New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Computer science

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 Access135
2 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence134
3 Expert Systems With Applications122
4 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems115
5 IEEE Internet of Things Journal113
6 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics111
7 IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics102
8 ACM Computing Surveys100
9 Information Fusion94
- Computers in Biology and Medicine94
11 Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence93
12 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials92
13 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics89
14 Neurocomputing88
15 Computers and Electronics in Agriculture87
16 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing86
- Electronics86
- Knowledge-Based Systems86
- Pattern Recognition86
20 IEEE Transactions on Systems Man Cybernetics-Systems85
21 IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering83
22 Information Sciences81
23 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems80
- Journal of Medical Internet Research80
- Radiology80
26 Medical Image Analysis79
- Nature Machine Intelligence79
28 Applied Soft Computing78
- Artificial Intelligence Review78
30 IEEE Transactions on Multimedia76
31 IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control75
32 Neural Computing & Applications74
33 npj Digital Medicine73
34 Briefings in Bioinformatics72
35 IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging71
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing71
- Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences71
- Multimedia Tools and Applications71
39 Computers & Industrial Engineering70
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters70
41 Advanced Engineering Informatics69
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles69
43 IEEE-CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica68
- IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics68
45 Neuroimage67
46 Lancet Digital Health65
47 IEEE Transactions on Robotics64
- Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing64
49 Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Escience63
- IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics63
- ISA Transactions63
- Automatica63
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security63
54 IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering62
- Science Robotics62
- Neural Networks62
57 Computers & Education61
- Computers & Security61
- Internet of Things61
- International Journal of Information Management61
61 IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing60
- Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering60
- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation60
- ACM Transactions on Graphics60
- Computers & Electrical Engineering60
66 Bioinformatics59
67 IEEE Wireless Communications58
- Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience58
69 Information Processing & Management57
- JACC-Cardiovascular Imaging57
71 International Journal of Computer Vision56
72 Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling55
- International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology55
74 Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine54
- Computers and Geotechnics54
- Computer Networks54
77 International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction53
78 IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing52
- IEEE Transactions on Services Computing52
80 IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering51
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics51
- IEEE Wireless Communications Letters51
- Journal of Network and Computer Applications51
- IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems51
- IEEE Systems Journal51
- Journal of Big Data51
- Journal of Computational Physics51
- Computers in Industry51
89 IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems49
- Swarm and Evolutionary Computation49
- Applied Intelligence49
- Mathematics and Computers in Simulation49
93 Science China-Information Sciences48
- IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management48
95 European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging47
- Computer Communications47
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine47
98 Journal of Nuclear Medicine46
- IEEE Network46
- Soft Computing46
101 JMIR mHealth and uHealth45
- Government Information Quarterly45
- BMC Bioinformatics45
- CMC-Computers Materials & Continua45
- Advanced Intelligent Systems45
106 Information & Management44
- Cluster Computing-The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications44
- Complex & Intelligent Systems44
109 International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics43
- Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering43
111 Information Systems Frontiers42
- IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing42
- Proceedings of the Vldb Endowment42
- Radiotherapy and Oncology42
- Computer Physics Communications42
- IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence42
- IEEE-ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics42
118 International Journal of Medical Informatics41
- Journal of Supercomputing41
- Journal of Knowledge Management41
- BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making41
- Decision Support Systems41
- Computers & Chemical Engineering41
- Computer Science Review41
125 International Journal of Systems Science40
- Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association40
- Soft Robotics40
- Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing40
- ACM Transactions on Information Systems40
- Computers & Operations Research40
- Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing40
- Journal of Biomedical Informatics40
- Ad Hoc Networks40
134 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology39
- PeerJ Computer Science39
- Photoacoustics39
- Robotics and Autonomous Systems39
138 Journal of the Franklin Institute-Engineering and Applied Mathematics38
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology38
- Digital Health38
- IEEE Transactions on Big Data38
- Medical Physics38
- Telecommunications Policy38
144 IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking37
- Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology37
- Pattern Recognition Letters37
- Information Systems Research37
- American Journal of Roentgenology37
- Control Engineering Practice37
- IEEE Transactions on Reliability37
- ICT Express37
- IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems37
- IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems37
- Journal of Systems and Software37
- ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction37
- Annual Reviews in Control37
157 Telematics and Informatics36
- Advances in Engineering Software36
- International Journal of Intelligent Systems36
- Environmental Modelling & Software36
- European Journal of Radiology36
- IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems36
- ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information36
164 Information and Software Technology35
- Investigative Radiology35
- Journal of Systems Architecture35
- Journal of Bionic Engineering35
- Tsinghua Science and Technology35
- Journal of Cloud Computing-Advances Systems and Applications35
- ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology35
- ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications35
- Computers & Geosciences35
173 IEEE Transactions on Computers34
- Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics34
- Physics in Medicine and Biology34
- Radiographics34
- Journal of Cheminformatics34
- CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology34
179 Human Brain Mapping33
- International Journal of Human-Computer Studies33
- International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control33
- Internet Research33
- Academic Radiology33
- Electronic Commerce Research and Applications33
- European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging33
- Expert Systems33
- Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing33
- MIS Quarterly33
- Journal of Industrial Information Integration33
- Virtual Reality33
191 IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing32
- Image and Vision Computing32
- Insights Into Imaging32
- Journal of Computational Science32
- Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging32
- JMIR Medical Informatics32
- Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory32
- Applied Artificial Intelligence32
199 IEEE Transactions on Information Theory31
- Industrial Management & Data Systems31
(This list is limited to max. 200 journals; click here to see the full list)
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