International Journal of Control

Aims & Scope

The International Journal of Control publishes top quality, peer reviewed papers in all areas, both established and emerging, of control theory and its applications.

Readership: Development engineers and research workers in industrial automatic control.

Research workers and students in automatic control and systems science in universities.

Teachers of advanced automatic control in universities.

Applied mathematicians and physicists working in automatic control and systems analysis.

Development and research workers in fields where automatic control is widely applied: process industries, energy utility industries and advanced manufacturing, embedded systems and robotics.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.6
2024	1.60

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	8382

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1838

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.681

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	131

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Computer Science and Engineering, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Higher-order sliding modes, differentiation and output-feedback control

  Citation: 3299

  Authors: Arie

• Sliding order and sliding accuracy in sliding mode control

  Citation: 2629

  Authors: ARIE

• Flatness and defect of non-linear systems: introductory theory and examples

  Citation: 2480

  Authors: MICHEL, JEAN, PHILIPPE, PIERRE

• All optimal Hankel-norm approximations of linear multivariable systems and their<i>L</i>,^∞-error bounds†

  Citation: 2300

  Authors: KEITH

• Output feedback H_∞ control of systems with parameter uncertainty

  Citation: 1382

  Authors: LIHUA

• Tracking control of non-linear systems using sliding surfaces, with application to robot manipulators†

  Citation: 1379

  Authors: J. J., S. S.

• The general problem of the stability of motion

  Citation: 1341

  Authors: A. M.

• Delay-dependent robust stabilization of uncertain state-delayed systems

  Citation: 1287

  Authors: Young Soo, Poogyeon, Wook Hyun, Young Sam

• Orthogonal least squares methods and their application to non-linear system identification

  Citation: 1206

  Authors: S., S. A., W.

• Input-output parametric models for non-linear systems Part I: deterministic non-linear systems

  Citation: 1055

  Authors: I. J., S. A.

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