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Control Engineering Practice
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Control Engineering Practice

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 89 192 328 33
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 119 52 98 20
Engineering and Technology 312 90 121 24

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 370
Documents by Best Scientists*: 525
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 20
SCIMAGO H-index: 139
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.309
Impact Factor: 4.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Control Engineering Practice?

The journal mainly tackles studies in Control theory, Control engineering, Control theory, Nonlinear system and Control system. Discussions in Control Engineering Practice are anchored in the subject of Control theory and the similar topic of Model predictive control. It explores issues in Control engineering which can be linked to other research areas like Control (management), Process (computing), Actuator and System identification.

The study on Control theory presented is investigated in conjunction with research in Feed forward.

  • Control theory (55.00%)
  • Control engineering (32.36%)
  • Control theory (19.79%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A survey of industrial model predictive control technology (3885 citations)
  • Trends in the Application of Model Based Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Technical Processes (1124 citations)
  • Statistical Process Control of Multivariate Processes (1051 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Control Engineering Practice:

The main points discussed in the journal publications deal with Control theory, Control engineering, Control theory, Model predictive control and Nonlinear system. While the most cited publications focused on Control engineering, they were also able to explore topics like Control (management), Process (computing), System identification and Fault detection and isolation. Motion control, Servomechanism, Fuzzy logic and Feed forward are some topics wherein Control theory research discussed in the published articles has an impact.

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Control Engineering Practice (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Janusz Zalewski (29 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Vicenç Puig (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tore Hägglund (22 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Eduardo F. Camacho (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Min Wu (19 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Control Engineering Practice (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (82 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Delft University of Technology (67 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Polytechnic University of Milan (62 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Alberta (59 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tsinghua University (52 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2022 edition, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 50.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 0.00% of all publications and 50.00% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Disturbance observers and extended state observers for marine vehicles: A survey

    Unknown

    (2022)
    193 Citations
  • Multiple observers based anti-disturbance control for a quadrotor UAV against payload and wind disturbances

    Kexin Guo;Jindou Jia;Xiang Yu;Lei Guo

    (2020)
    179 Citations
  • Neural network based adaptive event trigger control for a class of electromagnetic suspension systems

    Lei Liu;Xiangsheng Li;Yan-Jun Liu;Shaocheng Tong

    (2021)
    174 Citations
  • Review on deep learning techniques for marine object recognition: Architectures and algorithms

    Ning Wang;Yuanyuan Wang;Meng Joo Er

    (2022)
    168 Citations
  • Value iteration and adaptive optimal output regulation with assured convergence rate

    (2022)
    158 Citations
  • Design of cascaded controller based on coyote optimizer for load frequency control in multi-area power systems with renewable sources

    Unknown

    (2022)
    145 Citations
  • Guidance and control methodologies for marine vehicles: A survey

    Hamid Reza Karimi;Yanyang Lu

    (2021)
    109 Citations

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