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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	115
2	ACM Computing Surveys	100
3	Information Fusion	94
4	Multimedia Tools and Applications	71
5	Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Escience	63
-	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	63
7	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	60
8	Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine	54
9	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	51
-	Journal of Big Data	51
11	Swarm and Evolutionary Computation	49
12	Cluster Computing-The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications	44
13	IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing	42
-	Proceedings of the Vldb Endowment	42
-	Information Systems Frontiers	42
16	Journal of Supercomputing	41
-	Computer Science Review	41
18	International Journal of Systems Science	40
19	PeerJ Computer Science	39
20	IEEE Transactions on Big Data	38
21	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking	37
-	Journal of Systems and Software	37
23	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications	35
24	Expert Systems	33
25	Image and Vision Computing	32
-	Journal of Computational Science	32
27	Computer Systems Science and Engineering	31
28	Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing	30
-	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	30
30	Communications of the ACM	29
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	29
32	International Journal of Information Security	27
-	Microprocessors and Microsystems	27
-	Multimedia Systems	27
-	Fuzzy Sets and Systems	27
36	Frontiers of Computer Science	25
-	Computing	25
38	Connection Science	21
39	Journal of Grid Computing	19
40	IEEE Multimedia	18
-	New Generation Computing	18
-	Big Data Research	18
43	Theoretical Computer Science	17
44	Parallel Computing	16
-	Big Data	16
-	Computer Journal	16
47	ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization	15
-	Designs Codes and Cryptography	15
-	Semantic Web	15
-	Statistics and Computing	15

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