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Unmanned Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by World Scientific.
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ISSN 2301-3850Verify ISSN ↗2301-3869Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: World Scientific
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Optimization | 28 / 198 | 86th | Q1 |
| Automotive Engineering | 35 / 143 | 75th | Q1 |
| Aerospace Engineering | 44 / 169 | 74th | Q2 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 129 / 390 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.
Unmanned Systems is Q1 in Control and Optimization (rank 28 of 198), Q1 in Automotive Engineering (rank 35 of 143) and Q2 in Aerospace Engineering (rank 44 of 169), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Unmanned Systems 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 5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.626, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 35.
Unmanned Systems is published by World Scientific. Its print ISSN is 2301-3850 and its online ISSN is 2301-3869.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Unmanned Systems has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 1.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #73 of 129 Scopus journals in Control and Optimization.
Unmanned Systems published 157 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 83 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (57.6%), United States (7.2%) and Mexico (4.8%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (2.7 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.
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