Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Control and Systems Engineering journal rankings 2017
128 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering has 128 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR fell 0.10 on 2016 to 0.89, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.78. The top three are IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, The International Journal of Robotics Research, and Automatica.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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 Engineering506
- Mechanical Engineering360
- Biomedical Engineering272
- Civil and Structural Engineering250
- Aerospace Engineering181
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials126
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction81
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering79
- Ocean Engineering71
- Automotive Engineering27
128 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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1IEEE Transactions on CyberneticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.30Q1 | 9.45 1.17 up from 2016 | 1,035 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
2The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.20Q1 | 7.71 1.19 up from 2016 | 245 | 35% | $4,400 | ||
3AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.96Q1 | 7.91 0.49 up from 2016 | 1,296 | 42% | $3,760 | ||
4IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.80Q1 | 6.49 1.97 down from 2016 | 583 | 12% | $2,645 | ||
5IEEE Transactions on Industrial InformaticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.91Q1 | 7.38 1.48 down from 2016 | 707 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
6Transportation Research Part C Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.57Q1 | 5.98 1.08 up from 2016 | 704 | 42% | $4,040 | ||
7IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.15Q1 | 5.11 0.12 up from 2016 | 1,648 | 25% | $2,645 | ||
8IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.96Q1 | 7.28 2.84 up from 2016 | 688 | 13% | $2,645 | ||
9IEEE Transactions on Control Systems TechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.74Q1 | 5.26 0.26 up from 2016 | 750 | 21% | $2,645 | ||
10Annual Reviews in ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.66Q1 | 3.93 0.53 up from 2016 | 109 | 36% | $3,940 | ||
11IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.55Q1 | 4.63 0.71 up from 2016 | 482 | 14% | $2,645 | ||
12Nonlinear Analysis Hybrid SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.09Q1 | 3.91 0.34 down from 2016 | 152 | 21% | $3,570 | ||
13International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear ControlWiley · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 4.11 0.12 up from 2016 | 538 | 20% | $4,270 | ||
14ISA TransactionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.98Q1 | 4.46 0.16 up from 2016 | 668 | 7% | $4,150 | ||
15International Journal of Critical Infrastructure ProtectionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.97Q1 | 2.83 0.56 down from 2016 | 78 | 13% | $2,490 | ||
16IET Control Theory and ApplicationsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 2.87Q1 | 4.31 0.57 up from 2016 | 901 | 12% | $3,300 | ||
17Systems & Control LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.79Q1 | 3.73 0.07 up from 2016 | 455 | 34% | $2,910 | ||
18IEEE/ASME Transactions on MechatronicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.61Q1 | 4.47 0.12 up from 2016 | 779 | 12% | $2,645 | ||
19Journal of Process ControlElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.59Q1 | 3.89 0.22 up from 2016 | 417 | 22% | $3,700 | ||
20Journal of Control and DecisionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.48Q1 | 2.42 0.25 up from 2016 | 55 | 4% | — | ||
21Journal of the Franklin InstituteElsevier BV · United States | 2.42Q1 | 3.81 0.17 down from 2016 | 896 | 9% | $3,100 | ||
22IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica SinicaInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.17Q1 | 2.85 0.53 up from 2016 | 250 | 10% | — | ||
23Control Engineering PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 3.37 0.41 up from 2016 | 551 | 22% | $3,010 | ||
24MechatronicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.14Q1 | 3.31 0.29 up from 2016 | 367 | 22% | $2,940 | ||
25Transportmetrica B Transport DynamicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 1.95 0.99 down from 2016 | 62 | 18% | — | ||
26International Journal of Systems ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 2.95 0.83 up from 2016 | 544 | 5% | — | ||
27Mechanism and Machine TheoryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 3.32 0.04 up from 2016 | 612 | 14% | $4,060 | ||
28European Journal of ControlElsevier BV · France | 1.95Q1 | 2.86 0.03 up from 2016 | 116 | 33% | $2,850 | ||
29Computers & Chemical EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.90Q1 | 3.41 0.40 down from 2016 | 797 | 34% | $4,050 | ||
30IFAC Proceedings VolumesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | —no 2016 value | 2,253 | — | — | ||
31Applied Mathematics and ComputationElsevier BV · United States | 1.81Q1 | 2.70 0.52 up from 2016 | 3,638 | 17% | $3,470 | ||
32IEEE Control SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.78Q1 | 1.75 0.31 up from 2016 | 433 | 5% | — | ||
33SIAM Journal on Control and OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.73Q2 | 2.13 0.20 up from 2016 | 436 | 46% | — | ||
34Archives of Control SciencesOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 1.67Q2 | 2.14 2.34 down from 2016 | 94 | 100% | — | ||
35International Journal of ControlTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.64Q2 | 2.32 0.13 down from 2016 | 745 | 18% | — | ||
36Assembly AutomationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.64Q2 | 2.43 0.84 up from 2016 | 122 | 6% | — | ||
37Journal of Intelligent Transportation SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.62Q2 | 2.84 0.96 up from 2016 | 84 | 26% | — | ||
38International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal ProcessingWiley · United States | 1.61Q2 | 2.45 0.36 up from 2016 | 246 | 11% | $3,460 | ||
39International Journal of Fuzzy SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.56Q2 | 2.82 0.67 up from 2016 | 285 | 11% | $3,890 | ||
40IET Intelligent Transport SystemsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.55Q2 | 2.36 0.51 up from 2016 | 236 | 15% | $2,790 | ||
41Multibody System DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.46Q2 | 2.30 0.04 down from 2016 | 149 | 30% | $4,190 | ||
42International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer ScienceOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 1.45Q2 | 2.54 0.64 up from 2016 | 207 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
43PHM Society European ConferenceOAPublisher not listed | 1.38Q2 | 0.53 0.32 down from 2016 | 164 | — | — | ||
44Journal of Vibration and ControlSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.31Q2 | 1.96 0.49 up from 2016 | 711 | 12% | $4,400 | ||
45ActuatorsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.30Q2 | 2.79 1.02 up from 2016 | 63 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
46Optimal Control Applications and MethodsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 1.35 0.14 down from 2016 | 171 | 15% | $4,020 | ||
47International Journal of Control Automation and SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 1.28Q2 | 2.45 0.12 up from 2016 | 516 | 3% | — | ||
48RoboticsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.25Q2 | 1.36 0.85 down from 2016 | 64 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
49Journal of Mechanisms and RoboticsASM International · United States | 1.23Q2 | 2.28 0.47 up from 2016 | 294 | 15% | — | ||
50Journal of Computational and Nonlinear DynamicsASM International · United States | 1.22Q2 | 2.10 0.51 up from 2016 | 357 | 6% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Control and Systems Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering506
- Mechanical Engineering360
- Biomedical Engineering272
- Civil and Structural Engineering250
- Aerospace Engineering181
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials126
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction81
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering79
- Ocean Engineering71
- Automotive Engineering27
- Media Technology27
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Architecture2
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2017. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
45 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 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 128
- Window papers (baseline)
- 104,705 -31.5% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.89 -19.0% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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.