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International Journal of Control is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0020-7179Verify ISSN ↗1366-5820Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Systems Engineering | 144 / 390 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 434 / 1022 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1965–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.3.
International Journal of Control is Q2 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 144 of 390) and Q2 in Computer Science Applications (rank 434 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Control is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.563, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 135.
International Journal of Control is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0020-7179 and its online ISSN is 1366-5820.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Control has an h-index of 187 and a 2-year mean of 1.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #187 of 306 Scopus journals in Control and Systems Engineering.
International Journal of Control published 201 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 324. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (49%), United States (7%) and Algeria (6.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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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