What are the best journals for Artificial Intelligence?

From a 17,500-venue index, the highest-ranked Artificial Intelligence journals include Artificial Intelligence Review, Nature Machine Intelligence, Journal Of Big Data, Computational Linguistics, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. The top 40 of 376 ranked venues are listed on this page; all 40 are Scimago Q1. Each shows its open-access status and indexing, and predatory venues are excluded. For a shortlist matched to your specific paper, use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

How were these Artificial Intelligence journals ranked?

By Scimago quartile first (Q1 → Q4, then venues without one). Within a quartile, venues whose main OpenAlex subfield is Artificial Intelligence come before those that list it second or third, and ties go to OpenAlex cites/paper over a 2-year window. A venue whose main subfield is unrelated to Artificial Intelligence — fewer than a quarter of the venues filed under that subfield (or fewer than five) are also filed under Artificial Intelligence — is listed after all the others. Documented correction on this list: PRX Quantum is not listed — PRX Quantum is a quantum-information journal of the American Physical Society, not an artificial-intelligence journal. OpenAlex gives it Artificial Intelligence as its main subfield. Cites/paper is a transparent citation rate, not a licensed Impact Factor, and journals flagged as predatory are excluded.

Why don't all Artificial Intelligence journals show a quartile?

Scimago doesn't cover every journal — many strong regional and open-access venues are absent from it. We show "no Scimago quartile" for those rather than hide them; it's a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.

How do I find the best journal for my specific Artificial Intelligence paper?

Paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder — it returns a shortlist matched to your paper's topic from the same index, with acceptance-fit signals, open-access status, and predatory flags. A free account starts with 25 welcome credits; each run costs 15.

Artificial Intelligence · 376 journals ranked · top 40 listed

Best journals for Artificial Intelligence

The top 40 of 376 Artificial Intelligence journals, ranked by Scimago quartile, then by how central Artificial Intelligence is to each journal, then OpenAlex cites/paper (2-year window), drawn from a 17,500-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded; the FAQ below gives the exact ranking rule. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder (a free account starts with 25 welcome credits).

Data as of 18 October 2026 — the date our venue index was last rebuilt from OpenAlex and Scimago.

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Artificial Intelligence Review
31.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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Nature Machine Intelligence
23.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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3
Journal Of Big Data
15.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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4
Computational Linguistics
15.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Association for Computational Linguistics
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ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
14.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Association for Computing Machinery
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6
Frontiers of Computer Science
14.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Higher Education Press
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7
npj Digital Medicine
13.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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ACM Transactions on Information Systems
13.5 cites/paper · Q1
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9
Information Fusion
12.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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10
Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
11.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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11
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
10.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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12
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
10.0 cites/paper · Q1 · IEEE Computer Society
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13
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
9.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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14
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
9.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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15
Swarm and Evolutionary Computation
8.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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16
World Wide Web
8.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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17
Minds and Machines
8.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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18
Decision Support Systems
8.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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19
Expert Systems with Applications
7.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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20
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
7.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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21
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
7.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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22
Information Processing & Management
7.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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23
npj Quantum Information
6.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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24
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
6.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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25
Cognitive Computation
6.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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26
Applied Artificial Intelligence
6.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
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27
Knowledge-Based Systems
6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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28
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
6.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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29
Neural Computing and Applications
6.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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30
Applied Soft Computing
6.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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31
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
6.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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32
International Journal of Information Technology
6.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Nature
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33
International Journal of Information Security
6.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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34
IEEE Transactions on Big Data
6.0 cites/paper · Q1 · IEEE Computer Society
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35
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data
6.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Association for Computing Machinery
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36
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
6.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Frontiers Media
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37
Information Sciences
5.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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38
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
5.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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39
JMIR Medical Informatics
5.9 cites/paper · Q1 · JMIR Publications
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40
AI
5.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.