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Guidance, Navigation and Control

World Scientific · Singapore · Est. 2021

ISSN2737-4807eISSN2737-4920

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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

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The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 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

0.366

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.814

Total Worksi

197

Total Citationsi

692

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.77

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Automation & Control Systems; Engineering, Aerospace; Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality; Aerospace Engineering; Control and Systems Engineering; Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

General Information

Country / RegionSingapore

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2021

Annual Volume~ 43 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications197

Publisher OrgWorld Scientific

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

thinkchecksubmit.org

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

World Scientific

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

2737-4807 / 2737-4920

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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

343

2021

176

2022

131

2023

2024

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.

Safety, Risk, Reliability and QualityQ2

Aerospace EngineeringQ3

Control and Systems EngineeringQ3

Electrical and Electronic EngineeringQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Automation & Control SystemsEngineering, Aerospace

Scopus Categories

Electrical and Electronic EngineeringControl and Systems EngineeringAerospace EngineeringSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Robotic Path Planning AlgorithmsAdaptive Control of Nonlinear SystemsDistributed Control Multi-Agent SystemsGuidance and Control SystemsDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesSpacecraft Dynamics and ControlUAV Applications and OptimizationInertial Sensor and NavigationSpace Satellite Systems and ControlRobotics and Sensor-Based Localization

Frequently asked questions about Guidance, Navigation and Control

Is Guidance, Navigation and Control a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Guidance, Navigation and Control: 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 Guidance, Navigation and Control?

Guidance, Navigation and Control 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 0.77.

Is Guidance, Navigation and Control indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Guidance, Navigation and Control is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.