Computer Science, Software Engineering: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	IEEE Transactions on Multimedia	68
2	Multimedia Tools and Applications	66
3	ACM Transactions on Graphics	57
4	Journal of Network and Computer Applications	55
5	IEEE Transactions on Services Computing	52
6	Mathematics and Computers in Simulation	49
7	IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing	48
-	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	48
9	IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics	47
10	Journal of Systems and Software	37
11	ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology	36
-	IEEE Transactions on Reliability	36
13	Information and Software Technology	35
-	Computer Science Review	35
15	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications	34
16	Tsinghua Science and Technology	33
-	Advances in Engineering Software	33
-	Journal of Systems Architecture	33
19	Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory	31
-	Virtual Reality	31
21	Communications of the ACM	30
-	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	30
-	Image and Vision Computing	30
24	Visual Computer	29
-	Computer Standards & Interfaces	29
26	Empirical Software Engineering	27
-	Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation	27
28	ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems	26
-	Computer Graphics Forum	26
-	Scientific Programming	26
31	SoftwareX	25
-	Computers & Graphics-UK	25
-	Frontiers of Computer Science	25
34	ACM Transactions on Internet Technology	24
-	World Wide Web-Internet and Web Information Systems	24
-	ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery From Data	24
37	International Journal of Information Security	23
-	Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering	23
39	IEEE Micro	22
-	Computer-Aided Design	22
-	IEEE Internet Computing	22
42	Computer	21
43	Computational Visual Media	20
-	IEEE Software	20
-	IEEE Transactions on Games	20
46	Software and Systems Modeling	19
-	Automated Software Engineering	19
-	Entertainment Computing	19
49	Mathematical Programming	18
-	Software-Practice & Experience	18

-	IEEE Multimedia	18
-	IT Professional	18
53	IEEE Embedded Systems Letters	17
-	Computer Journal	17
55	IEEE Security & Privacy	16
-	ACM Transactions on the Web	16
-	Journal of Software-Evolution and Process	16
58	Journal of the ACM	15
-	ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems	15
-	International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval	15
61	SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences	14
-	IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications	14
-	Journal of Web Semantics	14
-	Requirements Engineering	14
65	ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software	13
-	ACM Transactions on Storage	13
-	Science of Computer Programming	13
-	International Journal of Electronic Commerce	13
69	Computer Aided Geometric Design	12
-	Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds	12
-	Journal of Computer Science and Technology	12
-	Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision	12
73	Computer Science and Information Systems	11
-	International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer	11
-	Journal of Computer Languages	11
-	Optimization Methods & Software	11
-	IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems	11
78	Software Quality Journal	10
-	ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems	10
-	IET Software	10
-	Journal of Web Engineering	10
-	Graphical Models	10
-	Mathematical Programming Computation	10
-	Sigmod Record	10
-	Simulation-Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International	10
86	ACM Transactions on Database Systems	9
-	International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering	9
-	Theory and Practice of Logic Programming	9
-	ACM Transactions on Applied Perception	9
-	Algorithmica	9
-	BIT Numerical Mathematics	9
-	Formal Aspects of Computing	9
93	Software Testing Verification & Reliability	8
-	Information Visualization	8
95	International Journal of Web and Grid Services	7
-	Random Structures & Algorithms	7
-	International Journal of Wavelets Multiresolution and Information Processing	7
-	Programming and Computer Software	7
99	International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining	6
100	Fundamenta Informaticae	5
101	Journal of Functional Programming	4
-	International Journal of Web Services Research	4
103	ICGA Journal	3