Computer Science, Theory & Methods: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	ACM Computing Surveys	48
2	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	28
3	Information Fusion	27
4	Computer Science Review	25
5	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	21
6	Journal of Big Data	18
7	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking	16
8	Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Escience	15
-	IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing	15
-	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	15
-	Swarm and Evolutionary Computation	15
-	Multimedia Tools and Applications	15
13	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	14
-	Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine	14
-	Human-Computer Interaction	14
16	International Journal of Information Security	13
-	Journal of Grid Computing	13
18	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	12
19	Proceedings of the Vldb Endowment	11
-	IEEE Transactions on Big Data	11
-	Journal of Supercomputing	11
22	Journal of Systems and Software	10
23	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications	9
-	Image and Vision Computing	9
-	Microprocessors and Microsystems	9
-	Frontiers of Computer Science	9
-	Information Systems Frontiers	9
28	Connection Science	8
-	Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing	8
-	Computer Systems Science and Engineering	8
-	Journal of Computational Science	8
32	Computing	7
-	Expert Systems	7
-	Big Data	7
-	Cluster Computing-The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications	7
-	Journal of Cryptology	7
-	Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing	7
-	Semantic Web	7
39	Big Data Research	6
-	Foundations of Computational Mathematics	6
-	Journal of the ACM	6
-	Fuzzy Sets and Systems	6
-	New Generation Computing	6
-	PeerJ Computer Science	6
45	ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems	5
-	International Journal of General Systems	5
-	Journal of Cryptographic Engineering	5
-	Real-Time Systems	5
-	Evolutionary Computation	5
-	International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications	5

-	International Journal of Systems Science	5
52	Computer Journal	4
-	Multimedia Systems	4
-	Parallel Computing	4
-	Performance Evaluation	4
-	ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization	4
-	Communications of the ACM	4
-	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	4
-	IET Computers and Digital Techniques	4
-	Journal of Heuristics	4
-	Statistics and Computing	4
62	ACM Transactions on Algorithms	3
-	Artificial Life	3
-	Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines	3
-	Journal of Symbolic Computation	3
-	Natural Computing	3
-	ACM Transactions on Computational Logic	3
-	Cryptography and Communications-Discrete-Structures Boolean Functions and Sequences	3
-	Designs Codes and Cryptography	3
-	Distributed and Parallel Databases	3
-	International Journal of Parallel Programming	3
-	Journal of Web Engineering	3
-	Problems of Information Transmission	3
74	Combinatorics Probability & Computing	2
-	Discrete & Computational Geometry	2
-	Distributed Computing	2
-	International Journal of Quantum Information	2
-	Journal of Computer and System Sciences	2
-	Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming	2
-	Malaysian Journal of Computer Science	2
-	SIAM Journal on Computing	2
-	Theory and Practice of Logic Programming	2
-	Formal Methods in System Design	2
-	Information and Computation	2
-	Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International	2
-	Journal of Logic and Computation	2
-	Mathematical Structures in Computer Science	2
-	Theoretical Computer Science	2
89	Cryptologia	1
-	IEEE Multimedia	1
-	International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation	1
-	Theory of Computing Systems	1
-	Applicable Algebra in Engineering Communication and Computing	1
-	International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science	1
-	Quantum Information & Computation	1
96	IEEE Annals of the History of Computing	0
-	Theory of Computing	0