Journal rankings · indicator year 2025
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Computer Networks and Communications journal rankings 2025
122 ranked journals · Subfield in Computer Science
Computer Networks and Communications has 122 ranked journals in 2025. The median journal has an OJR of 0.85, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2024; Q1 starts at OJR 1.59. The highest-scoring journal with a stable rank is Cyber Security and Applications: its likely rank is within the top 3.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2025. 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 2022–2024, the window the 2025 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 Intelligence484
- Information Systems195
- Computer Networks and Communications122
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition120
- Computational Theory and Mathematics118
- Human-Computer Interaction25
- Computer Science Applications22
- Hardware and Architecture12
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Signal Processing9
- Software2
122 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. The small range under it is the likely rank range: in 95% of 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers, it ranked inside that range. Journals whose ranges overlap are not clearly different. | 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 2024. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2022–2024 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 2016 to 2025. A label compares the 2022→2025 change with the median change of the journal’s field or domain. Rising needs a relative change of +10% or more that is at least 2 standard errors above zero; Falling needs -9.1% or less (rounded), at least 2 standard errors below zero. Sorting uses that relative change. | Compare |
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Rank 1; likely between #1 and #3 of 122Cyber Security and ApplicationsOAElsevier BV | 5.68Q1 | 17.58 5.06 up from 2024 | 67 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 2; likely between #1 and #26 of 122International Journal of Intelligent NetworksOAElsevier BV · China | 4.09Q1 | 6.23 13.88 down from 2024 | 97 | 100% | $700 | ||
Rank 3; likely between #1 and #36 of 122BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks Standards and EvaluationsElsevier BV · China | 3.47Q1 | 10.19 9.64 down from 2024 | 67 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 4; likely between #2 and #7 of 122Journal of Network and Computer ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 9.84 1.52 down from 2024 | 485 | 21% | $3,120 | ||
Rank 5; likely between #2 and #8 of 122Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and ApplicationsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 3.16Q1 | 8.85 1.22 up from 2024 | 430 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
Rank 6; likely between #3 and #8 of 122Internet of ThingsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.97Q1 | 10.19 1.49 down from 2024 | 925 | 48% | $2,690 | ||
Rank 7; likely between #5 and #11 of 122IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.70Q1 | 7.60 1.26 up from 2024 | 660 | 7% | $2,645 | ||
Rank 8; likely between #3 and #20 of 122Discover Internet of ThingsOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 2.69Q1 | 10.67 3.95 up from 2024 | 65 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
Rank 9; likely between #6 and #14 of 122Future Generation Computer SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 7.62 0.68 down from 2024 | 1,277 | 37% | $3,000 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 10; likely between #7 and #14 of 122IEEE Transactions on Mobile ComputingIEEE Computer Society · United States | 2.49Q1 | 9.70 1.68 up from 2024 | 1,525 | 9% | $2,645 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 11; likely between #7 and #16 of 122Cluster ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.46Q1 | 7.54 1.03 up from 2024 | 1,163 | 13% | $3,190 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 12; likely between #8 and #16 of 122IEEE Transactions on Network Science and EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.40Q1 | 7.65 0.02 up from 2024 | 1,130 | 7% | $2,645 | ||
Rank 13; likely between #8 and #17 of 122IEEE NetworkInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.38Q1 | 7.97 1.88 up from 2024 | 859 | 16% | $2,995 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 14; likely between #8 and #26 of 122Egyptian Informatics JournalOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 2.18Q1 | 6.13 1.03 down from 2024 | 236 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
Rank 15; likely between #8 and #31 of 122IoTOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.13Q1 | 7.93 1.95 up from 2024 | 91 | 100% | $1,448 | ||
Rank 16; likely between #12 and #23 of 122IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.10Q1 | 6.35 0.46 up from 2024 | 596 | 19% | $2,645 | ||
Rank 17; likely between #12 and #25 of 122Future InternetOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.08Q1 | 7.64 1.14 up from 2024 | 1,240 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
Rank 18; likely between #15 and #23 of 122IEEE Transactions on Network and Service ManagementInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.02Q1 | 6.46 0.29 up from 2024 | 1,203 | 20% | $2,645 | ||
Rank 19; likely between #14 and #29 of 122Digital Communications and NetworksOAKeAi · Netherlands | 1.96Q1 | 5.42 2.07 down from 2024 | 484 | 100% | $800 | ||
Rank 20; likely between #11 and #35 of 122Journal of Sensor and Actuator NetworksOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.92Q1 | 7.72 0.51 up from 2024 | 253 | 100% | $2,413 | ||
Rank 21; likely between #16 and #28 of 122IEEE/ACM Transactions on NetworkingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.90Q1 | 6.58 1.64 up from 2024 | 698 | — | $2,495 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 22; likely between #15 and #32 of 122Journal of Grid ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.86Q1 | 5.57 1.13 up from 2024 | 192 | 27% | $3,490 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 23; likely between #17 and #30 of 122Ad Hoc NetworksElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 6.98 0.28 up from 2024 | 593 | 20% | $3,040 | ||
Rank 24; likely between #20 and #31 of 122Computer NetworksElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.78Q1 | 6.06 0.21 down from 2024 | 1,580 | 22% | $2,460 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 25; likely between #11 and #45 of 122Journal of Reliable Intelligent EnvironmentsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.78Q1 | 5.90 1.32 down from 2024 | 69 | 29% | $3,290 | ||
Rank 26; likely between #21 and #33 of 122Computer CommunicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 5.46 0.47 down from 2024 | 990 | 38% | $2,620 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 27; likely between #6 and #54 of 122Sustainable Machine Intelligence JournalPublisher not listed | 1.73Q1 | 6.31 1.02 down from 2024 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 28; likely between #19 and #37 of 122IEEE Transactions on Sustainable ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.69Q1 | 5.61 0.90 up from 2024 | 196 | 14% | $2,645 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 29; likely between #9 and #54 of 122NetworkOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.67Q1 | 7.04 1.50 up from 2024 | 89 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
Rank 30; likely between #24 and #36 of 122Simulation Modelling Practice and TheoryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.62Q1 | 5.31 0.80 down from 2024 | 371 | 24% | $2,890 | ||
Rank 31; likely between #21 and #43 of 122Journal of Parallel and Distributed ComputingElsevier BV · United States | 1.59Q1 | 4.33 1.14 down from 2024 | 406 | 38% | $3,250 | ||
Rank 32; likely between #23 and #42 of 122IEEE Internet of Things MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.56Q2 | 4.53 0.84 up from 2024 | 484 | 13% | $2,995 | ||
Rank 33; likely between #28 and #44 of 122ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.47Q2 | 4.90 0.71 up from 2024 | 359 | 17% | $3,290 | ||
Rank 34; likely between #16 and #64 of 122IEEE BITS the Information Theory MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.46Q2 | 3.52 0.52 up from 2024 | 93 | 50% | $2,995 | ||
Rank 35; likely between #24 and #49 of 122Journal of Network and Systems ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.45Q2 | 4.65 0.02 down from 2024 | 248 | 27% | $3,090 | ||
Rank 36; likely between #31 and #44 of 122Measurement SensorsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.41Q2 | 4.03 2.77 down from 2024 | 1,223 | 100% | $1,910 | ||
Rank 37; likely between #32 and #45 of 122IEEE Transactions on Control of Network SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.38Q2 | 5.10 1.04 up from 2024 | 575 | 14% | $2,645 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 38; likely between #32 and #46 of 122The Journal of SupercomputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.37Q2 | 4.52 0.50 up from 2024 | 2,459 | 10% | $3,290 | ||
Rank 39; likely between #27 and #53 of 122ACM Transactions on Internet of ThingsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.36Q2 | 5.13 0.26 down from 2024 | 82 | 78% | — | ||
Rank 40; likely between #16 and #67 of 122Journal of Cyber Security TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.35Q2 | 4.71 1.52 up from 2024 | 59 | 11% | — | ||
Rank 41; likely between #6 and #83 of 122International Journal of Communications Network and System SciencesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 1.34Q2 | 5.19 1.87 up from 2024 | 33 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 42; likely between #31 and #50 of 122IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over NetworksInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 1.32Q2 | 5.14 0.10 down from 2024 | 222 | 14% | $2,645 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 43; likely between #21 and #61 of 122ACM Transactions on StorageAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.30Q2 | 4.00 0.94 up from 2024 | 111 | 61% | — | ||
Rank 44; likely between #22 and #64 of 122The International journal of networked and distributed computingOASpringer Nature · Netherlands | 1.30Q2 | 4.70 3.32 up from 2024 | 44 | 100% | $1,390 | ||
Rank 45; likely between #36 and #48 of 122Peer-to-Peer Networking and ApplicationsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.29Q2 | 4.37 0.49 up from 2024 | 559 | 5% | $4,090 | ||
Rank 46; likely between #33 and #55 of 122Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.24Q2 | 3.87 0.35 up from 2024 | 159 | 86% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 47; likely between #38 and #54 of 122Pervasive and Mobile ComputingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.20Q2 | 4.90 0.22 up from 2024 | 207 | 33% | $2,620 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 48; likely between #29 and #62 of 122International Journal of Network ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 1.20Q2 | 3.36 0.17 down from 2024 | 104 | 59% | $2,490 | ||
Rank 49; likely between #27 and #69 of 122International Journal of Distributed Sensor NetworksOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 2.92 1.41 down from 2024 | 150 | 100% | $2,680 | ||
Rank 50; likely between #32 and #70 of 122Proceedings of the ACM on NetworkingAssociation for Computing Machinery | 1.08Q2 | 3.97 0.43 up from 2024 | 63 | 98% | — |
7 Computer Networks and Communications journals are labelled rising: their OJR moved up between 2022 and 2025 clearly faster than the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is rising when its OJR grew from 2022 to 2025 faster than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is +10% or more, and it is at least 2 standard errors above zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays above zero, though not necessarily above +10%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the low end of the range, so the surest rises come first.
- 1IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over NetworksInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers+68% vs groupOJR 0.89 → 1.32range +25% to +124%
- 2IEEE Transactions on Mobile ComputingIEEE Computer Society · United States+39% vs groupOJR 2.01 → 2.49range +21% to +59%
- 3Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States+70% vs groupOJR 0.82 → 1.24range +21% to +139%
- 4IEEE/ACM Transactions on NetworkingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States+36% vs groupOJR 1.57 → 1.90range +15% to +61%
- 5IEEE Transactions on Sustainable ComputingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States+45% vs groupOJR 1.31 → 1.69range +9.6% to +92%
- 6IEEE Transactions on Control of Network SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States+31% vs groupOJR 1.19 → 1.38range +9.4% to +56%
- 7Cluster ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands+20% vs groupOJR 2.31 → 2.46range +0.2% to +43%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -60% to +150% (ratio scale)
11 Computer Networks and Communications journals are labelled falling: their OJR moved between 2022 and 2025 clearly behind the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is falling when its OJR changed from 2022 to 2025 by less than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is -9.1% or less (rounded), and it is at least 2 standard errors below zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays below zero, though not necessarily below -9.1%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the high end of the range, so the surest falls come first.
- 1Intelligent Automation & Soft ComputingTaylor & Francis · United States-38% vs groupOJR 1.10 → 0.60range -51% to -23%
- 2IEEE NetworkInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States-37% vs groupOJR 4.23 → 2.38range -50% to -20%
- 3International Journal of Advanced Networking and ApplicationsOAIndia-51% vs groupOJR 0.28 → 0.13range -70% to -18%
- 4Computer Systems Science and EngineeringOAUnited Kingdom-36% vs groupOJR 1.29 → 0.74range -52% to -15%
- 5International Journal of Computer Network and Information SecurityOAHong Kong SAR China-40% vs groupOJR 0.86 → 0.46range -58% to -15%
- 6Future Generation Computer SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands-27% vs groupOJR 3.89 → 2.54range -40% to -11%
- 7Computer CommunicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom-21% vs groupOJR 2.48 → 1.73range -32% to -8.7%
- 8Internet Technology LettersWiley · United States-38% vs groupOJR 0.66 → 0.37range -59% to -5.2%
- 9Computer NetworksElsevier BV · Netherlands-17% vs groupOJR 2.41 → 1.78range -29% to -3.8%
- 10Journal of Grid ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands-29% vs groupOJR 2.93 → 1.86range -48% to -3.1%
- 11Pervasive and Mobile ComputingElsevier BV · Netherlands-23% vs groupOJR 1.75 → 1.20range -39% to -2.6%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -72% to +258% (ratio scale)
Subfields of Computer Science, with Computer Networks and Communications highlighted.
- Artificial Intelligence484
- Information Systems195
- Computer Networks and Communications122
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition120
- Computational Theory and Mathematics118
- Human-Computer Interaction25
- Computer Science Applications22
- Hardware and Architecture12
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design11
- Signal Processing9
- Software2
Journals
The endpoints below each rank show its likely range. How rank ranges are calculated
Citations made in 2025. Corpus-wide, 84.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
46 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 2022–2024, 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: 2025. Publication window: 2022–2024. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 122
- Window papers (baseline)
- 90,445 -2.6% from indicator year 2022
- Median OJR
- 0.85 +25.6% from indicator year 2022
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2022–2024 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 | 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.