Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Control and Systems Engineering journal rankings 2021
121 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering has 121 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.74, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 1.28. The top three are Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and Annual Reviews in Control.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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 Engineering574
- Mechanical Engineering380
- Biomedical Engineering327
- Civil and Structural Engineering272
- Aerospace Engineering175
- Mechanics of Materials123
- Control and Systems Engineering121
- Computational Mechanics102
- Building and Construction97
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering90
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering38
121 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Transportation Research Part C Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.16Q1 | 10.45 0.36 up from 2020 | 883 | 46% | $4,040 | ||
2IEEE Transactions on Industrial InformaticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.93Q1 | 11.97 0.17 up from 2020 | 2,418 | 24% | $2,645 | ||
3Annual Reviews in ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.85Q1 | 13.47 3.07 up from 2020 | 160 | 71% | $3,940 | ||
4IEEE Transactions on CyberneticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.65Q1 | 10.13 0.55 down from 2020 | 1,966 | 18% | $2,645 | ||
5IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.61Q1 | 9.58 0.83 down from 2020 | 1,059 | 27% | $2,645 | ||
6IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.19Q1 | 8.74 0.44 up from 2020 | 1,356 | 33% | $2,645 | ||
7The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.14Q1 | 8.89 2.64 up from 2020 | 287 | 56% | $4,400 | ||
8IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica SinicaInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.01Q1 | 9.43 2.14 up from 2020 | 381 | 33% | — | ||
9AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 6.06 1.28 down from 2020 | 1,621 | 46% | $3,760 | ||
10IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.22Q1 | 6.23 0.81 up from 2020 | 610 | 24% | $2,645 | ||
11ISA TransactionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.07Q1 | 6.51 0.36 up from 2020 | 1,236 | 11% | $4,150 | ||
12International Journal of Critical Infrastructure ProtectionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 5.48 1.33 up from 2020 | 109 | 24% | $2,490 | ||
13IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.93Q1 | 4.84 0.82 down from 2020 | 1,903 | 41% | $2,645 | ||
14IEEE/ASME Transactions on MechatronicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.81Q1 | 6.09 0.48 down from 2020 | 1,016 | 24% | $2,645 | ||
15Nonlinear Analysis Hybrid SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.76Q1 | 4.96 1.22 down from 2020 | 286 | 22% | $3,570 | ||
16IEEE Transactions on Control Systems TechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.70Q1 | 4.51 0.19 up from 2020 | 671 | 43% | $2,645 | ||
17Control Engineering PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 4.85 0.02 up from 2020 | 627 | 27% | $3,010 | ||
18International Journal of Fuzzy SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.62Q1 | 4.70 0.34 up from 2020 | 489 | 15% | $3,890 | ||
19MechatronicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.54Q1 | 3.74 0.76 down from 2020 | 324 | 24% | $2,940 | ||
20Applied Mathematics and ComputationElsevier BV · United States | 1.52Q1 | 4.02 0.17 down from 2020 | 2,369 | 18% | $3,470 | ||
21Transportation Safety and EnvironmentOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 3.68 1.43 up from 2020 | 50 | 100% | $1,575 | ||
22Journal of the Franklin InstituteElsevier BV · United States | 1.49Q1 | 4.59 0.17 down from 2020 | 1,638 | 6% | $3,100 | ||
23Journal of Process ControlElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.49Q1 | 4.61 0.52 up from 2020 | 417 | 17% | $3,700 | ||
24RoboticsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.41Q1 | 4.06 0.62 up from 2020 | 294 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
25Mechanism and Machine TheoryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 4.84 0.44 up from 2020 | 995 | 19% | $4,060 | ||
26Computers & Chemical EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.39Q1 | 4.72 0.47 up from 2020 | 1,059 | 38% | $4,050 | ||
27International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear ControlWiley · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 4.29 0.20 down from 2020 | 1,179 | 15% | $4,270 | ||
28PHM Society European ConferenceOAPublisher not listed | 1.34Q1 | 1.11 0.52 up from 2020 | 137 | 100% | — | ||
29Journal of Intelligent Transportation SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.33Q1 | 4.28 0.50 up from 2020 | 144 | 25% | — | ||
30Transportmetrica B Transport DynamicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 2.88 1.03 down from 2020 | 104 | 25% | — | ||
31Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous SystemsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.28Q1 | 12.46 1.69 down from 2020 | 65 | 78% | — | ||
32Systems EngineeringWiley · United States | 1.26Q2 | 3.17 0.60 up from 2020 | 131 | 15% | $3,140 | ||
33Multibody System DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.24Q2 | 3.45 0.23 up from 2020 | 156 | 50% | $4,190 | ||
34IET Intelligent Transport SystemsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.21Q2 | 3.25 0.18 down from 2020 | 595 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
35International Journal of Mining Reclamation and EnvironmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 3.06 0.55 up from 2020 | 79 | 28% | — | ||
36IET Control Theory and ApplicationsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 1.15Q2 | 3.03 0.78 down from 2020 | 964 | 100% | $3,300 | ||
37International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal ProcessingWiley · United States | 1.14Q2 | 3.68 0.11 down from 2020 | 322 | 9% | $3,460 | ||
38Systems & Control LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.13Q2 | 2.88 0.61 down from 2020 | 439 | 45% | $2,910 | ||
39ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.07Q2 | 2.78 0.91 down from 2020 | 131 | 43% | — | ||
40European Journal of ControlElsevier BV · France | 1.06Q2 | 3.29 0.59 up from 2020 | 258 | 35% | $2,850 | ||
41IET Cyber-Physical Systems Theory & ApplicationsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 1.06Q2 | 3.51 0.92 up from 2020 | 103 | 100% | $2,420 | ||
42International Journal of Control Automation and SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 1.05Q2 | 3.64 0.03 down from 2020 | 994 | 4% | — | ||
43International Journal of Advanced Robotic SystemsOASAGE Publishing · Croatia | 1.00Q2 | 2.63 0.18 up from 2020 | 763 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
44IEEE Control Systems LettersInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 0.96Q2 | 2.60 0.36 down from 2020 | 847 | 47% | $2,645 | ||
45Assembly AutomationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 2.95 1.06 up from 2020 | 211 | 7% | — | ||
46ActuatorsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.89Q2 | 3.32 0.68 up from 2020 | 313 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
47International Journal of Systems ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.88Q2 | 3.00 0.62 up from 2020 | 727 | 10% | — | ||
48Journal of Vibration and ControlSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 2.53 0.62 down from 2020 | 713 | 9% | $4,400 | ||
49International Journal of Prognostics and Health ManagementOAThe Prognostics and Health Management Society · United States | 0.86Q2 | 2.19 1.27 up from 2020 | 210 | 100% | — | ||
50SIAM Journal on Control and OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 0.86Q2 | 1.97 0.30 down from 2020 | 487 | 53% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Control and Systems Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering574
- Mechanical Engineering380
- Biomedical Engineering327
- Civil and Structural Engineering272
- Aerospace Engineering175
- Mechanics of Materials123
- Control and Systems Engineering121
- Computational Mechanics102
- Building and Construction97
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering90
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering38
- Media Technology27
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Architecture2
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% 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 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 121
- Window papers (baseline)
- 103,592 +12.8% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.74 -13.8% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.