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Foundations and Trends in Systems and Control is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.3), WoS ESCI. Published by Now Publishers Inc.
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Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Optimization | 56 / 198 | 71st | Q2 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 180 / 390 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.3.
Foundations and Trends in Systems and Control is Q2 in Control and Optimization (rank 56 of 198) and Q2 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 180 of 390), by CiteScore 2025.
Foundations and Trends in Systems and Control is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.357, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 22.
Foundations and Trends in Systems and Control is published by Now Publishers Inc. Its print ISSN is 2325-6818 and its online ISSN is 2325-6826.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Foundations and Trends in Systems and Control has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 2.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #37 of 129 Scopus journals in Control and Optimization.
Foundations and Trends in Systems and Control published 4 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 5. 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 13 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (11.5%), United States (11.5%) and Canada (11.5%).
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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