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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	IEEE Transactions on Multimedia	61
-	Multimedia Tools and Applications	61
3	ACM Transactions on Graphics	59
4	Journal of Network and Computer Applications	55
5	IEEE Transactions on Services Computing	50
6	IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics	49
7	Mathematics and Computers in Simulation	48
8	Computer Science Review	46
9	IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing	45
10	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	44
11	Journal of Systems Architecture	39
12	Journal of Systems and Software	35
-	IEEE Transactions on Reliability	35
-	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications	35
15	Information and Software Technology	34
-	Communications of the ACM	34
17	Advances in Engineering Software	32
-	Virtual Reality	32
19	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	31
-	Tsinghua Science and Technology	31
-	ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology	31
22	Computer Graphics Forum	30
-	Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory	30
-	Visual Computer	30
25	ACM Transactions on Internet Technology	28
-	Computer Standards & Interfaces	28
-	Image and Vision Computing	28
28	Empirical Software Engineering	27
-	Scientific Programming	27
30	SoftwareX	26
-	Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation	26
-	World Wide Web-Internet and Web Information Systems	26
-	ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery From Data	26
34	Computers & Graphics-UK	23
-	Frontiers of Computer Science	23
-	ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems	23
37	IEEE Micro	22
-	Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering	22
-	IEEE Internet Computing	22
-	IEEE Software	22
41	Computer	21
-	Computer-Aided Design	21
43	Software and Systems Modeling	20
-	Computational Visual Media	20
45	Entertainment Computing	19
-	International Journal of Information Security	19
47	IEEE Transactions on Games	18
-	IT Professional	18
-	Software-Practice & Experience	18
50	Mathematical Programming	17

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