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Highest-impact journals for Computer Science

The top Computer Science journals Scimago Q1-Q2 only, ranked by cites/paper, 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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  1. 1
    IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
    27.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    ScopusWeb of Science
  2. 2
    Pharmacological Reviews
    24.8 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  3. 3
    Artificial Intelligence Review
    21.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  4. 4
    Nature Machine Intelligence
    18.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  5. 5
    Materials Science and Engineering R Reports
    14.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  6. 6
    ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
    12.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Association for Computing Machinery
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  7. 7
    British Journal of Educational Technology
    12.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  8. 8
    Journal Of Big Data
    11.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  9. 9
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
    11.1 cites/paper · Q1 · IEEE Computer Society
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  10. 10
    IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
    10.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  11. 11
    Computational Linguistics
    10.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Association for Computational Linguistics
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  12. 12
    npj Digital Medicine
    10.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  13. 13
    Annual Reviews in Control
    10.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  14. 14
    Computers & Education
    10.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  15. 15
    PRX Quantum
    9.9 cites/paper · Q1 · American Physical Society
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  16. 16
    Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
    9.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  17. 17
    ACM Transactions on Information Systems
    9.5 cites/paper · Q1
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  18. 18
    Information Fusion
    9.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  19. 19
    Journal of Statistical Software
    9.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Foundation for Open Access Statistics
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  20. 20
    Medical Image Analysis
    8.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  21. 21
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing
    8.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    ScopusPubMed
  22. 22
    Education and Information Technologies
    8.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  23. 23
    Physical Review X
    8.5 cites/paper · Q1 · American Physical Society
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  24. 24
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
    8.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  25. 25
    Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
    8.1 cites/paper · Q1 · American Mathematical Society
    ScopusWeb of Science
  26. 26
    IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
    8.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  27. 27
    IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
    7.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    ScopusWeb of Science
  28. 28
    Journal of Educational Computing Research
    7.8 cites/paper · Q1 · SAGE Publishing
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  29. 29
    Internet of Things
    7.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  30. 30
    International Journal of Computer Vision
    7.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  31. 31
    The Internet and Higher Education
    7.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  32. 32
    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
    7.6 cites/paper · Q1 · IEEE Computer Society
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  33. 33
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
    7.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  34. 34
    IEEE Wireless Communications
    7.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  35. 35
    IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
    7.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  36. 36
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
    7.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  37. 37
    Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
    7.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  38. 38
    The International Journal of Robotics Research
    7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · SAGE Publishing
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  39. 39
    Computers & Security
    7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  40. 40
    Journal of Medical Systems
    7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    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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