Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Artificial Intelligence journal rankings 2017
422 ranked journals · Subfield in Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence has 422 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR fell 0.07 on 2016 to 0.88, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.89. The top three are Journal of Statistical Software, Journal Of Big Data, and ACM Computing Surveys.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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 Intelligence422
- Information Systems211
- Computer Networks and Communications131
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition120
- Computational Theory and Mathematics107
- Computer Science Applications25
- Human-Computer Interaction19
- Hardware and Architecture16
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Signal Processing8
- Software2
422 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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1Journal of Statistical SoftwareOAFoundation for Open Access Statistics · United States | 14.60Q1 | 25.48 10.53 up from 2016 | 293 | 100% | — | ||
2Journal Of Big DataOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 12.37Q1 | 13.46 3.34 up from 2016 | 58 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
3ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 11.99Q1 | 11.85 3.04 down from 2016 | 234 | 40% | — | ||
4Transactions of the Association for Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics | 8.45Q1 | 9.42 1.17 down from 2016 | 124 | 100% | — | ||
5IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.36Q1 | 7.83 0.45 down from 2016 | 220 | 23% | $2,645 | ||
6ACM SIGKDD Explorations NewsletterAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.19Q1 | 5.47 0.86 down from 2016 | 35 | 14% | — | ||
7npj Quantum InformationOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.02Q1 | 10.56 1.83 up from 2016 | 36 | 100% | $4,290 | ||
8IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.00Q1 | 9.80 2.47 up from 2016 | 943 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
9Information FusionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.82Q1 | 9.32 2.76 up from 2016 | 216 | 35% | $4,740 | ||
10ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.11Q1 | 5.73 0.39 down from 2016 | 194 | 24% | — | ||
11Neural NetworksElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.06Q1 | 6.45 0.43 down from 2016 | 460 | 19% | $3,110 | ||
12IEEE Transactions on Big DataIEEE Computer Society · United States | 4.86Q1 | 5.86 0.08 down from 2016 | 91 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
13IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and SecurityInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.82Q1 | 7.20 1.34 up from 2016 | 823 | 18% | $2,645 | ||
14IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal ProcessingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.68Q1 | 4.80 1.12 down from 2016 | 463 | 23% | $2,645 | ||
15Knowledge-Based SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.55Q1 | 6.31 0.81 up from 2016 | 1,105 | 14% | $3,430 | ||
16Proceedings of the VLDB EndowmentAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.34Q1 | 5.33 0.21 down from 2016 | 632 | 24% | — | ||
17IEEE Signal Processing MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.32Q1 | 5.39 1.07 down from 2016 | 359 | 19% | — | ||
18Computers & SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.31Q1 | 4.28 0.07 up from 2016 | 325 | 33% | $3,100 | ||
19IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 4.31Q1 | 4.87 0.11 up from 2016 | 652 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
20IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure ComputingIEEE Computer Society · United States | 4.25Q1 | 4.52 0.90 up from 2016 | 266 | 24% | $2,645 | ||
21Information SciencesElsevier BV · United States | 4.23Q1 | 5.66 0.17 down from 2016 | 2,230 | 20% | $3,200 | ||
22Expert Systems with ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.17Q1 | 5.31 0.18 up from 2016 | 1,961 | 24% | $3,500 | ||
23Information Processing & ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.04Q1 | 4.62 0.38 up from 2016 | 205 | 16% | $3,670 | ||
24ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.97Q1 | 5.39 1.30 up from 2016 | 80 | 25% | — | ||
25Archives of Computational Methods in EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Spain | 3.94Q1 | 5.27 0.32 up from 2016 | 105 | 51% | $4,690 | ||
26Semantic WebIOS Press · Netherlands | 3.90Q1 | 6.47 0.95 up from 2016 | 154 | 57% | — | ||
27IEEE Computational Intelligence MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.82Q1 | 3.57 0.48 up from 2016 | 220 | 24% | — | ||
28Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Data Mining and Knowledge DiscoveryWiley · United States | 3.72Q1 | 4.22 0.40 up from 2016 | 59 | 33% | $4,480 | ||
29Journal of Web SemanticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.69Q1 | 4.65 1.08 up from 2016 | 101 | 41% | $1,700 | ||
30Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics · United States | 3.67Q1 | 4.57 0.07 up from 2016 | 86 | 100% | — | ||
31Journal of Artificial Intelligence ResearchOAAI Access Foundation · United States | 3.57Q1 | 3.14 0.93 down from 2016 | 181 | 100% | — | ||
32Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear SciencesOADe Gruyter · Spain | 3.56Q1 | 4.23no 2016 value | 47 | 100% | $1,500 | — | |
33ACM Transactions on Management Information SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.56Q1 | 3.93 1.13 up from 2016 | 48 | 4% | — | ||
34Applied Soft ComputingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.51Q1 | 5.28 0.42 up from 2016 | 1,835 | 16% | $3,730 | ||
35The VLDB JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.50Q1 | 3.46 0.55 down from 2016 | 101 | 34% | $2,990 | ||
36Journal of Information Security and ApplicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.49Q1 | 3.22 0.38 up from 2016 | 107 | 17% | $3,130 | ||
37Artificial IntelligenceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.45Q1 | 4.33 1.36 up from 2016 | 249 | 100% | $4,260 | ||
38Journal of Argumentation in ContextJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 3.39Q1 | 2.51 2.19 up from 2016 | 58 | 10% | — | ||
39IEEE Transactions on Computational Social SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.31Q1 | 2.74 0.83 down from 2016 | 56 | 11% | $2,645 | ||
40Big Data ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 3.30Q1 | 2.95 0.95 down from 2016 | 152 | 36% | $2,840 | ||
41Information SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.28Q1 | 2.95 0.58 down from 2016 | 324 | 38% | $3,410 | ||
42International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.28Q1 | 3.59 0.14 up from 2016 | 110 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
43Data Mining and Knowledge DiscoverySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.25Q1 | 3.88 0.08 up from 2016 | 140 | 39% | $3,190 | ||
44IEEE Transactions on Signal ProcessingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.22Q1 | 4.54 0.33 down from 2016 | 1,887 | 33% | $2,645 | ||
45ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.19Q1 | 3.23 1.93 down from 2016 | 42 | 42% | — | ||
46ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from DataAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.13Q1 | 3.42 0.56 down from 2016 | 125 | 21% | — | ||
47Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and SchedulingOAPublisher not listed | 3.07Q1 | 1.88 0.11 up from 2016 | 184 | 100% | — | ||
48Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing ResearchOAPolish Neural Network Society, the University of Social Sciences in Lodz & Czestochowa University of Technology · Poland | 3.04Q1 | 5.29 0.29 up from 2016 | 65 | 100% | — | ||
49International Journal of Intelligent SystemsWiley · United States | 3.02Q1 | 3.93 1.48 up from 2016 | 193 | 70% | $2,700 | ||
50Journal of ClassificationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.97Q1 | 1.80 2.45 down from 2016 | 60 | 39% | $3,290 |
Subfields of Computer Science, with Artificial Intelligence highlighted.
- Artificial Intelligence422
- Information Systems211
- Computer Networks and Communications131
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition120
- Computational Theory and Mathematics107
- Computer Science Applications25
- Human-Computer Interaction19
- Hardware and Architecture16
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Signal Processing8
- Software2
Journals
Citations made in 2017. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
160 additional Artificial Intelligence journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 422
- Window papers (baseline)
- 126,230 -0.5% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.875 -21.8% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 33
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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 | 136 | 142 | 165 | 172 | 188 | 196 | 203 | 221 | 248 | 280 | 296 | 316 | 339 | 367 | 387 | 404 | 405 | 422 | 433 | 448 | 459 | 456 | 475 | 483 | 499 | 484 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 40,057 | 44,206 | 49,867 | 57,198 | 64,844 | 72,589 | 81,329 | 90,526 | 100,469 | 108,467 | 113,627 | 117,909 | 121,850 | 124,838 | 126,803 | 128,094 | 127,939 | 126,230 | 127,012 | 133,222 | 146,316 | 162,805 | 180,943 | 194,824 | 213,310 | 242,477 | |
| Median OJR | 1.002 | 1.14 | 1.17 | 1.22 | 1.16 | 1.36 | 1.40 | 1.37 | 1.33 | 1.32 | 1.42 | 1.27 | 1.23 | 1.15 | 1.12 | 1.02 | 0.95 | 0.875 | 0.84 | 0.882 | 0.79 | 0.878 | 0.89 | 0.85 | 0.80 | 0.81 |
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.