Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Field ranking · 2018
Computer Science journal rankings 2018
1,089 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Computer Science has 1,089 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.78, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.55. The top three are Journal of Statistical Software, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and Communications of the ACM.
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 in Computer Science (11)
Up to Physical Sciences- 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
1,089 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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1Journal of Statistical SoftwareOAFoundation for Open Access Statistics · United States | 19.97Q1 | 16.16 9.32 down from 2017 | 300 | 100% | — | ||
2Transactions of the Association for Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics | 10.69Q1 | 18.79 9.37 up from 2017 | 118 | 100% | — | ||
3Communications of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 10.39Q1 | 18.44 15.64 up from 2017 | 840 | 28% | — | ||
4IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 9.88Q1 | 17.40 3.46 up from 2017 | 799 | 38% | $2,645 | ||
5ACM SIGIR ForumAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.37Q1 | 11.17 8.55 up from 2017 | 110 | 24% | — | ||
6International Journal of Computer VisionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 9.33Q1 | 8.08 9.14 down from 2017 | 245 | 54% | $4,090 | ||
7ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.28Q1 | 12.05 0.20 up from 2017 | 273 | 40% | — | ||
8Journal Of Big DataOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 8.34Q1 | 6.60 6.86 down from 2017 | 99 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
9Computer Science ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.00Q1 | 10.67 2.08 up from 2017 | 41 | 30% | $4,190 | ||
10Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.66Q1 | 5.84 1.94 up from 2017 | 210 | 44% | $2,290 | ||
11Information FusionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.23Q1 | 13.95 4.63 up from 2017 | 246 | 28% | $4,740 | ||
12IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.43Q1 | 8.34 0.51 up from 2017 | 260 | 40% | $2,645 | ||
13IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 5.88Q1 | 5.70 0.66 up from 2017 | 271 | 37% | $2,645 | ||
14IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.25Q1 | 10.80 0.99 up from 2017 | 998 | 24% | $2,645 | ||
15Journal of Research on Technology in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.16Q1 | 3.56 0.27 down from 2017 | 59 | 6% | — | ||
16npj Quantum InformationOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.16Q1 | 8.89 1.66 down from 2017 | 85 | 100% | $4,290 | ||
17IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.12Q1 | 4.42 0.08 up from 2017 | 381 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
18Journal of CybersecurityOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.11Q1 | 2.61 0.87 down from 2017 | 37 | 100% | $2,094 | ||
19ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.89Q1 | 4.15 0.17 up from 2017 | 56 | 44% | — | ||
20Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and ApplicationsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 4.88Q1 | 4.56 0.11 down from 2017 | 74 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
21IEEE NetworkInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.81Q1 | 6.95 0.91 down from 2017 | 374 | 24% | $2,995 | ||
22User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.80Q1 | 6.12 0.16 up from 2017 | 37 | 63% | $3,290 | ||
23International Journal of Ambient Computing and IntelligenceIGI Global · United States | 4.70Q1 | 8.37 0.72 down from 2017 | 38 | 0% | — | ||
24Future Generation Computer SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.57Q1 | 6.98 1.22 up from 2017 | 1,160 | 28% | $3,000 | ||
25IEEE Transactions on Cloud ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.54Q1 | 4.23 0.04 up from 2017 | 358 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
26ACM Transactions on GraphicsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.52Q1 | 8.13 0.79 up from 2017 | 815 | 43% | — | ||
27ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.48Q1 | 3.46 1.93 down from 2017 | 71 | 51% | — | ||
28Computers & SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.48Q1 | 5.05 0.77 up from 2017 | 381 | 31% | $3,100 | ||
29The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed LearningOAAthabasca University Press · Canada | 4.42Q1 | 3.35 0.31 down from 2017 | 283 | 100% | — | ||
30Journal of Network and Computer ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.39Q1 | 7.59 1.59 up from 2017 | 695 | 19% | $3,120 | ||
31Semantic WebIOS Press · Netherlands | 4.37Q1 | 6.04 0.44 down from 2017 | 148 | 49% | — | ||
32Knowledge-Based SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.29Q1 | 6.65 0.33 up from 2017 | 1,165 | 19% | $3,430 | ||
33Journal of Web SemanticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.25Q1 | 6.84 2.20 up from 2017 | 86 | 48% | $1,700 | ||
34International Journal of Intelligent SystemsWiley · United States | 4.23Q1 | 8.63 4.70 up from 2017 | 202 | 76% | $2,700 | ||
35Requirements EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 4.22Q1 | 2.74 0.13 down from 2017 | 87 | 24% | $2,990 | ||
36British Journal of Educational TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.18Q1 | 4.02 1.31 up from 2017 | 294 | 36% | $4,250 | ||
37Journal of Grid ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.17Q1 | 4.42 0.08 down from 2017 | 95 | 38% | $3,490 | ||
38IEEE Signal Processing MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.14Q1 | 4.97 0.42 down from 2017 | 371 | 43% | — | ||
39Proceedings of the Python in Science ConferencesUnited States | 4.14Q1 | 1.21 0.20 down from 2017 | 49 | 96% | — | ||
40ACM Transactions on Management Information SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.13Q1 | 2.00 1.93 down from 2017 | 48 | 24% | — | ||
41Information and Software TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.13Q1 | 4.01 0.77 down from 2017 | 412 | 41% | $3,830 | ||
422017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)Publisher not listed | 4.10Q1 | 2.59no 2017 value | 109 | — | — | — | |
43IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure ComputingIEEE Computer Society · United States | 4.07Q1 | 4.77 0.24 up from 2017 | 300 | 22% | $2,645 | ||
44Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Data Mining and Knowledge DiscoveryWiley · United States | 4.03Q1 | 4.76 0.53 up from 2017 | 71 | 35% | $4,480 | ||
45IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and SecurityInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.03Q1 | 6.23 0.96 down from 2017 | 879 | 34% | $2,645 | ||
46IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal ProcessingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.99Q1 | 6.55 1.76 up from 2017 | 464 | 54% | $2,645 | ||
47Expert Systems with ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.97Q1 | 6.47 1.15 up from 2017 | 1,988 | 26% | $3,500 | ||
48IEEE 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 | ||
49IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 3.91Q1 | 5.57 0.70 up from 2017 | 724 | 30% | $2,645 | ||
50Journal of Systems and SoftwareElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.89Q1 | 4.34 0.33 up from 2017 | 647 | 37% | $3,820 |
Subfields of Computer Science, compared.
- 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.
439 additional Computer Science 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
- 1,089
- Window papers (baseline)
- 560,186 -1.2% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.776 -16.4% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 74Comparison-group list (74)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.