L-CSS2017–2026
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An unofficial guide to every IEEE Control Systems Letters paper

All papers in IEEE L-CSS since its first issue in 2017, including early access: who publishes there, and who works on what. Three ways in:

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All time, by citations counted in Crossref and OpenAlex (snapshot ). Google Scholar counts are higher.

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    How this was made

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    • Papers are every item in IEEE Control Systems Letters (ISSN 2475-1456) registered with Crossref, from the first issue in 2017 to the snapshot of : papers, of them in early access. Front matter (tables of contents, editorial board, editorials) is left out. Titles, authors and affiliations are as deposited by IEEE. Abstracts come from OpenAlex.
    • Dates and volumes: the date is when the article went online (its DOI registration). Early access means the article has a DOI but no volume and pages yet; a few older records that were never given a volume in Crossref show only the year.
    • Counting: a paper counts once for every institution with at least one author on it, so shares add up to more than 100%. The fractional count splits each paper equally across its authors, then across each author's institutions.
    • Institution names use the hand-checked table of about 560 institutions from the CDC 2026 Explorer on the printed affiliation. Affiliations not in the table use OpenAlex's institution match (with its country and whether it is a company), and failing that the organisation named in the printed affiliation. Joint affiliations count for each institution named.
    • Research areas: L-CSS papers have no author keywords, so each paper gets the area of its 15 nearest CDC 2026 papers in meaning (weighted by similarity). Those CDC papers have areas from the official keywords their authors chose, grouped by hand into 16 areas. Treat the area of any single paper as a good guess, not a label.
    • Topic search runs entirely in your browser: your text is embedded with bge-small-en-v1.5 (downloaded once, about 33 MB) and compared with every paper's title and abstract. Nothing you type is sent anywhere. If the model can't load, the page falls back to keyword matching on titles.
    • arXiv and code links ( papers on arXiv, with code) were found automatically: arXiv copies known to OpenAlex, plus an arXiv title search that needs a near-identical title and a shared author surname. Code links come from GitHub or GitLab URLs in the arXiv abstract or comments, and from GitHub repositories whose README names the paper's title or arXiv ID. papers are open access on IEEE Xplore.
    • Industry vs academia: companies and corporate labs (MERL, Bosch, Toyota, …) are industry. Universities, government and national labs and public institutes (CNRS, Inria, CNR) are academia.
    • Authors are grouped by ORCID and OpenAlex author ID; two entries with the same name and a shared institution are treated as one person. Some people may still be split or merged by mistake. Download the institution table (CSV) · all papers (CSV).
    • Spotted a wrong mapping? Corrections are welcome.
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