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Best journals for Artificial Intelligence

The top Artificial Intelligence journals ranked by Scimago quartile, then cites/paper (OpenAlex, 2-year window), drawn from a 17,786-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded. 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).

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  1. 1
    Artificial Intelligence Review
    25.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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  2. 2
    Nature Machine Intelligence
    19.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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  3. 3
    ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
    13.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Association for Computing Machinery
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  4. 4
    Journal Of Big Data
    13.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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  5. 5
    Computational Linguistics
    12.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Association for Computational Linguistics
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  6. 6
    npj Digital Medicine
    11.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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  7. 7
    Frontiers of Computer Science
    11.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Higher Education Press
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  8. 8
    ACM Transactions on Information Systems
    10.9 cites/paper · Q1
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  9. 9
    PRX Quantum
    10.6 cites/paper · Q1 · American Physical Society
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  10. 10
    Information Fusion
    10.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  11. 11
    IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
    8.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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  12. 12
    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
    8.4 cites/paper · Q1 · IEEE Computer Society
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  13. 13
    Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
    8.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  14. 14
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
    7.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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  15. 15
    World Wide Web
    7.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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  16. 16
    Swarm and Evolutionary Computation
    7.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  17. 17
    Decision Support Systems
    7.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  18. 18
    Minds and Machines
    6.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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  19. 19
    Expert Systems with Applications
    6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  20. 20
    Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
    6.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  21. 21
    npj Quantum Information
    6.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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  22. 22
    Information Processing & Management
    6.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  23. 23
    Cognitive Computation
    6.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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  24. 24
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
    5.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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  25. 25
    Applied Soft Computing
    5.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  26. 26
    Applied Artificial Intelligence
    5.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
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  27. 27
    Knowledge-Based Systems
    5.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  28. 28
    Journal of Biomedical Informatics
    5.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  29. 29
    Neural Computing and Applications
    5.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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  30. 30
    International Journal of Information Technology
    5.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Nature
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  31. 31
    Information Sciences
    5.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of Science
  32. 32
    ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data
    5.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Association for Computing Machinery
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  33. 33
    IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
    5.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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  34. 34
    Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
    5.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Frontiers Media
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  35. 35
    Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
    5.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  36. 36
    International Journal of Information Security
    5.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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  37. 37
    IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
    5.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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  38. 38
    Neural Networks
    5.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  39. 39
    Big Data and Cognitive Computing
    4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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  40. 40
    JMIR Medical Informatics
    4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · JMIR Publications
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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.

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From a 17,786-venue index, the highest-ranked Artificial Intelligence journals (by Scimago quartile then OpenAlex cites/paper) include Artificial Intelligence Review, Nature Machine Intelligence, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Journal Of Big Data, Computational Linguistics. Predatory venues are excluded. The full ranked list with open-access and indexing details is on this page; for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

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