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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	104
2	ACM Computing Surveys	103
3	Information Fusion	84
4	Multimedia Tools and Applications	61
-	Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Escience	61
6	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	54
7	Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine	53
8	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	52
9	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	50
10	Computer Science Review	46
-	Journal of Big Data	46
12	Information Systems Frontiers	44
13	Swarm and Evolutionary Computation	43
14	Journal of Supercomputing	42
-	Cluster Computing-The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications	42
16	IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing	41
17	International Journal of Systems Science	40
18	PeerJ Computer Science	38
-	Proceedings of the Vldb Endowment	38
20	Expert Systems	37
21	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications	35
-	Journal of Systems and Software	35
23	Communications of the ACM	34
24	IEEE Transactions on Big Data	32
-	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking	32
-	Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing	32
27	Journal of Computational Science	31
-	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	31
29	Fuzzy Sets and Systems	29
30	Image and Vision Computing	28
-	Microprocessors and Microsystems	28
32	Computer Systems Science and Engineering	26
-	Multimedia Systems	26
34	Big Data Research	25
-	Computing	25
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	25
37	Frontiers of Computer Science	23
38	Connection Science	22
39	Journal of Grid Computing	21
40	International Journal of Information Security	19
41	Computer Journal	17
-	New Generation Computing	17
43	Human-Computer Interaction	16
-	Big Data	16
-	IEEE Multimedia	16
46	International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications	15
-	Semantic Web	15
-	Theoretical Computer Science	15
-	Designs Codes and Cryptography	15
50	Statistics and Computing	14

-	ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization	14
-	Journal of the ACM	14
-	Parallel Computing	14
54	Journal of Cryptology	13
-	Foundations of Computational Mathematics	13
56	Cryptography and Communications-Discrete-Structures Boolean Functions and Sequences	12
-	International Journal of General Systems	12
58	Information and Computation	11
-	Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing	11
-	Journal of Computer and System Sciences	11
61	Journal of Symbolic Computation	10
62	Journal of Web Engineering	9
-	Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines	9
-	International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation	9
-	Performance Evaluation	9
66	ACM Transactions on Algorithms	8
-	Distributed and Parallel Databases	8
-	International Journal of Quantum Information	8
-	Journal of Cryptographic Engineering	8
-	Natural Computing	8
-	Theory and Practice of Logic Programming	8
72	ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems	7
-	Artificial Life	7
-	Discrete & Computational Geometry	7
-	International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science	7
-	Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International	7
-	Journal of Logic and Computation	7
-	SIAM Journal on Computing	7
79	Combinatorics Probability & Computing	6
-	Distributed Computing	6
-	International Journal of Parallel Programming	6
-	Journal of Heuristics	6
-	Mathematical Structures in Computer Science	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
88	Formal Methods in System Design	5
-	IEEE Annals of the History of Computing	5
-	Quantum Information & Computation	5
-	ACM Transactions on Computational Logic	5
92	Cryptologia	4
-	IET Computers and Digital Techniques	4
-	Problems of Information Transmission	4
-	Applicable Algebra in Engineering Communication and Computing	4
96	Theory of Computing	3