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Highest-impact journals for Artificial Intelligence

The top Artificial Intelligence journals Scimago Q1-Q2 only, ranked by cites/paper, drawn from an17,538-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 free Journal Finder.

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  1. 1
    Artificial Intelligence Review
    21.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  2. 2
    Nature Machine Intelligence
    18.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  3. 3
    ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
    12.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Association for Computing Machinery
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  4. 4
    Journal Of Big Data
    11.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  5. 5
    Computational Linguistics
    10.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Association for Computational Linguistics
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  6. 6
    npj Digital Medicine
    10.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  7. 7
    PRX Quantum
    9.9 cites/paper · Q1 · American Physical Society
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  8. 8
    ACM Transactions on Information Systems
    9.5 cites/paper · Q1
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  9. 9
    Information Fusion
    9.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  10. 10
    IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
    8.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  11. 11
    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
    7.6 cites/paper · Q1 · IEEE Computer Society
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  12. 12
    Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
    7.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  13. 13
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
    6.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  14. 14
    World Wide Web
    6.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  15. 15
    Swarm and Evolutionary Computation
    6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  16. 16
    Frontiers of Computer Science
    6.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Higher Education Press
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  17. 17
    npj Quantum Information
    6.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  18. 18
    Decision Support Systems
    6.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  19. 19
    Expert Systems with Applications
    6.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  20. 20
    Minds and Machines
    5.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  21. 21
    Information Processing & Management
    5.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  22. 22
    Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
    5.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  23. 23
    Cognitive Computation
    5.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  24. 24
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
    5.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  25. 25
    Applied Soft Computing
    5.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  26. 26
    BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
    5.2 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  27. 27
    Knowledge-Based Systems
    5.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  28. 28
    Neural Computing and Applications
    5.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    ScopusPubMed
  29. 29
    IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
    5.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  30. 30
    Information Sciences
    5.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of Science
  31. 31
    Journal of Biomedical Informatics
    4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  32. 32
    ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data
    4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Association for Computing Machinery
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  33. 33
    Applied Artificial Intelligence
    4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  34. 34
    IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
    4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  35. 35
    Neural Networks
    4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  36. 36
    Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
    4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Frontiers Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  37. 37
    IEEE Transactions on Big Data
    4.5 cites/paper · Q1 · IEEE Computer Society
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  38. 38
    Big Data and Cognitive Computing
    4.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  39. 39
    International Journal of Information Security
    4.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  40. 40
    International Journal of Neural Systems
    4.4 cites/paper · Q1 · World Scientific
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed

“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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