Computer Science, Theory & Methods: 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 Neural Networks and Learning Systems	123
2	ACM Computing Surveys	109
3	Information Fusion	102
4	Multimedia Tools and Applications	64
5	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	63
6	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	62
7	Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Escience	59
8	Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine	56
9	Journal of Big Data	54
10	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	51
-	Swarm and Evolutionary Computation	51
12	Cluster Computing-The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications	48
-	Computer Science Review	48
14	Journal of Supercomputing	42
-	Proceedings of the Vldb Endowment	42
16	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking	41
-	IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing	41
18	Journal of Systems and Software	40
19	IEEE Transactions on Big Data	39
-	PeerJ Computer Science	39
-	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications	39
22	Information Systems Frontiers	37
23	Expert Systems	36
24	International Journal of Systems Science	35
25	Image and Vision Computing	34
-	International Journal of Information Security	34
27	Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing	32
28	Communications of the ACM	30
-	Journal of Computational Science	30
30	Computer Systems Science and Engineering	29
-	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	29
-	Frontiers of Computer Science	29
-	Fuzzy Sets and Systems	29
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	29
-	Microprocessors and Microsystems	29
36	Multimedia Systems	27
37	Computing	23
38	Journal of Grid Computing	21
39	Connection Science	20
40	Theoretical Computer Science	19
41	Designs Codes and Cryptography	17
-	New Generation Computing	17
-	Big Data Research	17
-	Computer Journal	17
45	ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization	16
46	Human-Computer Interaction	15
-	Semantic Web	15
-	Statistics and Computing	15
-	Journal of the ACM	15
50	Big Data	14

-	International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications	14
-	Journal of Cryptology	14
-	IEEE Multimedia	14
-	International Journal of General Systems	14
55	ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems	13
-	Foundations of Computational Mathematics	13
57	Information and Computation	11
-	Journal of Web Engineering	11
-	Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing	11
-	Natural Computing	11
-	Parallel Computing	11
62	Cryptography and Communications-Discrete-Structures Boolean Functions and Sequences	10
-	Journal of Heuristics	10
64	Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines	9
-	International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation	9
-	Journal of Computer and System Sciences	9
-	Journal of Cryptographic Engineering	9
-	Journal of Symbolic Computation	9
-	SIAM Journal on Computing	9
-	Theory and Practice of Logic Programming	9
71	International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science	8
-	ACM Transactions on Algorithms	8
-	Artificial Life	8
-	International Journal of Quantum Information	8
-	Performance Evaluation	8
-	Real-Time Systems	8
77	International Journal of Parallel Programming	7
-	Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International	7
-	Mathematical Structures in Computer Science	7
-	Discrete & Computational Geometry	7
-	Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming	7
-	Malaysian Journal of Computer Science	7
83	ACM Transactions on Computational Logic	6
-	Distributed and Parallel Databases	6
-	Formal Methods in System Design	6
-	IEEE Annals of the History of Computing	6
-	IET Computers and Digital Techniques	6
-	Journal of Logic and Computation	6
-	Quantum Information & Computation	6
-	Combinatorics Probability & Computing	6
-	Distributed Computing	6
92	Problems of Information Transmission	5
93	Applicable Algebra in Engineering Communication and Computing	4
-	Evolutionary Computation	4
-	Cryptologia	4
-	Theory of Computing Systems	4
97	Theory of Computing	2