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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	110
2	ACM Computing Surveys	99
3	Information Fusion	89
4	Multimedia Tools and Applications	66
5	Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Escience	63
6	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	58
7	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	57
8	Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine	56
9	Journal of Big Data	49
-	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	49
11	Swarm and Evolutionary Computation	45
12	International Journal of Systems Science	42
-	Cluster Computing-The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications	42
-	IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing	42
15	Information Systems Frontiers	41
16	Journal of Supercomputing	40
-	Proceedings of the Vldb Endowment	40
18	PeerJ Computer Science	38
19	Journal of Systems and Software	37
20	Computer Science Review	35
-	IEEE Transactions on Big Data	35
22	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications	34
-	Expert Systems	34
-	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking	34
25	Journal of Computational Science	31
26	Communications of the ACM	30
-	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	30
-	Image and Vision Computing	30
29	Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing	29
-	Computer Systems Science and Engineering	29
31	Microprocessors and Microsystems	28
32	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	27
33	Fuzzy Sets and Systems	26
-	Multimedia Systems	26
35	Frontiers of Computer Science	25
36	Computing	23
-	Connection Science	23
-	International Journal of Information Security	23
39	Big Data Research	19
40	Journal of Grid Computing	18
-	IEEE Multimedia	18
42	New Generation Computing	17
-	Semantic Web	17
-	Theoretical Computer Science	17
-	Computer Journal	17
46	Journal of the ACM	15
-	Parallel Computing	15
-	Big Data	15
-	Designs Codes and Cryptography	15
50	Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing	14

-	Human-Computer Interaction	14
-	ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization	14
53	International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications	13
-	Statistics and Computing	13
-	International Journal of General Systems	13
56	Journal of Cryptology	12
-	Foundations of Computational Mathematics	12
58	Information and Computation	11
59	Journal of Web Engineering	10
-	International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation	10
-	Cryptography and Communications-Discrete-Structures Boolean Functions and Sequences	10
62	ACM Transactions on Algorithms	9
-	ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems	9
-	Journal of Computer and System Sciences	9
-	Journal of Cryptographic Engineering	9
-	Journal of Symbolic Computation	9
-	Natural Computing	9
-	SIAM Journal on Computing	9
-	Theory and Practice of Logic Programming	9
-	Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines	9
71	International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science	8
-	Journal of Heuristics	8
-	Artificial Life	8
-	Performance Evaluation	8
-	Real-Time Systems	8
76	Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International	7
-	Journal of Logic and Computation	7
-	Distributed Computing	7
-	International Journal of Quantum Information	7
-	Malaysian Journal of Computer Science	7
81	International Journal of Parallel Programming	6
-	Mathematical Structures in Computer Science	6
-	Quantum Information & Computation	6
-	Combinatorics Probability & Computing	6
-	Discrete & Computational Geometry	6
-	Formal Methods in System Design	6
-	IEEE Annals of the History of Computing	6
-	Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming	6
-	ACM Transactions on Computational Logic	6
-	Distributed and Parallel Databases	6
91	IET Computers and Digital Techniques	5
-	Theory of Computing Systems	5
-	Applicable Algebra in Engineering Communication and Computing	5
94	Problems of Information Transmission	4
-	Theory of Computing	4
-	Cryptologia	4