Automation & Control Systems: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics	111
2	IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics	102
3	Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence	93
4	IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics	89
5	IEEE Transactions on Systems Man Cybernetics-Systems	85
6	IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control	75
7	IEEE-CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica	68
8	IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics	63
-	Automatica	63
-	ISA Transactions	63
11	IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering	62
12	International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology	55
13	Advanced Intelligent Systems	45
14	International Journal of Systems Science	40
15	IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology	39
-	Robotics and Autonomous Systems	39
17	Journal of the Franklin Institute-Engineering and Applied Mathematics	38
18	Annual Reviews in Control	37
-	Control Engineering Practice	37
20	IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems	36
21	Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing	33
-	International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control	33
23	International Journal of Control Automation and Systems	29
24	International Journal of Fuzzy Systems	28
-	Journal of Process Control	28
26	Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems	27
27	International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing	26
28	Mechatronics	23
29	IEEE Control Systems Magazine	22
-	Systems & Control Letters	22
-	IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine	22
32	Nonlinear Analysis-Hybrid Systems	21
-	Asian Journal of Control	21
34	European Journal of Control	20
35	Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics	19
-	Measurement & Control	19
37	SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization	18
-	Automatika	18
39	International Journal of Control	17
-	Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control	17
41	Optimal Control Applications & Methods	16
42	Information Technology and Control	15
43	Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control-Transactions of the Asme	13
-	Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems	13
45	Journal of Chemometrics	12
-	International Journal of Computers Communications & Control	12
47	at-Automatisierungstechnik	11
48	Assembly Automation	10
-	Automation and Remote Control	10
50	IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information	9

-	Mathematics of Control Signals and Systems	9
-	ESAIM-Control Optimisation and Calculus of Variations	9
-	Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part I-Journal of Systems and Control Engineering	9
-	Studies in Informatics and Control	9
55	Revista Iberoamericana de Automatica e Informatica Industrial	7
-	Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications	7
57	Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems	6