Scopus subject area

Best Theoretical Computer Science journals

125 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Theoretical Computer Science. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 34 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 ACM Computing Surveys 65.2 99th Q1 SCIE No
2 Computer Science Review 27.7 98th Q1 SCIE No
3 Information Systems Frontiers 26.4 98th Q1 SCIE A No
4 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 22.1 97th Q1 SCIE No
5 IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine 17.6 96th Q1 SCIE No
6 ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 17.6 95th Q1 SCIE No
7 Information Sciences 14.6 95th Q1 SCIE No
8 SIAM Review 14.1 94th Q1 SCIE No
9 ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing 12.9 93th Q1 ESCI No
10 International Journal of Intelligent Systems 12.6 92th Q1 SCIE No
11 Frontiers of Computer Science 12.5 92th Q1 SCIE No
12 Computer Speech and Language 10.9 91th Q1 SCIE No
13 Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 10.3 90th Q1 SCIE No
14 Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 10.2 90th Q1 SCIE No
15 Mathematical Programming Computation 10.1 89th Q1 SCIE No
16 Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering 9.8 88th Q1 SCIE No
17 Expert Systems 9.6 87th Q1 SCIE No
18 IEEE Transactions on Computers 9.3 87th Q1 SCIE No
19 Soft Computing 8.7 86th Q1 SCIE No
20 International Journal of Fuzzy Systems 8.3 85th Q1 SCIE No
21 International Journal of Systems Science 8.1 84th Q1 SCIE No
22 Journal of Computational Science 8 84th Q1 SCIE No
23 Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing 7.7 83th Q1 No
24 New Generation Computing 7.6 82th Q1 SCIE No
25 Computing 7.5 81th Q1 SCIE No
26 Quantum Machine Intelligence 7.4 81th Q1 ESCI No
27 Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 7.2 80th Q1 SCIE No
28 Journal of Supercomputing 6.9 79th Q1 SCIE No
29 International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 6.3 78th Q1 SCIE No
30 Journal of Signal Processing Systems 6.3 78th Q1 SCIE No
31 Parallel Computing 6 77th Q1 SCIE No
32 IET Quantum Communication 6 76th Q1 ESCI Yes
33 International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications 5.9 75th Q1 ESCI No
34 Theory and Practice of Logic Programming 5.7 75th Q1 SCIE No
35 International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 5.7 74th Q2 SCIE No
36 Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 5.7 73th Q2 SCIE No
37 Algorithms 5.4 72th Q2 ESCI Yes
38 Journal of Scientific Computing 5.4 72th Q2 SCIE No
39 Computation 5.2 71th Q2 ESCI Yes
40 International Journal of General Systems 5.1 70th Q2 SCIE A No
41 IETE Journal of Research 5.1 70th Q2 SCIE No
42 4OR 4.6 68th Q2 SCIE B No
43 ACM Transactions on Applied Perception 4.4 67th Q2 SCIE No
44 SIAM Journal on Optimization 4.4 67th Q2 SCIE No
45 Quantum Information Processing 4.4 66th Q2 SCIE No
46 Mendel 4.2 65th Q2 Yes
47 International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications 4.1 64th Q2 ESCI No
48 Systems and Soft Computing 4.1 64th Q2 ESCI Yes
49 International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation 3.8 63th Q2 SCIE No
50 RAIRO - Operations Research 3.8 62th Q2 SCIE No
51 Foundations and Trends in Theoretical Computer Science 3.5 61th Q2 ESCI No
52 Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines 3.5 61th Q2 SCIE No
53 Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences 3.5 60th Q2 ESCI Yes
54 Inverse Problems 3.4 59th Q2 SCIE No
55 Discrete Optimization 3.3 58th Q2 SCIE No
56 Distributed Computing 3.3 58th Q2 SCIE No
57 International Journal of Parallel Programming 3.3 57th Q2 SCIE No
58 Journal of Computer Science and Technology 3.2 56th Q2 SCIE No
59 Fuzzy Information and Engineering 3.1 55th Q2 ESCI Yes
60 Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B 3.1 55th Q2 SCIE No
61 Journal of Computer and System Sciences 3.1 54th Q2 SCIE No
62 Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3.1 53th Q2 Yes
63 Kybernetika 3 52th Q2 SCIE No
64 International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control 2.9 52th Q2 ESCI No
65 Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming 2.9 51th Q2 SCIE No
66 Formal Aspects of Computing 2.8 50th Q2 SCIE No
67 Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A 2.8 50th Q2 SCIE No
68 ACM Transactions on Computational Logic 2.6 47th Q3 SCIE No
69 Journal of Universal Computer Science 2.6 47th Q3 SCIE Yes
70 Mathematical Statistics and Learning 2.5 46th Q3 Yes
71 Statistics and Computing 2.5 45th Q3 SCIE A No
72 Journal of Soft Computing and Data Mining 2.5 44th Q3 No
73 Theoretical Computer Science 2.5 44th Q3 SCIE No
74 International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems 2.5 43th Q3 SCIE No
75 Information and Computation 2.5 42th Q3 SCIE B No
76 Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze 2.4 41th Q3 SCIE No
77 Designs, Codes, and Cryptography 2.4 41th Q3 SCIE No
78 Finite Fields and their Applications 2.3 40th Q3 SCIE No
79 Intelligent Data Analysis 2.3 39th Q3 SCIE No
80 Mathematical Foundations of Computing 2.2 38th Q3 ESCI Yes
81 Quantum Information and Computation 2.2 38th Q3 SCIE No
82 Combinatorics Probability and Computing 2.1 37th Q3 SCIE No
83 Formal Methods in System Design 2.1 35th Q3 SCIE No
84 Research in Mathematical Sciences 2 34th Q3 SCIE No
85 Information Processing Letters 2 33th Q3 SCIE No
86 Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming 2 32th Q3 No
87 Logical Methods in Computer Science 2 31th Q3 SCIE Yes
88 Discrete Mathematics 1.9 30th Q3 SCIE No
89 Forum of Mathematics, Sigma 1.9 30th Q3 SCIE Yes
90 Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology 1.8 29th Q3 No
91 Discrete and Computational Geometry 1.8 28th Q3 SCIE No
92 Journal of Logic and Computation 1.8 27th Q3 SCIE No
93 Natural Computing Series 1.8 27th Q3 No
94 Positivity 1.7 25th Q3 SCIE No
95 Computational Complexity 1.7 24th Q4 SCIE No
96 IEEE Open Journal on Immersive Displays 1.7 24th Q4 No
97 ACM Transactions on Computation Theory 1.6 23th Q4 ESCI No
98 Fundamenta Informaticae 1.6 22th Q4 SCIE No
99 Sakarya University Journal of Computer and Information Sciences 1.5 21th Q4 Yes
100 Theory of Computing 1.5 21th Q4 SCIE Yes

Rank and percentile are within the Theoretical Computer Science 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.

Nearby subject areas