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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	114
2	ACM Computing Surveys	101
3	Information Fusion	91
4	Multimedia Tools and Applications	69
5	Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Escience	63
6	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	61
7	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	59
8	Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine	53
9	Journal of Big Data	51
10	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	50
11	Swarm and Evolutionary Computation	48
12	Cluster Computing-The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications	44
13	International Journal of Systems Science	42
-	Proceedings of the Vldb Endowment	42
15	Journal of Supercomputing	41
-	Information Systems Frontiers	41
17	Computer Science Review	40
-	IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing	40
19	PeerJ Computer Science	39
20	Journal of Systems and Software	38
21	IEEE Transactions on Big Data	37
22	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications	36
-	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking	36
24	Expert Systems	34
25	Image and Vision Computing	32
26	Journal of Computational Science	31
27	Computer Systems Science and Engineering	30
-	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	30
-	Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing	30
30	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	29
-	Communications of the ACM	29
32	Microprocessors and Microsystems	28
33	Fuzzy Sets and Systems	27
34	Multimedia Systems	26
35	International Journal of Information Security	25
36	Computing	24
-	Frontiers of Computer Science	24
38	Connection Science	22
39	Big Data Research	20
40	Journal of Grid Computing	18
41	New Generation Computing	17
-	Theoretical Computer Science	17
-	IEEE Multimedia	17
44	Semantic Web	16
-	Computer Journal	16
-	Parallel Computing	16
47	Human-Computer Interaction	15
-	Journal of the ACM	15
-	Big Data	15
-	Designs Codes and Cryptography	15

51	Statistics and Computing	14
-	ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization	14
53	Foundations of Computational Mathematics	13
-	International Journal of General Systems	13
55	Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing	12
-	Information and Computation	12
-	Journal of Cryptology	12
58	Journal of Web Engineering	11
-	International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications	11
60	ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems	10
-	Cryptography and Communications-Discrete-Structures Boolean Functions and Sequences	10
-	International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation	10
63	ACM Transactions on Algorithms	9
-	Artificial Life	9
-	Journal of Symbolic Computation	9
-	Natural Computing	9
-	Performance Evaluation	9
-	Theory and Practice of Logic Programming	9
-	Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines	9
-	International Journal of Quantum Information	9
-	Journal of Computer and System Sciences	9
-	Journal of Cryptographic Engineering	9
73	Journal of Heuristics	8
-	Real-Time Systems	8
-	SIAM Journal on Computing	8
-	Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming	8
77	Discrete & Computational Geometry	7
-	Distributed Computing	7
-	International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science	7
-	Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International	7
-	Journal of Logic and Computation	7
-	Malaysian Journal of Computer Science	7
-	Distributed and Parallel Databases	7
84	Mathematical Structures in Computer Science	6
-	Quantum Information & Computation	6
-	Combinatorics Probability & Computing	6
-	Formal Methods in System Design	6
-	IEEE Annals of the History of Computing	6
-	International Journal of Parallel Programming	6
-	Theory of Computing Systems	6
-	ACM Transactions on Computational Logic	6
92	Problems of Information Transmission	5
-	IET Computers and Digital Techniques	5
94	Theory of Computing	4
-	Cryptologia	4
-	Applicable Algebra in Engineering Communication and Computing	4