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Best Control and Systems Engineering journals

330 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Control and Systems Engineering. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 96 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 Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems 34.8 99th Q1 SCIE No
2 IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics 28.2 99th Q1 SCIE No
3 Journal of Manufacturing Systems 27.7 99th Q1 SCIE B No
4 IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica 27.7 99th Q1 SCIE No
5 Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing 27.6 98th Q1 SCIE No
6 Foundations and Trends in Robotics 27 98th Q1 No
7 Cognitive Robotics 25.7 98th Q1 Yes
8 Annual Reviews in Control 24.3 98th Q1 SCIE No
9 Automation in Construction 22.7 97th Q1 SCIE No
10 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 22.4 97th Q1 SCIE No
11 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 20.5 97th Q1 SCIE No
12 IEEE Transactions on Robotics 20 97th Q1 SCIE No
13 IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems 17.8 96th Q1 SCIE No
14 Machine Intelligence Research 17.8 96th Q1 ESCI No
15 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 17.6 96th Q1 SCIE No
16 Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 17.6 96th Q1 SCIE No
17 Soft Robotics 15.8 95th Q1 SCIE No
18 Energy Storage and Saving 15.3 95th Q1 Yes
19 Information Sciences 14.6 95th Q1 SCIE No
20 Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management 14.4 95th Q1 SCIE, SSCI B No
21 IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering 14.3 94th Q1 SCIE No
22 IEEE Systems Journal 14.1 94th Q1 SCIE No
23 ISA Transactions 13.9 94th Q1 SCIE No
24 IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 13.9 93th Q1 SCIE No
25 Communications in Transportation Research 13.6 93th Q1 SCIE, SSCI C Yes
26 IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 13.6 93th Q1 SCIE No
27 Journal of Machine Learning Research 13.3 93th Q1 SCIE No
28 Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles 13.3 92th Q1 ESCI Yes
29 Automatica 12.4 92th Q1 SCIE No
30 Computers and Electrical Engineering 12.2 92th Q1 SCIE No
31 International Journal of Robotics Research 12.2 92th Q1 SCIE No
32 Biosystems Engineering 11.7 91th Q1 SCIE No
33 Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 11.7 91th Q1 SCIE No
34 Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics 11.5 91th Q1 ESCI Yes
35 IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications 11.5 91th Q1 SCIE No
36 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology 11.1 90th Q1 SCIE No
37 Water-Energy Nexus 11 90th Q1 Yes
38 Construction Innovation 10.7 90th Q1 ESCI B No
39 IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 10.6 90th Q1 SCIE No
40 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 10.5 89th Q1 SCIE No
41 Robotics and Autonomous Systems 10.5 89th Q1 SCIE No
42 IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 10.3 89th Q1 SCIE No
43 Dianli Xitong Zidonghua/Automation of Electric Power Systems 10.1 89th Q1 No
44 Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations 10 88th Q1 SCIE, SSCI B No
45 Drones 10 88th Q1 SCIE Yes
46 International Journal of Social Robotics 9.8 88th Q1 SCIE No
47 Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering 9.6 88th Q1 ESCI No
48 Expert Systems 9.6 87th Q1 SCIE No
49 Minerals Engineering 9.6 87th Q1 SCIE No
50 Journal of the Energy Institute 9.5 87th Q1 SCIE No
51 Journal of Field Robotics 9.4 87th Q1 SCIE No
52 IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics 9.4 86th Q1 ESCI No
53 IEEE Wireless Communications Letters 9.4 86th Q1 SCIE No
54 Nonlinear Dynamics 9.4 86th Q1 SCIE No
55 IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine 9.3 86th Q1 SCIE No
56 Control Engineering Practice 9.1 85th Q1 SCIE No
57 Dianli Xitong Baohu yu Kongzhi/Power System Protection and Control 9.1 85th Q1 Yes
58 IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society 9.1 85th Q1 ESCI Yes
59 Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks 9.1 85th Q1 SCIE No
60 Applied System Innovation 9 84th Q1 ESCI Yes
61 IEEE Control Systems 9 84th Q1 SCIE No
62 Advanced Intelligent Systems 8.9 84th Q1 SCIE Yes
63 Journal of Automation and Intelligence 8.6 83th Q1 Yes
64 International Journal of Fuzzy Systems 8.3 83th Q1 SCIE No
65 Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 8.3 83th Q1 SCIE No
66 Signal Processing 8.3 83th Q1 SCIE No
67 Complex System Modeling and Simulation 8.1 82th Q1 ESCI Yes
68 Evolving Systems 8.1 82th Q1 SCIE No
69 IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems 8.1 82th Q1 SCIE No
70 International Journal of Mechanical System Dynamics 8.1 82th Q1 ESCI Yes
71 CES Transactions on Electrical Machines and Systems 8.1 81th Q1 ESCI Yes
72 International Journal of Systems Science 8.1 81th Q1 SCIE No
73 Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems 7.9 81th Q1 SCIE No
74 Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization 7.9 81th Q1 SCIE No
75 Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications 7.8 80th Q1 SCIE No
76 Journal of Process Control 7.8 80th Q1 SCIE No
77 Results in Control and Optimization 7.8 80th Q1 ESCI Yes
78 Systems Science and Control Engineering 7.8 80th Q1 ESCI Yes
79 Experimental Heat Transfer 7.4 79th Q1 SCIE No
80 Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering 7.3 79th Q1 ESCI Yes
81 IET Smart Cities 7.3 79th Q1 ESCI Yes
82 Journal of Sensors 7.2 78th Q1 SCIE No
83 EPJ Quantum Technology 7.1 78th Q1 SCIE Yes
84 Mechatronics 7.1 78th Q1 SCIE No
85 Micromachines 7.1 78th Q1 SCIE Yes
86 Electronics (Switzerland) 7 77th Q1 SCIE Yes
87 Global Energy Interconnection 7 77th Q1 ESCI Yes
88 Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering 7 77th Q1 SCIE No
89 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems 6.9 77th Q1 ESCI No
90 International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 6.9 76th Q1 SCIE No
91 International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering 6.9 76th Q1 SCIE Yes
92 International Journal of Smart Grid 6.9 76th Q1 No
93 Journal of Management Science and Engineering 6.9 76th Q1 ESCI Yes
94 IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution 6.8 75th Q1 SCIE Yes
95 Journal of the ACM 6.7 75th Q1 SCIE No
96 Industrial Robot 6.6 75th Q1 SCIE No
97 Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 6.5 74th Q2 SCIE No
98 Journal of Robotics and Control (JRC) 6.5 74th Q2 No
99 Journal of the Franklin Institute 6.4 74th Q2 SCIE No
100 Grey Systems 6.3 73th Q2 SCIE No

Rank and percentile are within the Control and Systems Engineering 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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