Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Control and Systems Engineering journal rankings 2012
102 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering has 102 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR fell 0.13 on 2011 to 1.35, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.47. The top three are Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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 Engineering395
- Mechanical Engineering279
- Biomedical Engineering201
- Civil and Structural Engineering182
- Aerospace Engineering163
- Mechanics of Materials108
- Control and Systems Engineering102
- Computational Mechanics95
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering68
- Building and Construction58
- Ocean Engineering50
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
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102 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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.53Q1 | 5.09 0.43 down from 2011 | 1,033 | 16% | $3,760 | ||
2IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.34Q1 | 7.24 0.28 down from 2011 | 357 | 2% | $2,645 | ||
3IEEE Transactions on Industrial InformaticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.02Q1 | 9.56 5.04 up from 2011 | 227 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
4IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.80Q1 | 4.41 0.17 up from 2011 | 1,453 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
5Annual Reviews in ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.11Q1 | 3.64 0.50 down from 2011 | 70 | 19% | $3,940 | ||
6The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.72Q1 | 6.55 0.80 up from 2011 | 305 | 29% | $4,400 | ||
7Journal of Process ControlElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.30Q1 | 3.41 0.13 down from 2011 | 386 | 12% | $3,700 | ||
8Transportation Research Part C Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.04Q1 | 2.68 0.09 down from 2011 | 271 | 14% | $4,040 | ||
9IEEE Transactions on Control Systems TechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.60Q1 | 2.65 0.87 down from 2011 | 571 | 8% | $2,645 | ||
10Systems & Control LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.36Q1 | 3.18 0.43 up from 2011 | 356 | 18% | $2,910 | ||
11IET Control Theory and ApplicationsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 4.32Q1 | 3.01 0.49 up from 2011 | 648 | 6% | $3,300 | ||
12Control Engineering PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.02Q1 | 3.16 0.12 down from 2011 | 373 | 7% | $3,010 | ||
13International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear ControlWiley · United Kingdom | 3.93Q1 | 2.39 0.31 up from 2011 | 424 | 12% | $4,270 | ||
14ISA TransactionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.51Q1 | 2.71 0.47 up from 2011 | 211 | 3% | $4,150 | ||
15SIAM Journal on Control and OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 3.43Q1 | 2.37 0.42 down from 2011 | 370 | 32% | — | ||
16International Journal of Critical Infrastructure ProtectionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.43Q1 | 1.85 0.39 down from 2011 | 52 | 4% | $2,490 | ||
17Multibody System DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.39Q1 | 2.81 0.88 up from 2011 | 137 | 21% | $4,190 | ||
18IEEE/ASME Transactions on MechatronicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.22Q1 | 3.47 0.65 down from 2011 | 472 | 11% | $2,645 | ||
19Mechanism and Machine TheoryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.13Q1 | 1.98 0.10 up from 2011 | 396 | 9% | $4,060 | ||
20International Journal of ControlTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.10Q1 | 1.57 0.43 down from 2011 | 530 | 10% | — | ||
21IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.09Q1 | 2.87 0.16 up from 2011 | 271 | 3% | $2,645 | ||
22Computers & Chemical EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.89Q1 | 2.69 0.01 up from 2011 | 654 | 12% | $4,050 | ||
23MechatronicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.84Q1 | 2.47 0.42 up from 2011 | 340 | 9% | $2,940 | ||
24IET Intelligent Transport SystemsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 2.72Q1 | 2.34 0.88 up from 2011 | 120 | 15% | $2,790 | ||
25Nonlinear Analysis Hybrid SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.58Q1 | 2.60 0.06 up from 2011 | 208 | 9% | $3,570 | ||
26Journal of the Franklin InstituteElsevier BV · United States | 2.47Q1 | 2.61 0.97 down from 2011 | 456 | 3% | $3,100 | ||
27International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal ProcessingWiley · United States | 2.43Q2 | 1.79 0.20 up from 2011 | 192 | 11% | $3,460 | ||
28Systems EngineeringWiley · United States | 2.39Q2 | 1.88 0.61 up from 2011 | 81 | 2% | $3,140 | ||
29Journal of Vibration and ControlSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.35Q2 | 4.55 3.10 up from 2011 | 559 | 2% | $4,400 | ||
30IEEE Control SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.25Q2 | 1.04 0.23 down from 2011 | 423 | 0% | — | ||
31Optimal Control Applications and MethodsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.17Q2 | 1.58 0.51 up from 2011 | 154 | 13% | $4,020 | ||
32Mechanical sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.12Q2 | 1.50 0.67 down from 2011 | 32 | 100% | $765 | ||
33International journal of innovative computing, information & controlKyushu Tokai University · Japan | 2.02Q2 | 2.04 0.72 up from 2011 | 156 | 0% | — | ||
34Modeling Identification and Control A Norwegian Research BulletinOANorwegian Society of Automatic Control · Norway | 2.02Q2 | 1.35 0.28 up from 2011 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
35International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer ScienceOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 2.00Q2 | 1.98 0.50 up from 2011 | 186 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
36International Journal of Control Automation and SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 1.98Q2 | 1.71 0.12 up from 2011 | 431 | 4% | — | ||
37Journal of Mechanisms and RoboticsASM International · United States | 1.93Q2 | 1.62 0.11 up from 2011 | 159 | 4% | — | ||
38Journal of Intelligent Transportation SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.93Q2 | 1.48 0.15 down from 2011 | 56 | 12% | — | ||
39Advances in Adaptive Data AnalysisWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.83Q2 | 1.20 0.61 down from 2011 | 82 | 0% | — | ||
40Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and ControlASM International · United States | 1.78Q2 | 1.30 0.17 down from 2011 | 335 | 6% | — | ||
41Journal of Computational and Nonlinear DynamicsASM International · United States | 1.77Q2 | 1.61 0.28 up from 2011 | 179 | 7% | — | ||
42International Journal of Systems ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.70Q2 | 1.71 0.30 up from 2011 | 661 | 5% | — | ||
43ESAIM Control Optimisation and Calculus of VariationsEDP Sciences · France | 1.67Q2 | 1.72 0.23 up from 2011 | 128 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
44Mathematics of Control Signals and SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.66Q2 | 1.46 0.66 up from 2011 | 36 | 35% | $3,190 | ||
45IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and InformationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.63Q2 | 1.05 0.33 up from 2011 | 95 | 2% | $3,718 | ||
46Applied Mathematics and ComputationElsevier BV · United States | 1.61Q2 | 1.90 0.11 up from 2011 | 3,002 | 10% | $3,470 | ||
47European Journal of ControlElsevier BV · France | 1.59Q2 | 1.13 0.09 down from 2011 | 201 | 4% | $2,850 | ||
48Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part I Journal of Systems and Control EngineeringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.55Q2 | 1.14 0.12 up from 2011 | 294 | 11% | $4,150 | ||
49Asian Journal of ControlWiley · Australia | 1.52Q2 | 1.88 0.34 up from 2011 | 405 | 17% | $2,850 | ||
50RoboticaCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.51Q2 | 0.97 0.33 down from 2011 | 342 | 26% | $3,550 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Control and Systems Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering395
- Mechanical Engineering279
- Biomedical Engineering201
- Civil and Structural Engineering182
- Aerospace Engineering163
- Mechanics of Materials108
- Control and Systems Engineering102
- Computational Mechanics95
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering68
- Building and Construction58
- Ocean Engineering50
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Automotive Engineering23
- Media Technology23
- Architecture1
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
36 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 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 102
- Window papers (baseline)
- 158,747 +14.0% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 1.35 +3.8% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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.