Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Computer Networks and Communications journal rankings 2015
129 ranked journals · Subfield in Computer Science
Computer Networks and Communications has 129 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR fell 0.07 on 2014 to 0.76, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.68. The top three are ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, and Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and Applications.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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 Intelligence404
- Information Systems203
- Computer Networks and Communications129
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition116
- Computational Theory and Mathematics103
- Computer Science Applications19
- Human-Computer Interaction17
- Hardware and Architecture16
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Signal Processing10
- Software2
129 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1ACM Transactions on Computer SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 10.05Q1 | 10.04 5.18 up from 2014 | 38 | 37% | — | ||
2IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.37Q1 | 3.42 0.52 down from 2014 | 159 | 15% | $2,645 | ||
3Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and ApplicationsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 7.23Q1 | 4.06 0.87 down from 2014 | 68 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
4Future Generation Computer SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.86Q1 | 5.28 0.28 down from 2014 | 525 | 28% | $3,000 | ||
5ACM Transactions on Information and System SecurityAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.13Q1 | 4.28 0.41 up from 2014 | 45 | 15% | — | ||
6ACM Transactions on StorageAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.91Q1 | 5.47 0.66 up from 2014 | 50 | 14% | — | ||
7Swarm IntelligenceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 5.37Q1 | 6.48 0.43 up from 2014 | 33 | 12% | $3,190 | ||
8IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.34Q1 | 4.89 0.12 up from 2014 | 932 | 14% | $2,645 | ||
9IEEE NetworkInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.33Q1 | 5.49 1.04 up from 2014 | 257 | 16% | $2,995 | ||
10IEEE Transactions on Network and Service ManagementInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.99Q1 | 4.35 0.41 down from 2014 | 107 | 28% | $2,645 | ||
11ACM SIGMOD RecordAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.73Q1 | 2.54 2.41 down from 2014 | 101 | 18% | — | ||
12Journal of Grid ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.39Q1 | 3.35 0.85 down from 2014 | 118 | 30% | $3,490 | ||
13IEEE Transactions on Control of Network SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.10Q1 | 4.64 4.64 up from 2014 | 56 | 26% | $2,645 | ||
14Journal of Network and Computer ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.07Q1 | 4.61 0.43 up from 2014 | 541 | 16% | $3,120 | ||
15Journal of Internet Services and ApplicationsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.89Q1 | 4.97 1.61 up from 2014 | 50 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
16IEEE Transactions on Mobile ComputingIEEE Computer Society · United States | 3.81Q1 | 4.31 0.39 up from 2014 | 589 | 14% | $2,645 | ||
17IEEE/ACM Transactions on NetworkingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.49Q1 | 3.69 0.28 down from 2014 | 583 | 13% | $2,495 | ||
18ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.46Q1 | 3.51 0.95 up from 2014 | 413 | 9% | — | ||
19Future InternetOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 3.30Q1 | 2.51 0.44 down from 2014 | 126 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
20Ad Hoc NetworksElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.28Q1 | 3.37 0.47 down from 2014 | 470 | 26% | $3,040 | ||
21Computer NetworksElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.04Q1 | 3.75 0.34 up from 2014 | 785 | 26% | $2,460 | ||
22Journal of Sensor and Actuator NetworksOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 3.02Q1 | 2.57 0.39 down from 2014 | 61 | 100% | $2,413 | ||
23Pervasive and Mobile ComputingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.96Q1 | 3.08 0.23 down from 2014 | 231 | 25% | $2,620 | ||
24Computer CommunicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 4.26 0.87 up from 2014 | 480 | 26% | $2,620 | ||
25Journal of Parallel and Distributed ComputingElsevier BV · United States | 2.66Q1 | 2.67 0.07 up from 2014 | 415 | 34% | $3,250 | ||
26ACM Transactions on Database SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.64Q1 | 2.48 0.59 down from 2014 | 96 | 24% | — | ||
27Simulation Modelling Practice and TheoryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.50Q1 | 3.23 0.58 up from 2014 | 314 | 22% | $2,890 | ||
28Egyptian Informatics JournalOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 2.19Q1 | 2.42 1.19 up from 2014 | 81 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
29Journal of Information Processing SystemsOAKorea Information Processing Society · South Korea | 2.17Q1 | 2.62 0.82 down from 2014 | 154 | 48% | — | ||
30Cluster ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.08Q1 | 2.16 0.39 up from 2014 | 214 | 9% | $3,190 | ||
31The International Journal of High Performance Computing ApplicationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 2.68 0.77 up from 2014 | 102 | 30% | $4,400 | ||
32ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.70Q1 | 1.18 0.43 down from 2014 | 100 | 25% | — | ||
33IEEE Data(base) Engineering BulletinPublisher not listed | 1.68Q1 | 1.12 0.23 down from 2014 | 42 | 0% | — | ||
34International Journal of Cooperative Information SystemsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.66Q2 | 1.24 0.20 down from 2014 | 54 | 21% | — | ||
35The Journal of SupercomputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.61Q2 | 1.85 0.26 up from 2014 | 605 | 14% | $3,290 | ||
36ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.57Q2 | 1.67 0.06 up from 2014 | 233 | 40% | $3,290 | ||
37Performance EvaluationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.53Q2 | 1.61 0.28 up from 2014 | 214 | 30% | $2,540 | ||
38IET Wireless Sensor SystemsOAPublisher not listed | 1.44Q2 | 2.49 0.11 up from 2014 | 109 | 19% | $2,310 | ||
39ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.44Q2 | 1.55 0.16 down from 2014 | 89 | 8% | — | ||
40ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.43Q2 | 1.60 0.46 up from 2014 | 409 | 10% | — | ||
41Journal of Network and Systems ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.38Q2 | 1.69 0.63 up from 2014 | 113 | 25% | $3,090 | ||
42International Journal of Parallel Emergent and Distributed SystemsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.38Q2 | 1.12 0.40 down from 2014 | 99 | 19% | — | ||
43Concurrency and Computation Practice and ExperienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.33Q2 | 1.63 0.03 up from 2014 | 600 | 29% | $5,140 | ||
44Journal of Computer Networks and CommunicationsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 1.99 0.18 up from 2014 | 133 | 100% | $1,720 | ||
45Wireless NetworksSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.28Q2 | 1.63 0.04 up from 2014 | 458 | 6% | $3,290 | ||
46Network Protocols and AlgorithmsUnited States | 1.25Q2 | 1.71 0.36 up from 2014 | 77 | 68% | — | ||
47International Journal of Distributed Sensor NetworksOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.22Q2 | 1.63 0.24 up from 2014 | 1,434 | 100% | $2,680 | ||
48ConstraintsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.20Q2 | 1.46 0.36 down from 2014 | 60 | 60% | $3,090 | ||
49Peer-to-Peer Networking and ApplicationsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.20Q2 | 1.55 0.37 up from 2014 | 198 | 14% | $4,090 | ||
50Wireless Sensor NetworkOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 1.17Q2 | 1.41 0.11 up from 2014 | 94 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Computer Science, with Computer Networks and Communications highlighted.
- Artificial Intelligence404
- Information Systems203
- Computer Networks and Communications129
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition116
- Computational Theory and Mathematics103
- Computer Science Applications19
- Human-Computer Interaction17
- Hardware and Architecture16
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Signal Processing10
- Software2
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
64 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 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 129
- Window papers (baseline)
- 99,336 +10.9% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.76 -28.1% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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.