Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Control and Systems Engineering journal rankings 2023
128 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering has 128 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.73, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.17. The top three are IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Annual Reviews in Control, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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 Engineering598
- Mechanical Engineering376
- Biomedical Engineering341
- Civil and Structural Engineering270
- Aerospace Engineering163
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics96
- Building and Construction92
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering44
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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica SinicaInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.08Q1 | 13.72 0.22 down from 2022 | 543 | 53% | — | ||
2Annual Reviews in ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 8.52 2.46 down from 2022 | 171 | 57% | $3,940 | ||
3IEEE Transactions on Industrial InformaticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.56Q1 | 11.02 0.13 down from 2022 | 2,623 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
4SUMO Conference ProceedingsOAPublisher not listed | 3.47Q1 | 1.89no 2022 value | 35 | 100% | — | — | |
5IEEE Transactions on CyberneticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.24Q1 | 9.53 0.16 up from 2022 | 2,275 | 27% | $2,645 | ||
6Transportation Research Part C Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.20Q1 | 8.95 0.53 down from 2022 | 1,067 | 48% | $4,040 | ||
7The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 8.12 1.14 down from 2022 | 181 | 54% | $4,400 | ||
8IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.02Q1 | 9.71 0.26 down from 2022 | 1,089 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
9IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.93Q1 | 8.20 0.75 down from 2022 | 1,236 | 28% | $2,645 | ||
10Journal of Intelligent and Connected VehiclesOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 9.38 2.68 up from 2022 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
11Systems Science & Control EngineeringOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 4.11 1.27 down from 2022 | 245 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
12IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.06Q1 | 6.70 0.07 up from 2022 | 824 | 15% | $2,645 | ||
13ISA TransactionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.00Q1 | 6.58 0.44 up from 2022 | 1,452 | 13% | $4,150 | ||
14International Journal of Critical Infrastructure ProtectionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.99Q1 | 5.98 1.26 up from 2022 | 109 | 30% | $2,490 | ||
15AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 5.57 0.04 down from 2022 | 1,688 | 41% | $3,760 | ||
16IEEE/ASME Transactions on MechatronicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.93Q1 | 7.43 0.67 up from 2022 | 1,259 | 24% | $2,645 | ||
17PHM Society European ConferenceOAPublisher not listed | 1.91Q1 | 1.04 0.03 down from 2022 | 167 | — | — | ||
18IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.88Q1 | 5.81 0.70 up from 2022 | 2,008 | 32% | $2,645 | ||
19Control Engineering PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 6.01 0.35 up from 2022 | 591 | 29% | $3,010 | ||
20IEEE Transactions on Control Systems TechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.62Q1 | 4.77 0.04 up from 2022 | 589 | 44% | $2,645 | ||
21RoboticsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.62Q1 | 4.88 0.54 down from 2022 | 400 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
22Autonomous Intelligent SystemsOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 1.56Q1 | 4.28 2.03 up from 2022 | 43 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
23Mechanism and Machine TheoryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 5.25 0.25 down from 2022 | 1,118 | 28% | $4,060 | ||
24International Journal of Fuzzy SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.39Q1 | 4.26 0.50 down from 2022 | 596 | 13% | $3,890 | ||
25International Journal of Systems ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.39Q1 | 5.10 0.18 up from 2022 | 735 | 8% | — | ||
26Nonlinear Analysis Hybrid SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.26Q1 | 4.08 0.28 down from 2022 | 299 | 25% | $3,570 | ||
27Applied Mathematics and ComputationElsevier BV · United States | 1.24Q1 | 3.23 0.41 down from 2022 | 2,198 | 23% | $3,470 | ||
28Computers & Chemical EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.23Q1 | 4.39 0.34 down from 2022 | 1,079 | 46% | $4,050 | ||
29Journal of Process ControlElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.23Q1 | 3.84 0.78 down from 2022 | 422 | 26% | $3,700 | ||
30Digital Chemical EngineeringOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 3.76 0.74 down from 2022 | 76 | 100% | $1,650 | ||
31Journal of Intelligent Transportation SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.18Q1 | 3.16 0.96 down from 2022 | 172 | 18% | — | ||
32Journal of the Franklin InstituteElsevier BV · United States | 1.17Q1 | 3.79 0.39 down from 2022 | 1,710 | 10% | $3,100 | ||
33IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.17Q2 | 1.82 2.40 down from 2022 | 100 | 57% | — | ||
34MechatronicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.13Q2 | 4.19 0.32 up from 2022 | 309 | 29% | $2,940 | ||
35Systems EngineeringWiley · United States | 1.11Q2 | 2.49 0.56 down from 2022 | 104 | 62% | $3,140 | ||
36MiningOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.10Q2 | 3.04 0.42 up from 2022 | 67 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
37International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal ProcessingWiley · United States | 1.10Q2 | 4.23 0.73 up from 2022 | 430 | 49% | $3,460 | ||
38IET Intelligent Transport SystemsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 3.31 0.11 down from 2022 | 522 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
39Transportmetrica B Transport DynamicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 3.57 0.41 up from 2022 | 148 | 20% | — | ||
40ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.08Q2 | 2.72 0.24 down from 2022 | 112 | 98% | — | ||
41International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear ControlWiley · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 3.69 0.41 down from 2022 | 1,630 | 48% | $4,270 | ||
42International Journal of Mining Reclamation and EnvironmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 3.03 0.31 up from 2022 | 93 | 11% | — | ||
43Transportation Safety and EnvironmentOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 2.55 0.39 down from 2022 | 136 | 100% | $1,575 | ||
44International Journal of Advanced Robotic SystemsOASAGE Publishing · Croatia | 0.97Q2 | 2.98 0.03 up from 2022 | 487 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
45Journal of Systems Science and ComplexitySpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.94Q2 | 2.92 0.47 up from 2022 | 358 | 5% | $3,090 | ||
46European Journal of ControlElsevier BV · France | 0.94Q2 | 2.57 0.77 down from 2022 | 316 | 41% | $2,850 | ||
47IEEE Open Journal of Control SystemsOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 0.93Q2 | 2.43no 2022 value | 30 | 100% | $2,075 | — | |
48Smart and Resilient TransportOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 2.83 0.61 up from 2022 | 38 | 100% | — | ||
49INCOSE International SymposiumWiley · United States | 0.92Q2 | 0.73 0.11 down from 2022 | 349 | 52% | — | ||
50Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous SystemsAnnual Reviews · United States | 0.91Q2 | 10.73 3.63 up from 2022 | 70 | 95% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Control and Systems Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering598
- Mechanical Engineering376
- Biomedical Engineering341
- Civil and Structural Engineering270
- Aerospace Engineering163
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics96
- Building and Construction92
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering44
- Media Technology24
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
- Architecture1
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
46 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 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 128
- Window papers (baseline)
- 111,495 +15.6% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.732 -5.9% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.