Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Field ranking · 2016
Computer Science journal rankings 2016
1,044 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Computer Science has 1,044 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR fell 0.07 on 2015 to 0.85, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.81. The top three are ACM Computing Surveys, Journal Of Big Data, and International Journal of Computer Vision.
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 in Computer Science (11)
Up to Physical Sciences- 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
1,044 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 Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 14.47Q1 | 14.89 0.74 up from 2015 | 213 | 30% | — | ||
2Journal Of Big DataOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 11.89Q1 | 10.13 3.38 up from 2015 | 32 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
3International Journal of Computer VisionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 11.57Q1 | 14.07 3.17 up from 2015 | 248 | 41% | $4,090 | ||
4Journal of Statistical SoftwareOAFoundation for Open Access Statistics · United States | 10.29Q1 | 14.95 11.16 up from 2015 | 256 | 100% | — | ||
5ACM Transactions on Computer SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.82Q1 | 10.74 0.70 up from 2015 | 37 | 38% | — | ||
6ACM SIGKDD Explorations NewsletterAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.82Q1 | 6.33 4.97 down from 2015 | 35 | 0% | — | ||
7IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 8.64Q1 | 10.27 1.13 up from 2015 | 728 | 26% | $2,645 | ||
8IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 8.29Q1 | 8.28 0.08 up from 2015 | 218 | 20% | $2,645 | ||
9IEEE Transactions on Cloud ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.91Q1 | 5.05 2.64 down from 2015 | 270 | 30% | $2,645 | ||
10Transactions of the Association for Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics | 7.44Q1 | 10.59 3.58 up from 2015 | 133 | 100% | — | ||
11Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.70Q1 | 4.02 0.99 up from 2015 | 166 | 34% | $2,290 | ||
12IEEE NetworkInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.56Q1 | 8.41 2.92 up from 2015 | 281 | 11% | $2,995 | ||
13ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.53Q1 | 4.40 0.69 down from 2015 | 100 | 35% | — | ||
14ACM Transactions on GraphicsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.50Q1 | 7.43 0.87 down from 2015 | 715 | 29% | — | ||
15IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 6.45Q1 | 4.79 0.40 down from 2015 | 231 | 35% | $2,645 | ||
16Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics · United States | 6.43Q1 | 4.50 2.29 down from 2015 | 75 | 93% | — | ||
17Future Generation Computer SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.32Q1 | 4.69 0.59 down from 2015 | 619 | 22% | $3,000 | ||
18Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and ApplicationsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 6.23Q1 | 3.50 0.56 down from 2015 | 72 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
19The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed LearningOAAthabasca University Press · Canada | 5.81Q1 | 4.76 0.99 up from 2015 | 257 | 100% | — | ||
20IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.79Q1 | 3.82 0.41 up from 2015 | 266 | 23% | $2,645 | ||
21ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.74Q1 | 6.12 0.98 up from 2015 | 219 | 26% | — | ||
22IEEE Signal Processing MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.70Q1 | 6.45 0.04 up from 2015 | 392 | 16% | — | ||
23Journal of Internet Services and ApplicationsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 5.60Q1 | 4.38 0.59 down from 2015 | 59 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
24Information and Software TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.37Q1 | 4.49 0.58 up from 2015 | 347 | 13% | $3,830 | ||
25IEEE 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 | ||
26IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.23Q1 | 7.33 0.87 up from 2015 | 902 | 19% | $2,645 | ||
27Information FusionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.20Q1 | 6.57 1.78 up from 2015 | 207 | 25% | $4,740 | ||
28IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 5.19Q1 | 4.76 0.11 down from 2015 | 589 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
29Library & Information Science ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.16Q1 | 2.86 0.54 up from 2015 | 118 | 9% | $3,630 | ||
30ACM Transactions on Mathematical SoftwareAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.14Q1 | 6.31 2.94 up from 2015 | 84 | 38% | — | ||
31Proceedings of the VLDB EndowmentAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.13Q1 | 5.54 0.30 up from 2015 | 687 | 21% | — | ||
32Big Data ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 5.04Q1 | 3.91 1.34 up from 2015 | 75 | 8% | $2,840 | ||
33ACM Transactions on Computer-Human InteractionAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.04Q1 | 4.29 2.06 down from 2015 | 107 | 36% | — | ||
34Journal of Research on Technology in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.04Q1 | 4.21 0.63 down from 2015 | 45 | 6% | — | ||
35Digital InvestigationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.02Q1 | 3.13 0.44 down from 2015 | 185 | 54% | $2,750 | ||
36IEEE Cloud ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.98Q1 | 2.83 0.82 up from 2015 | 151 | 4% | — | ||
37Swarm IntelligenceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.85Q1 | 4.68 1.80 down from 2015 | 39 | 62% | $3,190 | ||
38Knowledge-Based SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.84Q1 | 5.50 0.69 up from 2015 | 984 | 13% | $3,430 | ||
39British Journal of Educational TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.81Q1 | 3.32 0.34 up from 2015 | 371 | 28% | $4,250 | ||
40ACM Transactions on the WebAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.80Q1 | 3.10 0.14 down from 2015 | 69 | 30% | — | ||
41ACM Transactions on StorageAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.79Q1 | 4.15 1.32 down from 2015 | 50 | 18% | — | ||
42IEEE 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 | ||
43Computers & SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.67Q1 | 4.21 0.60 up from 2015 | 285 | 31% | $3,100 | ||
44ACM Transactions on Information and System SecurityAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.64Q1 | 4.62 0.34 up from 2015 | 48 | 38% | — | ||
45ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.59Q1 | 5.16 2.16 up from 2015 | 44 | 7% | — | ||
46ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.52Q1 | 4.69 1.18 up from 2015 | 393 | 19% | — | ||
47Expert Systems with ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.49Q1 | 5.13 0.16 up from 2015 | 2,085 | 22% | $3,500 | ||
48The VLDB JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.45Q1 | 4.01 0.28 down from 2015 | 110 | 17% | $2,990 | ||
49ACM Transactions on Computing EducationAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.45Q1 | 4.33 0.02 up from 2015 | 62 | 19% | — | ||
50Journal of DocumentationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.40Q1 | 2.45 0.22 up from 2015 | 192 | 27% | — |
Subfields of Computer Science, compared.
- 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.
430 additional Computer Science 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
- 1,044
- Window papers (baseline)
- 572,130 +6.0% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.85 -18.8% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 74Comparison-group list (74)
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 | 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.