IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology is published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. and is in Zone 2 of Computer Science in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Advanced Control Systems Optimization, Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems and Iterative Learning Control Systems, together about 27.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Control and Systems Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The IEEE Control Systems Society publishes high-quality papers on technological advances in the design, realization, and operation of control systems. General Information The word technology is from the Greek technologia. The modern meaning is a scientific method to achieve a practical purpose. Control Systems Technology includes all aspects of control engineering needed to implement practical control systems, from analysis and design, through simulation and hardware. A primary purpose of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology is to have an archival publication, which will bridge the gap between theory and practice. Papers are published in the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology which disclose significant new knowledge, exploratory developments, or practical applications in all aspects of technology needed to implement control systems, from analysis and design through simulation, and hardware. The Transactions is published bimonthly. Three types of contributions are regularly considered: Papers - Presentation of significant research, development, or application of control systems technology. Brief Papers - Concise descriptions of a contribution to a specific aspect of design, realization, or operation of control systems technology. Letters - Significant remarks of interest to control systems engineers, and comments on previously published papers. In addition, special papers (tutorials, surveys, and perspectives on the current trends in control systems technology) are solicited. Authors are encouraged to contact the Editor in Chief before submitting such papers. Papers and Brief Papers go through the same review process. Letters go through a shorter review process to facilitate rapid publication. Papers should be no longer than 16 single-spaced pages, double-column IEEE format, including figures. Brief Papers should be no longer than 8 single-spaced pages, double-column IEEE format, including figures. Letters should be no longer than 4 single-spaced pages, double-column IEEE format, including figures. Manuscripts exceeding the specified page limits, or clearly outside the scope of the Transactions will be returned without review. View Issues on IEEE Xplore Special Notice for Authors: Authors of articles reporting on research involving human subjects or animals shall confirm upon submission of an article to the Editor* whether or not an approval was obtained from a relevant Review Board. If such approval was obtained, the original so

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

4.37LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

11.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

1.71LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.85LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

136LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

219OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

4,041OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

4.39OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

4.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

10.98%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

171LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

3–8 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly easyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Bimonthly

ISSN

1063-6536

Electronic ISSN

1558-0865

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website