Journal profile · Computer Science, Cybernetics

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN AND CYBERNETICS PART C-APPLICATIONS AND RE

ISSN 1094-6977 · UNITED STATES · Quarterly

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN AND CYBERNETICS PART C-APPLICATIONS AND RE: subscription journal; review 3–8 weeks (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 0 articles in 2025; the journal's website says it has ceased publication.

The journal's website says it has ceased publication: This title ceased publication in 2012. The current retitled publication is IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. Source ↗Publisher website ·

Impact factor—No published value
CAS zone—Not in the CAS Journal Ranking
CiteScore quartile—No CiteScore rank
Review time3–8 weeksCommunity average
APC—No source gives fee information
AcceptanceEasyCommunity average
Articles per year02025 · OpenAlex count

Scope

Aims, scope and focus

By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN AND CYBERNETICS PART C-APPLICATIONS AND RE's largest topics are Fuzzy Logic and Control Systems, Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research and Neural Networks and Applications, together about 24.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Artificial Intelligence. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Overview, tutorial and application papers concerning all areas of interest to the SMC Society: systems engineering, human factors and human machine systems, and cybernetics and computational intelligence. Promotes newly established areas of multi-agent systems, semantics and ontologies.Starting January 1, 2013, the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part C: Applications & Reviews has been renamed to IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Computer Science, Cybernetics

Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate

  1. Fuzzy Logic and Control SystemsComputer Science9.4%
  2. Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms ResearchComputer Science8.3%
  3. Neural Networks and ApplicationsComputer Science6.9%
  4. Evolutionary Algorithms and ApplicationsComputer Science5.6%
  5. Scheduling and Optimization AlgorithmsEngineering5.2%
  6. Multi-Agent Systems and NegotiationComputer Science4.8%
  7. Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing SystemsEngineering4.7%
  8. Advanced Software Engineering MethodologiesComputer Science4.2%

Rankings & indexing

CAS ranking and database indexing

CAS Journal Ranking

CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

Database indexing

Indexed in: no record yet.

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Metrics

Impact metrics and publication volume

Impact

h-index
146OpenAlex ·
i10-index
917OpenAlex ·
2-year mean citedness
0OpenAlex ·
Share of gold OA articles
0%LetPub ·

Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,369 in total · the current year is incomplete

YearArticlesOpen accessCitations
2026002,119
2025003,211
2024003,831
2023104,173
2022004,656
2021005,526

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.

Review & acceptance

Review time and acceptance

Average review time (community reports)
3–8 weeksLetPub ·
Average acceptance (community reports)
EasyLetPub ·

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.

Fees & open access

APC and open-access policy

Subscription journalLetPub

A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.

No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.

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

Profile

Publication details and official links

Country or region
UNITED STATES
Frequency
Quarterly
ISSN
1094-6977
Official links

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN AND CYBERNETICS PART C-APPLICATIONS AND RE

How long does peer review take at IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN AND CYBERNETICS PART C-APPLICATIONS AND RE?

Authors report an average review time of 3–8 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.

Is IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN AND CYBERNETICS PART C-APPLICATIONS AND RE open access, and what is the APC?

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN AND CYBERNETICS PART C-APPLICATIONS AND RE is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.

Sources and updates

The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .