Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Computer Networks and Communications journal rankings 2016
129 ranked journals · Subfield in Computer Science
Computer Networks and Communications has 129 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR rose 0.05 on 2015 to 0.81, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.14. The top three are ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, IEEE Network, and Future Generation Computer Systems.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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 Intelligence405
- Information Systems210
- Computer Networks and Communications129
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition120
- Computational Theory and Mathematics103
- Computer Science Applications22
- Human-Computer Interaction19
- Hardware and Architecture15
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design10
- Signal Processing9
- 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1ACM Transactions on Computer SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.82Q1 | 10.74 0.70 up from 2015 | 37 | 38% | — | ||
2IEEE NetworkInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.56Q1 | 8.41 2.92 up from 2015 | 281 | 11% | $2,995 | ||
3Future Generation Computer SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.32Q1 | 4.69 0.59 down from 2015 | 619 | 22% | $3,000 | ||
4Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and ApplicationsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 6.23Q1 | 3.50 0.56 down from 2015 | 72 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
5IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.79Q1 | 3.82 0.41 up from 2015 | 266 | 23% | $2,645 | ||
6Journal of Internet Services and ApplicationsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 5.60Q1 | 4.38 0.59 down from 2015 | 59 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
7IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.31Q1 | 5.43 0.54 up from 2015 | 875 | 18% | $2,645 | ||
8Swarm IntelligenceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.85Q1 | 4.68 1.80 down from 2015 | 39 | 62% | $3,190 | ||
9ACM Transactions on StorageAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.79Q1 | 4.15 1.32 down from 2015 | 50 | 18% | — | ||
10IEEE Transactions on Network and Service ManagementInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.74Q1 | 4.90 0.55 up from 2015 | 113 | 18% | $2,645 | ||
11ACM Transactions on Information and System SecurityAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.64Q1 | 4.62 0.34 up from 2015 | 48 | 38% | — | ||
12ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.52Q1 | 4.69 1.18 up from 2015 | 393 | 19% | — | ||
13Journal of Grid ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.15Q1 | 4.40 1.04 up from 2015 | 102 | 26% | $3,490 | ||
14IEEE Transactions on Control of Network SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.12Q1 | 5.57 0.92 up from 2015 | 139 | 35% | $2,645 | ||
15Journal of Network and Computer ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.97Q1 | 4.80 0.19 up from 2015 | 563 | 10% | $3,120 | ||
16Egyptian Informatics JournalOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 3.26Q1 | 3.18 0.75 up from 2015 | 95 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
17IEEE Transactions on Mobile ComputingIEEE Computer Society · United States | 3.14Q1 | 4.29 0.02 down from 2015 | 596 | 11% | $2,645 | ||
18EURASIP Journal on Information SecurityOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 3.04Q1 | 4.08 1.34 up from 2015 | 34 | 100% | $1,040 | ||
19Ad Hoc NetworksElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.01Q1 | 4.03 0.65 up from 2015 | 481 | 24% | $3,040 | ||
20IEEE/ACM Transactions on NetworkingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.84Q1 | 3.44 0.25 down from 2015 | 599 | 13% | $2,495 | ||
21Computer NetworksElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.82Q1 | 3.74 0.01 down from 2015 | 848 | 15% | $2,460 | ||
22ACM Transactions on Database SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.81Q1 | 2.98 0.50 up from 2015 | 84 | 23% | — | ||
23ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.81Q1 | 2.89 1.71 up from 2015 | 70 | 16% | — | ||
24ACM SIGMOD RecordAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.81Q1 | 2.24 0.30 down from 2015 | 105 | 12% | — | ||
25Computer CommunicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 3.28 0.98 down from 2015 | 491 | 25% | $2,620 | ||
26Journal of Parallel and Distributed ComputingElsevier BV · United States | 2.65Q1 | 3.32 0.66 up from 2015 | 334 | 39% | $3,250 | ||
27Pervasive and Mobile ComputingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 3.47 0.39 up from 2015 | 258 | 28% | $2,620 | ||
28Simulation Modelling Practice and TheoryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 2.98 0.25 down from 2015 | 303 | 16% | $2,890 | ||
29Future InternetOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.52Q1 | 1.97 0.55 down from 2015 | 98 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
30Digital Communications and NetworksOAKeAi · Netherlands | 2.51Q1 | 3.50no 2015 value | 32 | 100% | $800 | — | |
31Cluster ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.35Q1 | 2.81 0.65 up from 2015 | 271 | 5% | $3,190 | ||
32Journal of large-scale research facilities JLSRFOAResearch Centre Jülich · Germany | 2.34Q1 | 2.89no 2015 value | 38 | 100% | — | — | |
33IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over NetworksInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 2.14Q1 | 3.03no 2015 value | 30 | 32% | $2,645 | — | |
34ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 2.13Q2 | 3.06 1.39 up from 2015 | 196 | 19% | $3,290 | ||
35Journal of Sensor and Actuator NetworksOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.86Q2 | 1.62 0.94 down from 2015 | 62 | 100% | $2,413 | ||
36The International Journal of High Performance Computing ApplicationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.83Q2 | 2.40 0.28 down from 2015 | 122 | 38% | $4,400 | ||
37International Journal of Cooperative Information SystemsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.74Q2 | 1.68 0.43 up from 2015 | 52 | 32% | — | ||
38Peer-to-Peer Networking and ApplicationsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.71Q2 | 2.33 0.78 up from 2015 | 222 | 10% | $4,090 | ||
39ACM Transactions on Parallel ComputingAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.68Q2 | 1.59 0.21 up from 2015 | 34 | 27% | — | ||
40Journal of Network and Systems ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.64Q2 | 2.77 1.08 up from 2015 | 97 | 20% | $3,090 | ||
41Performance EvaluationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.61Q2 | 1.83 0.22 up from 2015 | 206 | 20% | $2,540 | ||
42The Journal of SupercomputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.58Q2 | 1.68 0.17 down from 2015 | 729 | 16% | $3,290 | ||
43EAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of ThingsOAEuropean Alliance for Innovation | 1.58Q2 | 1.94no 2015 value | 35 | 100% | — | — | |
44Concurrency and Computation Practice and ExperienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 1.71 0.09 up from 2015 | 702 | 28% | $5,140 | ||
45Journal of Computer Networks and CommunicationsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.35Q2 | 1.16 0.82 down from 2015 | 81 | 100% | $1,720 | ||
46ConstraintsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.34Q2 | 1.08 0.38 down from 2015 | 95 | 56% | $3,090 | ||
47IET Wireless Sensor SystemsOAPublisher not listed | 1.33Q2 | 2.05 0.44 down from 2015 | 93 | 21% | $2,310 | ||
48IEEE Data(base) Engineering BulletinPublisher not listed | 1.28Q2 | 1.51 0.40 up from 2015 | 52 | 0% | — | ||
49Cybernetics & SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.24Q2 | 1.43 0.04 down from 2015 | 109 | 7% | — | ||
50Journal of Information Processing SystemsOAKorea Information Processing Society · South Korea | 1.23Q2 | 1.39 1.23 down from 2015 | 167 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Computer Science, with Computer Networks and Communications highlighted.
- Artificial Intelligence405
- Information Systems210
- Computer Networks and Communications129
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition120
- Computational Theory and Mathematics103
- Computer Science Applications22
- Human-Computer Interaction19
- Hardware and Architecture15
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design10
- Signal Processing9
- Software2
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
66 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 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 129
- Window papers (baseline)
- 98,299 +4.4% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.814 -14.1% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.