Top Peer Reviewed Journals – Computer Science Presented to Iowa State University Presented by Thomson Reuters Computer Science The subject discipline for Computer Science is made of 9 narrow subject categories from the Web of Science. The 9 categories that make up Computer Science are: 1. Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence 2. Computer Science, Cybernetics 3. Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture 4. Computer Science, Information Systems 5. Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications 6. Computer Science, Software Engineering 7. Computer Science, Theory & Methods 8. Imaging Science & Photographic Technology 9. Telecommunications The chart below provides an ordered view of the top peer reviewed journals within the 1st quartile for Computer Science based on Impact Factors (IF), three year averages and their quartile ranking. Journal 2009 IF 2010 IF 2011 IF Average IF BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS 7.32 9.28 5.2 7.27 ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS 7.66 8 4.52 6.73 BIOINFORMATICS 4.92 4.87 5.46 5.08 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials 3.69 6.31 5.00 SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences 4.5 4.65 4.58 MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS 3.09 4.36 4.42 3.96 HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION 6.19 4 1.47 3.89 IBM JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND 2.51 5.21 3.86 DEVELOPMENT IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN 3.75 4.23 3.41 3.80 COMMUNICATIONS ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS 3.61 3.63 3.48 3.57 Journal of Informetrics 3.37 3.11 4.22 3.57 Enterprise Information Systems 2.8 3.68 3.24 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & 3.13 3.13 DECISION MAKING Journal of Web Semantics 3.41 2.78 3.10 BMC BIOINFORMATICS 3.42 3.02 2.75 3.06 ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & 3.08 2.87 3.11 3.02 SOFTWARE IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE 2.44 2.83 3.78 3.02 Journal of Statistical Software 2.32 2.64 4.01 2.99 INFORMATION SCIENCES 3.29 2.83 2.83 2.98 IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine 2.62 2.9 3.36 2.96 EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION 3.1 2.65 2.88 JOURNAL OF THE ACM 2.71 3.37 2.35 2.81 JOURNAL OF MACHINE LEARNING 2.78 2.97 2.56 2.77 RESEARCH VLDB JOURNAL 4.51 2.19 1.56 2.75 USER MODELING AND USER-ADAPTED 2.34 3.07 2.71 INTERACTION IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION 2.35 2.72 3 2.69 THEORY IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE 3.75 2.26 1.98 2.66 ENGINEERING COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS 2.21 2.97 2.59 Journal of Computer-Mediated 3.63 1.95 2.17 2.58 Communication JOURNAL OF STRATEGIC INFORMATION 2.21 2.9 2.56 SYSTEMS INTEGRATED COMPUTER-AIDED 2.04 2.12 3.45 2.54 ENGINEERING IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING 3.1 2.51 2 2.54 COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE 2.53 2.53 UNDERSTANDING IEEE MICRO 3.2 2.52 1.78 2.50 JOURNAL OF CRYPTOLOGY 2.29 2.67 2.48 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE 2.64 2.38 2.28 2.43 COMPUTING Mobile Information Systems 2.43 2.43 COMPUTERS & EDUCATION 2.05 2.61 2.62 2.43 JOURNAL OF INFORMATION 2.04 2.9 2.32 2.42 TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT 2.09 2.66 2.38 INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING 2.41 2.09 2.61 2.37 ACM Transactions on the Web 2.81 1.9 2.36 SIAM JOURNAL ON COMPUTING 2.32 2.32 CMC-Computers Materials & Continua 2.31 2.31 International Journal of Innovative Computing 2.93 1.66 2.30 Information and Control Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Grid Computing- 2.22 2.37 2.30 Theory Methods and Applications Evolutionary Bioinformatics 1.88 2.68 2.28 IEEE PERVASIVE COMPUTING 3.07 2.18 1.55 2.27 IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS 2.39 1.79 2.57 2.25 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM 2.34 2.36 1.91 2.20 COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED 1.8 2.08 2.65 2.18 MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION 2.35 1.92 2.21 2.16 AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION 2.21 2 2.22 2.14 SYSTEMS ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER 2.38 1.88 2.13 SYSTEMS ARTIFICIAL LIFE 1.96 2.14 2.28 2.13 JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR GRAPHICS & 2.16 2.03 2.18 2.12 MODELLING IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON 2.05 2.29 2.03 2.12 NETWORKING Ad Hoc Networks 2.11 2.11 International Journal on Semantic Web and 2.34 1.67 2.3 2.10 Information Systems IEEE NETWORK 2.14 1.93 2.23 2.10 IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure 2.09 2.09 Computing IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics 2.33 1.82 2.08 and Security COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR 1.86 2.29 2.08 ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 2.07 2.07 COMPUTERS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 1.8 2.07 2.32 2.06 JOURNAL OF DATABASE MANAGEMENT 2 2.12 2.06 Journal of the Association for Information 2.24 2.21 1.66 2.04 Systems JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS 2.43 1.72 1.79 1.98 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BROADCASTING 2.24 1.7 1.97 Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Grid Computing and 1.97 1.97 eScience Journal of Display Technology 1.92 1.69 2.28 1.96 INFORMATION SYSTEMS 1.96 1.96 International Journal of Web and Grid Services 1.91 1.91 SOFT COMPUTING 1.88 1.88 Journal of Optical Communications and 1.87 1.87 Networking COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH 2.11 1.76 1.72 1.86 ACM TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE 2.02 1.69 1.86 ENGINEERING AND METHODOLOGY Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 1.85 1.85 GPS SOLUTIONS 2.04 1.66 1.85 ACM Transactions on Computer-Human 1.85 1.85 Interaction IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA 1.82 1.79 1.93 1.85 COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN 1.84 1.84 AGRICULTURE STATISTICS AND COMPUTING 1.82 1.85 1.84 COMPUTER 2.2 1.81 1.47 1.83 ACM TRANSACTIONS ON 1.9 1.65 1.92 1.82 MATHEMATICAL SOFTWARE EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 1.79 1.85 1.82 INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE 1.82 1.82 TECHNOLOGY IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS 1.82 1.82 IEEE-ACM Transactions on Computational 2.24 1.66 1.54 1.81 Biology and Bioinformatics COMPUTERS & FLUIDS 1.81 1.81 COMPUTERS & STRUCTURES 1.72 1.87 1.80 COMPUTERS ENVIRONMENT AND URBAN 1.79 1.79 SYSTEMS IBM SYSTEMS JOURNAL 1.79 1.79 IEEE SOFTWARE 2.03 1.5 1.77 IEEE COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND 1.75 1.75 APPLICATIONS COMPUTERS & MATHEMATICS WITH 1.74 1.74 APPLICATIONS MIS Quarterly Executive 1.74 1.74 JASSS-THE JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL 1.73 1.73 SOCIETIES AND SOCIAL SIMULATION GLOBAL NETWORKS-A JOURNAL OF 1.68 1.68 TRANSNATIONAL AFFAIRS IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON 1.67 1.67 COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SATELLITE 1.64 1.64 COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING COMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM 1.63 1.63 JOURNAL OF COMPUTER AND SYSTEM 1.63 1.63 SCIENCES EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION 1.76 1.5 1.63 SYSTEMS International Journal of Medical Robotics and 1.58 1.58 Computer Assisted Surgery COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL 1.58 1.58 ENGINEERING COMPUTERS IN INDUSTRY 1.62 1.52 1.57 JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING 1.55 1.55 COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND 1.55 1.55 CHEMISTRY COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS 1.51 1.51 IN BIOMEDICINE IEEE Transactions on Haptics 1.49 1.49 Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making 1.48 1.48 COMPUTERIZED MEDICAL IMAGING AND 1.46 1.46 GRAPHICS IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 1.46 1.46 Year – 2009 Journal Impact Factor Ranking ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS 7.66 1/300 BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS 7.32 2/300 HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION 6.19 3/300 BIOINFORMATICS 4.92 4/300 VLDB JOURNAL 4.51 5/300 IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN 3.75 6/300 COMMUNICATIONS IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 3.75 6/300 Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 3.63 8/300 ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS 3.61 9/300 BMC BIOINFORMATICS 3.42 10/300 Journal of Web Semantics 3.41 11/300 Journal of Informetrics 3.37 12/300 INFORMATION SCIENCES 3.29 13/300 IEEE MICRO 3.2 14/300 IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING 3.1 15/300 EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION 3.1 15/300 MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS 3.09 17/300 ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE 3.08 18/300 IEEE PERVASIVE COMPUTING 3.07 19/300 International Journal of Innovative Computing Information 2.93 20/300 and Control ACM Transactions on the Web 2.81 21/300 Enterprise Information Systems 2.8 22/300 JOURNAL OF MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH 2.78 23/300 JOURNAL OF THE ACM 2.71 24/300 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING 2.64 25/300 IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine 2.62 26/300 IBM JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 2.51 27/300 IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE 2.44 28/300 JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS 2.43 29/300 APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING 2.41 30/300 IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS 2.39 31/300 ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS 2.38 32/300 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND 2.35 33/300 COMPUTER GRAPHICS IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY 2.35 33/300 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM 2.34 35/300 USER MODELING AND USER-ADAPTED INTERACTION 2.34 35/300 International Journal on Semantic Web and Information 2.34 35/300 Systems IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 2.33 38/300 Journal of Statistical Software 2.32 39/300 CMC-Computers Materials & Continua 2.31 40/300 JOURNAL OF CRYPTOLOGY 2.29 41/300 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BROADCASTING 2.24 42/300 IEEE-ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and 2.24 42/300 Bioinformatics Journal of the Association for Information Systems 2.24 42/300 Future Generation Computer Systems-The International 2.22 45/300 Journal of Grid Computing-Theory Methods and Applications JOURNAL OF STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2.21 46/300 COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS 2.21 46/300 KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2.21 46/300 COMPUTER 2.2 49/300 JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR GRAPHICS & MODELLING 2.16 50/300 IEEE NETWORK 2.14 51/300 COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH 2.11 52/300 JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2.09 53/300 IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 2.09 53/300 ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 2.07 55/300 COMPUTERS & EDUCATION 2.05 56/300 IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING 2.05 56/300 INTEGRATED COMPUTER-AIDED ENGINEERING 2.04 58/300 JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 2.04 58/300 GPS SOLUTIONS 2.04 58/300 IEEE SOFTWARE 2.03 61/300 ACM TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 2.02 62/300 AND METHODOLOGY JOURNAL