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Journal of Process Control is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0959-1524Verify ISSN ↗1873-2771Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,700 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modeling and Simulation | 33 / 397 | 91st | Q1 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 74 / 425 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 76 / 390 | 80th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 211 / 1022 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.8.
Journal of Process Control is Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 33 of 397), Q1 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 74 of 425) and Q1 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 76 of 390), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Process 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 7.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.874, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 138.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,700 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Process Control is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0959-1524 and its online ISSN is 1873-2771.
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 Process Control has an h-index of 146 and a 2-year mean of 3.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #58 of 323 Scopus journals in Modeling and Simulation.
Journal of Process Control published 179 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 179. 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 87 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (51%), Canada (7.5%) and Germany (4.6%). 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. 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.
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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