Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Field ranking · 2017
Computer Science journal rankings 2017
1,072 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Computer Science has 1,072 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR fell 0.07 on 2016 to 0.78, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.71. 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 in Computer Science (11)
Up to Physical Sciences- 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
1,072 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% | — | ||
4International Journal of Computer VisionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 9.97Q1 | 17.22 3.14 up from 2016 | 257 | 51% | $4,090 | ||
5CAAI Transactions on Intelligence TechnologyOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 9.82Q1 | 11.60no 2016 value | 35 | 89% | $2,760 | — | |
6IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 9.65Q1 | 13.95 3.68 up from 2016 | 748 | 28% | $2,645 | ||
7Transactions of the Association for Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics | 8.45Q1 | 9.42 1.17 down from 2016 | 124 | 100% | — | ||
8ACM Transactions on Computer SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.27Q1 | 5.89 4.85 down from 2016 | 36 | 33% | — | ||
9IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.36Q1 | 7.83 0.45 down from 2016 | 220 | 23% | $2,645 | ||
10IEEE Transactions on Cloud ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.55Q1 | 4.19 0.87 down from 2016 | 339 | 12% | $2,645 | ||
11IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 6.41Q1 | 5.05 0.26 up from 2016 | 240 | 33% | $2,645 | ||
12Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.28Q1 | 3.90 0.11 down from 2016 | 181 | 47% | $2,290 | ||
13Smart Learning EnvironmentsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 6.20Q1 | 3.36 3.98 down from 2016 | 40 | 100% | $1,810 | ||
14ACM SIGKDD Explorations NewsletterAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.19Q1 | 5.47 0.86 down from 2016 | 35 | 14% | — | ||
15IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.11Q1 | 4.34 0.51 up from 2016 | 366 | 20% | $2,645 | ||
16ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 6.10Q1 | 3.97 0.43 down from 2016 | 82 | 33% | — | ||
17npj Quantum InformationOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.02Q1 | 10.56 1.83 up from 2016 | 36 | 100% | $4,290 | ||
18IEEE 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 | ||
19ACM Transactions on Information and System SecurityAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.92Q1 | 5.86 1.24 up from 2016 | 35 | — | — | ||
20IEEE NetworkInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.84Q1 | 7.85 0.56 down from 2016 | 316 | 13% | $2,995 | ||
21Information FusionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.82Q1 | 9.32 2.76 up from 2016 | 216 | 35% | $4,740 | ||
22User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.77Q1 | 5.96 0.35 up from 2016 | 32 | 54% | $3,290 | ||
23Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and ApplicationsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 5.27Q1 | 4.67 1.17 up from 2016 | 67 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
24ACM Transactions on GraphicsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.20Q1 | 7.34 0.08 down from 2016 | 739 | 26% | — | ||
25Information and Software TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.13Q1 | 4.78 0.29 up from 2016 | 379 | 31% | $3,830 | ||
26ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.11Q1 | 5.73 0.39 down from 2016 | 194 | 24% | — | ||
27Neural NetworksElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.06Q1 | 6.45 0.43 down from 2016 | 460 | 19% | $3,110 | ||
28ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.89Q1 | 4.28 0.41 down from 2016 | 279 | 14% | — | ||
29IEEE Transactions on Big DataIEEE Computer Society · United States | 4.86Q1 | 5.86 0.08 down from 2016 | 91 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
30IEEE 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 | ||
31British Journal of Educational TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.79Q1 | 2.70 0.62 down from 2016 | 351 | 39% | $4,250 | ||
32Journal of Research on Technology in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.75Q1 | 3.83 0.38 down from 2016 | 44 | 13% | — | ||
33Journal of Internet Services and ApplicationsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 4.72Q1 | 4.60 0.22 up from 2016 | 49 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
34Information Management & Computer SecurityEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.71Q1 | —no 2016 value | 30 | — | — | ||
35IEEE 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 | ||
36The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed LearningOAAthabasca University Press · Canada | 4.60Q1 | 3.66 1.10 down from 2016 | 272 | 100% | — | ||
37IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.59Q1 | 4.72 0.71 down from 2016 | 795 | 21% | $2,645 | ||
38Future Generation Computer SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.58Q1 | 5.76 1.07 up from 2016 | 743 | 24% | $3,000 | ||
39Knowledge-Based SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.55Q1 | 6.31 0.81 up from 2016 | 1,105 | 14% | $3,430 | ||
40Proceedings of the VLDB EndowmentAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.34Q1 | 5.33 0.21 down from 2016 | 632 | 24% | — | ||
41IEEE Signal Processing MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.32Q1 | 5.39 1.07 down from 2016 | 359 | 19% | — | ||
42Journal of Grid ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.32Q1 | 4.50 0.10 up from 2016 | 96 | 39% | $3,490 | ||
43Computers & SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.31Q1 | 4.28 0.07 up from 2016 | 325 | 33% | $3,100 | ||
44IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 4.31Q1 | 4.87 0.11 up from 2016 | 652 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
45IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure ComputingIEEE Computer Society · United States | 4.25Q1 | 4.52 0.90 up from 2016 | 266 | 24% | $2,645 | ||
46Information SciencesElsevier BV · United States | 4.23Q1 | 5.66 0.17 down from 2016 | 2,230 | 20% | $3,200 | ||
47Expert Systems with ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.17Q1 | 5.31 0.18 up from 2016 | 1,961 | 24% | $3,500 | ||
48IEEE Transactions on Image ProcessingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.11Q1 | 6.49 0.30 up from 2016 | 1,659 | 25% | $2,645 | ||
49Journal of Systems and SoftwareElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.10Q1 | 4.01 0.36 up from 2016 | 644 | 32% | $3,820 | ||
50IEEE Transactions on Network and Service ManagementInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.06Q1 | 5.08 0.18 up from 2016 | 176 | 27% | $2,645 |
Subfields of Computer Science, compared.
- 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.
433 additional Computer Science 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
- 1,072
- Window papers (baseline)
- 563,277 +1.2% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.782 -20.9% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 74Comparison-group list (74)
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 | 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.