72 Control and Systems Engineering journals (Engineering) in ORBIT Tier 2 with at least 10 papers in 2025. ORBIT Tier 2: second 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IFAC-PapersOnLine | 2405-8963 | 2,954 | 2 | Free to publish | Yes | No | Netherlands |
| Academic Journal of Science and Technology | 2771-3032 | 546 | 2 | Fee not published | Yes | No | United States |
| IEEE Control Systems Letters | 2475-1456 | 533 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | |
| Journal of Vibration and Control | 1077-5463 | 488 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Systems and Control Transactions | 2818-4734 | 425 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | ONC |
| Asian Journal of Control | 1561-8625 | 405 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Australia |
| Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control | 0142-3312 | 277 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal Européen des Systèmes Automatisés | 1269-6935 | 251 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Canada |
| International Journal of Control | 0020-7179 | 201 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers | 0253-3839 | 196 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Journal of Transportation Engineering Part A Systems | 2473-2893 | 175 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| IEEE Control Systems | 1066-033X | 172 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Automatic Control and Computer Sciences | 0146-4116 | 135 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Scientific and technical journal of information technologies mechanics and optics | 2226-1494 | 132 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Russia |
| Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences Technical Sciences | 0239-7528 | 131 | 2 | ≈ ₹49,769 to publish | Yes | Yes | Poland |
| Chemical Product and Process Modeling | 1934-2659 | 121 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Advanced Robotics | 0169-1864 | 120 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Netherlands |
| INCOSE International Symposium | 2334-5837 | 116 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part I Journal of Systems and Control Engineering | 0959-6518 | 114 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control | 0022-0434 | 106 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University (Science) | 1007-1172 | 103 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | China |
| Cybernetics and Systems Analysis | 1060-0396 | 101 | 2 | ≈ ₹3,07,288 to publish | No | No | United States |
| Evolution equations and control theory | 2163-2472 | 100 | 2 | Fee not published | Yes | No | |
| Journal of Control Automation and Electrical Systems | 2195-3880 | 95 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Computational nanotechnology | 2313-223X | 88 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| International Journal of Computing | 1727-6209 | 80 | 2 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Ukraine |
| International Journal of Performability Engineering | 0973-1318 | 78 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | India |
| Radio Electronics Computer Science Control | 1607-3274 | 78 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Ukraine |
| Nonlinear Analysis Hybrid Systems | 1751-570X | 75 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Mathematical Control and Related Fields | 2156-8472 | 71 | 2 | Fee not published | Yes | No | United States |
| Mechanical sciences | 2191-9151 | 68 | 2 | ≈ ₹77,271 to publish | Yes | Yes | Germany |
| Mekhatronika Avtomatizatsiya Upravlenie | 1684-6427 | 67 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| IFAC Journal of Systems and Control | 2468-6018 | 65 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations | 1040-7294 | 64 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Control Theory and Technology | 2095-6983 | 62 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | China |
| WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS AND CONTROL | 1991-8763 | 59 | 2 | Fee not published | Yes | No | |
| Journal of Advanced Manufacturing and Processing | 2637-403X | 54 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| International Journal of Frontiers in Engineering Technology | 2706-655X | 51 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Hong Kong SAR China |
| Advanced Control for Applications | 2578-0727 | 50 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| ASME Letters in Dynamic Systems and Control | 2689-6117 | 50 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science | 1641-876X | 50 | 2 | ≈ ₹92,072 to publish | Yes | Yes | Poland |
| Fine Chemical Technologies | 2410-6593 | 49 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Russia |
| IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems | 2694-085X | 49 | 2 | ≈ ₹2,08,070 to publish | Yes | Yes | United States |
| IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information | 0265-0754 | 49 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| SICE Journal of Control Measurement and System Integration | 1882-4889 | 46 | 2 | ≈ ₹1,30,598 to publish | Yes | Yes | Japan |
| Kybernetika | 0023-5954 | 44 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Czechia |
| International Journal of Automation and Smart Technology | 2223-9766 | 43 | 2 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Taiwan |
| Studies in Informatics and Control | 1220-1766 | 43 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Romania |
| Advances in Cyber-Physical Systems | 2524-0382 | 42 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Ukraine |
| Journal of Control Engineering and Applied Informatics | 1454-8658 | 41 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Romania |
| Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems | 1079-2724 | 40 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Archives of Control Sciences | 1230-2384 | 32 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Poland |
| Communications in Information and Systems | 1526-7555 | 31 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Journal of Fuzzy Systems and Control | 2986-6537 | 27 | 2 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Indonesia |
| Journal of Advanced Research in Computing and Applications. | 2462-1927 | 26 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Malaysia |
| Hungarian Journal of Industry and Chemistry | 0133-0276 | 25 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Poland |
| Mathematics of Control Signals and Systems | 0932-4194 | 25 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Optimizations in Applied Machine Learning | 3078-7971 | 25 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | China |
| Cyber-Physical Systems | 2333-5777 | 20 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Electronic Journal of Applied Mathematics | 2980-2474 | 20 | 2 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Türkiye |
| Applied Artificial Intelligence Research | 3105-0379 | 19 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | China |
| Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática Industrial RIAI | 1697-7912 | 19 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Spain |
| Systemic Analytics | 3009-3732 | 18 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Security and Safety | 2826-1275 | 16 | 2 | ≈ ₹1,19,715 to publish | Yes | Yes | |
| Mathematical Models in Engineering | 2351-5279 | 15 | 2 | ≈ ₹20,711 to publish | Yes | No | Lithuania |
| Advanced textbooks in control and signal processing | 2510-3814 | 13 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Germany |
| Modeling Identification and Control A Norwegian Research Bulletin | 0332-7353 | 12 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Norway |
| International Journal of Modeling and Optimization | 2010-3697 | 11 | 2 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Singapore |
| Maintenance Reliability and Condition Monitoring | 2669-2961 | 11 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Lithuania |
| Robot learning. | 2960-1436 | 11 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Cocos (Keeling) Islands |
| Intelligent Control and Automation | 2153-0653 | 10 | 2 | Fee not published | Yes | No | United States |
| Journal of Control Science and Engineering | 1687-5249 | 10 | 2 | ≈ ₹1,65,685 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |