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

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	ACM Computing Surveys	38
2	Information Fusion	28
3	Computer Science Review	25
4	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	24
5	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	17
-	Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Escience	17
-	IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing	17
8	Journal of Big Data	15
-	Swarm and Evolutionary Computation	15
10	Information Systems Frontiers	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	14
12	Multimedia Tools and Applications	13
-	Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine	13
-	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	13
15	Human-Computer Interaction	11
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	11
-	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking	11
18	IEEE Transactions on Big Data	10
-	Journal of Systems and Software	10
20	Connection Science	9
-	Journal of Grid Computing	9
-	Microprocessors and Microsystems	9
-	Proceedings of the Vldb Endowment	9
24	Journal of Computational Science	8
-	Journal of Supercomputing	8
-	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications	8
-	International Journal of Information Security	8
-	Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing	8
29	Frontiers of Computer Science	7
-	Fuzzy Sets and Systems	7
-	Semantic Web	7
-	Big Data Research	7
-	Computer Systems Science and Engineering	7
-	Image and Vision Computing	7
-	Big Data	7
36	Computing	6
-	Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing	6
-	New Generation Computing	6
-	PeerJ Computer Science	6
-	Expert Systems	6
-	Journal of the ACM	6
-	Parallel Computing	6
-	Cluster Computing-The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications	6
44	International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications	5
-	International Journal of Systems Science	5
-	Journal of Cryptology	5
-	Foundations of Computational Mathematics	5
48	ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems	4
-	Communications of the ACM	4
-	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	4

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