Top 10 Control and Systems Engineering Journals In The World 2026

1. Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems

The Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems provides comprehensive reviews of significant theoretical and applied developments that impact the engineering of autonomous and semiautonomous systems. The broad fields of control and robotics are the major areas covered, together with connections to theoretical and applied mechanics, optimization, communication, information theory, machine learning, computing, and signal processing. The journal covers important intersections with fields outside of engineering, including biology, neuroscience, and human behavioral sciences. more...

2. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

The IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics is a multidisciplinary journal publishing technical papers that bridge the gap between theory and application practice of informatics in industrial environments. Its scope encompasses the use of information in intelligent, distributed, agile industrial automation and control systems. Included are knowledge-based and AI enhanced automation; intelligent computer control systems; flexible and collaborative manufacturing; industrial informatics aspects in software-defined vehicles and robotics, computer vision, industrial cyber-physical and industrial IoT systems; real-time and networked embedded systems; security in industrial more...

3. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

The scope of the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics includes computational approaches to the field of cybernetics. Specifically, the transactions welcomes papers on communication and control across machines or machine, human, and organizations. The scope includes such areas as computational intelligence, computer vision, neural networks, genetic algorithms,  machine learning, fuzzy systems, cognitive systems, decision making, and robotics, to the extent that they contribute to the theme of cybernetics or demonstrate an application of cybernetics principles. more...

4. Annual Reviews in Control

The field of Control is changing very fast now, with new themes, buzzwords and technology-driven "grand challenges". Indeed, increasingly both economic developments and societal needs depend upon collections of diverse systems working together to provide needed services, comfort, health, safety and security. Consequently, there is an increasing demand for methodological and technical approaches which allow multiple, independent, heterogeneous systems to operate cooperatively to provide broader capabilities than are available from individual systems. Such considerations apply in a large number of more...

5. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Systems

The scope of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems includes the fields of systems engineering. It includes issue formulation, analysis and modeling, decision making, and issue interpretation for any of the systems engineering lifecycle phases associated with the definition, development, and deployment of large systems. In addition, it includes systems management, systems engineering processes, and a variety of systems engineering methods such as optimization, modeling and simulation. more...

6. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

In the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Control Systems Society publishes papers on the theoretical foundations of automatic control.  Two types of contributions are considered: 1) full papers — presentation of significant methodological research, either theoretical and/or application-motivated; and 2) technical notes — brief notes on established topics, technical results, and corrections to articles published in the Transactions. more...

7. Journal of Management Science and Engineering

The Journal of Management Science and Engineering (JMSE) is an international, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that publishes scientific research on the latest developments and practices of management science and engineering, emphasizing modeling, optimization, computation, and data analytics for identifying and solving management problems, making business decisions, and managing risks in complex management systems. JMSE strives to stimulate research resulting from the interconnection of technological disruption, the changing atlas of the global economy, and the current common challenges of human beings. This journal serves the entire more...

8. Automatica

Automatica is a leading archival publication in the field of systems and control. The field encompasses today a broad set of areas and topics, and is thriving not only within itself but also in terms of its impact on other fields, such as communications, computers, biology, energy and economics. Since its inception in 1963, Automatica has kept abreast with the evolution of the field over the years, more...

9. International Journal of Automation and Computing

Machine Intelligence Research (original title: International Journal of Automation and Computing) is published by Springer and sponsored by the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The journal publishes high-quality papers on original theoretical and experimental research, targets special issues on emerging topics, and strives to bridge the gap between theoretical research and practical applications. more...

10. Zidonghua Xuebao Acta Automatica Sinica

"Acta Automation" is sponsored by the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Society of Automation. It was founded in 1963, ceased publication in 1966, and resumed publication in 1979. It is now a 16-format, monthly publication. Published by Science Press, public offering at home and abroad. more...