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International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1598-6446Verify ISSN ↗2005-4092Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Systems Engineering | 123 / 390 | 68th | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 347 / 1022 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.4.
International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems is Q2 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 123 of 390) and Q2 in Computer Science Applications (rank 347 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems 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 5.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.528, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 79.
International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems is published by Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems. Its print ISSN is 1598-6446 and its online ISSN is 2005-4092.
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, Automation and Systems has an h-index of 80 and a 2-year mean of 3.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #92 of 306 Scopus journals in Control and Systems Engineering.
International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems published 315 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 405. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (51.5%), South Korea (26.3%) and India (3.3%). 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. 6 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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