Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825; CODEN: ACTUC3) is an international open access journal on the science and technology of actuators and control systems published by MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. It is published under the scientific leadership of a well-recognized Editorial Board and has been indexed by many important databases, including Science Citation Index Expanded - Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), Scopus (Elsevier), Inspec (IET), etc. The IF 2020 is 1.957.

The journal also provide a rapid peer review and publication process. Manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision provided to authors approximately 13.4 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 2.6 days.