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Best Hardware and Architecture journals

192 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Hardware and Architecture. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 57 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Journal of Manufacturing Systems 27.7 99th Q1 SCIE B No
2 Information Fusion 26.7 99th Q1 SCIE No
3 Journal of Big Data 18.6 98th Q1 SCIE Yes
4 Future Generation Computer Systems 17 98th Q1 SCIE No
5 Journal of Network and Computer Applications 16.6 98th Q1 SCIE No
6 Internet of Things (The Netherlands) 16.3 97th Q1 SCIE No
7 IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 15.2 97th Q1 SCIE No
8 IEEE Network 14.8 96th Q1 SCIE No
9 IEEE Internet of Things Journal 14.7 96th Q1 SCIE No
10 Digital Communications and Networks 14.6 96th Q1 SCIE Yes
11 IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing 13.9 95th Q1 SCIE No
12 Chip 13.4 94th Q1 ESCI Yes
13 High-Confidence Computing 13.2 94th Q1 ESCI Yes
14 Computer Physics Communications 13.1 93th Q1 SCIE No
15 IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 12.9 93th Q1 SCIE No
16 IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking 12.4 92th Q1 SCIE No
17 Computer Standards and Interfaces 12.1 92th Q1 SCIE No
18 IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine 12.1 92th Q1 SCIE No
19 Information Systems 11.8 91th Q1 SCIE No
20 ICT Express 11.4 91th Q1 SCIE Yes
21 Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal 11.2 90th Q1 SCIE Yes
22 International Journal of Human Computer Studies 10.5 90th Q1 SCIE, SSCI B No
23 Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering 10.4 90th Q1 ESCI Yes
24 VLDB Journal 10.4 89th Q1 SCIE No
25 Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 10.3 89th Q1 SCIE No
26 Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 10.2 88th Q1 ESCI No
27 Journal of Systems and Software 10.1 88th Q1 SCIE No
28 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers 10.1 87th Q1 SCIE No
29 World Wide Web 10 87th Q1 SCIE No
30 Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 9.9 87th Q1 SCIE No
31 Ad Hoc Networks 9.9 86th Q1 SCIE No
32 Journal of Network and Systems Management 9.9 86th Q1 SCIE No
33 Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 9.8 85th Q1 No
34 IEEE Internet of Things Magazine 9.7 85th Q1 ESCI No
35 Multimedia Tools and Applications 9.6 85th Q1 No
36 Microprocessors and Microsystems 9.6 84th Q1 SCIE No
37 IEEE Transactions on Computers 9.3 84th Q1 SCIE No
38 ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications 9.2 83th Q1 SCIE No
39 International Journal of Modelling and Simulation 9.1 83th Q1 ESCI No
40 Journal of Systems Architecture 9.1 83th Q1 SCIE No
41 ACM Transactions on Internet of Things 9.1 82th Q1 ESCI No
42 Sustainability (Switzerland) 8.9 82th Q1 SCIE, SSCI Yes
43 Journal of Grid Computing 8.9 81th Q1 SCIE No
44 Pervasive and Mobile Computing 8.8 81th Q1 SCIE No
45 IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing 8.7 81th Q1 SCIE No
46 IEEE Micro 8.2 80th Q1 SCIE No
47 Journal of Intelligent Information Systems 8 79th Q1 SCIE B No
48 Journal of Edge Computing 7.8 79th Q1 Yes
49 New Generation Computing 7.6 78th Q1 SCIE No
50 International Journal of Wireless Information Networks 7.5 78th Q1 ESCI No
51 Mobile Networks and Applications 7.5 78th Q1 SCIE No
52 ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems 7.3 77th Q1 SCIE No
53 Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing 7.3 77th Q1 SCIE No
54 Knowledge and Information Systems 7.1 76th Q1 SCIE C No
55 Electronics (Switzerland) 7 76th Q1 SCIE Yes
56 Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research 7 75th Q1 SCIE No
57 Discover Internet of Things 6.9 75th Q1 Yes
58 Digital Threats: Research and Practice 6.9 74th Q2 ESCI No
59 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems 6.9 74th Q2 ESCI No
60 Journal of Supercomputing 6.9 74th Q2 SCIE No
61 Displays 6.7 73th Q2 SCIE No
62 Multimedia Systems 6.7 73th Q2 SCIE No
63 Journal of the ACM 6.7 72th Q2 SCIE No
64 Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems 6.6 72th Q2 ESCI No
65 IEEE Multimedia 6.6 71th Q2 SCIE No
66 Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques 6.6 71th Q2 ESCI No
67 ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems 6.4 70th Q2 ESCI No
68 Journal of Signal Processing Systems 6.3 70th Q2 SCIE No
69 ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems 6.2 70th Q2 SCIE No
70 IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits 6.1 69th Q2 ESCI Yes
71 International Journal of Computers and Applications 6.1 69th Q2 No
72 IEEE Networking Letters 6.1 68th Q2 ESCI No
73 IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems 6.1 68th Q2 SCIE No
74 IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering 6 67th Q2 SCIE No
75 Parallel Computing 6 67th Q2 SCIE No
76 Distributed and Parallel Databases 5.9 67th Q2 SCIE No
77 ACM Transactions on Storage 5.9 66th Q2 SCIE No
78 IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems 5.8 66th Q2 Yes
79 International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 5.7 65th Q2 SCIE No
80 Theory and Practice of Logic Programming 5.7 65th Q2 SCIE No
81 Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 5.6 65th Q2 SCIE No
82 Frontiers of Information Technology and Electronic Engineering 5.6 64th Q2 No
83 IET Collaborative Intelligent Manufacturing 5.6 64th Q2 ESCI Yes
84 Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications 5.2 63th Q2 SCIE No
85 Integration 5.1 63th Q2 SCIE No
86 IT Professional 5.1 63th Q2 SCIE No
87 International Journal of Electronic Government Research 4.9 62th Q2 ESCI C No
88 Machine Vision and Applications 4.9 62th Q2 SCIE No
89 International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism 4.8 61th Q2 ESCI No
90 Photonic Network Communications 4.7 61th Q2 SCIE No
91 Systems Engineering 4.5 61th Q2 SCIE No
92 EAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of Things 4.5 60th Q2 Yes
93 CCF Transactions on High Performance Computing 4.3 60th Q2 ESCI No
94 Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics 4.2 59th Q2 No
95 IEEE Design and Test 4.2 59th Q2 SCIE No
96 Journal of Computer Security 4.1 58th Q2 ESCI No
97 Microsystem Technologies 4.1 58th Q2 SCIE No
98 Cyber-Physical Systems 4 56th Q2 No
99 Journal of Engineering (United Kingdom) 4 56th Q2 ESCI Yes
100 Service Oriented Computing and Applications 4 56th Q2 ESCI No

Rank and percentile are within the Hardware and Architecture Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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