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Optimal Control Applications and Methods

John Wiley and Sons Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 1980

ISSN1099-1514

SJR Q2✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.415

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.755

Total Worksi

2,765

Total Citationsi

29,774

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.70

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Automation & Control Systems; Mathematics, Applied; Operations Research & Management Science; Control and Optimization; Applied Mathematics; Control and Systems Engineering; Software.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1980

Annual Volume~ 149 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications2,765

Publisher OrgWiley

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1099-1514

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

1.2k

2019

141

1.4k

2020

154

1.6k

2021

124

857

2022

132

656

2023

158

819

2024

158

380

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Control and OptimizationQ2

Applied MathematicsQ3

Control and Systems EngineeringQ3

SoftwareQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Automation & Control SystemsMathematics, AppliedOperations Research & Management Science

Scopus Categories

Applied MathematicsSoftwareControl and Systems EngineeringControl and Optimization

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Advanced Control Systems OptimizationStability and Control of Uncertain SystemsControl Systems and IdentificationAdaptive Control of Nonlinear SystemsFault Detection and Control SystemsNeural Networks Stability and SynchronizationFrequency Control in Power SystemsNumerical methods for differential equationsAdaptive Dynamic Programming ControlStability and Controllability of Differential Equations

Frequently asked questions about Optimal Control Applications and Methods

Is Optimal Control Applications and Methods a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Optimal Control Applications and Methods: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Optimal Control Applications and Methods?

Optimal Control Applications and Methods is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 2.70.

Is Optimal Control Applications and Methods indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Optimal Control Applications and Methods is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Optimal Control Applications and Methods?