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Annual Reviews in Control is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 24.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 1367-5788Verify ISSN ↗1872-9088Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,940 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Systems Engineering | 8 / 390 | 98th | Q1 |
| Software | 11 / 503 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 24.3.
Annual Reviews in Control is Q1 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 8 of 390) and Q1 in Software (rank 11 of 503), by CiteScore 2025.
Annual Reviews in Control is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 24.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.687, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 124.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,940 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Annual Reviews in Control is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1367-5788 and its online ISSN is 1872-9088.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Annual Reviews in Control has an h-index of 130 and a 2-year mean of 14.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 24.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 306 Scopus journals in Control and Systems Engineering.
Annual Reviews in Control published 44 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 66. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 91 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (17.9%), China (9.4%) and France (9.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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