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International Journal of Optimization and Control: Theories and Applications is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.8), WoS ESCI. Published by AccScience Publishing.
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ISSN 2146-0957Verify ISSN ↗2146-5703Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: AccScience Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Optimization | 45 / 198 | 77th | Q1 |
| Applied Mathematics | 171 / 680 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.8.
International Journal of Optimization and Control: Theories and Applications is Q1 in Control and Optimization (rank 45 of 198) and Q2 in Applied Mathematics (rank 171 of 680), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Optimization and Control: Theories and Applications 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.555, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 17.
International Journal of Optimization and Control: Theories and Applications is published by AccScience Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2146-0957 and its online ISSN is 2146-5703.
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 Optimization and Control: Theories and Applications has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 1.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #66 of 129 Scopus journals in Control and Optimization.
International Journal of Optimization and Control: Theories and Applications published 64 papers in 2025. 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 63 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (13.5%), Saudi Arabia (13.4%) and China (7.2%).
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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