Computer Science, Theory & Methods: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	ACM Computing Surveys	36
2	Computer Science Review	28
3	Information Fusion	27
4	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	21
5	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	16
-	IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing	16
7	Information Systems Frontiers	15
-	Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Escience	15
9	Journal of Big Data	14
-	Swarm and Evolutionary Computation	14
-	Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine	14
12	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	13
13	Multimedia Tools and Applications	12
14	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	11
15	Journal of Systems and Software	9
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	9
-	Connection Science	9
-	Human-Computer Interaction	9
-	IEEE Transactions on Big Data	9
-	Proceedings of the Vldb Endowment	9
-	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking	9
22	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications	8
-	Journal of Grid Computing	8
24	Journal of Computational Science	7
-	Journal of Supercomputing	7
-	Semantic Web	7
-	Big Data Research	7
-	Frontiers of Computer Science	7
-	Image and Vision Computing	7
-	International Journal of Information Security	7
-	Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing	7
-	Microprocessors and Microsystems	7
-	Cluster Computing-The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications	7
34	Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing	6
-	New Generation Computing	6
-	Fuzzy Sets and Systems	6
-	Journal of the ACM	6
-	Big Data	6
-	Computer Systems Science and Engineering	6
40	International Journal of Systems Science	5
-	Journal of Cryptology	5
-	PeerJ Computer Science	5
-	Computing	5
-	Parallel Computing	5
-	Expert Systems	5
-	Foundations of Computational Mathematics	5
47	International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications	4
-	International Journal of General Systems	4
-	Journal of Cryptographic Engineering	4
-	Multimedia Systems	4

-	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	4
52	IET Computers and Digital Techniques	3
-	Journal of Heuristics	3
-	Journal of Web Engineering	3
-	Statistics and Computing	3
-	ACM Transactions on Algorithms	3
-	ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems	3
-	Computer Journal	3
-	Distributed Computing	3
-	Natural Computing	3
-	Theory and Practice of Logic Programming	3
-	ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization	3
-	Communications of the ACM	3
-	Designs Codes and Cryptography	3
-	Distributed and Parallel Databases	3
-	Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines	3
67	Information and Computation	2
-	International Journal of Parallel Programming	2
-	Mathematical Structures in Computer Science	2
-	Theoretical Computer Science	2
-	Artificial Life	2
-	Combinatorics Probability & Computing	2
-	Discrete & Computational Geometry	2
-	Formal Methods in System Design	2
-	International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation	2
-	International Journal of Quantum Information	2
-	Journal of Computer and System Sciences	2
-	Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming	2
-	Journal of Symbolic Computation	2
-	Malaysian Journal of Computer Science	2
-	Performance Evaluation	2
-	Real-Time Systems	2
-	SIAM Journal on Computing	2
-	ACM Transactions on Computational Logic	2
-	Cryptography and Communications-Discrete-Structures Boolean Functions and Sequences	2
-	IEEE Multimedia	2
87	International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science	1
-	Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International	1
-	Journal of Logic and Computation	1
-	Problems of Information Transmission	1
-	Quantum Information & Computation	1
-	Cryptologia	1
-	Theory of Computing Systems	1
-	Applicable Algebra in Engineering Communication and Computing	1
95	Theory of Computing	0
-	IEEE Annals of the History of Computing	0