Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Field ranking · 2015
Computer Science journal rankings 2015
1,030 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Computer Science has 1,030 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2014 to 0.93, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.90. The top three are ACM Computing Surveys, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
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 in Computer Science (11)
Up to Physical Sciences- 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
1,030 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 Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 16.20Q1 | 14.15 0.76 up from 2014 | 169 | 29% | — | ||
2User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 12.56Q1 | 5.50 2.78 down from 2014 | 35 | 40% | $3,290 | ||
3IEEE Transactions on Cloud ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 11.88Q1 | 7.70 1.42 up from 2014 | 105 | 19% | $2,645 | ||
4ACM Transactions on Computer SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 10.05Q1 | 10.04 5.18 up from 2014 | 38 | 37% | — | ||
5IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 9.95Q1 | 9.14 0.13 up from 2014 | 739 | 29% | $2,645 | ||
6International Journal of Computer VisionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.99Q1 | 10.91 3.49 up from 2014 | 260 | 35% | $4,090 | ||
7ACM Transactions on the WebAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.70Q1 | 3.24 1.58 down from 2014 | 66 | 36% | — | ||
8IEEE Signal Processing MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.43Q1 | 6.41 1.48 down from 2014 | 391 | 32% | — | ||
9IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.37Q1 | 3.42 0.52 down from 2014 | 159 | 15% | $2,645 | ||
10Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and ApplicationsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 7.23Q1 | 4.06 0.87 down from 2014 | 68 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
11IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 7.04Q1 | 5.19 0.30 up from 2014 | 227 | 30% | $2,645 | ||
12ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.00Q1 | 5.09 0.26 up from 2014 | 96 | 26% | — | ||
13Journal of Web SemanticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.97Q1 | 4.48 4.03 down from 2014 | 86 | 32% | $1,700 | ||
14Transactions of the Association for Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics | 6.92Q1 | 7.01 2.57 up from 2014 | 91 | 100% | — | ||
15Future Generation Computer SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.86Q1 | 5.28 0.28 down from 2014 | 525 | 28% | $3,000 | ||
16IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.81Q1 | 8.21 1.34 up from 2014 | 207 | 28% | $2,645 | ||
17ACM SIGKDD Explorations NewsletterAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.75Q1 | 11.31 5.59 up from 2014 | 50 | 9% | — | ||
18Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics · United States | 6.66Q1 | 6.79 0.33 up from 2014 | 86 | 91% | — | ||
19Proceedings of the VLDB EndowmentAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.33Q1 | 5.24 0.88 down from 2014 | 653 | 17% | — | ||
20Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.30Q1 | 3.03 0.65 down from 2014 | 146 | 32% | $2,290 | ||
21Artificial IntelligenceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.20Q1 | 4.15 2.94 down from 2014 | 192 | 100% | $4,260 | ||
22ACM Transactions on GraphicsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.14Q1 | 8.30 1.54 up from 2014 | 767 | 22% | — | ||
23ACM Transactions on Information and System SecurityAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.13Q1 | 4.28 0.41 up from 2014 | 45 | 15% | — | ||
24Autonomous RobotsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.96Q1 | 5.55 0.70 up from 2014 | 140 | 27% | $3,990 | ||
25ACM Transactions on StorageAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.91Q1 | 5.47 0.66 up from 2014 | 50 | 14% | — | ||
26Digital InvestigationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.77Q1 | 3.56 0.72 down from 2014 | 156 | 49% | $2,750 | ||
27Journal of Statistical SoftwareOAFoundation for Open Access Statistics · United States | 5.58Q1 | 3.79 1.96 down from 2014 | 246 | 100% | — | ||
28Journal of Research on Technology in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.54Q1 | 4.84 2.55 up from 2014 | 39 | 5% | — | ||
29The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed LearningOAAthabasca University Press · Canada | 5.43Q1 | 3.77 0.28 up from 2014 | 250 | 100% | — | ||
30Swarm IntelligenceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 5.37Q1 | 6.48 0.43 up from 2014 | 33 | 12% | $3,190 | ||
31IEEE 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 | ||
32IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B (Cybernetics)Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.33Q1 | —no 2014 value | 78 | — | — | ||
33IEEE NetworkInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.33Q1 | 5.49 1.04 up from 2014 | 257 | 16% | $2,995 | ||
34British Journal of Educational TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.20Q1 | 2.99 0.60 up from 2014 | 359 | 26% | $4,250 | ||
35Human-centric Computing and Information SciencesSpringer Nature · South Korea | 5.18Q1 | 7.13 1.82 down from 2014 | 57 | 100% | $1,870 | ||
36Information and Software TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.16Q1 | 3.91 0.18 down from 2014 | 355 | 33% | $3,830 | ||
37ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.11Q1 | 5.14 0.80 up from 2014 | 194 | 17% | — | ||
38Computers & SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.03Q1 | 3.62 0.02 down from 2014 | 291 | 17% | $3,100 | ||
39IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.01Q1 | 6.46 0.02 up from 2014 | 731 | 18% | $2,645 | ||
40IEEE 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 | ||
41Swarm and Evolutionary ComputationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.93Q1 | 5.46 0.25 down from 2014 | 108 | 13% | $3,690 | ||
42IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 4.93Q1 | 4.87 1.24 up from 2014 | 584 | 21% | $2,645 | ||
43Knowledge-Based SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.91Q1 | 4.81 0.21 up from 2014 | 870 | 12% | $3,430 | ||
44ACM Transactions on Computer-Human InteractionAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.82Q1 | 6.34 0.69 up from 2014 | 96 | 29% | — | ||
45IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.82Q1 | 5.02 2.02 up from 2014 | 102 | 43% | $2,645 | ||
46International Journal of Corpus LinguisticsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 4.76Q1 | 2.75 1.37 up from 2014 | 77 | 16% | — | ||
47IEEE Transactions on Image ProcessingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.75Q1 | 5.37 0.67 down from 2014 | 1,341 | 21% | $2,645 | ||
48ACM SIGMOD RecordAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.73Q1 | 2.54 2.41 down from 2014 | 101 | 18% | — | ||
49IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video TechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.72Q1 | 4.19 2.38 down from 2014 | 597 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
50Communications of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.71Q1 | 3.94 0.76 down from 2014 | 848 | 27% | — |
Subfields of Computer Science, compared.
- 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.
399 additional Computer Science 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
- 1,030
- Window papers (baseline)
- 567,073 +9.5% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.93 -16.8% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 74Comparison-group list (74)
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 | 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.