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Systems and Control Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0167-6911Verify ISSN ↗1872-7956Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,910 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 252 / 740 | 66th | Q2 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 355 / 1030 | 65th | Q2 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 137 / 390 | 65th | Q2 |
| Computer Science (all) | 88 / 241 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
Systems and Control Letters is Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 252 of 740), Q2 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 355 of 1030) and Q2 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 137 of 390), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Systems and Control Letters 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.299, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 159.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,910 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.
Systems and Control Letters is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0167-6911 and its online ISSN is 1872-7956.
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.
Systems and Control Letters has an h-index of 195 and a 2-year mean of 2.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #186 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Systems and Control Letters published 241 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 82 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (54.7%), United States (9.6%) and France (5.1%). 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.
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