Rising Computer Science journals compared with their field
These are the Computer Science journals whose OJR rose faster than the median journal of their field between 2022 and 2025, by +10% or more relative to that median and by at least 2 standard errors. 74 journals qualify.
Between indicator years 2022 and 2025, the median OJR change among 494 eligible Computer Science journals was about -11%, taking the median on a log scale (the group ratio below).
Ordered by the lower bound of the relative-change range at two standard errors, highest first, then higher z (the signed difference in standard errors), then title. How trajectory is calculated (traj-v1)
| Journal | OJR 2022 → 2025 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. | Change relative to Computer Science median (2 SE range) | z (standard errors) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese Journal of Electronics | 0.41 → 1.22 | +232.4% (+158.5% to +327.6%) | 9.5 |
| Journal of Web Engineering | 0.34 → 1.02 | +234.1% (+130.4% to +384.5%) | 6.5 |
| Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences | 0.30 → 0.82 | +208.3% (+101.6% to +371.4%) | 5.3 |
| Issues in Information Systems | 0.21 → 0.40 | +116.3% (+51.9% to +208.1%) | 4.4 |
| Information and Computer Security | 1.82 → 3.21 | +97.8% (+45.2% to +169.4%) | 4.4 |
| Logical Methods in Computer Science | 0.12 → 0.21 | +99.3% (+44.0% to +175.9%) | 4.2 |
| Machine Intelligence Research | 1.71 → 3.26 | +114.0% (+39.5% to +228.4%) | 3.6 |
| Applied Artificial Intelligence | 1.21 → 1.90 | +75.8% (+36.0% to +127.2%) | 4.4 |
| SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications | 0.53 → 0.88 | +84.9% (+35.6% to +152.1%) | 4.0 |
| International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems | 1.28 → 1.85 | +62.5% (+33.0% to +98.5%) | 4.9 |
| Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences | 0.58 → 0.86 | +66.2% (+31.8% to +109.4%) | 4.4 |
| Recent Advances in Computer Science and Communications | 0.25 → 0.45 | +97.2% (+31.1% to +196.4%) | 3.3 |
| Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering | 0.44 → 0.78 | +102.3% (+29.6% to +215.8%) | 3.2 |
| IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks | 0.89 → 1.32 | +67.5% (+25.4% to +123.7%) | 3.6 |
| Patterns | 1.82 → 2.68 | +65.6% (+25.3% to +118.8%) | 3.6 |
| Mathematical Geosciences | 0.73 → 1.12 | +73.5% (+24.6% to +141.6%) | 3.3 |
| International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education | 2.23 → 3.52 | +76.7% (+24.6% to +150.7%) | 3.3 |
| International Journal of Computing | 0.31 → 0.48 | +75.2% (+24.4% to +146.7%) | 3.3 |
| The Serials Librarian | 0.44 → 0.79 | +98.6% (+22.5% to +221.9%) | 2.8 |
| Numerical Algorithms | 0.79 → 1.03 | +46.0% (+22.0% to +74.7%) | 4.2 |
| IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing | 2.01 → 2.49 | +38.8% (+21.3% to +58.9%) | 4.9 |
| Computers | 1.69 → 2.37 | +57.1% (+20.6% to +104.8%) | 3.4 |
| Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems | 0.82 → 1.24 | +69.9% (+20.5% to +139.4%) | 3.1 |
| International Journal of Theoretical Physics | 0.43 → 0.56 | +46.0% (+19.6% to +78.2%) | 3.8 |
| Computing and Informatics | 0.28 → 0.41 | +67.5% (+18.5% to +136.8%) | 3.0 |
| IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 2.64 → 3.36 | +43.2% (+17.7% to +74.2%) | 3.7 |
| IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | 2.55 → 3.43 | +51.4% (+17.5% to +95.1%) | 3.3 |
| IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies | 2.13 → 2.86 | +51.0% (+17.4% to +94.3%) | 3.3 |
| Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment | 1.57 → 2.75 | +96.8% (+17.2% to +230.4%) | 2.6 |
| Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment | 1.45 → 1.78 | +37.6% (+15.5% to +63.9%) | 3.7 |
| IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | 1.57 → 1.90 | +36.0% (+15.1% to +60.8%) | 3.7 |
| Informatics | 1.85 → 2.71 | +64.7% (+15.1% to +135.6%) | 2.8 |
| ACM Computing Surveys | 6.64 → 8.68 | +46.8% (+15.1% to +87.3%) | 3.2 |
| International Journal of Data Mining Modelling and Management | 0.12 → 0.33 | +201.7% (+15.0% to +691.8%) | 2.3 |
| Smart Learning Environments | 4.96 → 8.10 | +83.3% (+14.5% to +193.4%) | 2.6 |
| Knowledge and Information Systems | 1.19 → 1.60 | +51.4% (+13.6% to +101.9%) | 2.9 |
| Artificial Intelligence Review | 4.96 → 6.37 | +44.3% (+12.6% to +84.9%) | 3.0 |
| Kybernetika | 0.16 → 0.29 | +105.5% (+12.3% to +275.8%) | 2.4 |
| IEEE Transactions on Computers | 1.31 → 1.54 | +32.9% (+12.0% to +57.6%) | 3.3 |
| IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing | 0.18 → 0.28 | +79.4% (+11.6% to +188.5%) | 2.5 |
| BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making | 1.97 → 2.37 | +34.6% (+11.5% to +62.5%) | 3.2 |
| IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology | 2.04 → 2.28 | +25.5% (+11.5% to +41.2%) | 3.8 |
| IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing | 1.87 → 2.26 | +36.2% (+11.3% to +66.6%) | 3.1 |
| International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications | 0.61 → 0.66 | +22.1% (+10.8% to +34.7%) | 4.1 |
| Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering | 3.43 → 4.33 | +41.9% (+10.8% to +81.7%) | 2.8 |
| Information Technology And Control | 0.56 → 0.78 | +56.7% (+10.5% to +122.3%) | 2.6 |
| British Journal of Educational Technology | 5.29 → 6.62 | +40.6% (+9.8% to +80.0%) | 2.8 |
| IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing | 1.31 → 1.69 | +44.9% (+9.6% to +91.6%) | 2.7 |
| IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems | 1.19 → 1.38 | +30.7% (+9.4% to +56.1%) | 3.0 |
| Software Quality Journal | 1.31 → 1.73 | +48.5% (+9.4% to +101.6%) | 2.6 |
| International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications | 0.70 → 0.94 | +50.7% (+9.0% to +108.3%) | 2.5 |
| IEEE Transactions on Multimedia | 2.06 → 2.27 | +23.4% (+9.0% to +39.8%) | 3.4 |
| Computational Visual Media | 2.22 → 6.08 | +207.6% (+8.8% to +769.3%) | 2.2 |
| Autonomous Robots | 1.47 → 2.13 | +62.8% (+8.8% to +143.7%) | 2.4 |
| Information | 1.73 → 2.01 | +30.6% (+8.2% to +57.7%) | 2.8 |
| Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds | 0.69 → 0.95 | +54.4% (+7.8% to +121.0%) | 2.4 |
| Journal of Geochemical Exploration | 1.06 → 1.18 | +25.3% (+7.8% to +45.7%) | 3.0 |
| Multimedia Tools and Applications | 1.26 → 1.33 | +19.1% (+7.6% to +31.8%) | 3.4 |
| Digital Policy Regulation and Governance | 1.62 → 2.42 | +68.2% (+7.4% to +163.5%) | 2.3 |
| Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering | 0.19 → 0.23 | +33.3% (+6.1% to +67.6%) | 2.5 |
| Robotics and Autonomous Systems | 1.82 → 2.07 | +27.8% (+5.3% to +55.1%) | 2.5 |
| Algorithms | 0.98 → 1.12 | +27.9% (+5.2% to +55.7%) | 2.5 |
| IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | 0.64 → 0.70 | +23.7% (+5.0% to +45.7%) | 2.6 |
| IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics | 1.38 → 1.46 | +18.3% (+4.5% to +33.8%) | 2.7 |
| International Journal Of Engineering And Computer Science | 0.21 → 0.46 | +140.8% (+4.2% to +456.2%) | 2.1 |
| ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing | 0.76 → 0.89 | +30.3% (+3.7% to +63.8%) | 2.3 |
| Advances in Data Analysis and Classification | 0.59 → 0.84 | +61.0% (+3.6% to +150.2%) | 2.2 |
| Computational and Applied Mathematics | 0.85 → 0.90 | +18.8% (+3.4% to +36.4%) | 2.5 |
| IEEE Transactions on Image Processing | 3.23 → 3.40 | +18.4% (+3.3% to +35.7%) | 2.5 |
| The International Arab Journal of Information Technology | 0.40 → 0.47 | +31.8% (+1.6% to +70.9%) | 2.1 |
| Information and Software Technology | 2.28 → 2.63 | +29.5% (+0.6% to +66.7%) | 2.0 |
| Cluster Computing | 2.31 → 2.46 | +19.5% (+0.2% to +42.5%) | 2.0 |
| AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics | 0.25 → 0.35 | +56.7% (+0.1% to +145.1%) | 2.0 |
| IEEE Transactions on Games | 0.68 → 0.85 | +40.4% (+0.04% to +97.2%) | 2.0 |
How to read this list
Relative change = journal OJR ratio ÷ median group ratio − 1. The journal ratio is its OJR in 2025 divided by its OJR in 2022. The group ratio is the median of those ratios among eligible journals of the field, taken on a log scale: with an even number of journals, it is the geometric mean of the two middle ratios rather than their average.
Indicator year 2022 counts citations to papers published 2019–2021; indicator year 2025 counts citations to papers published 2022–2024. The two publication cohorts do not overlap.
A journal is listed when it is ranked, its relative change is +10% or more, and the change is at least 2 standard errors above zero (z ≥ 2), so the low end of its two-standard-error range is zero or above.
Large relative changes often start from low scores: the top journal’s OJR rose from 0.41 to 1.22, now above the world average of 1.00. Relative to the median journal of its field, its change was +232.4%.