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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	ACM Computing Surveys	37
2	Information Fusion	27
3	Computer Science Review	26
4	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	22
5	IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing	17
6	Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Escience	16
-	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	16
8	Swarm and Evolutionary Computation	15
9	Information Systems Frontiers	14
10	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	13
-	Journal of Big Data	13
-	Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine	13
13	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	12
-	Multimedia Tools and Applications	12
15	Proceedings of the Vldb Endowment	10
-	Journal of Systems and Software	10
-	Human-Computer Interaction	10
18	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking	9
-	IEEE Transactions on Big Data	9
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	9
-	Connection Science	9
22	Journal of Grid Computing	8
-	Microprocessors and Microsystems	8
-	Journal of Computational Science	8
-	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications	8
26	Image and Vision Computing	7
-	International Journal of Information Security	7
-	Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing	7
-	Cluster Computing-The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications	7
-	Journal of Supercomputing	7
-	Semantic Web	7
-	Big Data Research	7
-	Frontiers of Computer Science	7
34	Journal of the ACM	6
-	Big Data	6
-	Computer Systems Science and Engineering	6
-	Expert Systems	6
-	New Generation Computing	6
-	Fuzzy Sets and Systems	6
40	Parallel Computing	5
-	Foundations of Computational Mathematics	5
-	International Journal of Systems Science	5
-	Journal of Cryptology	5
-	Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing	5
-	PeerJ Computer Science	5
-	Computing	5
47	International Journal of General Systems	4
-	Multimedia Systems	4
-	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	4
-	International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications	4

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