Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Artificial Intelligence journal rankings 2021
456 ranked journals · Subfield in Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence has 456 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR rose 0.09 on 2020 to 0.88, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.71. The top three are ACM Computing Surveys, Journal Of Big Data, and Information Fusion.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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 Intelligence456
- Information Systems218
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition134
- Computer Networks and Communications126
- Computational Theory and Mathematics113
- Human-Computer Interaction28
- Computer Science Applications24
- Hardware and Architecture13
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Signal Processing9
- Software2
456 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.05Q1 | 18.64 1.52 up from 2020 | 407 | 45% | — | ||
2Journal Of Big DataOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 7.33Q1 | 20.07 7.13 up from 2020 | 273 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
3Information FusionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.88Q1 | 19.28 3.77 up from 2020 | 400 | 35% | $4,740 | ||
| 6.78Q1 | 17.37 4.96 down from 2020 | 35 | 100% | — | |||
5Nature Machine IntelligenceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.62Q1 | 20.16 6.96 up from 2020 | 253 | 55% | $12,690 | ||
6IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.91Q1 | 14.44 3.11 up from 2020 | 223 | 51% | $2,645 | ||
7Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Data Mining and Knowledge DiscoveryWiley · United States | 5.85Q1 | 11.83 0.31 up from 2020 | 141 | 28% | $4,480 | ||
82019 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)Publisher not listed | 5.48Q1 | 6.12 3.08 up from 2020 | 145 | — | — | ||
9Journal of Organizational and End User ComputingOAIGI Global · United States | 5.45Q1 | 6.42 1.19 up from 2020 | 71 | 100% | — | ||
10Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and CrowdsourcingOAPublisher not listed | 5.16Q1 | 4.59 1.73 up from 2020 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
11IEEE Signal Processing MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.94Q1 | 10.51 1.86 up from 2020 | 377 | 69% | — | ||
12Computer Science ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.90Q1 | 12.05 0.08 down from 2020 | 123 | 26% | $4,190 | ||
13Artificial Intelligence ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 4.89Q1 | 12.54 3.54 up from 2020 | 320 | 29% | $3,190 | ||
14Procedia Computer ScienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.62Q1 | 3.16 0.55 up from 2020 | 6,287 | 100% | — | ||
15Transactions of the Association for Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics | 4.48Q1 | 12.07 1.50 up from 2020 | 147 | 100% | — | ||
16ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and TechnologyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 4.38Q1 | 12.51 3.96 up from 2020 | 204 | 13% | — | ||
17Information Processing & ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.20Q1 | 10.22 2.44 up from 2020 | 515 | 34% | $3,670 | ||
18IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.88Q1 | 11.91 0.34 up from 2020 | 1,504 | 24% | $2,645 | ||
19Expert Systems with ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.80Q1 | 9.49 1.00 up from 2020 | 2,339 | 24% | $3,500 | ||
20ArrayOAElsevier BV · United States | 3.76Q1 | 8.96 3.13 down from 2020 | 46 | 100% | $1,680 | ||
21Applied Computing and InformaticsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.73Q1 | 5.15 3.47 down from 2020 | 93 | 100% | — | ||
22DistillOAUnited States | 3.73Q1 | 7.64 0.94 down from 2020 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
23Journal of Statistical SoftwareOAFoundation for Open Access Statistics · United States | 3.65Q1 | 8.06 0.23 down from 2020 | 211 | 100% | — | ||
24Proceedings of the Python in Science ConferencesUnited States | 3.63Q1 | 2.05no change | 68 | 100% | — | ||
25Knowledge-Based SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.62Q1 | 9.24 0.59 up from 2020 | 1,635 | 18% | $3,430 | ||
26CybersecurityOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 3.52Q1 | 8.78 3.55 up from 2020 | 61 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
27npj Quantum InformationOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.49Q1 | 10.25 2.46 up from 2020 | 277 | 100% | $4,290 | ||
28Computers & SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.37Q1 | 7.51 1.04 up from 2020 | 735 | 30% | $3,100 | ||
29Applied Soft ComputingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.37Q1 | 9.62 1.41 up from 2020 | 2,218 | 22% | $3,730 | ||
30The Journal of Open Source SoftwareOAOpen Journals · United States | 3.37Q1 | 7.84 1.80 up from 2020 | 766 | 100% | — | ||
31Archives of Computational Methods in EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Spain | 3.35Q1 | 10.49 3.79 up from 2020 | 253 | 33% | $4,690 | ||
32QuantumOAVerein zur Förderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften · Austria | 3.30Q1 | 7.53 0.97 down from 2020 | 338 | 100% | $215 | ||
33International Journal of Intelligent SystemsWiley · United States | 3.30Q1 | 8.93 1.21 up from 2020 | 356 | 65% | $2,700 | ||
34Engineering Applications of Artificial IntelligenceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.29Q1 | 9.17 1.49 up from 2020 | 795 | 24% | $3,200 | ||
35Neural NetworksElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.29Q1 | 9.37 0.59 up from 2020 | 872 | 37% | $3,110 | ||
36Big Data Mining and AnalyticsOATsinghua University Press · China | 3.23Q1 | 7.73 0.62 down from 2020 | 71 | 100% | — | ||
37Complex & Intelligent SystemsOASpringer Science+Business Media | 3.22Q1 | 8.66 1.45 up from 2020 | 160 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
38Data IntelligenceOAThe MIT Press · United States | 3.15Q1 | 5.73 2.44 up from 2020 | 64 | 100% | — | ||
39IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and SecurityInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.10Q1 | 8.17 0.27 down from 2020 | 860 | 31% | $2,645 | ||
40Proceedings of thePublisher not listed | 3.04Q1 | 0.00 5.23 down from 2020 | 43 | — | — | ||
41IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal ProcessingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.99Q1 | 8.08 0.26 up from 2020 | 395 | 65% | $2,645 | ||
42Information SciencesElsevier BV · United States | 2.96Q1 | 8.66 0.95 up from 2020 | 2,727 | 16% | $3,200 | ||
43IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data EngineeringIEEE Computer Society · United States | 2.93Q1 | 6.35 0.47 down from 2020 | 1,055 | 21% | $2,645 | ||
44Artificial Intelligence in MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.93Q1 | 9.06 1.67 up from 2020 | 343 | 27% | $3,480 | ||
45Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and SchedulingOAPublisher not listed | 2.86Q1 | 2.91 0.71 up from 2020 | 180 | 100% | — | ||
46Journal of Biomedical InformaticsElsevier BV · United States | 2.86Q1 | 10.07 2.97 up from 2020 | 701 | 99% | $3,410 | ||
47IEEE Computational Intelligence MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.83Q1 | 4.73 1.11 down from 2020 | 212 | 85% | — | ||
48ACM Transactions on Management Information SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.78Q1 | 3.20 2.93 down from 2020 | 64 | 27% | — | ||
49neural information processing systemsPublisher not listed | 2.76Q1 | 3.97 1.86 down from 2020 | 49 | 0% | — | ||
50Future Computing and Informatics JournalElsevier BV · Egypt | 2.74Q1 | 0.26 5.76 down from 2020 | 50 | 69% | — |
Subfields of Computer Science, with Artificial Intelligence highlighted.
- Artificial Intelligence456
- Information Systems218
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition134
- Computer Networks and Communications126
- Computational Theory and Mathematics113
- Human-Computer Interaction28
- Computer Science Applications24
- Hardware and Architecture13
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Signal Processing9
- Software2
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
189 additional Artificial Intelligence journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 456
- Window papers (baseline)
- 162,805 +28.2% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.878 +4.0% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 33
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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 | 136 | 142 | 165 | 172 | 188 | 196 | 203 | 221 | 248 | 280 | 296 | 316 | 339 | 367 | 387 | 404 | 405 | 422 | 433 | 448 | 459 | 456 | 475 | 483 | 499 | 484 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 40,057 | 44,206 | 49,867 | 57,198 | 64,844 | 72,589 | 81,329 | 90,526 | 100,469 | 108,467 | 113,627 | 117,909 | 121,850 | 124,838 | 126,803 | 128,094 | 127,939 | 126,230 | 127,012 | 133,222 | 146,316 | 162,805 | 180,943 | 194,824 | 213,310 | 242,477 | |
| Median OJR | 1.002 | 1.14 | 1.17 | 1.22 | 1.16 | 1.36 | 1.40 | 1.37 | 1.33 | 1.32 | 1.42 | 1.27 | 1.23 | 1.15 | 1.12 | 1.02 | 0.95 | 0.875 | 0.84 | 0.882 | 0.79 | 0.878 | 0.89 | 0.85 | 0.80 | 0.81 |
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.