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Systems & Control Letters
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Systems & Control Letters

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 145 142 223 23
Engineering and Technology 512 48 71 16

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 238
Documents by Best Scientists*: 324
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 11
SCIMAGO H-index: 154
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.189
Impact Factor: 2.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Systems & Control Letters?

The journal primarily tackles Control theory, Nonlinear system, Applied mathematics, Linear system and Mathematical analysis. Research on Control theory addressed in Systems & Control Letters frequently intersections with the field of Stability (probability). It explores issues in Nonlinear system which can be linked to other research areas like Observer (quantum physics), Control system, State (functional analysis) and Bounded function.

Applied mathematics and Mathematical optimization are closely related fields of research discussed in Systems & Control Letters. The Linear system study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Controllability. The study on Mathematical analysis presented in it intersects with the topics under Pure mathematics.

  • Control theory (45.99%)
  • Nonlinear system (18.06%)
  • Applied mathematics (16.20%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Control problems of grey systems (2647 citations)
  • Adapted solution of a backward stochastic differential equation (2253 citations)
  • Fast linear iterations for distributed averaging (2195 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Systems & Control Letters:

The published papers focus largely on the fields of Control theory, Nonlinear system, Linear system, Lyapunov function and Exponential stability. The journal papers focus on Control theory as well as the interrelated topics of Bounded function. The study of Linear system in the published papers encompasses disciplines such as Mathematical optimization, as well as fields such as Multi-agent system, all of which overlap with one another.

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

  • Mathematical analysis
  • Control theory
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The aim of Systems & Control Letters is to expand the discussion of research in Applied mathematics, Control theory, Nonlinear system, Exponential stability and Stability (probability). While work presented in Systems & Control Letters provided substantial information on Applied mathematics, it also covered topics in State (functional analysis), Boundary (topology), Lyapunov function and Type (model theory). Systems & Control Letters focuses on Boundary (topology) but sometimes tackles the closely related topic of Controllability which is concerned with Measure (mathematics), Pure mathematics and Mathematical analysis.

The studies in Control theory featured incorporate elements of Control (management) and State (computer science). Research in Linear system and the interrelating topic of Mathematical optimization were among the subjects of interest in the Nonlinear system studies discussed in it. The work on Exponential stability tackled in it brings together disciplines like Convergence (routing) and Upper and lower bounds.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Trade-offs in learning controllers from noisy data (8 citations)
  • Secure and privacy preserving consensus for second-order systems based on Paillier encryption (6 citations)
  • Completely distributed formation control for networked quadrotors under switching communication topologies (6 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 Systems & Control Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Eduardo D. Sontag (45 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Miroslav Krstic (36 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Zongli Lin (35 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Brian D. O. Anderson (31 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Romeo Ortega (30 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 Systems & Control Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Australian National University (82 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (76 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Melbourne (63 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Groningen (58 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Sapienza University of Rome (57 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 2021 edition, 15.85% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 10.14% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.25% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 13.77% of all publications and 68.84% 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

  • Stability analysis for a class of stochastic delay nonlinear systems driven by G-Brownian motion

    Quanxin Zhu;Tingwen Huang

    (2020)
    85 Citations
  • Event-triggered integral sliding mode control for linear systems with disturbance

    (2020)
    61 Citations
  • Global adaptive stabilization of stochastic high-order switched nonlinear non-lower triangular systems

    Ben Niu;Ming Liu;Ang Li

    (2020)
    60 Citations
  • Trade-offs in learning controllers from noisy data

    Andrea Bisoffi;Claudio De Persis;Pietro Tesi

    (2021)
    55 Citations
  • A hidden Markov model based control for periodic systems subject to singular perturbations

    Jun Cheng;Jun Cheng;Ju H. Park;Zheng-Guang Wu

    (2021)
    53 Citations
  • Stability analysis of impulsive stochastic delayed differential systems with unbounded delays

    Wei Hu;Wei Hu;Quanxin Zhu

    (2020)
    51 Citations
  • Secure and privacy preserving consensus for second-order systems based on Paillier encryption

    Wentuo Fang;Mohsen Zamani;Mohsen Zamani;Zhiyong Chen

    (2021)
    50 Citations
  • Generalized value iteration for discounted optimal control with stability analysis

    Mingming Ha;Ding Wang;Derong Liu

    (2021)
    46 Citations
  • On the use of low-pass filters in high-gain observers

    (2021)
    45 Citations

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