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IEEE Control Systems Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.9), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
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ISSN 2475-1456Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$2,645 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Optimization | 29 / 198 | 85th | Q1 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 131 / 390 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.9.
IEEE Control Systems Letters is Q1 in Control and Optimization (rank 29 of 198) and Q2 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 131 of 390), by CiteScore 2025.
IEEE Control Systems Letters 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 4.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.231, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 56.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,645 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.
IEEE Control Systems Letters is published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Its ISSN is 2475-1456.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
IEEE Control Systems Letters has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 1.65 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #55 of 129 Scopus journals in Control and Optimization.
IEEE Control Systems Letters published 533 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 553. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (24.6%), United States (21.7%) and Italy (7.6%).
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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