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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	IEEE Transactions on Multimedia	78
2	ACM Transactions on Graphics	65
3	Multimedia Tools and Applications	64
4	IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing	57
5	IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics	52
6	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	51
7	Journal of Network and Computer Applications	50
8	Computer Science Review	48
-	IEEE Transactions on Services Computing	48
10	ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology	43
11	Mathematics and Computers in Simulation	42
12	IEEE Transactions on Reliability	40
-	Journal of Systems and Software	40
14	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications	39
-	Advances in Engineering Software	39
16	Information and Software Technology	37
17	Tsinghua Science and Technology	36
18	Journal of Systems Architecture	35
19	Image and Vision Computing	34
-	International Journal of Information Security	34
21	Virtual Reality	33
22	Visual Computer	31
23	ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery From Data	30
-	Computer Standards & Interfaces	30
-	Empirical Software Engineering	30
-	Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory	30
-	Communications of the ACM	30
28	Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation	29
-	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	29
-	Frontiers of Computer Science	29
31	SoftwareX	28
-	ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems	28
33	Computer Graphics Forum	27
34	Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering	24
35	Computers & Graphics-UK	23
36	Computational Visual Media	22
-	IEEE Transactions on Games	22
-	ACM Transactions on Internet Technology	22
39	World Wide Web-Internet and Web Information Systems	21
-	Computer-Aided Design	21
-	Computer	21
-	IEEE Micro	21
43	Software-Practice & Experience	20
-	IEEE Internet Computing	20
-	Software and Systems Modeling	20
-	Mathematical Programming	20
47	ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems	19
-	ACM Transactions on the Web	19
-	IEEE Software	19
50	International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval	18

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