Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Computer Networks and Communications journal rankings 2020
130 ranked journals · Subfield in Computer Science
Computer Networks and Communications has 130 ranked journals in 2020. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2019 to 0.61, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.38. The top three are IEEE Network, Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and Applications, and Future Generation Computer Systems.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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 Intelligence459
- Information Systems210
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition131
- Computer Networks and Communications130
- Computational Theory and Mathematics112
- Human-Computer Interaction24
- Computer Science Applications23
- Hardware and Architecture17
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Signal Processing8
- Software2
130 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1IEEE NetworkInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.23Q1 | 12.25 3.67 up from 2019 | 563 | 28% | $2,995 | ||
2Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and ApplicationsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 4.86Q1 | 6.96 0.51 up from 2019 | 76 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
3Future Generation Computer SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.31Q1 | 8.55 0.61 up from 2019 | 2,042 | 31% | $3,000 | ||
4Internet of ThingsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.97Q1 | 9.40 1.65 up from 2019 | 124 | 20% | $2,690 | ||
5IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.91Q1 | 6.31 0.95 up from 2019 | 335 | 28% | $2,645 | ||
6Journal of Network and Computer ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 8.69 0.40 up from 2019 | 655 | 24% | $3,120 | ||
7ACM Transactions on Database SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.46Q1 | 2.57 3.48 down from 2019 | 59 | 65% | — | ||
8Digital Communications and NetworksOAKeAi · Netherlands | 3.34Q1 | 5.83 1.50 down from 2019 | 112 | 100% | $800 | ||
9Egyptian Informatics JournalOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 3.03Q1 | 5.59 0.44 up from 2019 | 65 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
10Journal of Internet Services and ApplicationsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.95Q1 | 7.31 2.16 up from 2019 | 67 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
11IEEE Transactions on Network and Service ManagementInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.41Q1 | 5.44 0.38 down from 2019 | 411 | 35% | $2,645 | ||
12IEEE Transactions on Sustainable ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.39Q1 | 4.78 0.82 down from 2019 | 178 | 22% | $2,645 | ||
13Journal of Grid ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.34Q1 | 4.89 1.72 up from 2019 | 107 | 40% | $3,490 | ||
14Computer NetworksElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.31Q1 | 6.38 1.48 up from 2019 | 916 | 26% | $2,460 | ||
15IEEE Transactions on Mobile ComputingIEEE Computer Society · United States | 2.22Q1 | 5.89 0.58 down from 2019 | 798 | 20% | $2,645 | ||
16Journal of Parallel and Distributed ComputingElsevier BV · United States | 2.18Q1 | 4.82 0.99 up from 2019 | 565 | 29% | $3,250 | ||
17IEEE/ACM Transactions on NetworkingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.11Q1 | 5.40 0.87 up from 2019 | 611 | 30% | $2,495 | ||
18EURASIP Journal on Information SecurityOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 2.01Q1 | 3.76 0.53 up from 2019 | 47 | 100% | $1,040 | ||
19Ad Hoc NetworksElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.98Q1 | 5.67 1.25 up from 2019 | 489 | 15% | $3,040 | ||
20IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.97Q1 | 4.40 0.43 up from 2019 | 628 | 34% | $2,645 | ||
21Journal of large-scale research facilities JLSRFOAResearch Centre Jülich · Germany | 1.95Q1 | 9.18 6.12 up from 2019 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
22Future InternetOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.94Q1 | 4.43 0.67 up from 2019 | 482 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
23Pervasive and Mobile ComputingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.89Q1 | 4.81 0.55 up from 2019 | 278 | 39% | $2,620 | ||
24Simulation Modelling Practice and TheoryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 4.37 0.98 up from 2019 | 346 | 17% | $2,890 | ||
25Computer CommunicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 4.74 1.17 up from 2019 | 684 | 16% | $2,620 | ||
26IEEE Transactions on Network Science and EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.74Q1 | 4.79 0.93 up from 2019 | 288 | 22% | $2,645 | ||
27Journal of Sensor and Actuator NetworksOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.69Q1 | 4.63 0.08 up from 2019 | 142 | 100% | $2,413 | ||
28IEEE Networking LettersInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.62Q1 | 3.00 1.50 up from 2019 | 60 | 39% | $2,645 | ||
29Swarm IntelligenceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.54Q1 | 3.83 0.45 up from 2019 | 46 | 28% | $3,190 | ||
30Peer-to-Peer Networking and ApplicationsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.42Q1 | 3.33 0.32 up from 2019 | 267 | 9% | $4,090 | ||
31Journal of Cyber Security TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 1.73 0.52 down from 2019 | 34 | 18% | — | ||
32IEEE Transactions on Control of Network SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.39Q1 | 3.37 0.37 down from 2019 | 351 | 40% | $2,645 | ||
33IET NetworksOAPublisher not listed | 1.38Q1 | 3.43 0.62 up from 2019 | 145 | 59% | $2,390 | ||
34ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.37Q2 | 2.92 0.78 up from 2019 | 216 | 36% | $3,290 | ||
35Cybernetics & SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.37Q2 | 2.82 0.80 up from 2019 | 103 | 16% | — | ||
36SICS Software-Intensive Cyber-Physical SystemsSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.33Q2 | 2.34 2.09 up from 2019 | 32 | 100% | $2,690 | ||
37ConstraintsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.31Q2 | 3.09 0.25 up from 2019 | 38 | 62% | $3,090 | ||
38The Journal of SupercomputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.31Q2 | 2.54 0.13 down from 2019 | 1,110 | 20% | $3,290 | ||
39IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over NetworksInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 1.26Q2 | 2.73 0.02 down from 2019 | 182 | 47% | $2,645 | ||
40Journal of Network and Systems ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.21Q2 | 2.36 0.19 up from 2019 | 99 | 38% | $3,090 | ||
41ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication ReviewAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.21Q2 | 1.94 1.67 down from 2019 | 140 | 41% | — | ||
42ACM Transactions on Computer SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.19Q2 | 1.58 0.38 down from 2019 | 32 | 71% | — | ||
43IEEE Data(base) Engineering BulletinPublisher not listed | 1.15Q2 | 2.72 0.25 up from 2019 | 53 | 0% | — | ||
43Journal of Computer Networks and CommunicationsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 2.92 0.96 up from 2019 | 122 | 100% | $1,720 | ||
45The International Journal of High Performance Computing ApplicationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 2.21 0.43 up from 2019 | 141 | 49% | $4,400 | ||
46Journal of Reliable Intelligent EnvironmentsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.06Q2 | 3.11 0.59 up from 2019 | 54 | 30% | $3,290 | ||
47IET Wireless Sensor SystemsOAPublisher not listed | 1.05Q2 | 2.94 0.30 up from 2019 | 125 | 16% | $2,310 | ||
48International Journal of Network ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 2.63 1.19 up from 2019 | 110 | 33% | $2,490 | ||
49Cluster ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.02Q2 | 2.33 0.78 up from 2019 | 1,952 | 12% | $3,190 | ||
50ACM Transactions on StorageAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.02Q2 | 1.65 1.11 down from 2019 | 98 | 23% | — |
Subfields of Computer Science, with Computer Networks and Communications highlighted.
- Artificial Intelligence459
- Information Systems210
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition131
- Computer Networks and Communications130
- Computational Theory and Mathematics112
- Human-Computer Interaction24
- Computer Science Applications23
- Hardware and Architecture17
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Signal Processing8
- Software2
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% 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 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 130
- Window papers (baseline)
- 90,921 -4.6% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.61 -8.6% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.