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Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA).
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ISSN 0731-5090Verify ISSN ↗1533-3884Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Mathematics | 62 / 680 | 90th | Q1 |
| Aerospace Engineering | 27 / 169 | 84th | Q1 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 238 / 1030 | 76th | Q1 |
| Space and Planetary Science | 27 / 105 | 74th | Q2 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 100 / 390 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.5.
Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics is Q1 in Applied Mathematics (rank 62 of 680), Q1 in Aerospace Engineering (rank 27 of 169) and Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 238 of 1030), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 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 6.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.235, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 174.
Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics is published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA). Its print ISSN is 0731-5090 and its online ISSN is 1533-3884.
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.
Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics has an h-index of 195 and a 2-year mean of 3.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #94 of 621 Scopus journals in Applied Mathematics.
Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics published 235 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 310. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (35.6%), China (22.7%) and Italy (5.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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