Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Control and Systems Engineering journal rankings 2009
86 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering has 86 ranked journals in 2009. The median OJR rose 0.07 on 2008 to 1.30, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 3.19. The top three are Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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 Engineering339
- Mechanical Engineering248
- Biomedical Engineering161
- Aerospace Engineering153
- Civil and Structural Engineering152
- Mechanics of Materials106
- Control and Systems Engineering86
- Computational Mechanics83
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering51
- Building and Construction48
- Ocean Engineering40
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
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86 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.32Q1 | 4.62 0.28 up from 2008 | 928 | 14% | $3,760 | ||
2IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.66Q1 | 4.60 0.02 up from 2008 | 1,010 | 15% | $2,645 | ||
3Transportation Research Part C Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.45Q1 | 3.26 1.34 up from 2008 | 115 | 22% | $4,040 | ||
4The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.33Q1 | 5.36 0.25 up from 2008 | 207 | 21% | $4,400 | ||
5IEEE Transactions on Control Systems TechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.31Q1 | 3.65 0.08 up from 2008 | 400 | 8% | $2,645 | ||
6IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.01Q1 | 4.55 0.64 down from 2008 | 335 | 6% | $2,645 | ||
7Systems & Control LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.42Q1 | 2.71 0.07 up from 2008 | 344 | 14% | $2,910 | ||
8Annual Reviews in ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.02Q1 | 5.17 2.59 up from 2008 | 71 | 14% | $3,940 | ||
9IET Control Theory and ApplicationsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 4.97Q1 | 2.56 0.64 up from 2008 | 316 | 5% | $3,300 | ||
10Control Engineering PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.80Q1 | 2.92 0.19 up from 2008 | 339 | 9% | $3,010 | ||
11International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear ControlWiley · United Kingdom | 4.80Q1 | 2.35 0.35 up from 2008 | 323 | 14% | $4,270 | ||
12Journal of Process ControlElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.75Q1 | 3.16 0.85 up from 2008 | 283 | 7% | $3,700 | ||
13IEE Proceedings - Control Theory and ApplicationsInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 4.55Q1 | —no 2008 value | 103 | — | — | ||
14SIAM Journal on Control and OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 3.93Q1 | 2.58 0.18 up from 2008 | 328 | 26% | — | ||
15International Journal of ControlTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.83Q1 | 2.11 0.36 up from 2008 | 474 | 15% | — | ||
16IEEE Transactions on Industrial InformaticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.69Q1 | 3.09 0.23 up from 2008 | 113 | 12% | $2,645 | ||
17IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.66Q1 | 2.63 0.24 down from 2008 | 209 | 3% | $2,645 | ||
18IEEE/ASME Transactions on MechatronicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.63Q1 | 4.65 2.08 up from 2008 | 263 | 6% | $2,645 | ||
19Mechanism and Machine TheoryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.51Q1 | 1.61 0.03 up from 2008 | 370 | 6% | $4,060 | ||
20IEEE Control SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.50Q1 | 1.93 0.16 up from 2008 | 370 | 2% | — | ||
21Multibody System DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.39Q1 | 2.19 0.88 up from 2008 | 139 | 11% | $4,190 | ||
22Journal of Intelligent Transportation SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.19Q1 | 1.38 0.15 down from 2008 | 52 | 53% | — | ||
23Mathematics of Control Signals and SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.17Q2 | 1.73 0.02 down from 2008 | 37 | 30% | $3,190 | ||
24Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and ControlASM International · United States | 3.06Q2 | 1.77 0.18 up from 2008 | 227 | 7% | — | ||
25MechatronicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.05Q2 | 1.61 0.26 down from 2008 | 219 | 3% | $2,940 | ||
26Computers & Chemical EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.03Q2 | 2.53 0.57 up from 2008 | 603 | 15% | $4,050 | ||
27International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal ProcessingWiley · United States | 2.79Q2 | 1.29 0.30 down from 2008 | 190 | 14% | $3,460 | ||
28Systems EngineeringWiley · United States | 2.40Q2 | 1.20 0.55 down from 2008 | 95 | 1% | $3,140 | ||
29International Journal of Systems ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.17Q2 | 1.36 0.21 up from 2008 | 315 | 7% | — | ||
30ISA TransactionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.14Q2 | 1.45 0.56 up from 2008 | 175 | 3% | $4,150 | ||
31International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer ScienceOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 2.06Q2 | 1.52 0.17 up from 2008 | 103 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
32Nonlinear Analysis Hybrid SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.91Q2 | 1.74 0.81 up from 2008 | 155 | 9% | $3,570 | ||
33Journal of Vibration and ControlSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.87Q2 | 1.16 0.23 up from 2008 | 267 | 4% | $4,400 | ||
34International Journal of Advanced Robotic SystemsOASAGE Publishing · Croatia | 1.83Q2 | 1.17 0.57 down from 2008 | 151 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
35Journal of the Franklin InstituteElsevier BV · United States | 1.75Q2 | 1.65 0.62 up from 2008 | 215 | 1% | $3,100 | ||
36RoboticaCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.73Q2 | 1.37 0.06 up from 2008 | 254 | 20% | $3,550 | ||
37International journal of innovative computing, information & controlKyushu Tokai University · Japan | 1.61Q2 | 1.13 0.48 down from 2008 | 42 | 2% | — | ||
38Asian Journal of ControlWiley · Australia | 1.59Q2 | 0.97 0.25 up from 2008 | 234 | 6% | $2,850 | ||
39ESAIM Control Optimisation and Calculus of VariationsEDP Sciences · France | 1.48Q2 | 1.17 0.23 up from 2008 | 168 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
40Journal of Computational and Nonlinear DynamicsASM International · United States | 1.43Q2 | 1.05 0.01 up from 2008 | 137 | 4% | — | ||
41SICE Journal of Control Measurement and System IntegrationOATaylor & Francis · Japan | 1.39Q2 | 0.64no 2008 value | 64 | 68% | $1,235 | — | |
42Optimal Control Applications and MethodsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.35Q2 | 0.84 0.23 up from 2008 | 98 | 12% | $4,020 | ||
43Measurement Science and TechnologyIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 1.63 0.13 down from 2008 | 1,467 | 52% | $3,325 | ||
44Applied Mathematics and ComputationElsevier BV · United States | 1.28Q3 | 1.46 0.26 up from 2008 | 3,424 | 6% | $3,470 | ||
45Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part I Journal of Systems and Control EngineeringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.23Q3 | 0.81 0.08 up from 2008 | 246 | 9% | $4,150 | ||
46Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences Technical SciencesOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 1.22Q3 | 1.43 0.39 up from 2008 | 107 | 100% | $283 | ||
47International Journal of Modelling Identification and ControlInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.15Q3 | 1.05 0.40 up from 2008 | 194 | 2% | — | ||
48European Journal of ControlElsevier BV · France | 1.15Q3 | 1.15 0.43 up from 2008 | 314 | 14% | $2,850 | ||
49IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and InformationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.14Q3 | 0.51 0.07 down from 2008 | 82 | 5% | $3,718 | ||
50IET Intelligent Transport SystemsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.12Q3 | 0.84 0.01 down from 2008 | 67 | 23% | $2,790 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Control and Systems Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering339
- Mechanical Engineering248
- Biomedical Engineering161
- Aerospace Engineering153
- Civil and Structural Engineering152
- Mechanics of Materials106
- Control and Systems Engineering86
- Computational Mechanics83
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering51
- Building and Construction48
- Ocean Engineering40
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
- Automotive Engineering21
- Media Technology18
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
27 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 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 86
- Window papers (baseline)
- 139,312 +43.8% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 1.30 +5.3% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.