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	Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Escience	61
-	Multimedia Tools and Applications	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	Journal of Big Data	46
-	Computer Science Review	46
12	Information Systems Frontiers	44
13	Swarm and Evolutionary Computation	43
14	Cluster Computing-The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications	42
-	Journal of Supercomputing	42
16	IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing	41
17	International Journal of Systems Science	40
18	Proceedings of the Vldb Endowment	38
-	PeerJ Computer Science	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-ACM Transactions on Networking	32
-	Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing	32
-	IEEE Transactions on Big Data	32
27	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	31
-	Journal of Computational Science	31
29	Fuzzy Sets and Systems	29
30	Image and Vision Computing	28
-	Microprocessors and Microsystems	28
32	Multimedia Systems	26
-	Computer Systems Science and Engineering	26
34	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	25
-	Big Data Research	25
-	Computing	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	New Generation Computing	17
-	Computer Journal	17
43	Big Data	16
-	IEEE Multimedia	16
-	Human-Computer Interaction	16
46	Designs Codes and Cryptography	15
-	Semantic Web	15
-	Theoretical Computer Science	15
-	International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications	15
50	Parallel Computing	14

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