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Best Hardware and Architecture journals

192 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Hardware and Architecture. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 57 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 Journal of Manufacturing Systems 27.7 99th Q1 SCIE B No
2 Information Fusion 26.7 99th Q1 SCIE – No
3 Journal of Big Data 18.6 98th Q1 SCIE – Yes
4 Future Generation Computer Systems 17 98th Q1 SCIE – No
5 Journal of Network and Computer Applications 16.6 98th Q1 SCIE – No
6 Internet of Things (The Netherlands) 16.3 97th Q1 SCIE – No
7 IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 15.2 97th Q1 SCIE – No
8 IEEE Network 14.8 96th Q1 SCIE – No
9 IEEE Internet of Things Journal 14.7 96th Q1 SCIE – No
10 Digital Communications and Networks 14.6 96th Q1 SCIE – Yes
11 IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing 13.9 95th Q1 SCIE – No
12 Chip 13.4 94th Q1 ESCI – Yes
13 High-Confidence Computing 13.2 94th Q1 ESCI – Yes
14 Computer Physics Communications 13.1 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
15 IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 12.9 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
16 IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking 12.4 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
17 Computer Standards and Interfaces 12.1 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
18 IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine 12.1 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
19 Information Systems 11.8 91st Q1 SCIE – No
20 ICT Express 11.4 91st Q1 SCIE – Yes
21 Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal 11.2 90th Q1 SCIE – Yes
22 International Journal of Human Computer Studies 10.5 90th Q1 SCIE, SSCI B No
23 Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering 10.4 90th Q1 ESCI – Yes
24 VLDB Journal 10.4 89th Q1 SCIE – No
25 Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 10.3 89th Q1 SCIE – No
26 Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 10.2 88th Q1 ESCI – No
27 Journal of Systems and Software 10.1 88th Q1 SCIE – No
28 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers 10.1 87th Q1 SCIE – No
29 World Wide Web 10 87th Q1 SCIE – No
30 Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 9.9 87th Q1 SCIE – No
31 Ad Hoc Networks 9.9 86th Q1 SCIE – No
32 Journal of Network and Systems Management 9.9 86th Q1 SCIE – No
33 Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 9.8 85th Q1 – – No
34 IEEE Internet of Things Magazine 9.7 85th Q1 ESCI – No
35 Multimedia Tools and Applications 9.6 85th Q1 – – No
36 Microprocessors and Microsystems 9.6 84th Q1 SCIE – No
37 IEEE Transactions on Computers 9.3 84th Q1 SCIE – No
38 ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications 9.2 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
39 International Journal of Modelling and Simulation 9.1 83rd Q1 ESCI – No
40 Journal of Systems Architecture 9.1 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
41 ACM Transactions on Internet of Things 9.1 82nd Q1 ESCI – No
42 Sustainability (Switzerland) 8.9 82nd Q1 SCIE, SSCI – Yes
43 Journal of Grid Computing 8.9 81st Q1 SCIE – No
44 Pervasive and Mobile Computing 8.8 81st Q1 SCIE – No
45 IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing 8.7 81st Q1 SCIE – No
46 IEEE Micro 8.2 80th Q1 SCIE – No
47 Journal of Intelligent Information Systems 8 79th Q1 SCIE B No
48 Journal of Edge Computing 7.8 79th Q1 – – Yes
49 New Generation Computing 7.6 78th Q1 SCIE – No
50 International Journal of Wireless Information Networks 7.5 78th Q1 ESCI – No
51 Mobile Networks and Applications 7.5 78th Q1 SCIE – No
52 ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems 7.3 77th Q1 SCIE – No
53 Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing 7.3 77th Q1 SCIE – No
54 Knowledge and Information Systems 7.1 76th Q1 SCIE C No
55 Electronics (Switzerland) 7 76th Q1 SCIE – Yes
56 Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research 7 75th Q1 SCIE – No
57 Discover Internet of Things 6.9 75th Q1 – – Yes
58 Digital Threats: Research and Practice 6.9 74th Q2 ESCI – No
59 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems 6.9 74th Q2 ESCI – No
60 Journal of Supercomputing 6.9 74th Q2 SCIE – No
61 Displays 6.7 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
62 Multimedia Systems 6.7 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
63 Journal of the ACM 6.7 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
64 Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems 6.6 72nd Q2 ESCI – No
65 IEEE Multimedia 6.6 71st Q2 SCIE – No
66 Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques 6.6 71st Q2 ESCI – No
67 ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems 6.4 70th Q2 ESCI – No
68 Journal of Signal Processing Systems 6.3 70th Q2 SCIE – No
69 ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems 6.2 70th Q2 SCIE – No
70 IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits 6.1 69th Q2 ESCI – Yes
71 International Journal of Computers and Applications 6.1 69th Q2 – – No
72 IEEE Networking Letters 6.1 68th Q2 ESCI – No
73 IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems 6.1 68th Q2 SCIE – No
74 IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering 6 67th Q2 SCIE – No
75 Parallel Computing 6 67th Q2 SCIE – No
76 Distributed and Parallel Databases 5.9 67th Q2 SCIE – No
77 ACM Transactions on Storage 5.9 66th Q2 SCIE – No
78 IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems 5.8 66th Q2 – – Yes
79 International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 5.7 65th Q2 SCIE – No
80 Theory and Practice of Logic Programming 5.7 65th Q2 SCIE – No
81 Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 5.6 65th Q2 SCIE – Yes
82 Frontiers of Information Technology and Electronic Engineering 5.6 64th Q2 – – No
83 IET Collaborative Intelligent Manufacturing 5.6 64th Q2 ESCI – Yes
84 Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications 5.2 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
85 Integration 5.1 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
86 IT Professional 5.1 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
87 International Journal of Electronic Government Research 4.9 62nd Q2 ESCI C No
88 Machine Vision and Applications 4.9 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
89 International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism 4.8 61st Q2 ESCI – No
90 Photonic Network Communications 4.7 61st Q2 SCIE – No
91 Systems Engineering 4.5 61st Q2 SCIE – No
92 EAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of Things 4.5 60th Q2 – – Yes
93 CCF Transactions on High Performance Computing 4.3 60th Q2 ESCI – No
94 Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics 4.2 59th Q2 – – No
95 IEEE Design and Test 4.2 59th Q2 SCIE – No
96 Journal of Computer Security 4.1 58th Q2 ESCI – No
97 Microsystem Technologies 4.1 58th Q2 SCIE – No
98 Cyber-Physical Systems 4 56th Q2 – – No
99 Journal of Engineering (United Kingdom) 4 56th Q2 ESCI – Yes
100 Service Oriented Computing and Applications 4 56th Q2 ESCI – No
101 ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing 3.8 54th Q2 ESCI – No
102 Radioelectronic and Computer Systems 3.7 54th Q2 – – Yes
103 Advanced Robotics 3.6 54th Q2 SCIE – No
104 ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization 3.6 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
105 IET Cyber-systems and Robotics 3.6 53rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
106 Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing 3.5 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
107 Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines 3.5 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
108 International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering Systems 3.5 51st Q2 ESCI – No
109 Distributed Computing 3.3 51st Q2 SCIE – No
110 International Journal of Automation and Control 3.2 50th Q2 ESCI – No
111 Journal of Computer Science and Technology 3.2 50th Q2 SCIE – No
112 Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility 3.1 49th Q3 – – No
113 Jisuanji Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Computers 3 48th Q3 – – No
114 Journal of High Speed Networks 2.9 48th Q3 ESCI – No
115 International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies 2.9 47th Q3 ESCI – No
116 Operating Systems Review (ACM) 2.9 47th Q3 – – No
117 Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers 2.8 47th Q3 SCIE – No
118 International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining 2.8 46th Q3 SCIE C No
119 ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems 2.8 45th Q3 ESCI – No
120 Computing and Informatics 2.8 45th Q3 SCIE – No
121 Design Automation for Embedded Systems 2.8 45th Q3 SCIE – No
122 IEEE Computer Architecture Letters 2.7 44th Q3 SCIE – No
123 International Journal of Embedded Systems 2.6 43rd Q3 ESCI – No
124 Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Informatics 2.6 42nd Q3 – – No
125 Journal of Database Management 2.6 41st Q3 SCIE A No
126 IET Computers and Digital Techniques 2.6 41st Q3 SCIE – Yes
127 Review of Computer Engineering Research 2.5 40th Q3 – – No
128 International Journal of Computing 2.4 39th Q3 – – No
129 International Journal on Communications Antenna and Propagation 2.4 39th Q3 – – No
130 International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering 2.4 38th Q3 ESCI – No
131 Performance Evaluation 2.4 38th Q3 SCIE – No
132 Jisuanji Yanjiu yu Fazhan/Computer Research and Development 2.3 37th Q3 – – No
133 International Journal of Reconfigurable and Embedded Systems 2.2 36th Q3 – – No
134 Journal of Computer Science and Technology (Argentina) 2.2 36th Q3 ESCI – Yes
135 Foundations and Trends in Electronic Design Automation 2.2 35th Q3 ESCI – No
136 Neural Network World 2.2 35th Q3 SCIE – No
137 International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing 2.2 34th Q3 SCIE – No
138 Formal Methods in System Design 2.1 34th Q3 SCIE – No
139 International Journal of Computer Networks and Communications 2 33rd Q3 – – No
140 International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture 1.9 31st Q3 – – No
141 Serbian Journal of Electrical Engineering 1.9 31st Q3 – – Yes
142 IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems 1.9 30th Q3 SCIE – No
143 Jisuanji Gongcheng/Computer Engineering 1.9 30th Q3 – – Yes
144 Journal of Logic and Computation 1.8 29th Q3 SCIE – No
145 International Journal of Information and Computer Security 1.7 27th Q3 ESCI – No
146 Journal of Information Science and Engineering 1.6 27th Q3 SCIE – No
147 Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations 1.5 25th Q3 – – Yes
148 International Journal of System of Systems Engineering 1.5 24th Q4 – – No
149 International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications 1.5 23rd Q4 – – No
150 International Journal of Automation and Smart Technology 1.4 23rd Q4 – – Yes
151 Information Display 1.3 22nd Q4 – – No
152 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing, ICFEC 1.3 22nd Q4 – – No
153 Performance Evaluation Review 1.1 21st Q4 – – No
154 Jordan Journal of Electrical Engineering 1.1 20th Q4 ESCI – No
155 Parallel Processing Letters 1.1 20th Q4 ESCI – No
156 Revista Cientifica de Sistemas e Informatica 1.1 19th Q4 – – Yes
157 Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 1 18th Q4 – – Yes
158 International Journal of Information Technology and Management 0.9 17th Q4 – – No
159 Radioelektronika, Nanosistemy, Informacionnye Tehnologii 0.9 17th Q4 – – No
160 Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design, FMCAD 0.9 16th Q4 – – No
161 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics, SAMI 0.9 16th Q4 – – No
162 ICACC - International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communications 0.8 15th Q4 – – No
163 International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology 0.8 14th Q4 – – No
164 Journal of Cyber Security 0.8 14th Q4 – – No
165 Al-Rafidain Engineering Journal 0.7 13th Q4 – – Yes
166 International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, COMSNETS 0.7 13th Q4 – – No
167 International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing, PDGC 0.6 12th Q4 – – No
168 ITMS - International Scientific Conference on Information Technology and Management Science of Riga Technical University 0.6 12th Q4 – – No
169 Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture 0.6 12th Q4 – – No
170 International Conference on Computer, Control, Informatics and its Applications, IC3INA 0.6 11th Q4 – – No
171 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software/ISPASS 0.5 10th Q4 – – No
172 Proceedings of the International Conference on Cybernetics and Informatics, K and I 0.5 10th Q4 – – No
173 Proceedings of the Open Conference of Electrical, Electronic and Information Sciences, eStream 0.4 9th Q4 – – No
174 Proceedings of the IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference, DCAS 0.4 8th Q4 – – No
175 Proceedings of the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 0.4 8th Q4 – – No
176 Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 0.4 7th Q4 – – No
177 International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies, ICEET 0.3 7th Q4 – – No
178 International Conference on Advanced Infocomm Technology, ICAIT 0.2 6th Q4 – – No
179 International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies, MOCAST 0.2 6th Q4 – – No
180 International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage, NAS 0.2 5th Q4 – – No
181 NEC Technical Journal 0.2 5th Q4 – – No
182 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 0.2 5th Q4 – – No
183 International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, SoSE 0.2 4th Q4 – – No
184 ITNOW 0.2 4th Q4 – – No
185 International Conference on Advanced Semiconductor Devices and Microsystems, ASDAM 0.1 3rd Q4 – – No
186 Proceedings of the IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, WF-IoT 0 3rd Q4 – – No
187 Photonics North, PN 0 2nd Q4 – – No
188 International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering, UBMK 0 1st Q4 – – No
189 Proceedings of Papers, TELSIKS 0 1st Q4 – – No
190 IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks and Satellite, ComNetSat 0 0th Q4 – – No
191 Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Technologies and Computer Science, EnT 0 0th Q4 – – No
192 Synthesis Lectures on Mobile and Pervasive Computing 0 0th Q4 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Hardware and Architecture Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-10-04). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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