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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	108
2	ACM Computing Surveys	96
3	Information Fusion	89
4	Multimedia Tools and Applications	65
5	Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Escience	63
6	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	58
7	Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine	55
-	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	55
9	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	50
10	Journal of Big Data	47
11	Information Systems Frontiers	45
12	Swarm and Evolutionary Computation	44
13	Cluster Computing-The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications	41
14	IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing	40
-	Journal of Supercomputing	40
-	International Journal of Systems Science	40
17	Computer Science Review	38
18	Proceedings of the Vldb Endowment	37
-	Journal of Systems and Software	37
-	PeerJ Computer Science	37
21	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications	34
-	IEEE Transactions on Big Data	34
23	Expert Systems	33
-	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking	33
25	Communications of the ACM	32
26	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	31
27	Image and Vision Computing	30
-	Journal of Computational Science	30
29	Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing	29
30	Microprocessors and Microsystems	28
-	Computer Systems Science and Engineering	28
32	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	27
33	Fuzzy Sets and Systems	26
34	Multimedia Systems	25
-	Computing	25
-	Frontiers of Computer Science	25
37	International Journal of Information Security	22
-	Connection Science	22
39	Big Data Research	19
40	Journal of Grid Computing	18
41	Big Data	17
-	New Generation Computing	17
-	Theoretical Computer Science	17
-	Computer Journal	17
45	IEEE Multimedia	16
-	Semantic Web	16
47	Parallel Computing	15
-	Designs Codes and Cryptography	15
49	Journal of the ACM	14
-	ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization	14

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