Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Control and Systems Engineering journal rankings 2008
84 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering has 84 ranked journals in 2008. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.22 against 1.00, unchanged on 2007. A journal needs OJR 3.14 to reach Q1. The top three are IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, and IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2008. 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 2005–2007, the window the 2008 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 Engineering313
- Mechanical Engineering239
- Biomedical Engineering148
- Civil and Structural Engineering144
- Aerospace Engineering139
- Mechanics of Materials105
- Control and Systems Engineering84
- Computational Mechanics83
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering50
- Building and Construction44
- Ocean Engineering41
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
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84 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 2007. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2005–2007 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 2008. | Compare |
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1IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 9.34Q1 | 4.58 0.02 up from 2007 | 992 | 12% | $2,645 | ||
2AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.31Q1 | 4.34 0.72 up from 2007 | 800 | 12% | $3,760 | ||
3IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.11Q1 | 5.19 0.16 up from 2007 | 260 | 6% | $2,645 | ||
4IEEE Transactions on Control Systems TechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.03Q1 | 3.57 0.98 up from 2007 | 347 | 9% | $2,645 | ||
5Annual Reviews in ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.40Q1 | 2.58 0.64 down from 2007 | 71 | 5% | $3,940 | ||
6Transportation Research Part C Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.38Q1 | 1.92 0.32 down from 2007 | 100 | 14% | $4,040 | ||
7Systems & Control LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.06Q1 | 2.64 0.31 up from 2007 | 315 | 13% | $2,910 | ||
8The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.93Q1 | 5.10 1.40 up from 2007 | 208 | 16% | $4,400 | ||
9IET Control Theory and ApplicationsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 4.79Q1 | 1.92 1.15 up from 2007 | 206 | 6% | $3,300 | ||
10IEE Proceedings - Control Theory and ApplicationsInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 4.48Q1 | 2.72 0.77 up from 2007 | 196 | — | — | ||
11International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear ControlWiley · United Kingdom | 4.47Q1 | 2.00 0.19 up from 2007 | 266 | 13% | $4,270 | ||
12IEEE Transactions on Industrial InformaticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.10Q1 | 2.86 0.63 down from 2007 | 110 | 5% | $2,645 | ||
13Journal of Process ControlElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.03Q1 | 2.31 0.34 up from 2007 | 243 | 11% | $3,700 | ||
14Control Engineering PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.83Q1 | 2.73 0.63 up from 2007 | 378 | 9% | $3,010 | ||
15Mathematics of Control Signals and SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.56Q1 | 1.75 0.13 down from 2007 | 39 | 8% | $3,190 | ||
16Mechanism and Machine TheoryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.45Q1 | 1.58 0.57 up from 2007 | 344 | 8% | $4,060 | ||
17International Journal of ControlTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.45Q1 | 1.75 0.07 up from 2007 | 413 | 7% | — | ||
18SIAM Journal on Control and OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 3.36Q1 | 2.40 0.19 up from 2007 | 320 | 22% | — | ||
19International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal ProcessingWiley · United States | 3.23Q1 | 1.60 0.11 down from 2007 | 143 | 12% | $3,460 | ||
20MechatronicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.22Q1 | 1.87 0.41 up from 2007 | 180 | 5% | $2,940 | ||
21IEEE/ASME Transactions on MechatronicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.14Q1 | 2.56 0.55 up from 2007 | 279 | 11% | $2,645 | ||
22IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.13Q2 | 2.87 0.90 up from 2007 | 162 | 5% | $2,645 | ||
23Journal of Intelligent Transportation SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.63Q2 | 1.53 0.75 up from 2007 | 52 | 20% | — | ||
24Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and ControlASM International · United States | 2.60Q2 | 1.59 0.61 up from 2007 | 241 | 2% | — | ||
25IEEE Control SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.56Q2 | 1.78 0.67 up from 2007 | 375 | 3% | — | ||
26Multibody System DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.53Q2 | 1.31 0.08 down from 2007 | 148 | 11% | $4,190 | ||
27International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer ScienceOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 2.41Q2 | 1.35 0.40 down from 2007 | 52 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
28Computers & Chemical EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.29Q2 | 1.96 0.15 up from 2007 | 611 | 10% | $4,050 | ||
29International Journal of Advanced Robotic SystemsOASAGE Publishing · Croatia | 1.92Q2 | 1.74 0.13 up from 2007 | 138 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
30International Journal of Systems ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.79Q2 | 1.14 0.20 up from 2007 | 289 | 9% | — | ||
31Journal of Vibration and ControlSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.72Q2 | 0.93 0.02 up from 2007 | 253 | 8% | $4,400 | ||
32RoboticaCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.61Q2 | 1.30 0.24 up from 2007 | 273 | 15% | $3,550 | ||
33ESAIM Control Optimisation and Calculus of VariationsEDP Sciences · France | 1.57Q2 | 0.95 0.72 down from 2007 | 126 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
34ISA TransactionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.52Q2 | 0.89 0.25 up from 2007 | 164 | 5% | $4,150 | ||
35IET Intelligent Transport SystemsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.51Q2 | 0.84no 2007 value | 32 | 17% | $2,790 | — | |
36Optimal Control Applications and MethodsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.49Q2 | 0.61 0.37 down from 2007 | 82 | 15% | $4,020 | ||
37Asian Journal of ControlWiley · Australia | 1.40Q2 | 0.72 0.29 up from 2007 | 88 | 10% | $2,850 | ||
38Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part I Journal of Systems and Control EngineeringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.39Q2 | 0.73 0.08 up from 2007 | 199 | 13% | $4,150 | ||
39Nonlinear Analysis Hybrid SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.37Q2 | 0.93no 2007 value | 95 | 4% | $3,570 | — | |
40Journal of Computational and Nonlinear DynamicsASM International · United States | 1.37Q2 | 1.05 0.22 up from 2007 | 100 | 7% | — | ||
41Measurement Science and TechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.33Q2 | 1.76 0.14 up from 2007 | 1,356 | 50% | $3,325 | ||
42Journal of the Franklin InstituteElsevier BV · United States | 1.28Q2 | 1.04 0.33 up from 2007 | 211 | 2% | $3,100 | ||
43IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and InformationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.16Q3 | 0.58 0.04 up from 2007 | 130 | 0% | $3,718 | ||
44Journal of Robotic SystemsWiley · United States | 1.13Q3 | 1.00 0.26 up from 2007 | 76 | — | — | ||
45European Journal of ControlElsevier BV · France | 1.12Q3 | 0.72 0.03 down from 2007 | 393 | 6% | $2,850 | ||
46Organization development journalUnited States | 1.08Q3 | 0.46 0.61 down from 2007 | 41 | 0% | — | ||
47Applied Mathematics and ComputationElsevier BV · United States | 1.08Q3 | 1.19 0.15 up from 2007 | 3,555 | 4% | $3,470 | ||
48IFAC Proceedings VolumesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.01Q3 | 0.41 0.07 down from 2007 | 6,878 | 5% | — | ||
49International Journal of Modelling Identification and ControlInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.95Q3 | 0.64 0.26 up from 2007 | 76 | 7% | — | ||
50International Journal of Control Automation and SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.93Q3 | 0.67no change | 182 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Control and Systems Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering313
- Mechanical Engineering239
- Biomedical Engineering148
- Civil and Structural Engineering144
- Aerospace Engineering139
- Mechanics of Materials105
- Control and Systems Engineering84
- Computational Mechanics83
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering50
- Building and Construction44
- Ocean Engineering41
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
- Automotive Engineering16
- Media Technology16
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2008. Corpus-wide, 71.1% 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 2005–2007, 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: 2008. Publication window: 2005–2007. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 84
- Window papers (baseline)
- 125,315 +50.0% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 1.222 +19.1% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2005–2007 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.