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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	105
2	ACM Computing Surveys	101
3	Information Fusion	84
4	Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Escience	63
5	Multimedia Tools and Applications	60
6	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	55
7	Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine	53
8	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	51
9	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	49
10	Information Systems Frontiers	46
11	Computer Science Review	44
-	Journal of Big Data	44
13	Swarm and Evolutionary Computation	43
14	Journal of Supercomputing	41
-	IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing	41
-	Cluster Computing-The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications	41
17	International Journal of Systems Science	40
-	PeerJ Computer Science	40
19	Proceedings of the Vldb Endowment	36
20	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications	35
21	Journal of Systems and Software	34
-	Expert Systems	34
23	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking	33
24	Communications of the ACM	32
25	IEEE Transactions on Big Data	31
-	Journal of Computational Science	31
27	Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing	30
28	Fuzzy Sets and Systems	29
-	Microprocessors and Microsystems	29
-	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	29
31	Image and Vision Computing	27
-	Multimedia Systems	27
33	Computer Systems Science and Engineering	25
34	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	24
-	Big Data Research	24
-	Computing	24
37	Frontiers of Computer Science	21
-	Journal of Grid Computing	21
39	Connection Science	20
40	International Journal of Information Security	18
41	Computer Journal	17
-	Big Data	17
43	International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications	16
-	New Generation Computing	16
-	IEEE Multimedia	16
46	Human-Computer Interaction	15
-	Semantic Web	15
-	Theoretical Computer Science	15
-	Designs Codes and Cryptography	15
50	Journal of the ACM	14

-	Parallel Computing	14
-	ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization	14
53	Journal of Cryptology	12
-	Statistics and Computing	12
-	Foundations of Computational Mathematics	12
-	International Journal of General Systems	12
57	Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing	11
-	Journal of Computer and System Sciences	11
59	Information and Computation	10
-	Journal of Symbolic Computation	10
-	Cryptography and Communications-Discrete-Structures Boolean Functions and Sequences	10
62	International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation	9
-	Performance Evaluation	9
64	Journal of Web Engineering	8
-	ACM Transactions on Algorithms	8
-	Discrete & Computational Geometry	8
-	Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines	8
-	International Journal of Quantum Information	8
-	Journal of Cryptographic Engineering	8
-	Natural Computing	8
-	Theory and Practice of Logic Programming	8
-	Distributed and Parallel Databases	8
73	International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science	7
-	Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International	7
-	Journal of Logic and Computation	7
-	ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems	7
-	SIAM Journal on Computing	7
78	International Journal of Parallel Programming	6
-	Journal of Heuristics	6
-	Mathematical Structures in Computer Science	6
-	Artificial Life	6
-	Distributed Computing	6
-	Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming	6
-	Malaysian Journal of Computer Science	6
-	Real-Time Systems	6
-	Theory of Computing Systems	6
-	ACM Transactions on Computational Logic	6
88	Formal Methods in System Design	5
-	IET Computers and Digital Techniques	5
-	Quantum Information & Computation	5
-	Combinatorics Probability & Computing	5
92	IEEE Annals of the History of Computing	4
-	Problems of Information Transmission	4
-	Cryptologia	4
95	Theory of Computing	3
-	Applicable Algebra in Engineering Communication and Computing	3