Systems Engineering
Published by John Wiley & Sons
ISSN : 1098-1241 eISSN : 1520-6858
Abbreviation : Syst. Eng.
Aims & Scope
Systems Engineering is a discipline whose responsibility it is to create and operate technologically enabled systems that satisfy stakeholder needs throughout their life cycle.
Systems engineers reduce ambiguity by clearly defining stakeholder needs and customer requirements, they focus creativity by developing a system’s architecture and design and they manage the system’s complexity over time.
Considerations taken into account by systems engineers include, among others, quality, cost and schedule, risk and opportunity under uncertainty, manufacturing and realization, performance and safety during operations, training and support, as well as disposal and recycling at the end of life.
The journal welcomes original submissions in the field of Systems Engineering as defined above, but also encourages contributions that take an even broader perspective including the design and operation of systems-of-systems, the application of Systems Engineering to enterprises and complex socio-technical systems, the identification, selection and development of systems engineers as well as the evolution of systems and systems-of-systems over their entire lifecycle.
Systems Engineering integrates all the disciplines and specialty groups into a coordinated team effort forming a structured development process that proceeds from concept to realization to operation.
Increasingly important topics in Systems Engineering include the role of executable languages and models of systems, the concurrent use of physical and virtual prototyping, as well as the deployment of agile processes.
Systems Engineering considers both the business and the technical needs of all stakeholders with the goal of providing a quality product that meets the user needs.
Systems Engineering may be applied not only to products and services in the private sector but also to public infrastructures and socio-technical systems whose precise boundaries are often challenging to define.
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Impact Factor
| Year | Value |
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| 2025 | 1.6 |
| 2024 | 1.60 |
SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | 0.426 |
Quartile
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | Q3 |
h-index
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| 2024 | 61 |
Journal Rank
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | 13212 |
Journal Citation Indicator
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| 2024 | 4163 |
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Subjects & Keywords
Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Computer Science, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.
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.
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Modelâ€based systems engineering: Motivation, current status, and research opportunities
Citation: 309
Authors: Azad M., Michael
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Defining changeability: Reconciling flexibility, adaptability, scalability, modifiability, and robustness for maintaining system lifecycle value
Citation: 283
Authors: Adam M., Donna H., Daniel E.
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Design for changeability (DfC): Principles to enable changes in systems throughout their entire lifecycle
Citation: 283
Authors: Ernst, Armin P.
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Value and benefits of modelâ€based systems engineering (MBSE): Evidence from the literature
Citation: 190
Authors: Kaitlin, Alejandro
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Key concepts in modeling product development processes
Citation: 186
Authors: Tyson R., Ernst, Herbert
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Managing the risk of terrorism to interdependent infrastructure systems through the dynamic inoperability input–output model
Citation: 179
Authors: Chenyang, Yacov Y.
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Designing Resilient Systemsâ€ofâ€Systems: A Survey of Metrics, Methods, and Challenges
Citation: 164
Authors: Payuna, Karen
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Inoperability inputâ€output modeling of disruptions to interdependent economic systems
Citation: 160
Authors: Joost R.