Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Field ranking · 2002
Computer Science journal rankings 2002
461 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Computer Science has 461 ranked journals in 2002. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.05 against 1.00, up 0.03 on 2001. A journal needs OJR 2.09 to reach Q1. The top three are ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, and ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2002. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields in Computer Science (11)
Up to Physical Sciences- Artificial Intelligence165
- Information Systems72
- Computational Theory and Mathematics67
- Computer Networks and Communications58
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition58
- Human-Computer Interaction9
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design8
- Computer Science Applications8
- Hardware and Architecture8
- Signal Processing6
- Software2
461 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2001. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1999–2001 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2002. | Compare |
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1ACM Transactions on Information and System SecurityAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 10.57Q1 | 6.36 0.24 up from 2001 | 39 | 6% | — | ||
2Data Mining and Knowledge DiscoverySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 10.49Q1 | 5.33 1.67 up from 2001 | 42 | 0% | $3,190 | ||
3ACM Transactions on Computer-Human InteractionAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.42Q1 | 9.13 4.63 up from 2001 | 44 | 7% | — | ||
4IEEE/ACM Transactions on NetworkingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 8.95Q1 | 6.22 1.66 up from 2001 | 205 | 10% | $2,495 | ||
5IEEE Personal CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 8.62Q1 | 6.46 2.67 up from 2001 | 134 | — | — | ||
6User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 8.50Q1 | 7.11 3.86 up from 2001 | 37 | 6% | $3,290 | ||
7IEEE NetworkInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 8.19Q1 | 6.71 3.11 up from 2001 | 134 | 5% | $2,995 | ||
8Machine LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 8.12Q1 | 4.98 0.61 up from 2001 | 154 | 92% | $3,290 | ||
9Evolutionary ComputationThe MIT Press · United States | 7.96Q1 | 5.17 0.37 up from 2001 | 76 | 12% | — | ||
10ACM Transactions on Computer SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.57Q1 | 6.54 2.49 up from 2001 | 35 | 0% | — | ||
11Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.55Q1 | 7.06 3.06 up from 2001 | 52 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
12IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer GraphicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.53Q1 | 4.04 0.49 down from 2001 | 79 | 6% | $2,645 | ||
13Journal of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.23Q1 | 4.08 0.23 down from 2001 | 102 | 9% | — | ||
14ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.07Q1 | 6.20 1.43 up from 2001 | 154 | 5% | — | ||
15The VLDB JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 6.81Q1 | 5.74 3.71 up from 2001 | 55 | 13% | $2,990 | ||
16IEEE Signal Processing MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.80Q1 | 6.43 3.54 up from 2001 | 100 | 5% | — | ||
17ACM SIGKDD Explorations NewsletterAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.75Q1 | 4.44 2.53 up from 2001 | 70 | 2% | — | ||
18ACM Transactions on Database SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.65Q1 | 5.36 1.36 up from 2001 | 37 | 9% | — | ||
19IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 6.60Q1 | 6.59 2.92 up from 2001 | 393 | 10% | $2,645 | ||
20IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 6.55Q1 | 4.42 1.39 up from 2001 | 200 | 9% | $2,645 | ||
21IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.32Q1 | 3.09 0.82 down from 2001 | 105 | 13% | $2,645 | ||
22TechnometricsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.88Q1 | 4.26 0.77 up from 2001 | 745 | 2% | — | ||
23Communications of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.70Q1 | 3.12 0.41 up from 2001 | 897 | 9% | — | ||
24Bulletin of the American Mathematical SocietyOAAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 5.66Q1 | 3.10 0.03 down from 2001 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
25Human-Computer InteractionTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.60Q1 | 5.07 2.68 up from 2001 | 42 | 9% | — | ||
26Journal of Artificial Intelligence ResearchOAAI Access Foundation · United States | 5.50Q1 | 3.29 0.73 down from 2001 | 73 | 100% | — | ||
27IEEE Transactions on MultimediaInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.42Q1 | 4.14 1.20 up from 2001 | 87 | 8% | $2,645 | ||
28World Wide WebSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.32Q1 | 1.76 1.39 down from 2001 | 54 | 6% | $3,290 | ||
29ComputerIEEE Computer Society · United States | 5.18Q1 | 3.76 1.52 up from 2001 | 606 | 4% | $2,995 | ||
30IEEE Data(base) Engineering BulletinPublisher not listed | 5.15Q1 | 3.50 0.85 up from 2001 | 33 | 0% | — | ||
31ACM SIGMOD RecordAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.11Q1 | 3.58 0.29 down from 2001 | 354 | 7% | — | ||
32Knowledge and Information SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 5.06Q1 | 1.59 0.87 down from 2001 | 73 | 0% | $3,190 | ||
33IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 5.01Q1 | 3.06 0.65 up from 2001 | 201 | 7% | $2,645 | ||
34ACM Transactions on Computational LogicAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.00Q1 | 3.31 1.40 up from 2001 | 32 | 11% | — | ||
35ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.99Q1 | 5.21 3.52 up from 2001 | 153 | 13% | — | ||
36ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.81Q1 | 3.56 0.28 down from 2001 | 77 | 91% | — | ||
37Artificial IntelligenceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.79Q1 | 3.59 0.10 down from 2001 | 243 | 100% | $4,260 | ||
38ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.78Q1 | 3.88 0.76 up from 2001 | 37 | 7% | — | ||
39ACM Transactions on GraphicsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.68Q1 | 2.77 0.04 up from 2001 | 36 | 8% | — | ||
40Journal of Computer SecurityIOS Press · Netherlands | 4.64Q1 | 2.31 0.85 up from 2001 | 41 | 17% | $4,150 | ||
41IEEE Intelligent SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.62Q1 | 3.48 3.15 up from 2001 | 120 | 9% | $2,995 | ||
42Journal of CryptologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.51Q1 | 3.76 0.32 up from 2001 | 54 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
43IEEE Intelligent Systems and their ApplicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.50Q1 | 2.68 0.10 up from 2001 | 141 | 0% | — | ||
44International Journal of Computer VisionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.49Q1 | 4.25 1.69 up from 2001 | 177 | 8% | $4,090 | ||
45International Journal of Human-Computer StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.47Q1 | 2.45 0.30 up from 2001 | 251 | 4% | $3,510 | ||
46Computer NetworksElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.45Q1 | 3.14 0.31 up from 2001 | 486 | 6% | $2,460 | ||
47Information Processing & ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 3.29 1.01 up from 2001 | 144 | 7% | $3,670 | ||
48Information RetrievalSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.29Q1 | 2.11 0.11 up from 2001 | 73 | 33% | $1,520 | ||
49Computación y SistemasNational Polytechnic Institute · Mexico | 4.12Q1 | 2.71 0.29 up from 2001 | 40 | 0% | — | ||
50IBM Systems JournalInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.01Q1 | 2.92 0.32 up from 2001 | 170 | 2% | — |
Subfields of Computer Science, compared.
- Artificial Intelligence165
- Information Systems72
- Computational Theory and Mathematics67
- Computer Networks and Communications58
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition58
- Human-Computer Interaction9
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design8
- Computer Science Applications8
- Hardware and Architecture8
- Signal Processing6
- Software2
Journals
Citations made in 2002. Corpus-wide, 69.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
196 additional Computer Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1999–2001, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2002. Publication window: 1999–2001. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 461
- Window papers (baseline)
- 180,340 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 1.048 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 74Comparison-group list (74)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1999–2001 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 408 | 420 | 461 | 482 | 510 | 529 | 555 | 616 | 691 | 754 | 791 | 819 | 885 | 943 | 999 | 1,030 | 1,044 | 1,072 | 1,089 | 1,124 | 1,127 | 1,134 | 1,141 | 1,137 | 1,148 | 1,120 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 148,205 | 162,373 | 180,340 | 206,430 | 235,263 | 266,969 | 303,899 | 344,360 | 390,410 | 429,045 | 459,878 | 486,941 | 517,643 | 539,589 | 556,733 | 567,073 | 572,130 | 563,277 | 560,186 | 579,410 | 628,823 | 692,763 | 759,934 | 806,985 | 858,468 | 924,846 | |
| Median OJR | 0.88 | 1.02 | 1.048 | 1.12 | 1.1139 | 1.14 | 1.22 | 1.24 | 1.25 | 1.27 | 1.26 | 1.20 | 1.1142 | 1.051 | 0.99 | 0.93 | 0.85 | 0.782 | 0.776 | 0.72 | 0.699 | 0.71 | 0.702 | 0.690 | 0.688 | 0.701 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 2.5% | 807 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 15.707 per 1,000 | 671 journals |
| Output growth | Median: +9.2% | 990 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 72.2% | 1,120 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $2,895 | 506 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 23.9% | 1,061 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 1,120 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.70 | 1,101 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 40.6% | 1,120 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 51.5% | 1,117 journals |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.