Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Computer Networks and Communications journal rankings 2018
132 ranked journals · Subfield in Computer Science
Computer Networks and Communications has 132 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2017 to 0.73, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.63. The top three are IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and Applications, and IEEE Network.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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 Intelligence433
- Information Systems208
- Computer Networks and Communications132
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition123
- Computational Theory and Mathematics110
- Computer Science Applications24
- Human-Computer Interaction21
- Hardware and Architecture17
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design10
- Signal Processing9
- Software2
132 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.12Q1 | 4.42 0.08 up from 2017 | 381 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
2Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and ApplicationsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 4.88Q1 | 4.56 0.11 down from 2017 | 74 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
3IEEE NetworkInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.81Q1 | 6.95 0.91 down from 2017 | 374 | 24% | $2,995 | ||
4Future Generation Computer SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.57Q1 | 6.98 1.22 up from 2017 | 1,160 | 28% | $3,000 | ||
5Journal of Network and Computer ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.39Q1 | 7.59 1.59 up from 2017 | 695 | 19% | $3,120 | ||
6Journal of Grid ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.17Q1 | 4.42 0.08 down from 2017 | 95 | 38% | $3,490 | ||
7IEEE Transactions on Network and Service ManagementInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.95Q1 | 5.66 0.58 up from 2017 | 255 | 36% | $2,645 | ||
8ACM Transactions on Computer SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.68Q1 | 2.38 3.50 down from 2017 | 40 | 63% | — | ||
9Journal of Internet Services and ApplicationsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.61Q1 | 2.69 1.91 down from 2017 | 54 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
10Egyptian Informatics JournalOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 3.56Q1 | 3.00 1.13 down from 2017 | 98 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
11IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.27Q1 | 4.09 0.63 down from 2017 | 667 | 27% | $2,645 | ||
12ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.09Q1 | 3.19 1.09 down from 2017 | 172 | 29% | — | ||
13IEEE Transactions on Sustainable ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.02Q1 | 5.15 3.31 up from 2017 | 75 | 21% | $2,645 | ||
14IEEE/ACM Transactions on NetworkingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.82Q1 | 4.09 0.78 up from 2017 | 635 | 20% | $2,495 | ||
15IEEE Transactions on Mobile ComputingIEEE Computer Society · United States | 2.78Q1 | 6.07 2.11 up from 2017 | 695 | 19% | $2,645 | ||
16Ad Hoc NetworksElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.50Q1 | 4.84 0.58 up from 2017 | 450 | 29% | $3,040 | ||
17Computer NetworksElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.37Q1 | 4.92 1.15 up from 2017 | 876 | 28% | $2,460 | ||
18Digital Communications and NetworksOAKeAi · Netherlands | 2.34Q1 | 5.02 1.04 up from 2017 | 117 | 100% | $800 | ||
19IEEE Transactions on Control of Network SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.30Q1 | 3.66 0.21 down from 2017 | 318 | 44% | $2,645 | ||
20ACM Transactions on Database SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.25Q1 | 3.67 1.17 up from 2017 | 78 | 61% | — | ||
21Pervasive and Mobile ComputingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.21Q1 | 4.36 1.19 up from 2017 | 337 | 29% | $2,620 | ||
22Swarm IntelligenceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.11Q1 | 3.29 0.82 down from 2017 | 48 | 44% | $3,190 | ||
23Simulation Modelling Practice and TheoryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.06Q1 | 3.26 0.43 up from 2017 | 301 | 26% | $2,890 | ||
24ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 2.04Q1 | 2.15 0.24 down from 2017 | 130 | 31% | $3,290 | ||
25Computer CommunicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 3.75 0.54 up from 2017 | 637 | 23% | $2,620 | ||
26EURASIP Journal on Information SecurityOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 1.91Q1 | 2.73 0.20 up from 2017 | 52 | 100% | $1,040 | ||
27ACM Transactions on StorageAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.91Q1 | 3.15 0.38 up from 2017 | 75 | 30% | — | ||
28ACM SIGMOD RecordAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.90Q1 | 2.46 0.02 up from 2017 | 97 | 10% | — | ||
29IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over NetworksInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 1.88Q1 | 2.60 0.18 down from 2017 | 192 | 45% | $2,645 | ||
30Journal of Parallel and Distributed ComputingElsevier BV · United States | 1.80Q1 | 2.96 0.78 up from 2017 | 414 | 26% | $3,250 | ||
31Journal of large-scale research facilities JLSRFOAResearch Centre Jülich · Germany | 1.68Q1 | 2.59 0.59 down from 2017 | 126 | 100% | — | ||
32ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.66Q1 | 2.56 0.64 up from 2017 | 41 | 37% | — | ||
33Future InternetOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.63Q1 | 2.88 1.05 up from 2017 | 177 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
34The Journal of SupercomputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.62Q2 | 2.99 0.94 up from 2017 | 823 | 16% | $3,290 | ||
35Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.62Q2 | 2.35no 2017 value | 43 | 36% | — | — | |
36IEEE Transactions on Network Science and EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.61Q2 | 2.65 0.39 down from 2017 | 108 | 23% | $2,645 | ||
37International Journal of Cooperative Information SystemsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.61Q2 | 2.19 1.08 up from 2017 | 42 | 8% | — | ||
38EAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of ThingsOAEuropean Alliance for Innovation | 1.57Q2 | 2.36 0.45 down from 2017 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
39Journal of Sensor and Actuator NetworksOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.56Q2 | 3.76 1.59 up from 2017 | 66 | 100% | $2,413 | ||
40Peer-to-Peer Networking and ApplicationsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.53Q2 | 2.87 0.82 up from 2017 | 275 | 10% | $4,090 | ||
41IET NetworksOAPublisher not listed | 1.47Q2 | 2.92 0.55 down from 2017 | 82 | 56% | $2,390 | ||
42Journal of Network and Systems ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.43Q2 | 2.61 0.48 up from 2017 | 99 | 18% | $3,090 | ||
43Complex Adaptive Systems ModelingSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.38Q2 | 2.57 0.60 up from 2017 | 42 | 100% | $1,390 | ||
44International Journal of Network ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 1.35Q2 | 1.78 0.46 down from 2017 | 111 | 24% | $2,490 | ||
45Performance EvaluationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.34Q2 | 1.21 0.72 down from 2017 | 195 | 29% | $2,540 | ||
46ACM Transactions on Parallel ComputingAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.25Q2 | 1.24 1.16 down from 2017 | 72 | 45% | — | ||
47Cluster ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.24Q2 | 1.99 0.83 down from 2017 | 1,055 | 2% | $3,190 | ||
48The International Journal of High Performance Computing ApplicationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 1.79 0.25 up from 2017 | 168 | 44% | $4,400 | ||
49Concurrency and Computation Practice and ExperienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 1.83 0.13 down from 2017 | 896 | 18% | $5,140 | ||
50IEEE Data(base) Engineering BulletinPublisher not listed | 1.18Q2 | 2.29 0.90 up from 2017 | 52 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Computer Science, with Computer Networks and Communications highlighted.
- Artificial Intelligence433
- Information Systems208
- Computer Networks and Communications132
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition123
- Computational Theory and Mathematics110
- Computer Science Applications24
- Human-Computer Interaction21
- Hardware and Architecture17
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design10
- Signal Processing9
- Software2
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
62 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 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 132
- Window papers (baseline)
- 90,549 -8.8% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.73 -4.5% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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 |
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| 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.