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Best Control and Optimization journals

186 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Control and Optimization. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 50 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Science Robotics 32.1 99th Q1 SCIE No
2 IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica 27.7 99th Q1 SCIE No
3 IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles 19.9 98th Q1 SCIE No
4 SAE International Journal of Vehicle Dynamics, Stability, and NVH 11.6 98th Q1 ESCI No
5 IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence 11.5 97th Q1 SCIE No
6 Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks 11.3 97th Q1 ESCI Yes
7 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 10.5 96th Q1 SCIE No
8 IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing 8.7 96th Q1 SCIE No
9 Operations Research Perspectives 8.5 95th Q1 SCIE Yes
10 Energies 8.3 95th Q1 SCIE Yes
11 Evolving Systems 8.1 94th Q1 SCIE No
12 IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems 8.1 94th Q1 SCIE No
13 Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization 7.9 93th Q1 SCIE No
14 Systems Science and Control Engineering 7.8 93th Q1 ESCI Yes
15 Results in Control and Optimization 7.8 92th Q1 ESCI Yes
16 Robotics 7.4 92th Q1 ESCI Yes
17 IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics 6.7 91th Q1 ESCI No
18 ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems 6.4 91th Q1 ESCI No
19 Machines 6.1 90th Q1 SCIE Yes
20 Engineering Optimization 5.8 90th Q1 SCIE No
21 Multibody System Dynamics 5.8 89th Q1 SCIE No
22 Robotica 5.7 89th Q1 SCIE No
23 IET Networks 5.5 88th Q1 ESCI Yes
24 Open Journal of Mathematical Optimization 5.4 88th Q1 Yes
25 Measurement and Control (United Kingdom) 5.1 87th Q1 SCIE Yes
26 Memetic Computing 5.1 87th Q1 SCIE No
27 Optimization and Engineering 5.1 86th Q1 SCIE No
28 Unmanned Systems 5 86th Q1 ESCI No
29 IEEE Control Systems Letters 4.9 85th Q1 ESCI No
30 Journal of Control and Decision 4.8 85th Q1 ESCI No
31 Drone Systems and Applications 4.7 84th Q1 ESCI Yes
32 IET Control Theory and Applications 4.6 84th Q1 SCIE Yes
33 Actuators 4.3 83th Q1 SCIE Yes
34 Advances in Fuzzy Systems 4.3 83th Q1 ESCI Yes
35 Optimal Control Applications and Methods 4.2 82th Q1 SCIE B No
36 SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 4.2 82th Q1 SCIE No
37 Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics 4.2 81th Q1 No
38 Journal of Uncertain Systems 4.1 81th Q1 No
39 Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 4.1 80th Q1 SSCI A* No
40 Computational Optimization and Applications 4 80th Q1 SCIE No
41 Real-Time Systems 4 79th Q1 SCIE No
42 International Journal of Dynamics and Control 3.9 79th Q1 ESCI No
43 Optimization 3.8 78th Q1 SCIE C No
44 EURO Journal on Computational Optimization 3.8 78th Q1 ESCI Yes
45 International Journal of Optimization and Control: Theories and Applications 3.8 77th Q1 ESCI No
46 Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems 3.8 77th Q1 SCIE No
47 IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems 3.7 76th Q1 ESCI Yes
48 Mathematical Modelling and Control 3.7 76th Q1 ESCI Yes
49 Kongzhi yu Juece/Control and Decision 3.5 75th Q1 No
50 Journal of Complexity 3.4 75th Q1 SCIE No
51 Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization 3.4 74th Q2 SCIE B No
52 International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification 3.4 73th Q2 SCIE No
53 Operations Research Forum 3.3 73th Q2 No
54 Journal of Heuristics 3.3 72th Q2 SCIE No
55 SeMA Journal 3.3 72th Q2 ESCI No
56 Foundations and Trends in Systems and Control 3.3 71th Q2 ESCI No
57 ROBOMECH Journal 3.3 71th Q2 ESCI Yes
58 Journal of Global Optimization 3.3 70th Q2 SCIE No
59 Control Theory and Technology 3.2 70th Q2 ESCI No
60 Inverse Problems and Imaging 3.2 69th Q2 SCIE No
61 Numerical Mathematics 3.2 69th Q2 SCIE No
62 Optimization Methods and Software 3.2 68th Q2 SCIE No
63 Optimization Letters 3.1 68th Q2 SCIE No
64 Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization 3 67th Q2 SCIE No
65 Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization 2.9 67th Q2 ESCI No
66 International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing 2.9 66th Q2 ESCI No
67 Communications in Analysis and Mechanics 2.8 66th Q2 SCIE Yes
68 International Journal of Sensors, Wireless Communications and Control 2.8 65th Q2 No
69 Journal of Complex Networks 2.8 65th Q2 SCIE No
70 Evolution Equations and Control Theory 2.8 64th Q2 SCIE No
71 International Journal for Simulation and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization 2.7 64th Q2 Yes
72 Applied Mathematics and Optimization 2.7 63th Q2 SCIE No
73 Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Informatics 2.6 63th Q2 No
74 Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 2.6 62th Q2 SCIE A No
75 Springer Series in Supply Chain Management 2.5 62th Q2 No
76 Communications in Combinatorics and Optimization 2.5 61th Q2 ESCI Yes
77 Mathematical Control and Related Fields 2.5 61th Q2 SCIE No
78 International Journal of Applied Science and Engineering 2.4 60th Q2 Yes
79 Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 2.4 60th Q2 SCIE No
80 Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Applications 2.4 59th Q2 No
81 Information and Control 2.3 59th Q2 No
82 Advanced Mathematical Models and Applications 2.3 58th Q2 No
83 Applied Set-Valued Analysis and Optimization 2.2 58th Q2 No
84 ESAIM - Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations 2.2 57th Q2 SCIE No
85 IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information 2.2 57th Q2 SCIE No
86 Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications 2.1 56th Q2 SCIE No
87 Journal of Applied and Numerical Optimization 2.1 56th Q2 No
88 Archives of Control Sciences 2 55th Q2 SCIE Yes
89 WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics 2 55th Q2 No
90 Cybernetics and Physics 2 54th Q2 Yes
91 Statistics, Optimization and Information Computing 1.8 54th Q2 No
92 Bangmod International Journal of Mathematical and Computational Science 1.7 53th Q2 No
93 Journal of Optimization, Differential Equations and their Applications 1.6 52th Q2 Yes
94 Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems 1.6 51th Q2 SCIE No
95 WSEAS Transactions on Systems and Control 1.6 51th Q2 No
96 Computer Science Journal of Moldova 1.6 50th Q2 ESCI Yes
97 Iranian Journal of Numerical Analysis and Optimization 1.5 49th Q3 Yes
98 Discontinuity, Nonlinearity, and Complexity 1.4 49th Q3 No
99 Journal of Dynamics and Control 1.4 48th Q3 No
100 Journal of Nonlinear Functional Analysis 1.4 48th Q3 ESCI No

Rank and percentile are within the Control and Optimization Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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