Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Computer Networks and Communications journal rankings 2022
125 ranked journals · Subfield in Computer Science
Computer Networks and Communications has 125 ranked journals in 2022. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2021 to 0.67, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.51. The top three are IEEE Network, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, and Future Generation Computer Systems.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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 Intelligence475
- Information Systems213
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition129
- Computer Networks and Communications125
- Computational Theory and Mathematics112
- Computer Science Applications26
- Human-Computer Interaction25
- Hardware and Architecture13
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design12
- Signal Processing9
- Software2
125 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1IEEE NetworkInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.23Q1 | 8.84 2.45 down from 2021 | 803 | 38% | $2,995 | ||
2Journal of Network and Computer ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.04Q1 | 11.73 1.51 up from 2021 | 559 | 27% | $3,120 | ||
3Future Generation Computer SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.89Q1 | 9.42 0.48 down from 2021 | 1,651 | 31% | $3,000 | ||
4Internet of ThingsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.59Q1 | 10.10 0.73 down from 2021 | 318 | 26% | $2,690 | ||
5Journal of Grid ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.93Q1 | 6.24 1.57 down from 2021 | 115 | 20% | $3,490 | ||
6International Journal of Intelligent NetworksOAElsevier BV · China | 2.90Q1 | 8.11 1.26 up from 2021 | 44 | 100% | $700 | ||
7Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and ApplicationsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 2.70Q1 | 6.30 0.14 up from 2021 | 146 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
8IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.67Q1 | 5.64 1.51 down from 2021 | 392 | 25% | $2,645 | ||
9Egyptian Informatics JournalOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 2.57Q1 | 6.67 1.43 up from 2021 | 108 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
10Digital Communications and NetworksOAKeAi · Netherlands | 2.53Q1 | 7.86 1.13 down from 2021 | 183 | 100% | $800 | ||
11Computer CommunicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.48Q1 | 7.48 0.14 up from 2021 | 1,179 | 25% | $2,620 | ||
12IEEE Transactions on Network Science and EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.46Q1 | 7.60 1.62 up from 2021 | 622 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
13IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.42Q1 | 6.21 0.72 up from 2021 | 732 | 27% | $2,645 | ||
14Computer NetworksElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.41Q1 | 7.14 0.05 up from 2021 | 1,139 | 31% | $2,460 | ||
15Cluster ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.31Q1 | 6.02 0.29 up from 2021 | 554 | 37% | $3,190 | ||
16IEEE Transactions on Network and Service ManagementInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.17Q1 | 6.41 0.44 up from 2021 | 733 | 30% | $2,645 | ||
17Future InternetOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.14Q1 | 5.53 0.07 up from 2021 | 827 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
18Journal of Parallel and Distributed ComputingElsevier BV · United States | 2.05Q1 | 4.99 0.29 down from 2021 | 488 | 29% | $3,250 | ||
19Ad Hoc NetworksElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.04Q1 | 6.29 0.13 up from 2021 | 477 | 18% | $3,040 | ||
20IEEE Transactions on Mobile ComputingIEEE Computer Society · United States | 2.01Q1 | 5.87 0.20 down from 2021 | 986 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
21EURASIP Journal on Information SecurityOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 1.97Q1 | 4.37 1.18 down from 2021 | 43 | 100% | $1,040 | ||
22Journal of Reliable Intelligent EnvironmentsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.96Q1 | 6.25 2.08 up from 2021 | 76 | 39% | $3,290 | ||
23Simulation Modelling Practice and TheoryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.94Q1 | 4.66 0.68 down from 2021 | 362 | 20% | $2,890 | ||
24IoTOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.93Q1 | 5.19 1.94 up from 2021 | 72 | 100% | $1,448 | ||
25ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.91Q1 | 4.80 1.45 up from 2021 | 310 | 34% | $3,290 | ||
26Peer-to-Peer Networking and ApplicationsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.76Q1 | 5.18 0.89 up from 2021 | 512 | 15% | $4,090 | ||
27Pervasive and Mobile ComputingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 4.80 0.41 up from 2021 | 219 | 40% | $2,620 | ||
28Journal of Network and Systems ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.69Q1 | 5.13 1.33 up from 2021 | 140 | 36% | $3,090 | ||
29Journal of Sensor and Actuator NetworksOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.67Q1 | 4.87 1.03 down from 2021 | 184 | 100% | $2,413 | ||
30The Journal of SupercomputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.59Q1 | 4.47 0.78 up from 2021 | 1,371 | 21% | $3,290 | ||
31IEEE/ACM Transactions on NetworkingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.57Q1 | 4.48 0.19 down from 2021 | 649 | 28% | $2,495 | ||
32Journal of Computer Networks and CommunicationsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 3.46 1.25 down from 2021 | 85 | 100% | $1,720 | ||
33IEEE Internet of Things MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.46Q2 | 3.90 0.32 up from 2021 | 243 | 45% | $2,995 | ||
34International Journal of Pervasive Computing and CommunicationsEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.45Q2 | 4.34 1.83 down from 2021 | 133 | 4% | — | ||
35Journal of Internet Services and ApplicationsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.38Q2 | 2.54 2.11 down from 2021 | 46 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
36The International Journal of High Performance Computing ApplicationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.33Q2 | 3.70 1.23 up from 2021 | 129 | 54% | $4,400 | ||
37IEEE Transactions on Sustainable ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.31Q2 | 3.57 0.26 up from 2021 | 133 | 26% | $2,645 | ||
38Computer Systems Science and EngineeringOAUnited Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 3.34 0.98 down from 2021 | 405 | 100% | — | ||
39Wireless NetworksSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.25Q2 | 3.81 0.04 down from 2021 | 891 | 13% | $3,290 | ||
40Swarm IntelligenceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.20Q2 | 2.20 2.44 down from 2021 | 47 | 62% | $3,190 | ||
41IEEE Transactions on Control of Network SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.19Q2 | 3.44 0.26 down from 2021 | 474 | 27% | $2,645 | ||
42International Journal of Distributed Sensor NetworksOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 3.32 0.49 up from 2021 | 623 | 100% | $2,680 | ||
43Intelligent Automation & Soft ComputingTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.10Q2 | 3.26 0.50 up from 2021 | 722 | 100% | — | ||
44IEEE Networking LettersInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.07Q2 | 2.13 0.47 down from 2021 | 170 | 44% | $2,645 | ||
45ACM Transactions on Database SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.01Q2 | 2.76 0.43 up from 2021 | 52 | 47% | — | ||
46The International journal of networked and distributed computingOASpringer Nature · Netherlands | 0.99Q2 | 2.59 0.75 up from 2021 | 47 | 100% | $1,390 | ||
47International Journal of Network ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 2.70no change | 114 | 24% | $2,490 | ||
48ACM Transactions on Internet of ThingsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 0.98Q2 | 3.05 0.49 down from 2021 | 64 | 56% | — | ||
49International Journal of Wireless Information NetworksSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.94Q2 | 4.21 0.96 up from 2021 | 108 | 22% | $3,190 | ||
50Concurrency and Computation Practice and ExperienceWiley · United Kingdom | 0.91Q2 | 2.49 0.04 up from 2021 | 1,593 | 10% | $5,140 |
Subfields of Computer Science, with Computer Networks and Communications highlighted.
- Artificial Intelligence475
- Information Systems213
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition129
- Computer Networks and Communications125
- Computational Theory and Mathematics112
- Computer Science Applications26
- Human-Computer Interaction25
- Hardware and Architecture13
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design12
- Signal Processing9
- Software2
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
69 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 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 125
- Window papers (baseline)
- 92,901 +4.3% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.673 +21.4% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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 | 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.