TAC2000–2026
Explorer
An unofficial guide to every IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control paper
All papers in IEEE TAC from 2000 to today, including early access: who publishes there, and who works on what. Three ways in:
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Rank, paper count per year, research-area mix and every paper for each university, lab and company in TAC.
e.g. The Ohio State University · ETH Zurich Search institutions →Search by topic or paper
Type a topic or paste your abstract. See the closest TAC papers, with arXiv and code links, and who wrote them.
e.g. Koopman Operator · Control Barrier Functions Search topics →Search by author
Find anyone's TAC papers, newest first, with their institutions and co-authors.
e.g. Jorge Cortés · Florian Dörfler Search authors →
🏆 Look for the most cited papers →
Rank every TAC paper by citations, by year, institution or research area
Most cited TAC papers since 2000
Ranked by citations in OpenAlex as of . Google Scholar counts are usually higher, but the order is similar.
Data from Crossref and OpenAlex for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · snapshot
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Who works on your topic?
Type a topic or paste a title and abstract. We find the TAC papers closest in meaning, then count which institutions and countries wrote them.
Most cited papers
Every TAC paper ranked by citations (OpenAlex counts, snapshot ). Narrow it down by year, institution or research area.
Search by author
Every TAC author, with their papers (newest first), institutions and co-authors.
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Most papers in TAC
Authors ranked by number of TAC papers. Click a name for their papers.
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How this was made
data, method and caveats
- Papers are every item in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (ISSN 0018-9286) registered with Crossref, from January 2000 to the snapshot of : papers, of them in early access. Front matter (tables of contents, editorial board, editorials, indexes) and errata are left out. Full papers, technical notes and comments are all included. 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. IEEE has deposited printed affiliations with Crossref only since 2022; for older papers the institutions come from OpenAlex, which misses about 1–5% of authors (up to 9% in 2000).
- Research areas: TAC 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, with code links taken from GitHub or GitLab URLs in the arXiv abstract or comments. Papers OpenAlex doesn't link to arXiv aren't searched yet, so these counts are a lower bound, especially for older papers. 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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