Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Field ranking · 2020
Computer Science journal rankings 2020
1,127 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Computer Science has 1,127 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.70, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 1.56. The top three are Journal of Statistical Software, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and Communications of the ACM.
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 in Computer Science (11)
Up to Physical Sciences- 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
1,127 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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1Journal of Statistical SoftwareOAFoundation for Open Access Statistics · United States | 10.99Q1 | 8.29 11.23 down from 2019 | 239 | 100% | — | ||
2Transactions of the Association for Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics | 10.13Q1 | 10.57 12.69 down from 2019 | 130 | 100% | — | ||
3Communications of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.63Q1 | 3.64 19.72 down from 2019 | 835 | 24% | — | ||
4ACM SIGKDD Explorations NewsletterAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 9.59Q1 | 5.67 13.06 down from 2019 | 32 | 25% | — | ||
5ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.20Q1 | 17.12 1.36 up from 2019 | 370 | 44% | — | ||
6IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 7.36Q1 | 16.51 0.83 up from 2019 | 953 | 48% | $2,645 | ||
7Information FusionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.88Q1 | 15.51 1.34 up from 2019 | 351 | 34% | $4,740 | ||
8Computer Science ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.62Q1 | 12.13 1.25 down from 2019 | 64 | 29% | $4,190 | ||
9IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.11Q1 | 11.33 1.42 up from 2019 | 269 | 57% | $2,645 | ||
10Nature Machine IntelligenceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.89Q1 | 13.20 3.95 up from 2019 | 120 | 55% | $12,690 | ||
11Journal of New Approaches in Educational ResearchOAUniversity of Alicante · Spain | 5.82Q1 | 7.02 3.05 up from 2019 | 59 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
12Journal of CybersecurityOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.61Q1 | 7.84 4.36 up from 2019 | 41 | 100% | $2,094 | ||
13Journal Of Big DataOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 5.55Q1 | 12.94 7.54 up from 2019 | 214 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
14Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Data Mining and Knowledge DiscoveryWiley · United States | 5.49Q1 | 11.53 3.24 up from 2019 | 132 | 32% | $4,480 | ||
15International Journal of Web and Grid ServicesInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 5.24Q1 | 16.45 9.84 up from 2019 | 105 | 10% | — | ||
16IEEE NetworkInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.23Q1 | 12.25 3.67 up from 2019 | 563 | 28% | $2,995 | ||
17Proceedings of thePublisher not listed | 4.97Q1 | 5.23 1.54 up from 2019 | 43 | — | — | ||
18User Modeling and User-Adapted InteractionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.95Q1 | 7.67 0.37 down from 2019 | 54 | 64% | $3,290 | ||
19IEEE Signal Processing MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.93Q1 | 8.65 0.85 up from 2019 | 374 | 63% | — | ||
20Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and ApplicationsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 4.86Q1 | 6.96 0.51 up from 2019 | 76 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
21ACM Transactions on GraphicsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.80Q1 | 9.83 0.85 up from 2019 | 870 | 50% | — | ||
22International Journal of Computer VisionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.75Q1 | 11.54 0.03 up from 2019 | 270 | 53% | $4,090 | ||
23British Journal of Educational TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.72Q1 | 5.96 1.21 up from 2019 | 331 | 36% | $4,250 | ||
242019 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)Publisher not listed | 4.46Q1 | 3.05no 2019 value | 145 | — | — | — | |
25The R JournalOAR Foundation for Statistical Computing · Austria | 4.42Q1 | 4.16 2.14 down from 2019 | 193 | 100% | — | ||
26Future Generation Computer SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.31Q1 | 8.55 0.61 up from 2019 | 2,042 | 31% | $3,000 | ||
27IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.24Q1 | 11.57 1.01 up from 2019 | 1,184 | 26% | $2,645 | ||
28Empirical Software EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.22Q1 | 4.19 1.35 down from 2019 | 264 | 62% | $2,290 | ||
29Applied Computing and InformaticsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.10Q1 | 8.62 3.13 up from 2019 | 114 | 100% | — | ||
30Internet of ThingsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.97Q1 | 9.40 1.65 up from 2019 | 124 | 20% | $2,690 | ||
31Swarm and Evolutionary ComputationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.97Q1 | 9.09 0.82 up from 2019 | 364 | 20% | $3,690 | ||
32Information Processing & ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.96Q1 | 7.79 2.32 up from 2019 | 411 | 23% | $3,670 | ||
33The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed LearningOAAthabasca University Press · Canada | 3.92Q1 | 4.66 0.08 down from 2019 | 267 | 100% | — | ||
34IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.91Q1 | 6.31 0.95 up from 2019 | 335 | 28% | $2,645 | ||
35Procedia Computer ScienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.88Q1 | 2.61 0.55 up from 2019 | 6,537 | 100% | — | ||
36Journal of Network and Computer ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 8.69 0.40 up from 2019 | 655 | 24% | $3,120 | ||
37International journal of education and development using information and communication technologyOAUniversity of the West Indies · Barbados | 3.83Q1 | 4.08 3.20 up from 2019 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
38Artificial Intelligence ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.80Q1 | 9.00 1.16 up from 2019 | 256 | 15% | $3,190 | ||
39Big Data Mining and AnalyticsOATsinghua University Press · China | 3.80Q1 | 8.35 3.25 up from 2019 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
40The Journal of High Technology Management ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 3.79Q1 | 6.11 2.97 up from 2019 | 56 | 10% | $3,230 | ||
41International Journal of Intelligent SystemsWiley · United States | 3.79Q1 | 7.72 4.17 down from 2019 | 302 | 64% | $2,700 | ||
42Expert Systems with ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.73Q1 | 8.48 0.78 up from 2019 | 2,055 | 23% | $3,500 | ||
43Computers & SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.70Q1 | 6.47 0.70 up from 2019 | 585 | 27% | $3,100 | ||
44Knowledge-Based SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.67Q1 | 8.65 0.86 up from 2019 | 1,356 | 15% | $3,430 | ||
452017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)Publisher not listed | 3.64Q1 | —no 2019 value | 109 | — | — | ||
46Smart Learning EnvironmentsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 3.64Q1 | 5.98 2.23 up from 2019 | 69 | 100% | $1,810 | ||
47npj Quantum InformationOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.60Q1 | 7.79 0.52 down from 2019 | 224 | 100% | $4,290 | ||
48IEEE Transactions on Image ProcessingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.59Q1 | 9.58 0.39 down from 2019 | 1,697 | 35% | $2,645 | ||
49Journal of Research on Technology in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.53Q1 | 3.65 0.46 up from 2019 | 72 | 13% | — | ||
50ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.47Q1 | 8.55 4.61 up from 2019 | 200 | 25% | — |
Subfields of Computer Science, compared.
- 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.
447 additional Computer Science 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
- 1,127
- Window papers (baseline)
- 628,823 +11.6% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.699 -10.6% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 74Comparison-group list (74)
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 | 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.