Top journals in computer science
14 May 2009 | Updated: 14 May 2009 0:00am
Data provided by Thomson Reuters’ Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 1998-31 December 2008
| | Journal | Papers | Citations | Citations per paper |
| 1 | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication | 1,954 | 23,738 | 12.15 |
| 2 | IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking | 951 | 11,283 | 11.86 |
| 3 | IBM Journal of Research and Development | 548 | 6,190 | 11.30 |
| 4 | IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | 3,466 | 36,419 | 10.51 |
| 5 | ACM Transactions on Graphics | 812 | 7,742 | 9.53 |
| 6 | SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing | 1,290 | 11,588 | 8.98 |
| 7 | IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2,812 | 23,553 | 8.38 |
| 8 | IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | 723 | 5,707 | 7.89 |
| 9 | Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | 3,347 | 26,006 | 7.77 |
| 10 | Computer Vision and Image Understanding | 773 | 5,879 | 7.61 |
| 11 | IEEE Communications Magazine | 1,838 | 12,257 | 6.67 |
| 12 | Computer-Aided Design | 1,006 | 6,439 | 6.40 |
| 13 | Communications of the ACM | 1,797 | 11,037 | 6.14 |
| 14 | Journal of Machine Learning Research | 500 | 3,029 | 6.06 |
| 15 | CMES: Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences | 660 | 3,917 | 5.93 |
| 16 | Computers & Chemical Engineering | 2,347 | 13,861 | 5.91 |
| 17 | SIAM Journal on Computing | 946 | 5,285 | 5.59 |
| 18 | Environmental Modelling & Software | 1,120 | 6,009 | 5.37 |
| 19 | IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation | 3,911 | 20,690 | 5.29 |
| 20 | Journal of Computer and System Sciences | 701 | 3,621 | 5.17 |
The data above were extracted from Thomson Reuters’ Essential Science Indicators database. This database, currently covering the period January 1998 through December 2008, surveys only journal articles (original research reports and review articles) indexed by Thomson Reuters. Articles are assigned to a category based on the journals in which they were published and Thomson Reuters’ journal-to-category field-definition scheme. Both articles tabulated and citation counts to those articles are for the period indicated. Here our ranking of journals in computer science is by citations per paper to reveal weighted impact. Essential Science Indicators lists journals ranked in the top 50 per cent for a field over a given period, based on total citations. In computer science, 190 journals are listed, meaning 380 journals in this field were surveyed. Of these 190 journals, 96 published 500 or more papers during the period. This ranking of the top 20 by citation impact (citations per paper) should be recognised as distinctly different from Thomson Reuters’ impact factor rankings, which are presented in the Journal Citation Reports issued each year. The impact factor is calculated as citations in Year 3 to a journal’s contents in Years 1 and 2, divided by the number of so-called citable items (regular articles and reviews) in Years 1 and 2. Thus, the above ranking reveals longer-term impact. For more information on Thomson Reuters’ Essential Science Indicators, see http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/products/esi
