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Best Software journals

388 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Software. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 115 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 Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning 52.9 99th Q1 ESCI – No
2 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 41.1 99th Q1 SCIE – No
3 Nature Machine Intelligence 40.9 99th Q1 SCIE – No
4 AI Open 31.3 99th Q1 ESCI – Yes
5 IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics 28.2 98th Q1 SCIE – No
6 Journal of Manufacturing Systems 27.7 98th Q1 SCIE B No
7 Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing 27.6 98th Q1 SCIE – No
8 Information Fusion 26.7 98th Q1 SCIE – No
9 Information Systems Frontiers 26.4 98th Q1 SCIE A No
10 Annual Reviews in Control 24.3 97th Q1 SCIE – No
11 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 23.7 97th Q1 SCIE – No
12 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 22.1 97th Q1 SCIE – No
13 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 21.7 97th Q1 SCIE – No
14 IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 21.5 97th Q1 SCIE – No
15 IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 18.7 96th Q1 SCIE – No
16 Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing 18.5 96th Q1 SCIE B No
17 ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare 18.1 96th Q1 ESCI – No
18 IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems 17.8 96th Q1 SCIE – No
19 International Journal of Computer Vision 17.8 96th Q1 SCIE – No
20 Applied Computing and Informatics 17.6 95th Q1 ESCI – Yes
21 Pattern Recognition 17.3 95th Q1 SCIE – No
22 Future Generation Computer Systems 17 95th Q1 SCIE – No
23 Information Systems Journal 16.7 95th Q1 SSCI A* No
24 Engineering with Computers 16.6 95th Q1 SCIE – No
25 Internet of Things (The Netherlands) 16.3 94th Q1 SCIE – No
26 IEEE Network 14.8 94th Q1 SCIE – No
27 Journal of Cloud Computing 14.7 94th Q1 SCIE – Yes
28 Information Sciences 14.6 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
29 Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management 14.4 93rd Q1 SCIE, SSCI B No
30 Journal of Statistical Software 13.9 93rd Q1 SCIE A Yes
31 IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing 13.9 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
32 IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 13.9 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
33 IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 13.9 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
34 Knowledge-Based Systems 13.7 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
35 Journal of Machine Learning Research 13.3 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
36 High-Confidence Computing 13.2 92nd Q1 ESCI – Yes
37 Applied Soft Computing 13.1 91st Q1 SCIE – No
38 Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making 13.1 91st Q1 SCIE – No
39 International Journal of Data and Network Science 12.7 91st Q1 – – Yes
40 Neural Computing and Applications 12.7 91st Q1 – – No
41 Advances in Engineering Software 12.6 90th Q1 SCIE – No
42 International Journal of Intelligent Systems 12.6 90th Q1 SCIE – No
43 International Journal of Robotics Research 12.2 90th Q1 SCIE – No
44 Computer Standards and Interfaces 12.1 90th Q1 SCIE – No
45 Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 11.9 90th Q1 SCIE – No
46 Virtual Reality 11.9 89th Q1 SCIE – Yes
47 Information Systems 11.8 89th Q1 SCIE – No
48 ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 11.6 89th Q1 SCIE – No
49 ICT Express 11.4 89th Q1 SCIE – Yes
50 Connection Science 11.1 88th Q1 SCIE – Yes
51 IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems 11.1 88th Q1 SCIE – No
52 Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art 11.1 88th Q1 ESCI – Yes
53 Computer Speech and Language 10.9 88th Q1 SCIE – No
54 Information and Software Technology 10.8 88th Q1 SCIE – No
55 International Journal of Human Computer Studies 10.5 87th Q1 SCIE, SSCI B No
56 Informatics in Medicine Unlocked 10.5 87th Q1 – – Yes
57 Robotics and Autonomous Systems 10.5 87th Q1 SCIE – No
58 Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 10.3 87th Q1 SCIE – No
59 Journal of Web Semantics 10.2 87th Q1 SCIE – Yes
60 Journal of Systems and Software 10.1 86th Q1 SCIE – No
61 Mathematical Programming Computation 10.1 86th Q1 SCIE – No
62 Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations 10 86th Q1 SCIE, SSCI B No
63 IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 10 86th Q1 SCIE – No
64 World Wide Web 10 86th Q1 SCIE – No
65 Ad Hoc Networks 9.9 85th Q1 SCIE – No
66 Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 9.9 85th Q1 SCIE – No
67 Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering 9.8 85th Q1 SCIE – No
68 Visual Informatics 9.8 85th Q1 ESCI – Yes
69 IEEE Internet of Things Magazine 9.7 85th Q1 ESCI – No
70 IEEE Transactions on Networking 9.7 84th Q1 SCIE – No
71 Data Science and Engineering 9.6 84th Q1 ESCI – Yes
72 Microprocessors and Microsystems 9.6 84th Q1 SCIE – No
73 Multimedia Tools and Applications 9.6 84th Q1 – – No
74 IEEE Transactions on Computers 9.3 84th Q1 SCIE – No
75 ACM Transactions on Internet of Things 9.1 83rd Q1 ESCI – No
76 IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering 9.1 83rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
77 Journal of Systems Architecture 9.1 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
78 Requirements Engineering 9 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
79 Journal of Grid Computing 8.9 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
80 International Journal of Information Security 8.8 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
81 Pervasive and Mobile Computing 8.8 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
82 IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing 8.7 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
83 Journal of Information Security and Applications 8.7 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
84 Soft Computing 8.7 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
85 Cybersecurity 8.6 82nd Q1 ESCI – Yes
86 Empirical Software Engineering 8.6 81st Q1 SCIE – No
87 Cluster Computing 8.4 81st Q1 SCIE – No
88 Environmental Modelling and Software 8.4 81st Q1 SCIE – No
89 Software - Practice and Experience 8.4 81st Q1 SCIE – No
90 International Journal of Fuzzy Systems 8.3 80th Q1 SCIE – No
91 Signal Processing 8.3 80th Q1 SCIE – No
92 Software and Systems Modeling 8.3 80th Q1 SCIE – No
93 IEEE Micro 8.2 80th Q1 SCIE – No
94 Neural Processing Letters 8.1 80th Q1 SCIE – No
95 Journal of Intelligent Information Systems 8 79th Q1 SCIE B No
96 Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization 7.9 79th Q1 SCIE – No
97 Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications 7.8 79th Q1 SCIE – No
98 Pattern Recognition Letters 7.8 78th Q1 SCIE – No
99 Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 7.7 78th Q1 SCIE – No
100 Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing 7.7 78th Q1 – – No
101 Universal Access in the Information Society 7.6 78th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
102 Automated Software Engineering 7.6 77th Q1 SCIE – No
103 New Generation Computing 7.6 77th Q1 SCIE – No
104 Computing 7.5 77th Q1 SCIE – No
105 Machine Learning 7.5 77th Q1 SCIE – No
106 Mobile Networks and Applications 7.5 77th Q1 SCIE – No
107 International Journal of Digital Earth 7.4 76th Q1 SCIE – Yes
108 Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering 7.4 76th Q1 SCIE – No
109 Quantum Machine Intelligence 7.4 76th Q1 ESCI – No
110 Speech Communication 7.4 76th Q1 SCIE – No
111 ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization 7.3 76th Q1 ESCI – No
112 ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems 7.3 75th Q1 SCIE – No
113 IET Smart Cities 7.3 75th Q1 ESCI – Yes
114 Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing 7.3 75th Q1 SCIE – No
115 Signal Processing: Image Communication 7.3 75th Q1 SCIE – No
116 Computer Vision and Image Understanding 7.2 74th Q2 SCIE – No
117 IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems 7.2 74th Q2 SCIE – No
118 Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 7.2 74th Q2 SCIE – No
119 Knowledge and Information Systems 7.1 73rd Q2 SCIE C No
120 Discover Internet of Things 6.9 73rd Q2 – – Yes
121 International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 6.9 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
122 Journal of Intelligent Systems 6.9 73rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
123 Information and Computer Security 6.9 72nd Q2 ESCI B No
124 Digital Threats: Research and Practice 6.9 72nd Q2 ESCI – No
125 Journal of Supercomputing 6.9 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
126 Computer Communication Review 6.8 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
127 Cybernetics and Systems 6.7 71st Q2 SCIE – No
128 Journal of the ACM 6.7 71st Q2 SCIE – No
129 Machine Learning: Science and Technology 6.7 71st Q2 SCIE – Yes
130 Multimedia Systems 6.7 71st Q2 SCIE – No
131 INFORMS Journal on Computing 6.6 70th Q2 SCIE A No
132 IEEE Multimedia 6.6 70th Q2 SCIE – No
133 Information Security Journal 6.6 70th Q2 ESCI – No
134 Neuroinformatics 6.6 70th Q2 SCIE – No
135 Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques 6.6 69th Q2 ESCI – No
136 Journal of Cyber Security Technology 6.6 69th Q2 – – No
137 APL Machine Learning 6.5 69th Q2 ESCI – Yes
138 Cryptography 6.4 69th Q2 ESCI – Yes
139 Transportmetrica B 6.4 68th Q2 SCIE, SSCI B No
140 Cognitive Systems Research 6.3 68th Q2 SCIE, SSCI – No
141 International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 6.3 68th Q2 SCIE – No
142 Mathematical Programming 6.3 68th Q2 SCIE – No
143 Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications 6.3 68th Q2 SCIE – No
144 ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems 6.2 67th Q2 SCIE – No
145 ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software 6.2 67th Q2 SCIE – No
146 Computers and Graphics 6.2 67th Q2 SCIE – No
147 Visual Computer 6.2 67th Q2 SCIE – No
148 IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems 6.1 66th Q2 SCIE – No
149 International Journal of Computers and Applications 6.1 66th Q2 – – No
150 International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics 6 66th Q2 SCIE – No
151 Natural Language Processing 6 66th Q2 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
152 Parallel Computing 6 66th Q2 SCIE – No
153 Distributed and Parallel Databases 5.9 65th Q2 SCIE – No
154 IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking 5.9 65th Q2 ESCI – Yes
155 IET Image Processing 5.9 65th Q2 SCIE – Yes
156 ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems 5.8 65th Q2 SCIE – No
157 IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems 5.8 65th Q2 – – Yes
158 Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 5.7 64th Q2 SCIE – No
159 IEEE Transactions on Games 5.7 64th Q2 SCIE – No
160 International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 5.7 64th Q2 SCIE – No
161 Robotica 5.7 64th Q2 SCIE – No
162 Theory and Practice of Logic Programming 5.7 64th Q2 SCIE – No
163 Journal of Internet Services and Information Security 5.5 63rd Q2 – – Yes
164 Journal of Scientific Computing 5.4 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
165 Software Quality Journal 5.4 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
166 Systems 5.4 63rd Q2 SSCI – Yes
167 CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences 5.3 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
168 International Journal of Speech Technology 5.3 63rd Q2 – – No
169 IEEE Software 5.3 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
170 Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages 5.3 62nd Q2 ESCI – No
171 Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 5.2 62nd Q2 – – No
172 Journal of Advances in Information Technology 5.2 61st Q2 ESCI – Yes
173 Integration 5.1 61st Q2 SCIE – No
174 International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition 5.1 61st Q2 SCIE – No
175 IT Professional 5.1 61st Q2 SCIE – No
176 Zidonghua Xuebao/Acta Automatica Sinica 5.1 61st Q2 – – No
177 Journal of Simulation 5.1 60th Q2 SCIE B No
178 Entertainment Computing 5.1 60th Q2 SCIE – No
179 Optimization and Engineering 5.1 60th Q2 SCIE – No
180 Journal of Information Systems 5 60th Q2 SSCI A No
181 International Journal of Serious Games 5 60th Q2 ESCI – Yes
182 Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments 5 59th Q2 SCIE – No
183 International Journal of Electronic Government Research 4.9 59th Q2 ESCI C No
184 IEEE Pervasive Computing 4.9 59th Q2 SCIE – No
185 IET Biometrics 4.9 59th Q2 SCIE – Yes
186 Machine Vision and Applications 4.9 59th Q2 SCIE – No
187 International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism 4.8 58th Q2 ESCI – No
188 International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer 4.7 58th Q2 SCIE – No
189 Journal of Software: Evolution and Process 4.7 58th Q2 SCIE – No
190 Photonic Network Communications 4.7 58th Q2 SCIE – No
191 International Journal of Computer Games Technology 4.6 58th Q2 ESCI – Yes
192 ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 4.5 57th Q2 SCIE – No
193 E-Informatica Software Engineering Journal 4.5 57th Q2 ESCI – Yes
194 International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems 4.5 57th Q2 SCIE – Yes
195 Journal of Computer Languages 4.5 57th Q2 SCIE – No
196 Journal of Cryptology 4.5 57th Q2 SCIE – No
197 Simulation 4.5 56th Q2 SCIE – No
198 International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering 4.4 56th Q2 SCIE – No
199 SIAM Journal on Optimization 4.4 56th Q2 SCIE – No
200 IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology 4.3 56th Q2 ESCI – Yes
201 Digital Government: Research and Practice 4.3 55th Q2 – – No
202 Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering 4.3 55th Q2 ESCI – No
203 Optimal Control Applications and Methods 4.2 55th Q2 SCIE B No
204 IEEE Design and Test 4.2 55th Q2 SCIE – No
205 Stata Journal 4.2 55th Q2 SCIE, SSCI – No
206 IET Information Security 4.2 54th Q2 SCIE – Yes
207 Journal of Web Engineering 4.2 54th Q2 SCIE – No
208 International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications 4.1 54th Q2 ESCI – No
209 Journal of Computer Security 4.1 54th Q2 ESCI – No
210 Systems and Soft Computing 4.1 54th Q2 ESCI – Yes
211 Service Oriented Computing and Applications 4 53rd Q2 ESCI – No
212 Vietnam Journal of Computer Science 4 53rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
213 SoftwareX 3.9 53rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
214 Journal of Scheduling 3.9 52nd Q2 SCIE B No
215 Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds 3.9 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
216 Journal of Cryptographic Engineering 3.9 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
217 Knowledge Engineering Review 3.9 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
218 Software Testing Verification and Reliability 3.9 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
219 Science of Computer Programming 3.9 51st Q2 SCIE – No
220 Constraints 3.8 51st Q2 SCIE – No
221 Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales) 3.8 51st Q2 SCIE – No
222 Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems 3.8 51st Q2 SCIE – Yes
223 ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing 3.8 50th Q2 ESCI – No
224 Software Impacts 3.8 50th Q2 ESCI – No
225 Radioelectronic and Computer Systems 3.7 50th Q2 – – Yes
226 ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization 3.6 49th Q3 SCIE – No
227 Advanced Robotics 3.6 49th Q3 SCIE – No
228 BIT Numerical Mathematics 3.6 49th Q3 SCIE – No
229 International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security 3.6 49th Q3 – – No
230 Journal of Internet Technology 3.6 48th Q3 SCIE – No
231 Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines 3.5 48th Q3 SCIE – No
232 Networks and Spatial Economics 3.5 47th Q3 SCIE B No
233 IET Computer Vision 3.5 47th Q3 SCIE – Yes
234 Kongzhi yu Juece/Control and Decision 3.5 47th Q3 – – No
235 IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 3.4 46th Q3 SCIE – No
236 Graphical Models 3.3 46th Q3 SCIE – Yes
237 International Journal of Parallel Programming 3.3 46th Q3 SCIE – No
238 International Journal of Web and Grid Services 3.3 46th Q3 SCIE – No
239 Journal of Heuristics 3.3 46th Q3 SCIE – No
240 International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems 3.3 45th Q3 ESCI – No
241 SIGMOD Record 3.3 45th Q3 SCIE – No
242 Inteligencia Artificial 3.2 45th Q3 ESCI – Yes
243 Jiqiren/Robot 3.2 45th Q3 – – No
244 Journal of Computer Science and Technology 3.2 45th Q3 SCIE – No
245 International Journal of Automation and Control 3.2 44th Q3 ESCI – No
246 Optimization Methods and Software 3.2 44th Q3 SCIE – No
247 Palgrave Studies in Digital Business and Enabling Technologies 3.2 44th Q3 – – No
248 Periodica Polytechnica Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 3.1 43rd Q3 – – No
249 Jisuanji Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Computers 3 43rd Q3 – – No
250 Kybernetika 3 43rd Q3 SCIE – No
251 International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control 2.9 43rd Q3 ESCI – No
252 Interacting with Computers 2.9 42nd Q3 SCIE, SSCI B No
253 Image Processing On Line 2.9 42nd Q3 ESCI – Yes
254 International Journal of Web Services Research 2.9 42nd Q3 SCIE – No
255 Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming 2.9 42nd Q3 SCIE – No
256 EDPACS 2.8 42nd Q3 – C No
257 International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining 2.8 41st Q3 SCIE C No
258 ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems 2.8 41st Q3 ESCI – No
259 Design Automation for Embedded Systems 2.8 41st Q3 SCIE – No
260 Journal of Object Technology 2.8 41st Q3 ESCI – No
261 Ruan Jian Xue Bao/Journal of Software 2.8 41st Q3 – – No
262 Computing and Informatics 2.8 40th Q3 SCIE – No
263 Formal Aspects of Computing 2.8 40th Q3 SCIE – No
264 International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics 2.7 40th Q3 ESCI – No
265 International Journal of Software Innovation 2.7 40th Q3 ESCI – No
266 IET Computers and Digital Techniques 2.6 39th Q3 SCIE – Yes
267 International Journal of Embedded Systems 2.6 39th Q3 ESCI – No
268 International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes 2.6 39th Q3 – – No
269 Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 2.6 39th Q3 SCIE – No
270 Journal of Database Management 2.6 38th Q3 SCIE A No
271 International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence 2.5 38th Q3 – – No
272 International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology 2.5 38th Q3 ESCI – No
273 Jisuanji Jicheng Zhizao Xitong/Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems, CIMS 2.5 38th Q3 – – No
274 Digital Translation: International Journal of Translation and Localization 2.5 37th Q3 – – No
275 International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence 2.5 37th Q3 SCIE – No
276 International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems 2.5 37th Q3 SCIE – No
277 Journal of Automated Reasoning 2.5 37th Q3 SCIE – No
278 Journal of Soft Computing and Data Mining 2.5 37th Q3 – – No
279 International Journal of Computing 2.4 36th Q3 – – No
280 Jurnal RESTI 2.4 36th Q3 – – Yes
281 Performance Evaluation 2.4 36th Q3 SCIE – No
282 International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering 2.4 35th Q3 ESCI – No
283 International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology 2.3 35th Q3 – – No
284 Jisuanji Yanjiu yu Fazhan/Computer Research and Development 2.3 34th Q3 – – No
285 Journal of Computer Science and Technology (Argentina) 2.2 34th Q3 ESCI – Yes
286 Neural Network World 2.2 34th Q3 SCIE – No
287 International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing 2.2 33rd Q3 SCIE – No
288 Pollack Periodica 2.1 33rd Q3 – – No
289 Transactions on Data Privacy 2.1 33rd Q3 ESCI – No
290 Formal Methods in System Design 2.1 32nd Q3 SCIE – No
291 Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 2.1 32nd Q3 SCIE – No
292 Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis 2.1 31st Q3 – – Yes
293 Random Structures and Algorithms 2 31st Q3 SCIE – No
294 Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming 2 30th Q3 – – No
295 International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems 2 30th Q3 ESCI – No
296 International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering 2 29th Q3 SCIE – No
297 Journal of Communications Software and Systems 2 29th Q3 ESCI – Yes
298 Operations Research Letters 1.9 28th Q3 SCIE B No
299 IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems 1.9 28th Q3 SCIE – No
300 Jisuanji Gongcheng/Computer Engineering 1.9 28th Q3 – – Yes

All remaining Software journals (88)

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