Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Control and Systems Engineering journal rankings 2020
122 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering has 122 ranked journals in 2020. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2019 to 0.78, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.40. The top three are Annual Reviews in Control, Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies, and IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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 Engineering563
- Mechanical Engineering379
- Biomedical Engineering312
- Civil and Structural Engineering264
- Aerospace Engineering174
- Control and Systems Engineering122
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction97
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering87
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering36
122 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Annual Reviews in ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.73Q1 | 10.40 1.17 up from 2019 | 143 | 56% | $3,940 | ||
2Transportation Research Part C Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.47Q1 | 10.09 1.00 up from 2019 | 837 | 42% | $4,040 | ||
3IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.30Q1 | 10.41 0.72 down from 2019 | 872 | 26% | $2,645 | ||
4IEEE Transactions on CyberneticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.19Q1 | 10.68 0.51 up from 2019 | 1,532 | 20% | $2,645 | ||
5IEEE Transactions on Industrial InformaticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.09Q1 | 11.79 1.13 up from 2019 | 2,067 | 24% | $2,645 | ||
6IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.50Q1 | 8.30 0.85 down from 2019 | 1,399 | 27% | $2,645 | ||
7The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.10Q1 | 6.25 0.14 down from 2019 | 286 | 50% | $4,400 | ||
8AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.05Q1 | 7.33 0.36 down from 2019 | 1,621 | 46% | $3,760 | ||
9IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica SinicaInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.75Q1 | 7.29 1.63 up from 2019 | 409 | 24% | — | ||
10IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.52Q1 | 5.67 0.53 down from 2019 | 1,765 | 50% | $2,645 | ||
11IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.40Q1 | 5.43 0.78 up from 2019 | 458 | 24% | $2,645 | ||
12Nonlinear Analysis Hybrid SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.36Q1 | 6.18 0.26 down from 2019 | 243 | 24% | $3,570 | ||
13IEEE/ASME Transactions on MechatronicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.28Q1 | 6.57 0.10 up from 2019 | 827 | 20% | $2,645 | ||
14ISA TransactionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.20Q1 | 6.15 0.80 up from 2019 | 1,048 | 10% | $4,150 | ||
15IEEE Transactions on Control Systems TechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.14Q1 | 4.32 0.98 down from 2019 | 760 | 45% | $2,645 | ||
16International Journal of Critical Infrastructure ProtectionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.93Q1 | 4.15 1.01 up from 2019 | 103 | 24% | $2,490 | ||
17International Journal of Fuzzy SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.92Q1 | 4.36 0.71 down from 2019 | 452 | 8% | $3,890 | ||
18Applied Mathematics and ComputationElsevier BV · United States | 1.90Q1 | 4.19 0.37 up from 2019 | 2,342 | 18% | $3,470 | ||
19Journal of Intelligent Transportation SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.85Q1 | 3.78 1.00 down from 2019 | 148 | 22% | — | ||
20Transportmetrica B Transport DynamicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 3.91 1.43 up from 2019 | 100 | 17% | — | ||
21Control Engineering PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 4.84 0.34 up from 2019 | 580 | 23% | $3,010 | ||
22Journal of Process ControlElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.73Q1 | 4.09 0.63 down from 2019 | 428 | 29% | $3,700 | ||
23Journal of the Franklin InstituteElsevier BV · United States | 1.65Q1 | 4.75 0.47 down from 2019 | 1,467 | 12% | $3,100 | ||
24MechatronicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 4.50 0.32 up from 2019 | 379 | 34% | $2,940 | ||
25International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear ControlWiley · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 4.48 0.16 down from 2019 | 956 | 20% | $4,270 | ||
26Computers & Chemical EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.51Q1 | 4.26 0.16 down from 2019 | 1,012 | 38% | $4,050 | ||
27ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.47Q1 | 3.69 0.79 up from 2019 | 111 | 41% | — | ||
28Systems & Control LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.46Q1 | 3.49 0.41 down from 2019 | 408 | 42% | $2,910 | ||
29IET Intelligent Transport SystemsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 3.43 0.37 up from 2019 | 477 | 49% | $2,790 | ||
30Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous SystemsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.42Q1 | 14.15 3.86 up from 2019 | 49 | 55% | — | ||
31IET Control Theory and ApplicationsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 1.40Q1 | 3.82 0.18 down from 2019 | 983 | 42% | $3,300 | ||
32Mechanism and Machine TheoryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 4.40 0.29 up from 2019 | 859 | 16% | $4,060 | ||
33RoboticsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.31Q2 | 3.44 0.48 up from 2019 | 220 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
34International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal ProcessingWiley · United States | 1.18Q2 | 3.79 1.52 up from 2019 | 299 | 17% | $3,460 | ||
35International Journal of Control Automation and SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 1.18Q2 | 3.66 0.21 down from 2019 | 971 | 3% | — | ||
36Journal of Vibration and ControlSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 3.15 0.77 up from 2019 | 542 | 8% | $4,400 | ||
37International Journal of Mining Reclamation and EnvironmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 2.51 0.63 up from 2019 | 102 | 12% | — | ||
38IEEE Control Systems LettersInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 1.13Q2 | 2.95 0.23 up from 2019 | 487 | 48% | $2,645 | ||
39IET Cyber-Physical Systems Theory & ApplicationsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 1.13Q2 | 2.59 0.23 up from 2019 | 109 | 100% | $2,420 | ||
40Systems EngineeringWiley · United States | 1.13Q2 | 2.57 0.66 up from 2019 | 135 | 33% | $3,140 | ||
41Multibody System DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.13Q2 | 3.22 0.35 up from 2019 | 148 | 47% | $4,190 | ||
42SIAM Journal on Control and OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.08Q2 | 2.26 0.05 down from 2019 | 498 | 43% | — | ||
43Studies in Informatics and ControlNational Institute for Research and Development in Informatics - ICI Bucharest · Romania | 1.02Q2 | 2.29 0.72 down from 2019 | 146 | 89% | — | ||
44International Journal of Advanced Robotic SystemsOASAGE Publishing · Croatia | 1.00Q2 | 2.45 0.10 up from 2019 | 713 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
45European Journal of ControlElsevier BV · France | 1.00Q2 | 2.69 0.52 up from 2019 | 211 | 33% | $2,850 | ||
46Optimal Control Applications and MethodsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 2.69 0.63 up from 2019 | 250 | 17% | $4,020 | ||
47International Journal of ControlTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 2.07 0.14 down from 2019 | 868 | 15% | — | ||
48PHM Society European ConferenceOAPublisher not listed | 0.95Q2 | 0.60 0.25 up from 2019 | 84 | 100% | — | ||
49Assembly AutomationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 1.89 0.29 down from 2019 | 226 | 2% | — | ||
50International Journal of Systems ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 2.38 0.29 down from 2019 | 670 | 5% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Control and Systems Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering563
- Mechanical Engineering379
- Biomedical Engineering312
- Civil and Structural Engineering264
- Aerospace Engineering174
- Control and Systems Engineering122
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction97
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering87
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering36
- Media Technology29
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Architecture2
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
51 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 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 122
- Window papers (baseline)
- 96,422 -7.9% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.78 -12.9% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.