Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Field ranking · 2023
Computer Science journal rankings 2023
1,137 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Computer Science has 1,137 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.69, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.36. The top three are AI Open, Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence, and ACM Computing Surveys.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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 Intelligence483
- Information Systems213
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition123
- Computer Networks and Communications121
- Computational Theory and Mathematics115
- Computer Science Applications25
- Human-Computer Interaction25
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Hardware and Architecture10
- Signal Processing9
- Software2
1,137 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1AI OpenOAElsevier BV · China | 12.88Q1 | 17.74 16.85 down from 2022 | 48 | 100% | $900 | ||
2Computers and Education Artificial IntelligenceOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 10.04Q1 | 26.61 8.77 up from 2022 | 114 | 100% | $2,500 | ||
3ACM Computing SurveysAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 8.06Q1 | 25.26 7.21 up from 2022 | 643 | 92% | — | ||
4Smart Learning EnvironmentsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 7.45Q1 | 16.42 5.39 up from 2022 | 107 | 100% | $1,810 | ||
| 7.28Q1 | 18.38 3.70 up from 2022 | 63 | 100% | — | |||
6International Journal of Information Management Data InsightsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.40Q1 | 18.69 3.45 down from 2022 | 150 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
7Journal Of Big DataOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 6.15Q1 | 17.00 2.55 up from 2022 | 392 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
8Nature Machine IntelligenceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.00Q1 | 17.91 1.33 down from 2022 | 434 | 55% | $12,690 | ||
9Blockchain Research and ApplicationsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.74Q1 | 10.78 0.92 up from 2022 | 82 | 100% | $1,600 | ||
10Postdigital Science and EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 5.54Q1 | 6.16 5.04 down from 2022 | 273 | 74% | $3,190 | ||
11Information FusionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.53Q1 | 17.85 0.95 down from 2022 | 525 | 29% | $4,740 | ||
12Data Science and ManagementOAKeAi · China | 5.50Q1 | 11.94 5.59 up from 2022 | 48 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
13Computer Science ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.48Q1 | 22.04 4.54 up from 2022 | 174 | 33% | $4,190 | ||
14British Journal of Educational TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.46Q1 | 12.15 1.42 up from 2022 | 371 | 68% | $4,250 | ||
15Artificial Intelligence ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 5.32Q1 | 16.04 1.10 up from 2022 | 548 | 32% | $3,190 | ||
16Journal of New Approaches in Educational ResearchOAUniversity of Alicante · Spain | 5.20Q1 | 9.78 2.30 up from 2022 | 60 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
17Computational Visual MediaOASpringer Nature · China | 4.98Q1 | 20.78 14.31 up from 2022 | 116 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
18Procedia Computer ScienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.93Q1 | 3.27 0.21 down from 2022 | 6,188 | 100% | — | ||
19IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIEEE Computer Society · United States | 4.91Q1 | 14.08 0.65 up from 2022 | 1,610 | 20% | $2,645 | ||
20Interactive Technology and Smart EducationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.72Q1 | 7.42 1.86 down from 2022 | 104 | 25% | — | ||
21International Journal of Computer VisionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.51Q1 | 16.87 2.69 up from 2022 | 426 | 41% | $4,090 | ||
22International Journal of Cognitive Computing in EngineeringOAElsevier BV · China | 4.33Q1 | 15.75 5.67 up from 2022 | 57 | 100% | $700 | ||
23International Journal of Intelligent NetworksOAElsevier BV · China | 4.32Q1 | 15.51 7.40 up from 2022 | 72 | 100% | $700 | ||
24Journal of Computers in EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.29Q1 | 8.96 1.63 down from 2022 | 101 | 51% | $3,290 | ||
25Big Data Mining and AnalyticsOATsinghua University Press · China | 4.22Q1 | 12.05 9.09 down from 2022 | 77 | 100% | — | ||
26Journal of Network and Computer ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.09Q1 | 11.37 0.35 down from 2022 | 501 | 28% | $3,120 | ||
27Information Processing & ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.08Q1 | 10.02 0.99 down from 2022 | 810 | 24% | $3,670 | ||
28IEEE Signal Processing MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.04Q1 | 6.82 2.72 down from 2022 | 311 | 69% | — | ||
29IEEE Open Journal of the Computer SocietyOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.97Q1 | 10.51 2.62 up from 2022 | 92 | 100% | $2,075 | ||
30Journal of Research on Technology in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.96Q1 | 8.31 0.19 down from 2022 | 179 | 16% | — | ||
31Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and CrowdsourcingOAPublisher not listed | 3.96Q1 | 3.25 0.86 up from 2022 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
32Transactions of the Association for Computational LinguisticsOAAssociation for Computational Linguistics | 3.86Q1 | 12.53 4.08 up from 2022 | 229 | 100% | — | ||
33Journal of CybersecurityOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.81Q1 | 6.44 1.28 up from 2022 | 66 | 100% | $2,094 | ||
34The Journal of High Technology Management ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 3.81Q1 | 8.21 2.32 up from 2022 | 37 | 20% | $3,230 | ||
35International Journal on Semantic Web and Information SystemsOAIGI Global · United States | 3.77Q1 | 12.62 0.74 down from 2022 | 96 | 100% | — | ||
36IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.61Q1 | 9.96 0.98 down from 2022 | 380 | 37% | $2,645 | ||
37Technology Knowledge and LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.59Q1 | 6.61 0.43 down from 2022 | 200 | 56% | $3,190 | ||
38Archives of Computational Methods in EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Spain | 3.45Q1 | 13.12 2.40 up from 2022 | 453 | 35% | $4,690 | ||
39Communications of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.41Q1 | 5.27 0.35 down from 2022 | 871 | 95% | — | ||
40Journal of CheminformaticsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.40Q1 | 8.26 1.55 down from 2022 | 254 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
41Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Data Mining and Knowledge DiscoveryWiley · United States | 3.36Q1 | 9.62 0.58 down from 2022 | 118 | 60% | $4,480 | ||
42Healthcare AnalyticsOAElsevier BV · United States | 3.36Q1 | 9.05 4.55 up from 2022 | 76 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
43Egyptian Informatics JournalOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 3.34Q1 | 7.65 0.97 up from 2022 | 135 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
44IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.33Q1 | 10.31 0.68 down from 2022 | 2,711 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
45ACM Transactions on GraphicsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.32Q1 | 8.69 2.20 up from 2022 | 1,014 | 63% | — | ||
46IEEE Transactions on Image ProcessingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.30Q1 | 11.83 1.19 up from 2022 | 1,775 | 14% | $2,645 | ||
47Internet of ThingsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.29Q1 | 9.83 0.27 down from 2022 | 356 | 39% | $2,690 | ||
48Machine Learning with ApplicationsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.26Q1 | 8.77 0.07 up from 2022 | 258 | 100% | $2,340 | ||
49Expert Systems with ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.25Q1 | 9.20 1.03 down from 2022 | 4,782 | 20% | $3,500 | ||
50International Journal of Information and Learning TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 5.00 1.61 down from 2022 | 94 | 17% | — |
Subfields of Computer Science, compared.
- Artificial Intelligence483
- Information Systems213
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition123
- Computer Networks and Communications121
- Computational Theory and Mathematics115
- Computer Science Applications25
- Human-Computer Interaction25
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Hardware and Architecture10
- Signal Processing9
- Software2
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
441 additional Computer Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 1,137
- Window papers (baseline)
- 806,985 +28.3% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.690 -1.4% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 74Comparison-group list (74)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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 | 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.