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Optimal Control Applications and Methods is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.2), ABDC B, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 0143-2087Verify ISSN ↗1099-1514Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$4,020 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Optimization | 35 / 198 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Applied Mathematics | 142 / 680 | 79th | Q1 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 146 / 390 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Software | 224 / 503 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.2.
Optimal Control Applications and Methods is Q1 in Control and Optimization (rank 35 of 198), Q1 in Applied Mathematics (rank 142 of 680) and Q2 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 146 of 390), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Optimal Control Applications and Methods 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.415, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 57.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,020 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.
Optimal Control Applications and Methods is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0143-2087 and its online ISSN is 1099-1514.
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.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Optimal Control Applications and Methods has an h-index of 65 and a 2-year mean of 3.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #22 of 129 Scopus journals in Control and Optimization.
Optimal Control Applications and Methods published 158 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (45.3%), India (18.2%) and United States (4.7%).
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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