Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Control and Systems Engineering journal rankings 2015
125 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering has 125 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR fell 0.11 on 2014 to 1.00, level with the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.13. The top three are The International Journal of Robotics Research, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and Automatica.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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 Engineering471
- Mechanical Engineering336
- Biomedical Engineering248
- Civil and Structural Engineering227
- Aerospace Engineering175
- Control and Systems Engineering125
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics99
- Building and Construction78
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering78
- Ocean Engineering68
- Media Technology29
125 ranked journals
Filters
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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.98Q1 | 7.87 0.63 up from 2014 | 293 | 22% | $4,400 | ||
2IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.91Q1 | 7.13 0.98 down from 2014 | 426 | 22% | $2,645 | ||
3AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.19Q1 | 6.75 0.17 up from 2014 | 1,260 | 29% | $3,760 | ||
4Annual Reviews in ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.77Q1 | 4.77 1.11 down from 2014 | 80 | 37% | $3,940 | ||
5IEEE Transactions on Industrial InformaticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.61Q1 | 8.39 0.22 down from 2014 | 571 | 21% | $2,645 | ||
6IEEE Transactions on CyberneticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.78Q1 | 7.25 0.77 up from 2014 | 633 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
7IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.49Q1 | 4.29 0.69 down from 2014 | 1,226 | 29% | $2,645 | ||
8Transportation Research Part C Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.03Q1 | 4.76 0.47 up from 2014 | 482 | 21% | $4,040 | ||
9IEEE Transactions on Control Systems TechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.67Q1 | 4.39no change | 606 | 22% | $2,645 | ||
10Nonlinear Analysis Hybrid SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.53Q1 | 4.51 0.77 up from 2014 | 109 | 13% | $3,570 | ||
11Systems & Control LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.15Q1 | 3.63 0.19 down from 2014 | 456 | 26% | $2,910 | ||
12IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.83Q1 | 4.03 0.53 down from 2014 | 383 | 15% | $2,645 | ||
13ISA TransactionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.71Q1 | 3.75 0.35 down from 2014 | 420 | 9% | $4,150 | ||
14Transportmetrica B Transport DynamicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.68Q1 | 2.76 0.37 down from 2014 | 37 | 15% | — | ||
15Journal of Process ControlElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.64Q1 | 3.67 0.36 down from 2014 | 514 | 17% | $3,700 | ||
16International Journal of Critical Infrastructure ProtectionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.64Q1 | 3.22 0.54 up from 2014 | 67 | 20% | $2,490 | ||
17IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.60Q1 | 3.99 0.89 up from 2014 | 354 | 11% | $2,645 | ||
18IET Control Theory and ApplicationsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 3.44Q1 | 2.94 0.74 down from 2014 | 837 | 38% | $3,300 | ||
19International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear ControlWiley · United Kingdom | 3.43Q1 | 2.95 0.02 down from 2014 | 514 | 15% | $4,270 | ||
20IEEE/ASME Transactions on MechatronicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.28Q1 | 4.33 0.02 up from 2014 | 601 | 14% | $2,645 | ||
21Journal of the Franklin InstituteElsevier BV · United States | 3.10Q1 | 3.47 0.57 up from 2014 | 710 | 6% | $3,100 | ||
22Control Engineering PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.05Q1 | 2.95 0.01 down from 2014 | 501 | 21% | $3,010 | ||
23MechatronicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.02Q1 | 3.45 0.20 down from 2014 | 339 | 10% | $2,940 | ||
24International Journal of ControlTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 2.73 0.07 down from 2014 | 640 | 18% | — | ||
25Computers & Chemical EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.86Q1 | 3.12 0.42 down from 2014 | 692 | 31% | $4,050 | ||
26Mechanism and Machine TheoryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.61Q1 | 2.41 0.24 down from 2014 | 492 | 13% | $4,060 | ||
27Systems Science & Control EngineeringOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.56Q1 | 2.50 5.10 down from 2014 | 109 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
28Journal of Intelligent Transportation SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.49Q1 | 1.99 0.37 up from 2014 | 116 | 4% | — | ||
29SIAM Journal on Control and OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 2.39Q1 | 2.46 0.12 down from 2014 | 472 | 34% | — | ||
30Mathematics of Control Signals and SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 1.91 0.47 up from 2014 | 65 | 56% | $3,190 | ||
31International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer ScienceOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 2.21Q1 | 2.13 0.22 down from 2014 | 216 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
32RoboticsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.13Q1 | 2.36 0.80 up from 2014 | 35 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
33International Journal of Systems ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.06Q2 | 1.84 0.07 down from 2014 | 723 | 6% | — | ||
34European Journal of ControlElsevier BV · France | 1.99Q2 | 2.33 0.98 up from 2014 | 188 | 40% | $2,850 | ||
35International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal ProcessingWiley · United States | 1.99Q2 | 1.67 0.34 down from 2014 | 267 | 12% | $3,460 | ||
36Journal of Mechanisms and RoboticsASM International · United States | 1.93Q2 | 2.11 0.26 up from 2014 | 229 | 17% | — | ||
37PHM Society European ConferenceOAPublisher not listed | 1.77Q2 | 0.70 0.07 down from 2014 | 122 | — | — | ||
38Mechanical sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.74Q2 | 1.76 0.24 up from 2014 | 51 | 100% | $765 | ||
39Assembly AutomationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.74Q2 | 1.80 0.81 up from 2014 | 159 | 5% | — | ||
40International Journal of Control Automation and SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 1.62Q2 | 1.90 0.15 up from 2014 | 476 | 9% | — | ||
41Applied Mathematics and ComputationElsevier BV · United States | 1.61Q2 | 1.91 0.15 down from 2014 | 3,756 | 12% | $3,470 | ||
42Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and ControlASM International · United States | 1.61Q2 | 1.54 0.06 down from 2014 | 513 | 9% | — | ||
43Archives of Control SciencesOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 1.59Q2 | 1.83 1.17 up from 2014 | 89 | 100% | — | ||
44IET Intelligent Transport SystemsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.56Q2 | 1.48 0.26 down from 2014 | 233 | 33% | $2,790 | ||
45Multibody System DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.52Q2 | 1.89 0.39 up from 2014 | 149 | 35% | $4,190 | ||
46ESAIM Control Optimisation and Calculus of VariationsEDP Sciences · France | 1.50Q2 | 1.28 0.19 down from 2014 | 135 | 92% | $0 listed | ||
47IFAC Proceedings VolumesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.50Q2 | 0.67 0.07 up from 2014 | 8,119 | — | — | ||
48IEEE Control SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.47Q2 | 0.94 0.22 down from 2014 | 424 | 31% | — | ||
49Optimal Control Applications and MethodsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.42Q2 | 1.55 0.35 up from 2014 | 145 | 12% | $4,020 | ||
50Asian Journal of ControlWiley · Australia | 1.40Q2 | 1.37 0.75 down from 2014 | 583 | 13% | $2,850 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Control and Systems Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering471
- Mechanical Engineering336
- Biomedical Engineering248
- Civil and Structural Engineering227
- Aerospace Engineering175
- Control and Systems Engineering125
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics99
- Building and Construction78
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering78
- Ocean Engineering68
- Media Technology29
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Automotive Engineering24
- Architecture1
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
37 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 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 125
- Window papers (baseline)
- 141,106 -11.1% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.996 -26.0% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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.