What are the best journals for Computer Science?

From an 88,000-venue index, the highest-ranked Computer Science journals (by Scimago quartile then OpenAlex cites/paper) include IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Pharmacological Reviews, Artificial Intelligence Review, Nature Machine Intelligence, Materials Science and Engineering R Reports. 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 free Journal Recommender.

How were these Computer Science journals ranked?

By Scimago quartile first (Q1 → Q4), then by OpenAlex cites/paper over a 2-year window. Cites/paper is a transparent citation rate, not a licensed Impact Factor. We exclude journals flagged as predatory.

Why don't all Computer Science 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 Computer Science paper?

Paste your title and abstract into the free Journal Recommender — it returns a shortlist matched to your paper's topic from the same index, with acceptance-fit signals, open-access status, and predatory flags. No signup required.

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Best journals for Computer Science

The top Computer Science journals ranked by Scimago quartile, then cites/paper (OpenAlex, 2-year window), drawn from an 88,000-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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IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
27.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Pharmacological Reviews
24.8 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
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Artificial Intelligence Review
21.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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Nature Machine Intelligence
18.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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Materials Science and Engineering R Reports
14.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
12.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Association for Computing Machinery
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British Journal of Educational Technology
12.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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Journal Of Big Data
11.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
11.1 cites/paper · Q1 · IEEE Computer Society
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IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
10.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Computational Linguistics
10.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Association for Computational Linguistics
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npj Digital Medicine
10.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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Annual Reviews in Control
10.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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Computers & Education
10.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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15
PRX Quantum
9.9 cites/paper · Q1 · American Physical Society
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Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
9.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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ACM Transactions on Information Systems
9.5 cites/paper · Q1
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18
Information Fusion
9.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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19
Journal of Statistical Software
9.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Foundation for Open Access Statistics
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Medical Image Analysis
8.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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21
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing
8.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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22
Education and Information Technologies
8.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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23
Physical Review X
8.5 cites/paper · Q1 · American Physical Society
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IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
8.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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25
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
8.1 cites/paper · Q1 · American Mathematical Society
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26
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
8.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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27
IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
7.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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28
Journal of Educational Computing Research
7.8 cites/paper · Q1 · SAGE Publishing
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29
Internet of Things
7.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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30
International Journal of Computer Vision
7.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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31
The Internet and Higher Education
7.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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32
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
7.6 cites/paper · Q1 · IEEE Computer Society
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33
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
7.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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34
IEEE Wireless Communications
7.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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35
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
7.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
7.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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37
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
7.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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38
The International Journal of Robotics Research
7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · SAGE Publishing
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39
Computers & Security
7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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40
Journal of Medical Systems
7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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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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