Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Computer Networks and Communications journal rankings 2024
121 ranked journals · Subfield in Computer Science
Computer Networks and Communications has 121 ranked journals in 2024. The median OJR rose 0.09 on 2023 to 0.86, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.64. The top three are International Journal of Intelligent Networks, BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks Standards and Evaluations, and Journal of Network and Computer Applications.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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 Intelligence499
- Information Systems205
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition123
- Computer Networks and Communications121
- Computational Theory and Mathematics118
- Human-Computer Interaction25
- Computer Science Applications24
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Hardware and Architecture11
- Signal Processing9
- Software2
121 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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1International Journal of Intelligent NetworksOAElsevier BV · China | 6.15Q1 | 20.11 4.60 up from 2023 | 84 | 100% | $700 | ||
2BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks Standards and EvaluationsElsevier BV · China | 4.45Q1 | 19.83 12.68 up from 2023 | 61 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
3Journal of Network and Computer ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.80Q1 | 11.35 0.02 down from 2023 | 439 | 25% | $3,120 | ||
4Internet of ThingsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.31Q1 | 11.68 1.85 up from 2023 | 588 | 45% | $2,690 | ||
5Future Generation Computer SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.94Q1 | 8.30 0.38 down from 2023 | 1,122 | 38% | $3,000 | ||
6Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and ApplicationsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 2.85Q1 | 7.62 0.86 up from 2023 | 328 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
7IEEE Transactions on Network Science and EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.48Q1 | 7.63 0.26 down from 2023 | 1,053 | 10% | $2,645 | ||
8Journal of Reliable Intelligent EnvironmentsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.46Q1 | 7.22 1.13 up from 2023 | 83 | 54% | $3,290 | ||
9Egyptian Informatics JournalOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 2.42Q1 | 7.15 0.50 down from 2023 | 146 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
10Digital Communications and NetworksOAKeAi · Netherlands | 2.38Q1 | 7.50 0.42 up from 2023 | 431 | 100% | $800 | ||
11IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.32Q1 | 5.89 0.08 down from 2023 | 727 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
12Sustainable Machine Intelligence JournalPublisher not listed | 2.30Q1 | 7.32 6.18 up from 2023 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
13IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.28Q1 | 6.34 0.73 up from 2023 | 534 | 10% | $2,645 | ||
14Cluster ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.25Q1 | 6.52 0.84 up from 2023 | 812 | 14% | $3,190 | ||
15IEEE Transactions on Mobile ComputingIEEE Computer Society · United States | 2.23Q1 | 8.02 1.97 up from 2023 | 1,154 | 10% | $2,645 | ||
16IEEE NetworkInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.23Q1 | 6.10 0.30 down from 2023 | 829 | 14% | $2,995 | ||
17IEEE Transactions on Network and Service ManagementInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.12Q1 | 6.17 0.10 up from 2023 | 1,110 | 20% | $2,645 | ||
18Journal of Grid ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.04Q1 | 4.44 0.77 down from 2023 | 180 | 18% | $3,490 | ||
19Future InternetOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.00Q1 | 6.50 1.11 up from 2023 | 1,105 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
20Computer NetworksElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.99Q1 | 6.26 0.10 down from 2023 | 1,329 | 33% | $2,460 | ||
21Discover Internet of ThingsOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.99Q1 | 6.72 0.78 down from 2023 | 48 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
22Simulation Modelling Practice and TheoryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.94Q1 | 6.11 1.17 up from 2023 | 349 | 25% | $2,890 | ||
23Computer CommunicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 5.93 0.53 down from 2023 | 1,076 | 30% | $2,620 | ||
24Ad Hoc NetworksElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 6.70 0.29 up from 2023 | 507 | 28% | $3,040 | ||
25Journal of Sensor and Actuator NetworksOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.84Q1 | 7.22 1.47 up from 2023 | 231 | 100% | $2,413 | ||
26Journal of Network and Systems ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.78Q1 | 4.67 1.08 down from 2023 | 207 | 27% | $3,090 | ||
27IoTOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.76Q1 | 5.98 0.75 up from 2023 | 87 | 100% | $1,448 | ||
28ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.76Q1 | 4.20 0.81 down from 2023 | 358 | 18% | $3,290 | ||
29Journal of Parallel and Distributed ComputingElsevier BV · United States | 1.76Q1 | 5.48 0.48 up from 2023 | 442 | 44% | $3,250 | ||
30Archives of Advanced Engineering ScienceOAPublisher not listed | 1.75Q1 | 5.13no 2023 value | 47 | 100% | — | — | |
31NetworkOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.64Q1 | 5.54 2.02 up from 2023 | 82 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
32IEEE/ACM Transactions on NetworkingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.54Q2 | 4.94 1.02 up from 2023 | 721 | 12% | $2,495 | ||
33Peer-to-Peer Networking and ApplicationsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.50Q2 | 3.88 0.78 down from 2023 | 526 | 4% | $4,090 | ||
34ACM Transactions on Internet of ThingsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.49Q2 | 5.39 0.72 up from 2023 | 95 | 35% | — | ||
35The International Journal of High Performance Computing ApplicationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.48Q2 | 3.43 1.70 down from 2023 | 108 | 69% | $4,400 | ||
36Measurement SensorsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.47Q2 | 6.80 3.48 up from 2023 | 936 | 100% | $1,910 | ||
37IEEE Transactions on Sustainable ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.46Q2 | 4.71 1.09 up from 2023 | 156 | 15% | $2,645 | ||
38Pervasive and Mobile ComputingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.42Q2 | 4.68 0.12 up from 2023 | 201 | 42% | $2,620 | ||
39The Journal of SupercomputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.36Q2 | 4.02 0.12 up from 2023 | 2,187 | 19% | $3,290 | ||
40IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over NetworksInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 1.32Q2 | 5.24 1.53 up from 2023 | 205 | 18% | $2,645 | ||
41IEEE Internet of Things MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.29Q2 | 3.68 0.72 up from 2023 | 378 | 25% | $2,995 | ||
42ACM Transactions on StorageAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.27Q2 | 3.06 0.31 up from 2023 | 112 | 68% | — | ||
43IEEE Transactions on Control of Network SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.24Q2 | 4.06 0.28 up from 2023 | 600 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
44Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.21Q2 | 3.52 0.82 up from 2023 | 150 | 65% | — | ||
45International Journal of Distributed Sensor NetworksOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.17Q2 | 4.33 1.24 up from 2023 | 227 | 100% | $2,680 | ||
46Journal of Computer Networks and CommunicationsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 3.32 0.46 down from 2023 | 37 | 100% | $1,720 | ||
47EURASIP Journal on Information SecurityOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 1.13Q2 | 2.70 1.87 down from 2023 | 32 | 100% | $1,040 | ||
48Swarm IntelligenceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.11Q2 | 2.36 0.02 down from 2023 | 44 | 69% | $3,190 | ||
49Cybernetics & SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.07Q2 | 3.46 1.53 up from 2023 | 319 | 28% | — | ||
50IEEE BITS the Information Theory MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.06Q2 | 3.00 0.44 up from 2023 | 81 | 8% | $2,995 |
Subfields of Computer Science, with Computer Networks and Communications highlighted.
- Artificial Intelligence499
- Information Systems205
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition123
- Computer Networks and Communications121
- Computational Theory and Mathematics118
- Human-Computer Interaction25
- Computer Science Applications24
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Hardware and Architecture11
- Signal Processing9
- Software2
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
66 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 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 121
- Window papers (baseline)
- 87,701 -5.1% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.86 +17.3% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.