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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	111
2	ACM Computing Surveys	103
3	Information Fusion	90
4	Multimedia Tools and Applications	67
5	Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Escience	64
6	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	60
7	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	58
8	Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine	53
9	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	50
-	Journal of Big Data	50
11	Swarm and Evolutionary Computation	47
12	Cluster Computing-The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications	44
13	IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing	43
14	Proceedings of the Vldb Endowment	42
15	Information Systems Frontiers	41
-	International Journal of Systems Science	41
17	Journal of Supercomputing	40
18	Journal of Systems and Software	38
-	PeerJ Computer Science	38
20	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking	37
-	Computer Science Review	37
22	IEEE Transactions on Big Data	36
23	Expert Systems	35
-	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications	35
25	Journal of Computational Science	32
26	Image and Vision Computing	31
27	Communications of the ACM	30
-	Computer Systems Science and Engineering	30
-	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	30
30	Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing	29
31	Microprocessors and Microsystems	28
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	28
33	Fuzzy Sets and Systems	27
34	Multimedia Systems	26
35	International Journal of Information Security	24
36	Computing	23
-	Frontiers of Computer Science	23
38	Connection Science	22
39	Big Data Research	19
40	IEEE Multimedia	18
-	Journal of Grid Computing	18
-	Theoretical Computer Science	18
43	Computer Journal	17
-	New Generation Computing	17
-	Semantic Web	17
46	Big Data	16
-	Parallel Computing	16
48	Designs Codes and Cryptography	15
-	Journal of the ACM	15
-	Human-Computer Interaction	15

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