Computer Science, Software Engineering: 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	IEEE Transactions on Multimedia	63
2	Multimedia Tools and Applications	62
3	ACM Transactions on Graphics	59
4	Journal of Network and Computer Applications	56
5	IEEE Transactions on Services Computing	51
6	Mathematics and Computers in Simulation	49
7	IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics	45
-	IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing	45
-	IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering	45
10	Computer Science Review	37
11	Communications of the ACM	35
-	Information and Software Technology	35
-	Journal of Systems and Software	35
-	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications	35
-	IEEE Transactions on Reliability	35
16	Journal of Systems Architecture	34
17	Tsinghua Science and Technology	32
-	Advances in Engineering Software	32
-	ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology	32
-	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	32
21	Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory	31
22	Virtual Reality	30
23	Visual Computer	29
-	Image and Vision Computing	29
25	ACM Transactions on Internet Technology	28
-	Computer Standards & Interfaces	28
-	Computer Graphics Forum	28
28	Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation	27
-	Scientific Programming	27
-	Empirical Software Engineering	27
31	World Wide Web-Internet and Web Information Systems	26
32	ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems	24
-	ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery From Data	24
-	Computers & Graphics-UK	24
35	IEEE Internet Computing	22
36	Computer-Aided Design	21
-	IEEE Software	21
-	Computer	21
-	IEEE Micro	21
40	International Journal of Information Security	20
-	Software and Systems Modeling	20
42	Software-Practice & Experience	19
43	Automated Software Engineering	18
-	IT Professional	18
-	Mathematical Programming	18
46	Entertainment Computing	17
47	IEEE Multimedia	16
-	ACM Transactions on the Web	16
49	Computer Journal	15
-	IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications	15

-	ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems	15
-	IEEE Embedded Systems Letters	15
-	IEEE Security & Privacy	15
54	Journal of Web Semantics	14
-	ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software	14
-	ACM Transactions on Storage	14
-	Journal of the ACM	14
-	International Journal of Electronic Commerce	14
59	Requirements Engineering	13
-	IET Software	13
-	Science of Computer Programming	13
62	Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision	12
-	SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences	12
-	Journal of Computer Science and Technology	12
65	Simulation-Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International	11
-	Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds	11
-	Graphical Models	11
-	Software Quality Journal	11
-	Computer Aided Geometric Design	11
-	Computer Science and Information Systems	11
-	IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems	11
-	International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer	11
73	Mathematical Programming Computation	10
-	Sigmod Record	10
-	ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems	10
-	Formal Aspects of Computing	10
-	Journal of Web Engineering	10
-	Optimization Methods & Software	10
-	Algorithmica	10
80	ACM Transactions on Database Systems	9
-	Theory and Practice of Logic Programming	9
-	ACM Transactions on Applied Perception	9
-	BIT Numerical Mathematics	9
-	International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering	9
85	Software Testing Verification & Reliability	8
-	Information Visualization	8
87	Programming and Computer Software	7
-	International Journal of Wavelets Multiresolution and Information Processing	7
-	Random Structures & Algorithms	7
90	International Journal of Web and Grid Services	6
91	International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining	5
-	International Journal of Web Services Research	5
-	Fundamenta Informaticae	5
94	Journal of Functional Programming	3
-	ICGA Journal	3