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IEEE Control Systems Magazine

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 208 112 269 17
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 312 26 38 7
Engineering and Technology 874 23 30 9

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 165
Documents by Best Scientists*: 311
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 14
SCIMAGO H-index:
SCIMAGO SJR:
Impact Factor: 6.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at IEEE Control Systems Magazine?

IEEE Control Systems Magazine explores disciplines such as Control engineering, Control theory, Control (management), Control system and Control theory. It features studies on Control engineering, including topics such as Adaptive control. The Control theory research presented places emphasis on topics like Nonlinear system, Robust control, Optimal control, PID controller and Robustness (computer science).

The study on Control (management) presented in it intersects with subjects under the field of Engineering management. The Robot study featured falls within the larger field of Artificial intelligence.

  • Control engineering (26.72%)
  • Control theory (19.26%)
  • Control (management) (17.95%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Stability of networked control systems (3098 citations)
  • Basic problems in stability and design of switched systems (3077 citations)
  • Information consensus in multivehicle cooperative control (2437 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at IEEE Control Systems Magazine:

The published articles focus on Control engineering, Control theory, Control system, Control theory and Nonlinear system. The journal papers explore topics in Control engineering which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Artificial neural network, Control (management), Robot and Automatic control. Many of the studies tackled in the journal papers connect Control system with a similar field of study like Distributed computing.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • World War II
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Electrical engineering

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The main research concerns discussed in IEEE Control Systems Magazine are Control (management), Control (linguistics), Control theory, Control system and Library science. While Control (management) is the focus of IEEE Control Systems Magazine, it also provided insights into the studies of Optimal control, Distributed computing, Point (typography) and Engineering management. Aside from discussions in Control theory, it also deals with the subject of Multiplicative noise which intersects with Dynamical systems theory disciplines.

In addition to Control system research, the journal aims to explore topics under Law, Constitution, Public administration, Control engineering and Column (database). The presented Control engineering study covers related areas such as Open-loop controller and also touches on topics like Shape control. Library science research presented in IEEE Control Systems Magazine encompasses a variety of subjects, including Publishing and Process automation system.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Encrypted Control for Networked Systems: An Illustrative Introduction and Current Challenges (2 citations)
  • Controlling Uncertainty (1 citations)
  • Guy A. Dumont [People in Control] (0 citations)

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 IEEE Control Systems Magazine (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Dennis S. Bernstein (110 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Jonathan P. How (65 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Richard D. Braatz (59 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Rodolphe Sepulchre (26 papers) published 10 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Tariq Samad (24 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 IEEE Control Systems Magazine (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (65 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Michigan (59 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of California, Berkeley (37 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Georgia Institute of Technology (36 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (36 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous 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 2021 edition, 76.56% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 40.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 20.00% 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 40.00% 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

  • < Convex Optimization for Trajectory Generation: A Tutorial on Generating Dynamically Feasible Trajectories Reliably and Efficiently

    Unknown

    (2022)
    233 Citations
  • Model Predictive Control Using Neural Networks [25 Years Ago]

    Andreas Draeger;Sebastian Engell;Horst Ranke

    (2020)
    170 Citations
  • Model-Based Control of Soft Robots: A Survey of the State of the Art and Open Challenges

    (2021)
    168 Citations
  • The Robotarium: Globally Impactful Opportunities, Challenges, and Lessons Learned in Remote-Access, Distributed Control of Multirobot Systems

    Sean Wilson;Paul Glotfelter;Li Wang;Siddharth Mayya

    (2020)
    155 Citations
  • An Introduction to Disk Margins [Lecture Notes]

    Peter Seiler;Andrew Packard;Pascal Gahinet

    (2020)
    109 Citations
  • Data-Driven Safety Filters: Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability, Control Barrier Functions, and Predictive Methods for Uncertain Systems

    Unknown

    (2023)
    101 Citations
  • Encrypted Control for Networked Systems: An Illustrative Introduction and Current Challenges

    Moritz Schulze Darup;Andreea B. Alexandru;Daniel E. Quevedo;George J. Pappas

    (2021)
    82 Citations

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