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Guidance, Navigation and Control is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by World Scientific.
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ISSN 2737-4807Verify ISSN ↗2737-4920Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: World Scientific
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 110 / 282 | 61st | Q2 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 493 / 1030 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Aerospace Engineering | 82 / 169 | 51st | Q2 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 196 / 390 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.9.
Guidance, Navigation and Control is Q2 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 110 of 282), Q2 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 493 of 1030) and Q2 in Aerospace Engineering (rank 82 of 169), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Guidance, Navigation 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.366, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
Guidance, Navigation and Control is published by World Scientific. Its print ISSN is 2737-4807 and its online ISSN is 2737-4920.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Guidance, Navigation and Control has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 1.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #129 of 199 Scopus journals in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.
Guidance, Navigation and Control published 47 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 54. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (78.3%), Morocco (3%) and Italy (2.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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