Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Field ranking · 2019
Computer Science journal rankings 2019
1,124 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Computer Science has 1,124 ranked journals in 2019. The median OJR fell 0.05 on 2018 to 0.72, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.45. The top three are Communications of the ACM, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and Journal of Statistical Software.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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 Intelligence448
- Information Systems210
- Computer Networks and Communications137
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition131
- Computational Theory and Mathematics113
- Human-Computer Interaction24
- Computer Science Applications23
- Hardware and Architecture17
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Signal Processing8
- Software2
1,124 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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Communications of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 11.69Q1 | 23.36 4.92 up from 2018 | 847 | 28% | — | ||
2Transactions of the Association for Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics | 11.42Q1 | 23.26 4.47 up from 2018 | 124 | 100% | — | ||
3Journal of Statistical SoftwareOAFoundation for Open Access Statistics · United States | 10.28Q1 | 19.52 3.36 up from 2018 | 281 | 100% | — | ||
4IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 10.24Q1 | 15.68 1.72 down from 2018 | 852 | 46% | $2,645 | ||
5ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.34Q1 | 15.76 3.71 up from 2018 | 310 | 36% | — | ||
6Information FusionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.15Q1 | 14.17 0.21 up from 2018 | 297 | 28% | $4,740 | ||
7Computer Science ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.13Q1 | 13.38 2.71 up from 2018 | 56 | 19% | $4,190 | ||
8IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.92Q1 | 9.91 1.57 up from 2018 | 251 | 52% | $2,645 | ||
9Journal of Research on Technology in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.56Q1 | 3.20 0.37 down from 2018 | 57 | 10% | — | ||
10Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.38Q1 | 5.54 0.29 down from 2018 | 230 | 48% | $2,290 | ||
11International Journal of Intelligent SystemsWiley · United States | 5.26Q1 | 11.90 3.26 up from 2018 | 239 | 75% | $2,700 | ||
12ACM Transactions on Computing EducationAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 5.25Q1 | 8.78 4.89 up from 2018 | 67 | 47% | — | ||
13ACM SIGIR ForumAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.98Q1 | 9.48 1.69 down from 2018 | 135 | 25% | — | ||
14User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.91Q1 | 8.04 1.92 up from 2018 | 39 | 58% | $3,290 | ||
15IEEE NetworkInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.89Q1 | 8.58 1.64 up from 2018 | 464 | 35% | $2,995 | ||
16Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Data Mining and Knowledge DiscoveryWiley · United States | 4.88Q1 | 8.29 3.54 up from 2018 | 100 | 34% | $4,480 | ||
17IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 4.87Q1 | 4.93 0.78 down from 2018 | 323 | 41% | $2,645 | ||
18IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.87Q1 | 10.56 0.23 down from 2018 | 1,031 | 28% | $2,645 | ||
19Proceedings of thePublisher not listed | 4.71Q1 | 3.69no 2018 value | 42 | 0% | — | ||
20Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and ApplicationsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 4.68Q1 | 6.44 1.88 up from 2018 | 71 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
21Journal of CybersecurityOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.52Q1 | 3.48 0.87 up from 2018 | 37 | 100% | $2,094 | ||
222017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)Publisher not listed | 4.45Q1 | 4.22 1.63 up from 2018 | 109 | — | — | ||
23Future Generation Computer SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.45Q1 | 7.93 0.96 up from 2018 | 1,692 | 30% | $3,000 | ||
24International Journal of Computer VisionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.43Q1 | 11.51 3.43 up from 2018 | 247 | 54% | $4,090 | ||
25IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal ProcessingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.38Q1 | 6.35 0.21 down from 2018 | 437 | 60% | $2,645 | ||
26ACM Transactions on GraphicsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.36Q1 | 8.98 0.85 up from 2018 | 861 | 49% | — | ||
27British Journal of Educational TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.33Q1 | 4.75 0.73 up from 2018 | 281 | 35% | $4,250 | ||
28IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.32Q1 | 5.36 0.94 up from 2018 | 354 | 23% | $2,645 | ||
29Journal of Network and Computer ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 8.29 0.70 up from 2018 | 749 | 19% | $3,120 | ||
30npj Quantum InformationOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.28Q1 | 8.31 0.58 down from 2018 | 141 | 100% | $4,290 | ||
31Journal Of Big DataOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.17Q1 | 5.40 1.20 down from 2018 | 128 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
32IEEE Signal Processing MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.17Q1 | 7.80 2.83 up from 2018 | 385 | 66% | — | ||
33Knowledge-Based SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.13Q1 | 7.79 1.14 up from 2018 | 1,281 | 16% | $3,430 | ||
34The R JournalOAR Foundation for Statistical Computing · Austria | 4.11Q1 | 6.30 1.59 up from 2018 | 167 | 100% | — | ||
35Swarm and Evolutionary ComputationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.10Q1 | 8.27 0.99 up from 2018 | 292 | 17% | $3,690 | ||
36Expert Systems with ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.00Q1 | 7.71 1.24 up from 2018 | 1,950 | 26% | $3,500 | ||
37ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.99Q1 | 4.61 0.46 up from 2018 | 53 | 41% | — | ||
38The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed LearningOAAthabasca University Press · Canada | 3.98Q1 | 4.74 1.38 up from 2018 | 288 | 100% | — | ||
39Information Processing & ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.93Q1 | 5.46 1.47 up from 2018 | 294 | 27% | $3,670 | ||
40IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 3.85Q1 | 6.40 0.84 up from 2018 | 809 | 24% | $2,645 | ||
41Computer Science EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.83Q1 | 6.18 4.25 up from 2018 | 59 | 27% | — | ||
42IEEE Cloud ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.82Q1 | 4.44 1.07 up from 2018 | 298 | 0% | — | ||
43IEEE Transactions on Image ProcessingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.80Q1 | 9.97 2.13 up from 2018 | 1,743 | 39% | $2,645 | ||
44IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and SecurityInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.79Q1 | 7.42 1.18 up from 2018 | 907 | 44% | $2,645 | ||
45Computers & SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.74Q1 | 5.77 0.72 up from 2018 | 479 | 31% | $3,100 | ||
46Smart Learning EnvironmentsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 3.72Q1 | 3.75 1.25 down from 2018 | 57 | 100% | $1,810 | ||
47Artificial Intelligence ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 7.84 1.79 up from 2018 | 208 | 15% | $3,190 | ||
48PeerJ Computer ScienceOAPeerJ, Inc. · United States | 3.66Q1 | 5.97 0.79 up from 2018 | 128 | 100% | $1,395 | ||
49International Journal of Web and Grid ServicesInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 3.65Q1 | 6.61 5.88 up from 2018 | 106 | 4% | — | ||
50International Journal of Information and Learning TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.56Q1 | 3.22 1.05 up from 2018 | 73 | 22% | — |
Subfields of Computer Science, compared.
- Artificial Intelligence448
- Information Systems210
- Computer Networks and Communications137
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition131
- Computational Theory and Mathematics113
- Human-Computer Interaction24
- Computer Science Applications23
- Hardware and Architecture17
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Signal Processing8
- Software2
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
437 additional Computer Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 1,124
- Window papers (baseline)
- 579,410 +1.3% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.72 -15.2% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 74Comparison-group list (74)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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 | 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.