Control Engineering Practice

Control Engineering Practice is the applications journal of IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control, published monthly by Elsevier since 1993, and it reports control engineering work demonstrated on real industrial systems rather than in simulation alone, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.3《控制工程实践》是（IFAC，国际自动控制联合会）的应用类会刊，自 1993 年起由（Elsevier）按月出版，刊载在真实工业系统而非仅在仿真中得到验证的控制工程研究，2025 年影响因子为 5.3。

Scope

• Control applications in the process, manufacturing and production industries, including commissioning and performance assessment流程工业、制造业与生产领域的控制应用，包括投运调试与性能评估。
• Automotive, aerospace, marine and transportation systems汽车、航空航天、船舶与交通运输系统。
• Power generation, energy conversion, electrical drives and building services control发电、能量转换、电气传动与建筑设备控制。
• Robotics, mechatronics and autonomous systems operated under industrial conditions在工业条件下运行的机器人、机电一体化与自主系统。
• Biomedical and healthcare control, including closed-loop therapy delivery and medical devices生物医学与医疗健康控制，包括闭环治疗给药与医疗器械。
• System identification, state estimation, fault detection and diagnosis implemented on plant在装置上实现的系统辨识、状态估计、故障检测与诊断。
• Model-based optimization, predictive control and supervisory strategies deployed in real operations在实际运行中部署的基于模型的优化、预测控制与监督控制策略。

History

• Control Engineering Practice was launched in 1993 as IFAC's journal for applications, complementing the more theoretical Automatica and published by Pergamon Press, later part of Elsevier该刊于 1993 年作为（IFAC）的应用类期刊创办，与偏重理论的（Automatica）互补，初由（Pergamon Press）出版，后并入（Elsevier）。
• The first volume appeared in 1993, and the journal now publishes twelve volumes a year, one for each month第 1 卷于 1993 年面世，现每年出版 12 卷，每月一卷。
• It belongs to the family of official IFAC journals, alongside Automatica, Annual Reviews in Control and the IFAC Journal of Systems and Control该刊属于（IFAC）官方期刊系列，与（Automatica）（Annual Reviews in Control）及（IFAC Journal of Systems and Control）并列。
• It is a hybrid journal, subscription based with an open access option for individual articles该刊为混合开放获取期刊，以订阅为主，单篇论文可选择开放获取。
• It is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus, and reached Q1 in automation and control systems in 2025该刊被（SCIE）与（Scopus）收录，2025 年在自动化与控制系统类别进入 Q1。
• Its Journal Impact Factor was 3.475 in 2021, 4.057 in 2022, 4.6 in 2024 and 5.3 in 2025其影响因子 2021 年为 3.475，2022 年为 4.057，2024 年为 4.6，2025 年为 5.3。

Editors

• Knut Graichen, Professor at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, is editor-in-chief现任主编为德国（Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg）的 Knut Graichen 教授。
• Submissions must show experimental results obtained on real systems, and studies that rest on simulation alone fall outside the journal's remit投稿须给出在真实系统上取得的实验结果，仅依赖仿真的研究不属于该刊范围。
• Because it is an IFAC journal, its editorial board and policies operate within the IFAC publications structure that also oversees Automatica作为（IFAC）会刊，其编委会与编辑方针在同时主管（Automatica）的（IFAC）出版体系内运作。
• The journal and IFAC recognise outstanding contributions through an annual Control Engineering Practice prize该刊与（IFAC）通过年度（Control Engineering Practice）奖项表彰杰出论文。
• Manuscripts are submitted and tracked through Elsevier's Editorial Manager system稿件经（Elsevier）的（Editorial Manager）系统投稿与跟踪。