65 Control and Systems Engineering journals (Engineering) in ORBIT Tier 1 with at least 10 papers in 2025. ORBIT Tier 1: top quarter of Engineering by citation impact, our own ranking. Not a Scopus or Web of Science quartile.
As of 2 October 2026. From OpenAlex, Crossref and DOAJ. ORBIT Tier is our own ranking within a field, not a Scopus or Web of Science quartile.
| Journal | ISSN | Papers in 2025 | ORBIT Tier | Fee to publish | Open access | DOAJ | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence | 0952-1976 | 3,344 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Process Safety and Environmental Protection | 0263-8762 | 2,126 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering | 1545-5955 | 1,288 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics | 1551-3203 | 945 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems | 2168-2216 | 840 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | 0018-9286 | 772 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics | 1083-4435 | 705 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control | 1049-8923 | 665 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Automatica | 0005-1098 | 636 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Actuators | 2076-0825 | 630 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,76,779 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| ISA Transactions | 0019-0578 | 580 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Computers & Chemical Engineering | 0098-1354 | 473 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| International Journal of Dynamics and Control | 2195-268X | 451 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Control Engineering Practice | 0967-0661 | 427 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| International Journal of Systems Science | 0020-7721 | 407 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| IEEE Transactions on Robotics | 1552-3098 | 350 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Mechanism and Machine Theory | 0094-114X | 326 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| International Journal of Control Automation and Systems | 1598-6446 | 315 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | South Korea |
| IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica | 2329-9266 | 277 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Systems & Control Letters | 0167-6911 | 241 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| European Journal of Control | 0947-3580 | 227 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | France |
| Robotics | 2218-6581 | 200 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,07,585 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing | 0890-6327 | 199 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Robotica | 0263-5747 | 195 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Control and Decision | 2330-7706 | 185 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology | 1063-6536 | 182 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Process Control | 0959-1524 | 179 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| International Journal of Robotics and Control Systems | 2775-2658 | 168 | 1 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Indonesia |
| SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization | 0363-0129 | 162 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Optimal Control Applications and Methods | 0143-2087 | 158 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine | 1070-9932 | 145 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Systems Science and Complexity | 1009-6124 | 137 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | China |
| Mechatronics | 0957-4158 | 124 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| The International Journal of Robotics Research | 0278-3649 | 124 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics | 1942-4302 | 118 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics | 1555-1415 | 115 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Industrial Robot the international journal of robotics research and application | 0143-991X | 112 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| IET Control Theory and Applications | 1751-8644 | 105 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,88,986 to publish | Yes | Yes | United States |
| Automation | 2673-4052 | 96 | 1 | ≈ ₹1,15,325 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| Multibody System Dynamics | 1384-5640 | 95 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Measurement and Control | 0020-2940 | 91 | 1 | ≈ ₹1,92,657 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Systems Science & Control Engineering | 2164-2583 | 89 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,11,441 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Transportation Safety and Environment | 2631-4428 | 76 | 1 | ≈ ₹1,51,717 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Digital Chemical Engineering | 2772-5081 | 70 | 1 | ≈ ₹1,58,942 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Applied Mechanics and Materials | 1660-9336 | 69 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | Switzerland |
| ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems | 2378-962X | 67 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection | 1874-5482 | 58 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| International Journal of Modelling and Simulation | 0228-6203 | 58 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems | 2832-7004 | 56 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | |
| Advanced materials research | 1022-6680 | 51 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | Switzerland |
| Journal of Automation and Intelligence | 2949-8554 | 49 | 1 | ≈ ₹96,329 to publish | Yes | Yes | |
| International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management | 2153-2648 | 48 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | United States |
| Annual Reviews in Control | 1367-5788 | 44 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery | 1000-1298 | 37 | 1 | Fee not published | Yes | No | China |
| IET Cyber-Physical Systems Theory & Applications | 2398-3396 | 36 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,31,189 to publish | Yes | Yes | United States |
| IET Cyber-Systems and Robotics | 2631-6315 | 34 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,11,923 to publish | Yes | Yes | United States |
| Automation and Remote Control | 0005-1179 | 31 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | British Virgin Islands |
| Journal of Dynamics Monitoring and Diagnostics | 2831-5308 | 26 | 1 | Fee not published | Yes | No | United States |
| Mathematical Problems in Engineering | 1024-123X | 23 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous Systems | 2573-5144 | 21 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing and Special Equipment | 2633-6596 | 20 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Discover Robotics | 3059-3204 | 14 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | |
| Advances in Data Science and Adaptive Analysis | 2424-922X | 13 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | Singapore |
| SUMO Conference Proceedings | 2750-4425 | 13 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Germany |
| IEEE Open Journal of Systems Engineering | 2771-9987 | 10 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,08,070 to publish | Yes | Yes |