Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Control and Systems Engineering journal rankings 2018
131 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering has 131 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.86, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.47. The top three are IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and The International Journal of Robotics Research.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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 Engineering518
- Mechanical Engineering367
- Biomedical Engineering281
- Civil and Structural Engineering252
- Aerospace Engineering180
- Control and Systems Engineering131
- Mechanics of Materials123
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction89
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering75
- Automotive Engineering30
131 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1IEEE Transactions on CyberneticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.41Q1 | 9.94 0.49 up from 2017 | 1,091 | 21% | $2,645 | ||
2IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.86Q1 | 7.52 1.04 up from 2017 | 645 | 21% | $2,645 | ||
3The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.84Q1 | 7.22 0.49 down from 2017 | 251 | 43% | $4,400 | ||
4Transportation Research Part C Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.56Q1 | 7.51 1.53 up from 2017 | 765 | 33% | $4,040 | ||
5AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.51Q1 | 7.74 0.18 down from 2017 | 1,408 | 37% | $3,760 | ||
6IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.21Q1 | 8.91 1.63 up from 2017 | 942 | 15% | $2,645 | ||
7IEEE Transactions on Industrial InformaticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.84Q1 | 8.37 0.99 up from 2017 | 1,045 | 24% | $2,645 | ||
8Annual Reviews in ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.82Q1 | 6.66 2.73 up from 2017 | 123 | 45% | $3,940 | ||
9IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.58Q1 | 5.98 0.87 up from 2017 | 1,660 | 36% | $2,645 | ||
10IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.49Q1 | 5.40 0.77 up from 2017 | 455 | 14% | $2,645 | ||
11IEEE Transactions on Control Systems TechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.95Q1 | 5.05 0.21 down from 2017 | 806 | 33% | $2,645 | ||
12Nonlinear Analysis Hybrid SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.95Q1 | 6.12 2.21 up from 2017 | 184 | 17% | $3,570 | ||
13IEEE/ASME Transactions on MechatronicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.71Q1 | 6.07 1.60 up from 2017 | 746 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
14IET Cyber-Physical Systems Theory & ApplicationsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 2.50Q1 | 4.71 0.07 up from 2017 | 45 | 100% | $2,420 | ||
15ISA TransactionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.44Q1 | 5.34 0.88 up from 2017 | 722 | 5% | $4,150 | ||
16International Journal of Critical Infrastructure ProtectionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.41Q1 | 2.94 0.10 up from 2017 | 70 | 20% | $2,490 | ||
17International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear ControlWiley · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 4.22 0.11 up from 2017 | 644 | 19% | $4,270 | ||
18Systems & Control LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.28Q1 | 3.66 0.07 down from 2017 | 422 | 34% | $2,910 | ||
19IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica SinicaInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.27Q1 | 4.10 1.25 up from 2017 | 366 | 28% | — | ||
20Journal of the Franklin InstituteElsevier BV · United States | 2.12Q1 | 4.57 0.75 up from 2017 | 1,057 | 9% | $3,100 | ||
21IET Control Theory and ApplicationsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 2.10Q1 | 4.22 0.10 down from 2017 | 957 | 23% | $3,300 | ||
22Journal of Intelligent Transportation SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.00Q1 | 3.14 0.30 up from 2017 | 108 | 13% | — | ||
23Journal of Process ControlElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.97Q1 | 3.76 0.13 down from 2017 | 367 | 24% | $3,700 | ||
24International Journal of Fuzzy SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.97Q1 | 4.17 1.35 up from 2017 | 403 | 8% | $3,890 | ||
25Control Engineering PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 3.96 0.60 up from 2017 | 540 | 29% | $3,010 | ||
26Applied Mathematics and ComputationElsevier BV · United States | 1.91Q1 | 3.43 0.73 up from 2017 | 2,694 | 15% | $3,470 | ||
27MechatronicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.80Q1 | 3.23 0.08 down from 2017 | 384 | 26% | $2,940 | ||
28Computers & Chemical EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.80Q1 | 3.99 0.58 up from 2017 | 895 | 32% | $4,050 | ||
29Mechanism and Machine TheoryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 3.76 0.44 up from 2017 | 668 | 14% | $4,060 | ||
30IET Intelligent Transport SystemsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 3.40 1.04 up from 2017 | 246 | 23% | $2,790 | ||
31International Journal of Systems ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 3.16 0.21 up from 2017 | 565 | 5% | — | ||
32European Journal of ControlElsevier BV · France | 1.52Q1 | 2.08 0.78 down from 2017 | 135 | 29% | $2,850 | ||
33IEEE Control Systems LettersInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 1.47Q1 | 2.53no 2017 value | 107 | 42% | $2,645 | — | |
34SIAM Journal on Control and OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.47Q2 | 2.39 0.26 up from 2017 | 441 | 54% | — | ||
35International Journal of ControlTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.45Q2 | 2.54 0.22 up from 2017 | 855 | 15% | — | ||
36IEEE Control SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.42Q2 | 1.42 0.33 down from 2017 | 460 | 45% | — | ||
37Journal of Mechanisms and RoboticsASM International · United States | 1.41Q2 | 2.93 0.65 up from 2017 | 318 | 18% | — | ||
38ActuatorsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.32Q2 | 4.27 1.48 up from 2017 | 80 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
39Transportmetrica B Transport DynamicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 2.03 0.08 up from 2017 | 72 | 22% | — | ||
40Assembly AutomationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 2.15 0.28 down from 2017 | 145 | 3% | — | ||
41Journal of Vibration and ControlSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 1.85 0.10 down from 2017 | 633 | 11% | $4,400 | ||
42Archives of Control SciencesOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 1.23Q2 | 2.35 0.22 up from 2017 | 101 | 100% | — | ||
43International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal ProcessingWiley · United States | 1.21Q2 | 2.34 0.11 down from 2017 | 272 | 23% | $3,460 | ||
44International Journal of Control Automation and SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 1.21Q2 | 2.91 0.46 up from 2017 | 605 | 2% | — | ||
45Journal of Control and DecisionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.20Q2 | 1.98 0.44 down from 2017 | 62 | 25% | — | ||
| 1.18Q2 | 0.68 0.18 up from 2017 | 109 | — | — | |||
47Multibody System DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.17Q2 | 2.37 0.08 up from 2017 | 160 | 27% | $4,190 | ||
48RoboticsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.12Q2 | 2.29 0.93 up from 2017 | 86 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
49International Journal of Mining Reclamation and EnvironmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 1.89 0.70 up from 2017 | 123 | 21% | — | ||
50PHM Society European ConferenceOAPublisher not listed | 1.08Q2 | 0.64 0.11 up from 2017 | 73 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Control and Systems Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering518
- Mechanical Engineering367
- Biomedical Engineering281
- Civil and Structural Engineering252
- Aerospace Engineering180
- Control and Systems Engineering131
- Mechanics of Materials123
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction89
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering75
- Automotive Engineering30
- Media Technology29
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality25
- Architecture1
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
41 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 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 131
- Window papers (baseline)
- 91,866 -34.9% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.856 -14.0% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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 |
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| 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.