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Best Computer Science (all) journals

225 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Computer Science (all). All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 58 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 ACM Computing Surveys 65.2 99th Q1 SCIE – No
2 Proceedings of the IEEE 60.3 99th Q1 SCIE – No
3 Computer Science Review 27.7 98th Q1 SCIE – No
4 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine 27 98th Q1 SCIE – No
5 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 26.6 98th Q1 SCIE – No
6 Computers and Education 26.3 97th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
7 Computers in Industry 22.8 97th Q1 SCIE – No
8 IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 21.5 96th Q1 SCIE – No
9 Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences 20.4 96th Q1 SCIE – Yes
10 Engineering 19.4 96th Q1 SCIE – Yes
11 PRX Quantum 19.4 95th Q1 SCIE – Yes
12 Indonesian Journal of Science and Technology 18.6 95th Q1 – – No
13 Computers and Security 15.4 94th Q1 SCIE – No
14 Journal of Computing in Higher Education 15.4 94th Q1 SSCI – No
15 Communications of the ACM 14.1 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
16 European Journal of Operational Research 14 93rd Q1 SCIE A* No
17 Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing 13.5 93rd Q1 – – No
18 Computers and Industrial Engineering 13.5 92nd Q1 SCIE A No
19 Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems 13.2 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
20 IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 13 91st Q1 SCIE – No
21 Frontiers of Computer Science 12.5 91st Q1 SCIE – No
22 Swarm and Evolutionary Computation 12.4 91st Q1 SCIE – No
23 Science China Information Sciences 12.4 90th Q1 SCIE – No
24 Computers and Electrical Engineering 12.2 90th Q1 SCIE – No
25 Computer Standards and Interfaces 12.1 89th Q1 SCIE – No
26 Construction Innovation 10.7 89th Q1 ESCI B No
27 Applied Ontology 10.6 89th Q1 SCIE – No
28 Informatics in Medicine Unlocked 10.5 88th Q1 – – Yes
29 Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics 10.3 88th Q1 SCIE – Yes
30 Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 10.2 87th Q1 SCIE – No
31 ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems 10.1 87th Q1 ESCI – No
32 Array 10.1 86th Q1 ESCI – Yes
33 ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data 9.8 86th Q1 SCIE – No
34 International Journal of Social Robotics 9.8 86th Q1 SCIE – No
35 IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society 9.4 85th Q1 ESCI – Yes
36 IEEE Access 9.3 84th Q1 SCIE – Yes
37 Computers and Operations Research 9.2 84th Q1 SCIE A No
38 Information Discovery and Delivery 8.9 84th Q1 ESCI C No
39 ACM Transactions on Computing Education 8.9 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
40 Journal of Computational Science 8 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
41 Kybernetes 7.7 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
42 Applied Mathematics and Computation 7.6 81st Q1 SCIE – No
43 Malaysian Journal of Computer Science 7.6 81st Q1 SCIE – No
44 Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 7.5 81st Q1 SCIE – No
45 Computer Science Education 7.3 80th Q1 ESCI – No
46 Materials Today Communications 7.3 80th Q1 SCIE – No
47 Computer Supported Cooperative Work 7.2 79th Q1 SCIE B No
48 Fractals 7.2 79th Q1 SCIE – No
49 Journal of Information Technology and Politics 7.1 79th Q1 SSCI – No
50 ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security 7.1 78th Q1 SCIE – No
51 Cogent Engineering 6.9 78th Q1 ESCI – Yes
52 Computer Applications in Engineering Education 6.8 77th Q1 SCIE – No
53 International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics 6.8 77th Q1 ESCI – No
54 ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems 6.8 76th Q1 SCIE – No
55 International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems 6.8 76th Q1 SCIE – Yes
56 Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology 6.8 76th Q1 SCIE – No
57 Journal of Information Technology Education: Research 6.6 75th Q1 ESCI C No
58 Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research 6.4 75th Q1 – – No
59 International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering 6.3 74th Q2 ESCI C No
60 Computational Materials Science 6.3 74th Q2 SCIE – No
61 Grey Systems 6.3 74th Q2 SCIE – No
62 Journal of Robotics 6.3 73rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
63 ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing 6.2 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
64 Foundations and Trends in Databases 6.2 72nd Q2 ESCI – No
65 International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology 6.2 72nd Q2 – – No
66 Complexity 6.1 71st Q2 SCIE – Yes
67 PeerJ Computer Science 6.1 71st Q2 SCIE – Yes
68 Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences 6 71st Q2 SCIE – No
69 International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications 5.9 70th Q2 ESCI – No
70 Computers and Fluids 5.6 70th Q2 SCIE – No
71 Automatika 5.6 69th Q2 SCIE – Yes
72 Computers in the Schools 5.5 69th Q2 ESCI – No
73 Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval 5.2 69th Q2 ESCI – Yes
74 Computation 5.2 68th Q2 ESCI – Yes
75 Memetic Computing 5.1 68th Q2 SCIE – No
76 ETRI Journal 5.1 67th Q2 SCIE – Yes
77 Computers and Composition 5 67th Q2 ESCI – No
78 SN Computer Science 5 67th Q2 – – No
79 Computer Journal 5 66th Q2 SCIE – No
80 Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering 4.9 66th Q2 ESCI – Yes
81 Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 4.8 65th Q2 SCIE, SSCI – No
82 International Arab Journal of Information Technology 4.8 65th Q2 SCIE – No
83 International Journal of Health Geographics 4.8 64th Q2 SCIE, SSCI – Yes
84 AAPP Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti, Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali 4.7 64th Q2 ESCI – Yes
85 Computer 4.6 64th Q2 SCIE – No
86 Applied Science and Engineering Progress 4.5 63rd Q2 – – No
87 Systems and Control Letters 4.5 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
88 Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences 4.5 62nd Q2 SCIE – Yes
89 Applied Computing and Geosciences 4.4 62nd Q2 ESCI – Yes
90 ACM Transactions on Applied Perception 4.4 61st Q2 SCIE – No
91 IEEE Latin America Transactions 4.3 61st Q2 SCIE – No
92 Cybernetics and Information Technologies 4.2 60th Q2 ESCI – Yes
93 Mendel 4.2 60th Q2 – – Yes
94 Computing in Science and Engineering 4.2 59th Q2 SCIE – No
95 Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series B 4.1 59th Q2 – – No
96 Open Computer Science 4.1 59th Q2 ESCI – Yes
97 IEEE Embedded Systems Letters 4.1 58th Q2 SCIE – No
98 International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning 4.1 58th Q2 ESCI – No
99 Annals of Emerging Technologies in Computing 4 57th Q2 – – No
100 SIAM Journal on Computing 3.9 57th Q2 SCIE – No
101 Engineering Reports 3.9 56th Q2 ESCI – Yes
102 International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences 3.8 56th Q2 ESCI – Yes
103 International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation 3.8 55th Q2 SCIE – No
104 Journal of Information and Communication Technology 3.8 55th Q2 ESCI – Yes
105 Journal of Energy in Southern Africa 3.8 54th Q2 SCIE – Yes
106 Recent Advances in Computer Science and Communications 3.8 54th Q2 – – No
107 Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences 3.5 54th Q2 ESCI – Yes
108 Biological Cybernetics 3.5 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
109 Computer Science and Information Systems 3.5 53rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
110 Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems 3.4 52nd Q2 ESCI – No
111 International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications 3.4 52nd Q2 ESCI – No
112 International Journal of Intelligent Engineering and Systems 3.3 52nd Q2 – – No
113 Baghdad Science Journal 3.3 51st Q2 ESCI – Yes
114 IT - Information Technology 3.3 51st Q2 ESCI – No
115 Journal of Computer and System Sciences 3.1 50th Q2 SCIE – No
116 Journal of Frontiers of Computer Science and Technology 3.1 50th Q2 – – Yes
117 Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management 3.1 49th Q3 – – No
118 Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3.1 49th Q3 – – No
119 Infocommunications Journal 3 48th Q3 ESCI – No
120 Studies in Informatics and Control 2.9 48th Q3 SCIE – No
121 International Journal of Decision Support System Technology 2.9 47th Q3 ESCI – No
122 Journal of Computing Theories and Applications 2.9 47th Q3 – – No
123 Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour 2.8 47th Q3 ESCI – No
124 Ad-Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks 2.8 46th Q3 SCIE – No
125 Periodicals of Engineering and Natural Sciences 2.8 46th Q3 – – No
126 International Journal on Informatics Visualization 2.8 45th Q3 – – Yes
127 Algorithmica 2.7 45th Q3 SCIE – No
128 Global Journal of Engineering Education 2.7 45th Q3 – – No
129 Journal of ICT Research and Applications 2.7 44th Q3 ESCI – Yes
130 Scientia Sinica Informationis 2.7 44th Q3 – – No
131 International Journal of Computer Science in Sport 2.6 43rd Q3 – – Yes
132 Journal of Universal Computer Science 2.6 43rd Q3 SCIE – Yes
133 ACM Transactions on Computational Logic 2.6 42nd Q3 SCIE – No
134 Intelligent Systems Reference Library 2.6 42nd Q3 – – No
135 Iraqi Journal of Science 2.6 42nd Q3 – – No
136 Advances in Science and Technology Research Journal 2.5 41st Q3 ESCI – No
137 IIUM Engineering Journal 2.5 41st Q3 ESCI – Yes
138 International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering 2.5 40th Q3 ESCI – No
139 Jordanian Journal of Computers and Information Technology 2.5 40th Q3 ESCI – Yes
140 Theoretical Computer Science 2.5 40th Q3 SCIE – No
141 ACM Inroads 2.4 39th Q3 – – No
142 Advances in Computers 2.3 39th Q3 – – No
143 IAENG International Journal of Computer Science 2.3 38th Q3 – – No
144 Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering 2.2 37th Q3 SCIE – Yes
145 International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications 2.2 37th Q3 – – No
146 AIUB Journal of Science and Engineering 2.2 36th Q3 – – No
147 Cybernetics and Systems Analysis 2.2 36th Q3 ESCI – No
148 Journal of Fiber Bioengineering and Informatics 2.1 35th Q3 – – No
149 Multiagent and Grid Systems 2.1 35th Q3 ESCI – No
150 RIAI - Revista Iberoamericana de Automatica e Informatica Industrial 2.1 35th Q3 SCIE – Yes
151 Ecological Psychology 2.1 34th Q3 SSCI – No
152 Queue 2.1 34th Q3 – – No
153 ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 2.1 33rd Q3 SCIE – No
154 Gyroscopy and Navigation 2 33rd Q3 – – No
155 International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology 2 32nd Q3 – – No
156 Logical Methods in Computer Science 2 32nd Q3 SCIE – Yes
157 Pertanika Journal of Science and Technology 2 32nd Q3 ESCI – No
158 Cognitive Systems Monographs 1.9 31st Q3 – – No
159 Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics 1.9 31st Q3 ESCI – Yes
160 Advances in Technology Innovation 1.8 30th Q3 – – No
161 Journal of Studies in Science and Engineering 1.8 30th Q3 – – Yes
162 Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology 1.8 30th Q3 – – No
163 International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 1.8 29th Q3 AHCI – No
164 El-Cezeri Journal of Science and Engineering 1.7 29th Q3 – – No
165 Baltic Journal of Modern Computing 1.7 28th Q3 ESCI – Yes
166 SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration 1.7 28th Q3 ESCI – Yes
167 Optical Memory and Neural Networks (Information Optics) 1.6 27th Q3 ESCI – No
168 Acta Scientiarum - Technology 1.6 26th Q3 SCIE – Yes
169 Uniciencia 1.5 26th Q3 ESCI – Yes
170 Revista Romana de Informatica si Automatica 1.5 25th Q3 ESCI – Yes
171 IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 1.4 25th Q3 AHCI, SCIE – No
172 International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications 1.4 25th Q3 – – No
173 International Journal on Electrical Engineering and Informatics 1.4 24th Q4 – – No
174 Proceedings of the Romanian Academy Series A - Mathematics Physics Technical Sciences Information Science 1.4 24th Q4 SCIE – No
175 Huazhong Keji Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)/Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Natural Science Edition) 1.4 23rd Q4 – – No
176 Ubiquitous Learning 1.4 23rd Q4 – – No
177 ICIC Express Letters 1.3 23rd Q4 – – No
178 Control Engineering and Applied Informatics 1.3 22nd Q4 SCIE – No
179 Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications 1.3 21st Q4 – – Yes
180 STEAM-H: Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Mathematics and Health 1.3 21st Q4 – – No
181 International Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems 1.3 20th Q4 – – No
182 Vestnik Udmurtskogo Universiteta: Matematika, Mekhanika, Komp'yuternye Nauki 1.3 20th Q4 ESCI – No
183 Internetworking Indonesia Journal 1.2 20th Q4 ESCI – No
184 International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems 1.2 19th Q4 ESCI – No
185 International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems 1.2 19th Q4 – – No
186 Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies 1.2 19th Q4 – – No
187 Computacion y Sistemas 1.2 18th Q4 ESCI – No
188 International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing 1.1 18th Q4 – – No
189 Communications in Computer and Information Science 1.1 17th Q4 – – No
190 Journal of Information Processing 1.1 17th Q4 – – No
191 Journal of Computing and Information Technology 1.1 16th Q4 – – Yes
192 Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 1.1 16th Q4 – – No
193 Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science 1 15th Q4 SCIE – Yes
194 Yingyong Kexue Xuebao/Journal of Applied Sciences 1 15th Q4 – – No
195 Herald of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Series Natural Sciences 1 14th Q4 – – No
196 International Journal of Unconventional Computing 1 14th Q4 SCIE – No
197 Applied Categorical Structures 1 13th Q4 SCIE – No
198 PoliTO Springer Series 1 13th Q4 – – No
199 International Journal of Informatics and Communication Technology 1 12th Q4 – – No
200 Nonlinear Optics Quantum Optics 0.9 12th Q4 ESCI – No
201 International Game Theory Review 0.9 11th Q4 ESCI B No
202 Annales Mathematicae et Informaticae 0.9 11th Q4 ESCI – No
203 Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 0.9 10th Q4 – – Yes
204 Pragmatics and Cognition 0.9 10th Q4 AHCI, SSCI – No
205 Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, Prikladnaya Matematika, Informatika, Protsessy Upravleniya 0.9 9th Q4 ESCI – No
206 Izvestiya of Saratov University. Mathematics. Mechanics. Informatics 0.8 9th Q4 ESCI – Yes
207 ICIC Express Letters, Part B: Applications 0.8 8th Q4 – – No
208 Scientific and Technical Information Processing 0.8 8th Q4 ESCI – No
209 Scientific Annals of Computer Science 0.8 8th Q4 ESCI – Yes
210 Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov, Series III: Mathematics and Computer Science 0.8 7th Q4 – – No
211 Proceedings of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences: Part A 0.8 7th Q4 – – No
212 Complex Systems 0.7 6th Q4 ESCI – No
213 International Journal of Computers and their Applications 0.7 6th Q4 – – No
214 Revista Colombiana de Computacion 0.7 6th Q4 – – Yes
215 Revista de Informatica Teorica e Aplicada 0.7 5th Q4 – – No
216 Basrah Journal of Science 0.6 5th Q4 – – No
217 SpringerBriefs in Computer Science 0.6 4th Q4 – – No
218 Turkish Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science 0.6 4th Q4 – – No
219 Computers in Education Journal 0.6 3rd Q4 – – No
220 International Journal of Basic and Applied Science 0.5 3rd Q4 – – No
221 Journal of Cellular Automata 0.5 3rd Q4 SCIE – No
222 Pakistan Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences 0.4 1st Q4 – – No
223 Transactions of the Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science 0.3 1st Q4 – – No
224 Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management 0.2 1st Q4 – – Yes
225 Computers in Libraries 0.1 0th Q4 – – No

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