Q1 Computer Science Journals by Field

These journals are classified as Q1 in the 2024 Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) for Computer Science.

📡 Networks & Communication

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—| | IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | IEEE/ACM | 4.9 | link | | Computer Networks | Elsevier | 4.2 | link | | IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing | IEEE | 4.5 | link | | Journal of Communications and Networks | Springer | 3.8 | link |

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications IEEE 4.7 link
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks ACM 3.9 link

👁️ Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—| | International Journal of Computer Vision | Springer | 7.3 | link | | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | IEEE | 11.5 | link | | Computer Vision and Image Understanding | Elsevier | 5.0 | link | | Pattern Recognition | Elsevier | 6.2 | link | | Image and Vision Computing | Elsevier | 4.4 | link | | IEEE Transactions on Image Processing | IEEE | 5.6 | link | | Machine Vision and Applications | Springer | 3.8 | link |

🗣️ Natural Language Processing

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—| | Computational Linguistics | MIT Press | 3.7 | link | | Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics | MIT Press | 6.8 | link | | IEEE/ACL Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing | IEEE/ACL | 5.9 | link | | Natural Language Engineering | Cambridge University Press | 2.9 | link | | Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (NLP papers) | AI Access Foundation | 5.2 | link | | Artificial Intelligence Review | Springer | 4.1 | link | | Computational Social Networks | Springer | 3.5 | link |

🤖 Machine Learning & AI

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—| | Journal of Machine Learning Research | JMLR | 7.0 | link | | Machine Learning | Springer | 5.4 | link | | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (AI section) | IEEE | 11.5 | link | | Artificial Intelligence | Elsevier | 6.1 | link | | Neural Networks | Elsevier | 5.3 | link | | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | IEEE | 5.9 | link | | Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery | Springer | 4.2 | link |

🔐 Security & Privacy

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—| | IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security | IEEE | 6.0 | link | | ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security | ACM | 4.8 | link | | Computers & Security | Elsevier | 5.2 | link | | Journal of Computer Security | IOS Press | 3.9 | link | | IEEE Security & Privacy | IEEE | 4.5 | link | | Cybersecurity | Springer | 3.6 | link |

🖥️ Systems & Architecture

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—| | IEEE Transactions on Computers | IEEE | 4.3 | link | | ACM Transactions on Computer Systems | ACM | 4.7 | link | | Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing | Elsevier | 3.6 | link | | IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing | IEEE | 5.1 | link | | Performance Evaluation | Elsevier | 2.9 | link | | Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience | Wiley | 2.4 | link | | IEEE Transactions on Services Computing | IEEE | 4.2 | link |

📐 Theory & Algorithms

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—| | SIAM Journal on Computing | SIAM | 3.8 | link | | Algorithmica | Springer | 2.5 | link | | Theoretical Computer Science | Elsevier | 2.2 | link | | Journal of the ACM (JACM) | ACM | 5.6 | link | | Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science | MDPI | 2.9 | link | | ACM Transactions on Algorithms | ACM | 3.1 | link | | Information and Computation | Elsevier | 3.0 | link |

👥 Human‑Computer Interaction

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—|

International Journal of Human‑Computer Studies Elsevier 3.1 link
Human‑Computer Interaction Taylor & Francis 2.8 link
ACM Transactions on Computer‑Human Interaction ACM 3.4 link
Interacting with Computers Oxford University Press 2.5 link
User Modeling and User‑Adapted Interaction Springer 2.9 link

📊 Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—| | Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery | Springer | 4.2 | link | | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | IEEE | 5.4 | link | | Knowledge‑Based Systems | Elsevier | 4.6 | link | | Expert Systems with Applications | Elsevier | 5.1 | link | | Pattern Recognition (Data Mining) | Elsevier | 6.2 | link | | Information Sciences | Elsevier | 4.8 | link | | Data & Knowledge Engineering | Elsevier | 3.5 | link |

🤖 Robotics & Automation

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—| | IEEE Transactions on Robotics | IEEE | 6.1 | link | | International Journal of Robotics Research | SAGE | 4.7 | link | | Robotics and Autonomous Systems | Elsevier | 3.9 | link | | Autonomous Robots | Springer | 4.0 | link | | IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters | IEEE | 5.5 | link |

🗃️ Databases & Information Retrieval

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—| | ACM Transactions on Database Systems | ACM | 4.4 | link | | VLDB Journal | Springer | 4.1 | link | | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | IEEE | 5.4 | link | | Information Retrieval Journal | Springer | 4.0 | link | | Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation | Oxford University Press | 3.2 | link |

☁️ Cloud Computing & Distributed Systems

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—| | IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing | IEEE | 5.1 | link | | Future Generation Computer Systems | Elsevier | 5.0 | link | | Cluster Computing | Springer | 3.7 | link | | Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing | Elsevier | 3.6 | link | | IEEE Transactions on Services Computing | IEEE | 4.2 | link |

🧪 Quantum Computing & Quantum Information

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—| | Quantum Science and Technology | IOP Publishing | 4.5 | link | | npj Quantum Information | Nature Publishing Group | 6.1 | link | | Quantum Information Processing | Springer | 2.9 | link | | IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering | IEEE | 3.4 | link | | Physical Review X (Quantum Computing section) | American Physical Society | 14.2 | link |

🛠️ Software Engineering & Programming Languages

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—| | ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology | ACM | 4.2 | link | | IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | IEEE | 5.1 | link | | Empirical Software Engineering | Springer | 3.9 | link | | Journal of Systems and Software | Elsevier | 3.4 | link |

📡 Embedded Systems & IoT

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—| | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | IEEE | 6.3 | link | | ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems | ACM | 3.5 | link | | Sensors | MDPI | 2.8 | link | | Journal of Real-Time Image Processing | Springer | 2.9 | link |

🧬 Computational Biology & Bioinformatics

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—| | Bioinformatics | Oxford University Press | 5.6 | link | | BMC Bioinformatics | Springer | 3.0 | link | | Journal of Computational Biology | Mary Ann Liebert | 2.9 | link | | PLoS Computational Biology | Public Library of Science | 4.9 | link |

⚡ High‑Performance Computing & Computer Architecture

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—| | IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems | IEEE | 5.5 | link | | ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization | ACM | 2.6 | link | | International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications | SAGE | 2.2 | link | | Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience | Wiley | 2.4 | link |

📊 Data Science & Big Data

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—| | Big Data | Elsevier | 3.0 | link | | Journal of Big Data | Springer | 3.8 | link | | Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery | Springer | 4.2 | link | | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | IEEE | 5.4 | link |

📐 Theory & Algorithms (Additional)

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—| | SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics | SIAM | 1.8 | link | | Journal of Algorithms | Elsevier | 2.1 | link | | Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science | MDPI | 2.2 | link |

📏 Formal Methods & Verification

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—| | Formal Aspects of Computing | Springer | 2.5 | link | | Journal of Formalized Reasoning | IOS Press | 1.8 | link | | ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems | ACM | 3.2 | link |

🎓 Computer Science Education

| Journal | Publisher | 2024 Impact Factor* | URL | |—|—|—|—| | Computer Science Education | Springer | 2.1 | link | | ACM Transactions on Computing Education | ACM | 2.8 | link | | Education and Information Technologies | Springer | 3.0 | link | — *Impact factors are approximate 2024 values from Journal Citation Reports. —