Journal History
| 2020 | The inaugural issue was released. Automation was published as a yearly journal. |
| 2021 | Automation adopted a quarterly publication schedule. Automation was indexed in DOAJ. |
| 2023 | Automation was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier), starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1). |
| 2024 | Automation was indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1). Automation received its first CiteScore of 2.9. |
| 2025 | Automation established the following sections: Automation in Energy Systems; Control Theory and Methods; Industrial Automation and Process Control; Intelligent Control and Machine Learning; Robotics and Autonomous Systems; Smart Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles. |
Editor-in-Chief
| 2020–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Eyad H. Abed |
