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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	126
2	ACM Computing Surveys	115
3	Information Fusion	106
4	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	66
5	Multimedia Tools and Applications	64
6	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	63
7	Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Escience	59
8	Journal of Big Data	57
9	Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine	55
10	Swarm and Evolutionary Computation	53
11	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	51
-	Cluster Computing-The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications	51
13	Computer Science Review	50
14	Journal of Supercomputing	43
15	Proceedings of the Vldb Endowment	41
-	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking	41
-	Journal of Systems and Software	41
18	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications	40
-	IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing	40
-	PeerJ Computer Science	40
21	IEEE Transactions on Big Data	38
22	Expert Systems	36
-	Image and Vision Computing	36
24	Information Systems Frontiers	35
25	International Journal of Information Security	34
-	International Journal of Systems Science	34
27	Frontiers of Computer Science	30
-	Fuzzy Sets and Systems	30
-	Journal of Computational Science	30
30	Microprocessors and Microsystems	29
-	Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing	29
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	29
-	Computer Systems Science and Engineering	29
-	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	29
35	Communications of the ACM	28
36	Multimedia Systems	27
37	Computing	25
38	Journal of Grid Computing	23
39	Connection Science	19
-	Theoretical Computer Science	19
41	Big Data Research	18
-	Computer Journal	18
-	ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization	18
44	Designs Codes and Cryptography	17
45	Journal of the ACM	16
46	Semantic Web	15
-	Statistics and Computing	15
-	Human-Computer Interaction	15
-	International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications	15
-	Journal of Cryptology	15

51	ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems	14
-	International Journal of General Systems	14
-	New Generation Computing	14
-	Big Data	14
55	Foundations of Computational Mathematics	13
-	IEEE Multimedia	13
57	Journal of Web Engineering	12
-	Information and Computation	12
59	Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing	11
60	Natural Computing	10
-	Parallel Computing	10
-	SIAM Journal on Computing	10
-	Cryptography and Communications-Discrete-Structures Boolean Functions and Sequences	10
-	Journal of Heuristics	10
65	Real-Time Systems	9
-	Artificial Life	9
-	Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines	9
-	International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation	9
-	Journal of Computer and System Sciences	9
-	Journal of Cryptographic Engineering	9
-	Journal of Symbolic Computation	9
72	Performance Evaluation	8
-	ACM Transactions on Algorithms	8
-	International Journal of Quantum Information	8
-	International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science	8
76	Theory and Practice of Logic Programming	7
-	Discrete & Computational Geometry	7
-	Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming	7
-	Mathematical Structures in Computer Science	7
-	Problems of Information Transmission	7
-	ACM Transactions on Computational Logic	7
-	International Journal of Parallel Programming	7
-	Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International	7
84	Malaysian Journal of Computer Science	6
-	Combinatorics Probability & Computing	6
-	Distributed Computing	6
-	Quantum Information & Computation	6
-	Distributed and Parallel Databases	6
-	Formal Methods in System Design	6
-	IEEE Annals of the History of Computing	6
-	IET Computers and Digital Techniques	6
-	Journal of Logic and Computation	6
93	Theory of Computing Systems	5
-	Applicable Algebra in Engineering Communication and Computing	5
-	Evolutionary Computation	5
96	Cryptologia	4
97	Theory of Computing	2