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International Journal of Automation and Control is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS ESCI. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 1740-7516Verify ISSN ↗1740-7524Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 187 / 425 | 56th | Q2 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 184 / 390 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Hardware and Architecture | 123 / 245 | 50th | Q2 |
| Software | 280 / 503 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
International Journal of Automation and Control is Q2 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 187 of 425), Q2 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 184 of 390) and Q2 in Hardware and Architecture (rank 123 of 245), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Automation 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.292, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 26.
International Journal of Automation and Control is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1740-7516 and its online ISSN is 1740-7524.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Automation and Control has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #266 of 359 Scopus journals in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
International Journal of Automation and Control published 72 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 77. 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 30 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (41.7%), India (17.8%) and Morocco (10%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (1.1 per 1,000 papers). 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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