Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Computer Networks and Communications journal rankings 2012
107 ranked journals · Subfield in Computer Science
Computer Networks and Communications has 107 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR fell 0.13 on 2011 to 1.06, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.37. The top three are IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Journal of Internet Services and Applications, and ACM Transactions on Information and System Security.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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 of Computer Science (11)
- Artificial Intelligence339
- Information Systems163
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition111
- Computer Networks and Communications107
- Computational Theory and Mathematics93
- Human-Computer Interaction18
- Hardware and Architecture17
- Computer Science Applications15
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design10
- Signal Processing9
- Software3
107 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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 12.86Q1 | 5.63 0.76 down from 2011 | 137 | 8% | $2,645 | ||
2Journal of Internet Services and ApplicationsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 8.09Q1 | 4.77 1.66 down from 2011 | 47 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
3ACM Transactions on Information and System SecurityAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.01Q1 | 5.02 0.07 down from 2011 | 74 | 35% | — | ||
4ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.60Q1 | 5.46 0.67 up from 2011 | 149 | 4% | — | ||
5ACM Transactions on Database SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.49Q1 | 3.69 2.00 down from 2011 | 74 | 22% | — | ||
6Proceedings - International Conference on Data EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.15Q1 | —no 2011 value | 210 | — | — | ||
7International Journal of Security and NetworksInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 5.97Q1 | 4.80 1.86 down from 2011 | 68 | 5% | — | ||
8IEEE NetworkInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.59Q1 | 4.62 2.38 up from 2011 | 240 | 6% | $2,995 | ||
9International Journal of Cooperative Information SystemsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 5.35Q1 | 2.89 1.61 down from 2011 | 30 | 7% | — | ||
10IEEE Transactions on Mobile ComputingIEEE Computer Society · United States | 4.61Q1 | 3.63 0.08 up from 2011 | 639 | 5% | $2,645 | ||
11ACM SIGMOD RecordAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.43Q1 | 3.08 0.19 up from 2011 | 93 | 11% | — | ||
12IEEE/ACM Transactions on NetworkingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.42Q1 | 4.03 0.31 down from 2011 | 494 | 12% | $2,495 | ||
13ACM Transactions on StorageAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.41Q1 | 3.50 1.24 down from 2011 | 47 | 4% | — | ||
14IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.20Q1 | 3.08 0.21 up from 2011 | 668 | 8% | $2,645 | ||
15Future Generation Computer SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.98Q1 | 3.98 0.64 up from 2011 | 422 | 19% | $3,000 | ||
16Pervasive and Mobile ComputingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.71Q1 | 3.13 0.90 down from 2011 | 164 | 23% | $2,620 | ||
17ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.55Q1 | 2.86 0.22 up from 2011 | 304 | 5% | — | ||
18Ad Hoc NetworksElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.38Q1 | 2.31 0.88 down from 2011 | 323 | 14% | $3,040 | ||
19Journal of Network and Computer ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 3.23 0.72 up from 2011 | 398 | 8% | $3,120 | ||
20Computer NetworksElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.34Q1 | 3.29 0.06 down from 2011 | 717 | 14% | $2,460 | ||
21Journal of Grid ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.66Q1 | 3.45 0.61 up from 2011 | 82 | 35% | $3,490 | ||
| 2.61Q1 | 1.10 0.27 up from 2011 | 96 | — | — | |||
23The International Journal of High Performance Computing ApplicationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 3.82 2.04 up from 2011 | 128 | 21% | $4,400 | ||
24International Journal of Sensor NetworksInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 2.56Q1 | 2.78 2.00 down from 2011 | 121 | 7% | — | ||
25ConstraintsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.43Q1 | 2.45 0.68 up from 2011 | 45 | 41% | $3,090 | ||
26Computer CommunicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.39Q1 | 2.49 0.19 up from 2011 | 611 | 10% | $2,620 | ||
27Future InternetOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.37Q1 | 1.78 0.68 up from 2011 | 61 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
28Swarm IntelligenceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.25Q2 | 2.74 0.13 up from 2011 | 38 | 13% | $3,190 | ||
29IEEE Transactions on Network and Service ManagementInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.23Q2 | 2.00 0.68 down from 2011 | 84 | 9% | $2,645 | ||
30Simulation Modelling Practice and TheoryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.23Q2 | 2.14 0.23 up from 2011 | 367 | 9% | $2,890 | ||
31Journal of Parallel and Distributed ComputingElsevier BV · United States | 2.23Q2 | 2.21 0.23 up from 2011 | 360 | 14% | $3,250 | ||
32Cluster ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.99Q2 | 1.69 0.15 up from 2011 | 121 | 16% | $3,190 | ||
33Performance EvaluationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.91Q2 | 1.61 0.31 up from 2011 | 313 | 9% | $2,540 | ||
34Journal of Information Processing SystemsOAKorea Information Processing Society · South Korea | 1.86Q2 | 1.59 0.57 up from 2011 | 122 | 96% | — | ||
35IET Wireless Sensor SystemsOAPublisher not listed | 1.81Q2 | 1.68no 2011 value | 31 | 2% | $2,310 | — | |
36Concurrency and Computation Practice and ExperienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.67Q2 | 1.84 0.25 up from 2011 | 522 | 28% | $5,140 | ||
37Cybernetics & SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.66Q2 | 1.69 0.21 down from 2011 | 110 | 9% | — | ||
38ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.63Q2 | 0.95 0.61 down from 2011 | 114 | 0% | — | ||
39ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.63Q2 | 1.43 0.16 down from 2011 | 342 | 8% | — | ||
40Network Protocols and AlgorithmsUnited States | 1.62Q2 | 1.74 0.63 up from 2011 | 73 | 93% | — | ||
41Wireless NetworksSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.61Q2 | 1.79 0.40 up from 2011 | 247 | 10% | $3,290 | ||
42EURASIP Journal on Information SecurityOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 1.48Q2 | 3.71 2.12 up from 2011 | 47 | 100% | $1,040 | ||
43ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.47Q2 | 1.74 0.58 up from 2011 | 154 | 21% | $3,290 | ||
44The Journal of SupercomputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.46Q2 | 1.50 0.29 up from 2011 | 444 | 26% | $3,290 | ||
45International Journal of Information and Computer SecurityInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 1.05 0.17 up from 2011 | 36 | 0% | — | ||
46Parallel Processing LettersWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.31Q2 | 1.44 0.54 up from 2011 | 89 | 14% | — | ||
47Annals of TelecommunicationsSpringer Nature · France | 1.27Q2 | 1.10 0.29 down from 2011 | 197 | 19% | $2,890 | ||
48Journal of Network and Systems ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.23Q2 | 0.72 0.71 down from 2011 | 102 | 15% | $3,090 | ||
49Peer-to-Peer Networking and ApplicationsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.17Q2 | 1.13 0.08 up from 2011 | 88 | 12% | $4,090 | ||
50International Journal of Parallel Emergent and Distributed SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 0.81 0.20 down from 2011 | 95 | 7% | — |
Subfields of Computer Science, with Computer Networks and Communications highlighted.
- Artificial Intelligence339
- Information Systems163
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition111
- Computer Networks and Communications107
- Computational Theory and Mathematics93
- Human-Computer Interaction18
- Hardware and Architecture17
- Computer Science Applications15
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design10
- Signal Processing9
- Software3
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
61 additional Computer Networks and Communications journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 107
- Window papers (baseline)
- 89,600 +19.5% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 1.059 -17.0% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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 | 53 | 54 | 58 | 59 | 63 | 64 | 69 | 81 | 92 | 98 | 100 | 99 | 107 | 115 | 123 | 129 | 129 | 131 | 132 | 137 | 130 | 126 | 125 | 121 | 121 | 122 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 27,154 | 28,966 | 31,457 | 35,185 | 39,729 | 45,490 | 52,804 | 60,944 | 68,398 | 74,965 | 79,694 | 84,853 | 89,600 | 94,197 | 96,715 | 99,336 | 98,299 | 95,314 | 90,549 | 89,069 | 90,921 | 92,425 | 92,901 | 89,675 | 87,701 | 90,445 | |
| Median OJR | 0.806 | 1.20 | 1.02 | 1.064 | 0.93 | 1.10 | 1.08 | 1.33 | 1.24 | 1.28 | 1.26 | 1.18 | 1.059 | 0.95 | 0.83 | 0.76 | 0.814 | 0.670 | 0.73 | 0.55 | 0.61 | 0.74 | 0.673 | 0.77 | 0.86 | 0.85 |
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.