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Communications and Control Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3). Published by Springer International Publishing AG.
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ISSN 0178-5354Verify ISSN ↗2197-7119Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Optimization | 107 / 198 | 46th | Q3 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 395 / 568 | 30th | Q3 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 296 / 390 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present (also 2005–2023), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Communications and Control Engineering is Q3 in Control and Optimization (rank 107 of 198), Q3 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 395 of 568) and Q4 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 296 of 390), by CiteScore 2025.
Communications and Control Engineering is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3, 46th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Communications and Control Engineering is published by Springer International Publishing AG. Its print ISSN is 0178-5354 and its online ISSN is 2197-7119.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Communications and Control Engineering has an h-index of 78 and a 2-year mean of 0.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #112 of 129 Scopus journals in Control and Optimization.
Communications and Control Engineering published 54 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 94. 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.
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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