Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Control and Systems Engineering journal rankings 2022
124 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering has 124 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.73, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 1.21. The top three are IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Annual Reviews in Control, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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 Engineering591
- Mechanical Engineering376
- Biomedical Engineering334
- Civil and Structural Engineering276
- Aerospace Engineering178
- Control and Systems Engineering124
- Mechanics of Materials122
- Computational Mechanics94
- Building and Construction93
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering43
124 ranked journals
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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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica SinicaInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.03Q1 | 13.95 4.52 up from 2021 | 476 | 45% | — | ||
2Annual Reviews in ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.90Q1 | 10.98 2.49 down from 2021 | 175 | 69% | $3,940 | ||
3IEEE Transactions on Industrial InformaticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.73Q1 | 11.15 0.81 down from 2021 | 2,571 | 19% | $2,645 | ||
4Transportation Research Part C Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.60Q1 | 9.49 0.96 down from 2021 | 1,032 | 41% | $4,040 | ||
5IEEE Transactions on CyberneticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.41Q1 | 9.37 0.75 down from 2021 | 2,248 | 28% | $2,645 | ||
6IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.22Q1 | 8.95 0.20 up from 2021 | 1,279 | 33% | $2,645 | ||
7The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.20Q1 | 9.26 0.37 up from 2021 | 249 | 37% | $4,400 | ||
8IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.17Q1 | 9.96 0.38 up from 2021 | 1,100 | 20% | $2,645 | ||
9AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 5.61 0.44 down from 2021 | 1,651 | 44% | $3,760 | ||
10International Journal of Critical Infrastructure ProtectionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.17Q1 | 4.72 0.76 down from 2021 | 108 | 33% | $2,490 | ||
11IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.11Q1 | 6.63 0.40 up from 2021 | 678 | 25% | $2,645 | ||
12ISA TransactionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.06Q1 | 6.15 0.36 down from 2021 | 1,387 | 10% | $4,150 | ||
13PHM Society European ConferenceOAPublisher not listed | 1.88Q1 | 1.06 0.05 down from 2021 | 93 | 100% | — | ||
14IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.84Q1 | 5.11 0.26 up from 2021 | 2,000 | 36% | $2,645 | ||
15IEEE/ASME Transactions on MechatronicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.84Q1 | 6.77 0.68 up from 2021 | 1,141 | 23% | $2,645 | ||
16RoboticsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.67Q1 | 5.42 1.36 up from 2021 | 348 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
17IEEE Transactions on Control Systems TechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.63Q1 | 4.73 0.22 up from 2021 | 624 | 43% | $2,645 | ||
18Control Engineering PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 5.66 0.80 up from 2021 | 623 | 35% | $3,010 | ||
19International Journal of Fuzzy SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.57Q1 | 4.76 0.06 up from 2021 | 568 | 17% | $3,890 | ||
20Systems Science & Control EngineeringOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 5.38 2.60 up from 2021 | 242 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
21Mechanism and Machine TheoryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 5.50 0.66 up from 2021 | 1,052 | 22% | $4,060 | ||
22Nonlinear Analysis Hybrid SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.51Q1 | 4.36 0.60 down from 2021 | 285 | 24% | $3,570 | ||
23Journal of Process ControlElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.44Q1 | 4.61no change | 434 | 27% | $3,700 | ||
24Computers & Chemical EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.42Q1 | 4.73 0.01 up from 2021 | 1,072 | 36% | $4,050 | ||
25International Journal of Systems ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.39Q1 | 4.92 1.91 up from 2021 | 746 | 7% | — | ||
26Applied Mathematics and ComputationElsevier BV · United States | 1.36Q1 | 3.64 0.38 down from 2021 | 2,303 | 19% | $3,470 | ||
27Journal of the Franklin InstituteElsevier BV · United States | 1.33Q1 | 4.18 0.41 down from 2021 | 1,698 | 8% | $3,100 | ||
28Journal of Intelligent Transportation SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.30Q1 | 4.12 0.16 down from 2021 | 174 | 22% | — | ||
29Transportation Safety and EnvironmentOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 2.93 0.75 down from 2021 | 80 | 100% | $1,575 | ||
30International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear ControlWiley · United Kingdom | 1.23Q1 | 4.10 0.19 down from 2021 | 1,434 | 16% | $4,270 | ||
31MechatronicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.21Q1 | 3.87 0.13 up from 2021 | 298 | 26% | $2,940 | ||
32Systems EngineeringWiley · United States | 1.13Q2 | 3.06 0.11 down from 2021 | 115 | 38% | $3,140 | ||
33International Journal of Mining Reclamation and EnvironmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 2.71 0.34 down from 2021 | 83 | 19% | — | ||
34IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.10Q2 | 4.22 1.78 up from 2021 | 93 | 70% | — | ||
35International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal ProcessingWiley · United States | 1.09Q2 | 3.50 0.18 down from 2021 | 364 | 11% | $3,460 | ||
36European Journal of ControlElsevier BV · France | 1.06Q2 | 3.35 0.06 up from 2021 | 278 | 39% | $2,850 | ||
37IET Intelligent Transport SystemsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 3.42 0.18 up from 2021 | 496 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
38Systems & Control LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.01Q2 | 2.71 0.17 down from 2021 | 439 | 35% | $2,910 | ||
39Multibody System DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.01Q2 | 3.73 0.28 up from 2021 | 143 | 59% | $4,190 | ||
40International Journal of Control Automation and SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 1.01Q2 | 3.55 0.09 down from 2021 | 935 | 2% | — | ||
41International Journal of Advanced Robotic SystemsOASAGE Publishing · Croatia | 1.00Q2 | 2.96 0.33 up from 2021 | 663 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
42INCOSE International SymposiumWiley · United States | 0.98Q2 | 0.84 0.24 up from 2021 | 330 | 38% | — | ||
43ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 0.95Q2 | 2.96 0.17 up from 2021 | 114 | 34% | — | ||
44Transportmetrica B Transport DynamicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.93Q2 | 3.16 0.28 up from 2021 | 122 | 21% | — | ||
45Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous SystemsAnnual Reviews · United States | 0.92Q2 | 7.09 5.37 down from 2021 | 72 | 89% | — | ||
46Smart and Resilient TransportOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 2.22 1.40 up from 2021 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
47IET Control Theory and ApplicationsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 0.89Q2 | 2.74 0.30 down from 2021 | 814 | 100% | $3,300 | ||
48IET Cyber-Physical Systems Theory & ApplicationsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 0.88Q2 | 2.48 1.03 down from 2021 | 93 | 100% | $2,420 | ||
49IEEE Control Systems LettersInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 0.87Q2 | 2.55 0.05 down from 2021 | 1,042 | 36% | $2,645 | ||
50Journal of Systems Science and ComplexitySpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.86Q2 | 2.45 0.66 up from 2021 | 345 | 6% | $3,090 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Control and Systems Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering591
- Mechanical Engineering376
- Biomedical Engineering334
- Civil and Structural Engineering276
- Aerospace Engineering178
- Control and Systems Engineering124
- Mechanics of Materials122
- Computational Mechanics94
- Building and Construction93
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering43
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality27
- Media Technology24
- Architecture2
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
53 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 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 124
- Window papers (baseline)
- 109,096 +20.8% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.726 -13.0% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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.