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

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	114
2	ACM Computing Surveys	103
3	Information Fusion	95
4	Multimedia Tools and Applications	72
5	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	65
6	Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Escience	62
7	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	61
8	Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine	54
9	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	52
10	Swarm and Evolutionary Computation	50
11	Journal of Big Data	49
12	Cluster Computing-The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications	45
13	Proceedings of the Vldb Endowment	43
-	Computer Science Review	43
15	IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing	42
-	Information Systems Frontiers	42
-	Journal of Supercomputing	42
18	International Journal of Systems Science	40
-	PeerJ Computer Science	40
20	IEEE Transactions on Big Data	39
21	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking	38
22	Journal of Systems and Software	37
23	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications	36
24	Expert Systems	33
-	Image and Vision Computing	33
26	Computer Systems Science and Engineering	32
-	Journal of Computational Science	32
28	Communications of the ACM	30
-	Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing	30
30	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	29
-	International Journal of Information Security	29
32	Microprocessors and Microsystems	28
-	Multimedia Systems	28
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	28
-	Fuzzy Sets and Systems	28
36	Computing	26
-	Frontiers of Computer Science	26
38	Connection Science	21
39	Journal of Grid Computing	19
-	Big Data Research	19
41	IEEE Multimedia	18
42	New Generation Computing	17
-	Theoretical Computer Science	17
44	Computer Journal	16
-	Semantic Web	16
46	ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization	15
-	Big Data	15
-	Designs Codes and Cryptography	15
-	Statistics and Computing	15
50	Journal of the ACM	14

51	Foundations of Computational Mathematics	13
-	International Journal of General Systems	13
-	Human-Computer Interaction	13
-	International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications	13
-	Journal of Cryptology	13
-	Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing	13
57	ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems	11
-	Information and Computation	11
-	Journal of Web Engineering	11
60	Cryptography and Communications-Discrete-Structures Boolean Functions and Sequences	10
-	Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines	10
-	International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation	10
-	Natural Computing	10
-	Parallel Computing	10
65	Journal of Cryptographic Engineering	9
-	Journal of Symbolic Computation	9
-	SIAM Journal on Computing	9
-	Theory and Practice of Logic Programming	9
-	ACM Transactions on Algorithms	9
-	Artificial Life	9
-	Journal of Heuristics	9
72	International Journal of Quantum Information	8
-	Journal of Computer and System Sciences	8
-	Malaysian Journal of Computer Science	8
-	Performance Evaluation	8
-	Real-Time Systems	8
-	Distributed Computing	8
-	International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science	8
79	Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming	7
-	Combinatorics Probability & Computing	7
-	Discrete & Computational Geometry	7
-	International Journal of Parallel Programming	7
-	Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International	7
-	Journal of Logic and Computation	7
85	ACM Transactions on Computational Logic	6
-	Distributed and Parallel Databases	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
-	Cryptologia	4
-	Theory of Computing	4