Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Field ranking · 2012
Computer Science journal rankings 2012
885 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Computer Science has 885 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR fell 0.09 on 2011 to 1.11, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.34. The top three are ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter, and ACM Computing Surveys.
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 in Computer Science (11)
Up to Physical Sciences- 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
885 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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1ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 46.90Q1 | 34.86 33.64 up from 2011 | 69 | 10% | — | ||
2ACM SIGKDD Explorations NewsletterAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 28.54Q1 | 3.78 20.54 down from 2011 | 69 | 6% | — | ||
3ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 24.91Q1 | 14.48 11.64 down from 2011 | 72 | 23% | — | ||
4International Journal on Semantic Web and Information SystemsOAIGI Global · United States | 17.65Q1 | 1.22 13.95 down from 2011 | 43 | 20% | — | ||
5IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 12.86Q1 | 5.63 0.76 down from 2011 | 137 | 8% | $2,645 | ||
6Swarm and Evolutionary ComputationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.48Q1 | 10.57no 2011 value | 30 | 5% | $3,690 | — | |
7ACM Transactions on the WebAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 12.38Q1 | 6.73 0.10 up from 2011 | 52 | 23% | — | ||
8Enterprise Information SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 10.51Q1 | 10.14 4.40 up from 2011 | 82 | 15% | — | ||
9IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 9.84Q1 | 6.71 1.84 down from 2011 | 741 | 18% | $2,645 | ||
10ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.43Q1 | 6.09 0.61 up from 2011 | 46 | 23% | — | ||
11Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 9.28Q1 | 3.62 0.66 down from 2011 | 85 | 30% | $2,290 | ||
12IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 8.80Q1 | 7.48 0.30 up from 2011 | 199 | 10% | $2,645 | ||
13Journal of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.76Q1 | 7.09 0.08 down from 2011 | 94 | 15% | — | ||
14ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from DataAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.58Q1 | 6.29 0.80 up from 2011 | 58 | 13% | — | ||
15Journal of Research on Technology in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 8.45Q1 | 3.78 1.27 down from 2011 | 58 | 0% | — | ||
16Journal of Internet Services and ApplicationsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 8.09Q1 | 4.77 1.66 down from 2011 | 47 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
17ACM Transactions on Information and System SecurityAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.01Q1 | 5.02 0.07 down from 2011 | 74 | 35% | — | ||
18Journal of Web SemanticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.82Q1 | 4.69 2.38 down from 2011 | 116 | 26% | $1,700 | ||
19ACM Transactions on GraphicsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.74Q1 | 6.41 2.47 down from 2011 | 551 | 9% | — | ||
20IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 7.62Q1 | 4.82 0.24 up from 2011 | 282 | 10% | $2,645 | ||
21SIAM Journal on Imaging SciencesSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 6.79Q1 | 4.82 3.27 down from 2011 | 140 | 37% | — | ||
22ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.60Q1 | 5.46 0.67 up from 2011 | 149 | 4% | — | ||
23ACM Transactions on Database SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.49Q1 | 3.69 2.00 down from 2011 | 74 | 22% | — | ||
24Proceedings of the VLDB EndowmentAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.41Q1 | 5.47 0.31 down from 2011 | 540 | 9% | — | ||
25Automated Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.31Q1 | 5.10 1.96 up from 2011 | 45 | 21% | $3,190 | ||
26Journal of Statistical SoftwareOAFoundation for Open Access Statistics · United States | 6.22Q1 | 7.64 2.52 up from 2011 | 242 | 100% | — | ||
27Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics · United States | 6.21Q1 | 4.93 1.99 up from 2011 | 103 | 82% | — | ||
28Archives of Computational Methods in EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Spain | 6.21Q1 | 5.52 0.91 up from 2011 | 39 | 18% | $4,690 | ||
29International Journal of Computer VisionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.16Q1 | 5.53 1.36 down from 2011 | 304 | 36% | $4,090 | ||
30Proceedings - International Conference on Data EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.15Q1 | —no 2011 value | 210 | — | — | ||
31IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B (Cybernetics)Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.13Q1 | 5.77 0.91 up from 2011 | 432 | 10% | — | ||
32Semantic WebIOS Press · Netherlands | 6.04Q1 | 5.14 3.43 up from 2011 | 49 | 37% | — | ||
33User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.98Q1 | 5.13 2.30 down from 2011 | 39 | 54% | $3,290 | ||
34International Journal of Security and NetworksInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 5.97Q1 | 4.80 1.86 down from 2011 | 68 | 5% | — | ||
35IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in GamesInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.88Q1 | 5.73 2.19 up from 2011 | 86 | 12% | — | ||
36The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed LearningOAAthabasca University Press · Canada | 5.86Q1 | 3.04 0.97 up from 2011 | 202 | 100% | — | ||
37Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and SchedulingOAPublisher not listed | 5.76Q1 | 2.57 0.10 down from 2011 | 126 | 100% | — | ||
38IEEE Internet ComputingIEEE Computer Society · United States | 5.75Q1 | 2.92 0.56 down from 2011 | 406 | 6% | $2,995 | ||
39Requirements EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 5.70Q1 | 2.26 0.34 down from 2011 | 107 | 21% | $2,990 | ||
40IEEE Transactions on Neural NetworksInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.69Q1 | 5.63 0.86 up from 2011 | 558 | — | — | ||
41ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.68Q1 | 3.19 2.39 down from 2011 | 64 | 16% | — | ||
42IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal ProcessingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.59Q1 | 5.82 0.93 up from 2011 | 368 | 18% | $2,645 | ||
43IEEE NetworkInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.59Q1 | 4.62 2.38 up from 2011 | 240 | 6% | $2,995 | ||
44ACM Transactions on Mathematical SoftwareAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.58Q1 | 5.25 0.58 up from 2011 | 90 | 24% | — | ||
45ACM Transactions on Computer-Human InteractionAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.52Q1 | 4.67 1.15 down from 2011 | 56 | 17% | — | ||
46International Journal of Machine Learning and CyberneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 5.47Q1 | 7.47 9.53 down from 2011 | 64 | 4% | $3,990 | ||
47Journal of Artificial Intelligence ResearchOAAI Access Foundation · United States | 5.40Q1 | 3.86 0.37 down from 2011 | 136 | 100% | — | ||
48Computer Science ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.39Q1 | 3.41 0.77 down from 2011 | 44 | 8% | $4,190 | ||
49IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 5.38Q1 | 2.93 0.04 down from 2011 | 696 | 10% | $2,645 | ||
50Journal of CryptologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 5.36Q1 | 4.27 0.82 up from 2011 | 86 | 85% | $3,190 |
Subfields of Computer Science, compared.
- 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.
402 additional Computer Science 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
- 885
- Window papers (baseline)
- 517,643 +20.7% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 1.1142 -12.0% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 74Comparison-group list (74)
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 | 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.