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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	122
2	ACM Computing Surveys	106
3	Information Fusion	102
4	Multimedia Tools and Applications	63
5	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	62
6	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	60
7	Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Escience	59
8	Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine	55
9	Journal of Big Data	53
10	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	52
11	Swarm and Evolutionary Computation	50
12	Cluster Computing-The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications	48
-	Computer Science Review	48
14	Journal of Supercomputing	43
15	Proceedings of the Vldb Endowment	42
16	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking	41
17	IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing	40
-	Journal of Systems and Software	40
19	PeerJ Computer Science	39
-	IEEE Transactions on Big Data	39
-	Information Systems Frontiers	39
22	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications	38
23	Expert Systems	35
-	Image and Vision Computing	35
-	International Journal of Systems Science	35
26	International Journal of Information Security	32
-	Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing	32
-	Journal of Computational Science	32
29	Communications of the ACM	30
30	Computer Systems Science and Engineering	29
-	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	29
-	Fuzzy Sets and Systems	29
33	Microprocessors and Microsystems	28
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	28
-	Frontiers of Computer Science	28
36	Multimedia Systems	26
37	Computing	24
38	Journal of Grid Computing	21
-	Connection Science	21
40	Theoretical Computer Science	19
41	Big Data Research	18
-	New Generation Computing	18
43	Computer Journal	17
44	ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization	16
-	Designs Codes and Cryptography	16
46	Journal of the ACM	15
-	Human-Computer Interaction	15
48	Big Data	14
-	IEEE Multimedia	14
-	Semantic Web	14

-	Statistics and Computing	14
-	International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications	14
-	Journal of Cryptology	14
54	Foundations of Computational Mathematics	13
-	International Journal of General Systems	13
-	ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems	13
57	Information and Computation	12
58	Parallel Computing	11
-	Natural Computing	11
-	Journal of Web Engineering	11
-	Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing	11
62	Cryptography and Communications-Discrete-Structures Boolean Functions and Sequences	10
-	Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines	10
-	Journal of Computer and System Sciences	10
-	Journal of Heuristics	10
66	Real-Time Systems	9
-	SIAM Journal on Computing	9
-	Theory and Practice of Logic Programming	9
-	Journal of Cryptographic Engineering	9
-	Journal of Symbolic Computation	9
71	International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation	8
-	International Journal of Quantum Information	8
-	ACM Transactions on Algorithms	8
-	Artificial Life	8
-	International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science	8
76	Performance Evaluation	7
-	Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming	7
-	Combinatorics Probability & Computing	7
-	Discrete & Computational Geometry	7
-	Distributed Computing	7
-	International Journal of Parallel Programming	7
-	Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International	7
-	Mathematical Structures in Computer Science	7
84	ACM Transactions on Computational Logic	6
-	Distributed and Parallel Databases	6
-	Malaysian Journal of Computer Science	6
-	Quantum Information & Computation	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
92	Problems of Information Transmission	5
93	Theory of Computing Systems	4
-	Applicable Algebra in Engineering Communication and Computing	4
-	Cryptologia	4
96	Theory of Computing	1