Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Control and Systems Engineering journal rankings 2016
130 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering has 130 ranked journals in 2016. The median journal has an OJR of 1.00, level with the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2015; Q1 starts at OJR 1.88. The top three are IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Automatica, and The International Journal of Robotics Research.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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 Engineering498
- Mechanical Engineering349
- Biomedical Engineering257
- Civil and Structural Engineering232
- Aerospace Engineering177
- Control and Systems Engineering130
- Mechanics of Materials124
- Computational Mechanics105
- Building and Construction82
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering81
- Ocean Engineering67
- Media Technology31
130 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.98Q1 | 8.46 1.33 up from 2015 | 478 | 13% | $2,645 | ||
2AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.05Q1 | 7.42 0.67 up from 2015 | 1,283 | 43% | $3,760 | ||
3The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.63Q1 | 6.52 1.34 down from 2015 | 319 | 13% | $4,400 | ||
4IEEE Transactions on CyberneticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.83Q1 | 8.28 1.04 up from 2015 | 837 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
5IEEE Transactions on Industrial InformaticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.61Q1 | 8.86 0.47 up from 2015 | 539 | 18% | $2,645 | ||
6Transportation Research Part C Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.87Q1 | 4.90 0.13 up from 2015 | 650 | 30% | $4,040 | ||
7IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.86Q1 | 4.99 0.70 up from 2015 | 1,428 | 26% | $2,645 | ||
8IEEE Transactions on Control Systems TechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.41Q1 | 5.00 0.61 up from 2015 | 675 | 23% | $2,645 | ||
9International Journal of Critical Infrastructure ProtectionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.84Q1 | 3.40 0.18 up from 2015 | 73 | 18% | $2,490 | ||
10Annual Reviews in ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.80Q1 | 3.40 1.37 down from 2015 | 87 | 38% | $3,940 | ||
11Nonlinear Analysis Hybrid SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.63Q1 | 4.25 0.26 down from 2015 | 123 | 32% | $3,570 | ||
12Systems & Control LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.55Q1 | 3.66 0.03 up from 2015 | 431 | 32% | $2,910 | ||
13International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear ControlWiley · United Kingdom | 3.54Q1 | 3.99 1.04 up from 2015 | 510 | 21% | $4,270 | ||
14ISA TransactionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.45Q1 | 4.30 0.55 up from 2015 | 546 | 8% | $4,150 | ||
15IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.44Q1 | 3.92 0.11 down from 2015 | 467 | 11% | $2,645 | ||
16IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.43Q1 | 4.43 0.44 up from 2015 | 513 | 13% | $2,645 | ||
17Journal of Process ControlElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.29Q1 | 3.67no change | 454 | 23% | $3,700 | ||
18IET Control Theory and ApplicationsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 3.15Q1 | 3.75 0.81 up from 2015 | 796 | 10% | $3,300 | ||
19Journal of the Franklin InstituteElsevier BV · United States | 3.12Q1 | 3.99 0.51 up from 2015 | 862 | 10% | $3,100 | ||
20IEEE/ASME Transactions on MechatronicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.06Q1 | 4.35 0.02 up from 2015 | 719 | 11% | $2,645 | ||
21Transportmetrica B Transport DynamicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 2.94 0.18 up from 2015 | 50 | 31% | — | ||
22European Journal of ControlElsevier BV · France | 2.75Q1 | 2.83 0.50 up from 2015 | 145 | 33% | $2,850 | ||
23Archives of Control SciencesOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 2.65Q1 | 4.48 2.65 up from 2015 | 91 | 100% | — | ||
24Control Engineering PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 2.96 0.01 up from 2015 | 528 | 23% | $3,010 | ||
25Computers & Chemical EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.50Q1 | 3.81 0.69 up from 2015 | 717 | 31% | $4,050 | ||
26International Journal of ControlTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 2.45 0.28 down from 2015 | 703 | 17% | — | ||
27MechatronicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.49Q1 | 3.03 0.42 down from 2015 | 371 | 9% | $2,940 | ||
28Mechanism and Machine TheoryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.39Q1 | 3.28 0.87 up from 2015 | 528 | 24% | $4,060 | ||
29IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica SinicaInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.33Q1 | 2.32 1.54 up from 2015 | 117 | 12% | — | ||
30SIAM Journal on Control and OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 2.24Q1 | 1.93 0.53 down from 2015 | 475 | 52% | — | ||
31International Journal of Systems ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 2.12 0.28 up from 2015 | 694 | 11% | — | ||
32Journal of Intelligent Transportation SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.88Q1 | 1.88 0.11 down from 2015 | 107 | 22% | — | ||
33Journal of Control and DecisionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 2.17 0.76 up from 2015 | 35 | 5% | — | ||
34International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal ProcessingWiley · United States | 1.86Q2 | 2.09 0.41 up from 2015 | 255 | 33% | $3,460 | ||
35Multibody System DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.75Q2 | 2.33 0.44 up from 2015 | 149 | 37% | $4,190 | ||
36RoboticsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.73Q2 | 2.21 0.16 down from 2015 | 53 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
37Mechanical sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.71Q2 | 1.48 0.28 down from 2015 | 71 | 100% | $765 | ||
38Applied Mathematics and ComputationElsevier BV · United States | 1.70Q2 | 2.18 0.27 up from 2015 | 4,200 | 16% | $3,470 | ||
39Mathematics of Control Signals and SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.60Q2 | 1.56 0.36 down from 2015 | 53 | 32% | $3,190 | ||
40International Journal of Control Automation and SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 1.56Q2 | 2.33 0.43 up from 2015 | 468 | 2% | — | ||
41International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer ScienceOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 1.53Q2 | 1.90 0.23 down from 2015 | 207 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
42IET Intelligent Transport SystemsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.52Q2 | 1.85 0.37 up from 2015 | 252 | 13% | $2,790 | ||
43IFAC Proceedings VolumesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.50Q2 | 0.87 0.20 up from 2015 | 5,005 | — | — | ||
44PHM Society European ConferenceOAPublisher not listed | 1.49Q2 | 0.86 0.15 up from 2015 | 91 | 100% | — | ||
45IEEE Control SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.48Q2 | 1.44 0.50 up from 2015 | 427 | 7% | — | ||
46Journal of Mechanisms and RoboticsASM International · United States | 1.47Q2 | 1.80 0.31 down from 2015 | 288 | 10% | — | ||
47Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and ControlASM International · United States | 1.46Q2 | 1.74 0.20 up from 2015 | 521 | 14% | — | ||
48Assembly AutomationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.43Q2 | 1.59 0.21 down from 2015 | 125 | 9% | — | ||
49Systems Science & Control EngineeringOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.36Q2 | 1.60 0.89 down from 2015 | 146 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
50Journal of Vibration and ControlSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.34Q2 | 1.46 0.26 up from 2015 | 866 | 11% | $4,400 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Control and Systems Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering498
- Mechanical Engineering349
- Biomedical Engineering257
- Civil and Structural Engineering232
- Aerospace Engineering177
- Control and Systems Engineering130
- Mechanics of Materials124
- Computational Mechanics105
- Building and Construction82
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering81
- Ocean Engineering67
- Media Technology31
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality28
- Automotive Engineering25
- Architecture2
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
34 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 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 130
- Window papers (baseline)
- 124,863 -20.2% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.995 -19.7% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.