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: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 72
- Window papers (baseline)
- 71,093 +87.9% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 1.09 +31.2% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 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.