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ISA Transactions Achieves Top CiteScore

Source: International Society of Automation (ISA)
11 June, 2026
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The International Society of Automation (ISA) — the leading professional society for automation — announced that its ISA Transactions journal achieved the top CiteScore in its category from Elsevier, publishers of ScienceDirect.

Automation professionals around the world are citing the advances and state-of-the-art processes published in ISA’s peer-reviewed journal.

The International Society of Automation (ISA) — the leading professional society for automation — announced that its ISA Transactions journal achieved the top CiteScore in its category from Elsevier, publishers of ScienceDirect. 

ScienceDirect is a full-text scientific database of articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books. Elsevier’s CiteScore for ISA Transactions this year is 13.9, compared to 12.3 in the previous year, and its Impact Factor is 6.5.

The Impact Factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two preceding years. The CiteScore measures the average citations received per peer-reviewed document published in ISA Transactions. The chart below depicts the ISA Transactions Citescore for the last two years compared with other competing journals in the same/similar domain.

ISA Transactions, a bimonthly publication, publishes advances and state-of-the-art in the science and engineering of measurement and automation. It provides value to leading-edge industrial practitioners and applied researchers. Its intended audience is research and development personnel from academia and industry in the fields of control systems, process instrumentation, systems and automation.

Figure 1: CiteScore measures the average number of citations received by a journal in a single year to documents published in the previous four years. This chart depicts the ISA Transactions Citescore for the last two years compared to other competing journals in the same/similar domain. 

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Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ahmad Rad and the volunteer editors and editorial board members of ISA Transactions seek to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Automation professionals throughout the world rely on ISA Transactions for its scholarly value and quality, and for the credibility and usefulness of its peer-reviewed content.

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This article is part of our Automation.com Monthly June 2026 issue.
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