CCF recommended journals · 7th edition (2026)
CCF journals and their CAS zones
The 7th edition (2026) of the CCF list recommends 291 journals: 37 A, 111 B and 143 C. The CCF rank and the CAS zone (the journal ranking of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2025 upgraded edition) do not line up: of the A journals, 13 are in zone 1, 13 in zone 2, 8 in zone 3 and 3 in zone 4, while 10 C journals are in zone 1. The tables give each journal's zone and impact factor.
- Journals
- 291
- CAS zone 1
- 38
- Top journals
- 52
- Updated
- 8 November 2026
CCF rank × CAS zone
How the two rankings line up
Zones: CAS 2025 upgraded edition, major category; a renamed journal shows its former title's zone, and a journal with no 2025 zone its 2026 Xinrui zone, both marked. Impact factors: the latest LetPub lists, or the journal's own figure where marked. 4 journals listed in two fields count once.
| CCF rank | Zone 1 | Zone 2 | Zone 3 | Zone 4 | Not zoned | Journals | Top journals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCF A | 13 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 37 | 17 |
| CCF B | 15 | 27 | 39 | 30 | 0 | 111 | 19 |
| CCF C | 10 | 21 | 34 | 64 | 14 | 143 | 16 |
By field
All 291 journals by field
Computer Architecture, Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Storage Systems A 6 · B 10 · C 12
| CCF | Journal | CAS zone (2025) | Impact factor | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCF A | TOCSACM Transactions on Computer Systems | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.92 | ACM |
| CCF A | TOSACM Transactions on Storage | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.51 | ACM |
| CCF A | TCADIEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.2 | IEEE |
| CCF A | TCIEEE Transactions on Computers | Zone 2Computer Science | 4.58 | IEEE |
| CCF A | TPDSIEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems | Zone 2 TopComputer Science | 5.66 | IEEE |
| CCF A | TACOACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization | Zone 3Computer Science | 2.69 | ACM |
| CCF B | TAASACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems | Zone 4Computer Science | 4.91 | ACM |
| CCF B | TODAESACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems | Zone 4Computer Science | 2.56 | ACM |
| CCF B | TECSACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.5 | ACM |
| CCF B | TRETSACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems | Zone 3Computer Science | 2.81 | ACM |
| CCF B | TVLSIIEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems | Zone 2Engineering | 3.09 | IEEE |
| CCF B | JPDCJournal of Parallel and Distributed Computing | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.35 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | JSAJournal of Systems Architecture: Embedded Software Design | Zone 3Computer Science | 5.21 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | Parallel Computing | Zone 3Computer Science | 0.98 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | Performance Evaluation: An International Journal | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.45 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | TCCIEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing | Zone 2Computer Science | 5.08 | IEEE |
| CCF C | JETCACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems | Zone 4Computer Science | 2.22 | ACM |
| CCF C | Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience | Zone 4Computer Science | 2.09 | Wiley |
| CCF C | DCDistributed Computing | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.24 | Springer |
| CCF C | FGCSFuture Generation Computer Systems | Zone 2Computer Science | 5.79 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | IntegrationIntegration, the VLSI Journal | Zone 3Engineering | 2.56 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | JETTAJournal of Electronic Testing-Theory and Applications | Zone 4Engineering | 1.23 | Springer |
| CCF C | JGCJournal of Grid computing | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.82 | Springer |
| CCF C | RTSReal-Time Systems | Zone 4Computer Science | 2.03 | Springer |
| CCF C | TJSCThe Journal of Supercomputing | Zone 4Computer Science | 3.49 | Springer |
| CCF C | TCASIIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers | Zone 2 TopEngineering | 5.61 | IEEE |
| CCF C | CCF-THPCCCF Transactions on High Performance Computing | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.4journal website, 2025 | CCF |
| CCF C | TSUSCIEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing | Zone 3Computer Science | 4.62 | IEEE |
Computer Networks A 3 · B 6 · C 12
| CCF | Journal | CAS zone (2025) | Impact factor | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCF A | JSACIEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 16.72 | IEEE |
| CCF A | TMCIEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 8.55 | IEEE |
| CCF A | TONIEEE Transactions on Networking (formerly IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking) | Zone 3Computer Science · under its former title | 5.29former title | IEEE |
| CCF B | TOITACM Transactions on Internet Technology | Zone 3Computer Science | 4.35 | ACM |
| CCF B | TOMMACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications | Zone 3Computer Science | 5.21 | ACM |
| CCF B | TOSNACM Transactions on Sensor Networks | Zone 4Computer Science | 3.8 | ACM |
| CCF B | CNComputer Networks | Zone 3Computer Science | 4.67 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | TCOMIEEE Transactions on Communications | Zone 2 TopComputer Science | 8.25 | IEEE |
| CCF B | TWCIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 10.14 | IEEE |
| CCF C | Ad Hoc Networks | Zone 3Computer Science | 5.34 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | CCComputer Communications | Zone 3Computer Science | 4.04 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | TNSMIEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management | Zone 2Computer Science | 5.36 | IEEE |
| CCF C | IET Communications | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.59 | IET |
| CCF C | JNCAJournal of Network and Computer Applications | Zone 2Computer Science | 7.37 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | MONETMobile Networks and Applications | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.66 | Springer |
| CCF C | Networks | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.81 | Wiley |
| CCF C | PPNAPeer-to-Peer Networking and Applications | Zone 4Computer Science | 3.17 | Springer |
| CCF C | WCMCWireless Communications and Mobile Computing | Not zoned | 0.91 | Wiley |
| CCF C | Wireless Networks | Zone 4Computer Science | 2.47 | Springer |
| CCF C | IOTIEEE Internet of Things Journal | Zone 2 TopComputer Science | 8.33 | IEEE |
| CCF C | TIOTACM Transactions on Internet of Things | Zone 3Computer Science | — | ACM |
Network and Information Security A 3 · B 5 · C 9
| CCF | Journal | CAS zone (2025) | Impact factor | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCF A | TDSCIEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing | Zone 2 TopComputer Science | 6.29 | IEEE |
| CCF A | TIFSIEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 8.29 | IEEE |
| CCF A | Journal of Cryptology | Zone 3Computer Science | 2.12 | Springer |
| CCF B | TOPSACM Transactions on Privacy and Security | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.88 | ACM |
| CCF B | Computers & Security | Zone 2Computer Science | 6.7 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | Designs, Codes and Cryptography | Zone 3Mathematics | 1.21 | Springer |
| CCF B | JCSJournal of Computer Security | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.3journal website | IOS Press |
| CCF B | Cybersecurity | Zone 3Computer Science | 4.1journal website, 2025 | Springer (formerly 中国科学院信息工程研究所/科学出版社) |
| CCF C | CLSRComputer Law & Security Review | Zone 3Sociology | 4.66 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | EURASIP Journal on Information Security | Zone 4Computer Science | — | Springer |
| CCF C | IET Information Security | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.98 | IET |
| CCF C | IMCSInformation and Computer Security | Zone 4Computer Science | — | Emerald |
| CCF C | IJICSInternational Journal of Information and Computer Security | Zone 42026 Xinrui edition only | 0.6journal website, 2025 | Inderscience |
| CCF C | IJISPInternational Journal of Information Security and Privacy | Zone 4Computer Science | — | IGI Global |
| CCF C | JISAJournal of Information Security and Applications | Zone 3Computer Science | 4.29 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | SCNSecurity and Communication Networks | Not zoned | 1.09 | Wiley |
| CCF C | HCCHigh-Confidence Computing | Zone 3Computer Science | 9journal website | Elsevier |
Software Engineering, System Software and Programming Languages A 4 · B 12 · C 9
| CCF | Journal | CAS zone (2025) | Impact factor | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCF A | TOPLASACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems | Zone 2Computer Science | 2.81 | ACM |
| CCF A | TOSEMACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 6.38 | ACM |
| CCF A | TSEIEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 5.89 | IEEE |
| CCF A | TSCIEEE Transactions on Services Computing | Zone 2 TopComputer Science | 6.12 | IEEE |
| CCF B | ASEAutomated Software Engineering | Zone 4Computer Science | 3.92 | Springer |
| CCF B | ESEEmpirical Software Engineering | Zone 2Computer Science | 3.39 | Springer |
| CCF B | IETSIET Software | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.46 | IET |
| CCF B | ISTInformation and Software Technology | Zone 2Computer Science | 4.65 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | JFPJournal of Functional Programming | Zone 3Computer Science | 0.91 | Cambridge University Press |
| CCF B | Journal of Software: Evolution and Process | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.4 | Wiley |
| CCF B | JSSJournal of Systems and Software | Zone 2Computer Science | 3.81 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | RERequirements Engineering | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.56 | Springer |
| CCF B | SCPScience of Computer Programming | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.62 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | SoSyMSoftware and Systems Modeling | Zone 3Computer Science | 2.99 | Springer |
| CCF B | STVRSoftware Testing, Verification and Reliability | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.69 | Wiley |
| CCF B | SPESoftware: Practice and Experience | Zone 4Computer Science | 2.75 | Wiley |
| CCF C | CLComputer Languages, Systems and Structures | Not zoned | — | Elsevier |
| CCF C | IJSEKEInternational Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering | Zone 4Computer Science | 0.98 | World Scientific |
| CCF C | STTTInternational Journal of Software Tools for Technology Transfer | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.66 | Springer |
| CCF C | JLAMPJournal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming | Zone 4Mathematics | 0.98 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | JWEJournal of Web Engineering | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.58 | Rinton Press |
| CCF C | SOCAService Oriented Computing and Applications | Zone 4Computer Science | 2journal website, 2025 | Springer |
| CCF C | SQJSoftware Quality Journal | Zone 4Computer Science | 2.36 | Springer |
| CCF C | TPLPTheory and Practice of Logic Programming | Zone 2Mathematics | 1.3 | Cambridge University Press |
| CCF C | PACMPLProceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | — | ACM |
Databases, Data Mining and Information Retrieval A 4 · B 14 · C 16
| CCF | Journal | CAS zone (2025) | Impact factor | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCF A | TODSACM Transactions on Database Systems | Zone 2Computer Science | 1.48 | ACM |
| CCF A | TOISACM Transactions on Information Systems | Zone 2Computer Science | 10.08 | ACM |
| CCF A | TKDEIEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 11.32 | IEEE |
| CCF A | VLDBJThe VLDB Journal | Zone 2Computer Science | 5.03 | Springer |
| CCF B | TKDDACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data | Zone 3Computer Science | 6.67 | ACM |
| CCF B | TWEBACM Transactions on the Web | Zone 4Computer Science | 4.47 | ACM |
| CCF B | AEIAdvanced Engineering Informatics | Zone 1 TopEngineering | 11.62 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | DKEData & Knowledge Engineering | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.81 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | DMKDData Mining and Knowledge Discovery | Zone 3Computer Science | 5.47 | Springer |
| CCF B | EJISEuropean Journal of Information Systems | Zone 2Management | 8.01 | Springer |
| CCF B | GeoInformatica | Zone 3Computer Science | 2.43 | Springer |
| CCF B | IPMInformation Processing and Management | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 8.07 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | Information Sciences | Zone 2Computer Science | 5.91 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | ISInformation Systems | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.89 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | JASISTJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology | Zone 3Management | 5.01 | Wiley |
| CCF B | JWSJournal of Web Semantics | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.08 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | KAISKnowledge and Information Systems | Zone 4Computer Science | 3.55 | Springer |
| CCF B | DSEData Science and Engineering | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 4.1journal website, 2025 | CCF/ Springer Nature |
| CCF C | DPDDistributed and Parallel Databases | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.04 | Springer |
| CCF C | I&MInformation & Management | Zone 2 TopManagement | 6.86 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | IPLInformation Processing Letters | Zone 4Computer Science | 0.62 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | Discover Computing (formerly Information Retrieval Journal) | Zone 4Computer Science · under its former title | 1.9journal website, 2025 | Springer |
| CCF C | IJCISInternational Journal of Cooperative Information Systems | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.06 | World Scientific |
| CCF C | IJGISInternational Journal of Geographical Information Science | Zone 1 TopEarth Sciences | 5.75 | Taylor & Francis |
| CCF C | IJISInternational Journal of Intelligent Systems | Zone 3Computer Science | 4.55 | Wiley |
| CCF C | IJKMInternational Journal of Knowledge Management | Zone 4Management | — | IGI |
| CCF C | IJSWISInternational Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems | Zone 2Computer Science | 2.29 | IGI |
| CCF C | JCISJournal of Computer Information Systems | Zone 4Management | 6.5 | IACIS |
| CCF C | JDMJournal of Database Management | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.07 | IGI-Global |
| CCF C | JGITMJournal of Global Information Technology Management | Zone 4Management | 2.42 | Ivy League Publishing |
| CCF C | JIISJournal of Intelligent Information Systems | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.19 | Springer |
| CCF C | JSISThe Journal of Strategic Information Systems | Zone 1 TopManagement | 8.96 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | TISTACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology | Zone 3Computer Science | 10.38 | ACM |
| CCF C | TORSACM Transactions on Recommender Systems | No profile here yet | — | ACM |
Theoretical Computer Science A 3 · B 13 · C 12
| CCF | Journal | CAS zone (2025) | Impact factor | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCF A | TITIEEE Transactions on Information Theory | Zone 3Computer Science | 2.51 | IEEE |
| CCF A | IANDCInformation and Computation | Zone 4Computer Science | 0.99 | Elsevier |
| CCF A | SICOMPSIAM Journal on Computing | Zone 3Computer Science | 1.84 | SIAM |
| CCF B | TALGACM Transactions on Algorithms | Zone 3Computer Science | 1.41 | ACM |
| CCF B | TOCLACM Transactions on Computational Logic | Zone 4Mathematics | 1.1 | ACM |
| CCF B | TOMSACM Transactions on Mathematical Software | Zone 2Mathematics | 1.91 | ACM |
| CCF B | Algorithmica | Zone 4Computer Science | 0.98 | Springer |
| CCF B | CCComputational Complexity | Zone 4Computer Science | 0.58 | Springer |
| CCF B | FACFormal Aspects of Computing | Zone 3Computer Science | 0.87 | Springer |
| CCF B | FMSDFormal Methods in System Design | Zone 4Computer Science | 0.96 | Springer |
| CCF B | INFORMSINFORMS Journal on Computing | Zone 3Computer Science | 2.4 | INFORMS |
| CCF B | JCSSJournal of Computer and System Sciences | Zone 3Computer Science | 1.32 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | JGOJournal of Global Optimization | Zone 4Mathematics | 1.75 | Springer |
| CCF B | JSCJournal of Symbolic Computation | Zone 4Mathematics | 0.81 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | MSCSMathematical Structures in Computer Science | Zone 4Computer Science | 0.85 | Cambridge University Press |
| CCF B | TCSTheoretical Computer Science | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.06 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | ACTAActa Informatica | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.11 | Springer |
| CCF C | APALAnnals of Pure and Applied Logic | Zone 2Mathematics | 0.76 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | DAMDiscrete Applied Mathematics | Zone 3Mathematics | 1.14 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | FUINFundamenta Informaticae | Zone 4Computer Science | 0.56 | IOS Press |
| CCF C | IPLInformation Processing Letters | Zone 4Computer Science | 0.62 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | JCOMPLEXITYJournal of Complexity | Zone 2Mathematics | 1.68 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | LOGCOMJournal of Logic and Computation | Zone 3Mathematics | 0.73 | Oxford University Press |
| CCF C | JSLThe Journal of Symbolic Logic | Zone 3Mathematics | 0.54 | Association for Symbolic Logic |
| CCF C | LMCSLogical Methods in Computer Science | Zone 4Mathematics | 0.73 | LMCS |
| CCF C | SIDMASIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics | Zone 2Mathematics | 1.03 | SIAM |
| CCF C | Theory of Computing Systems | Zone 4Computer Science | 0.58 | Springer |
| CCF C | TQCACM Transactions in Quantum Computing | Zone 3Physics & Astronomy | — | ACM |
Computer Graphics and Multimedia A 4 · B 9 · C 15
| CCF | Journal | CAS zone (2025) | Impact factor | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCF A | TOGACM Transactions on Graphics | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 12.53 | ACM |
| CCF A | TIPIEEE Transactions on Image Processing | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 13.05 | IEEE |
| CCF A | TVCGIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics | Zone 2 TopComputer Science | 5.75 | IEEE |
| CCF A | TMMIEEE Transactions on Multimedia | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 9.57 | IEEE |
| CCF B | TOMMACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications | Zone 3Computer Science | 5.21 | ACM |
| CCF B | CAGDComputer Aided Geometric Design | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.7 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | CGFComputer Graphics Forum | Zone 4Computer Science | 2.53 | Wiley |
| CCF B | CADComputer-Aided Design | Zone 3Computer Science | 2.9 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | TCSVTIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 10.27 | IEEE |
| CCF B | JASAThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | Zone 3Physics & Astronomy | 2.41 | AIP |
| CCF B | SIIMSSIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences | Zone 3Mathematics | 2.47 | SIAM |
| CCF B | SPECOMSpeech Communication | Zone 3Computer Science | 2.85 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | CVMJComputational Visual Media | Zone 2Computer Science | 8.44 | 清华大学出版社/IEEE (formerly Tsinghua University/Springer) |
| CCF C | CGTAComputational Geometry: Theory and Applications | Zone 4Computer Science | 0.73 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | CAVWComputer animation & virtual worlds | Zone 4Computer Science | 3.31 | Wiley |
| CCF C | C&GComputers & Graphics | Zone 3Computer Science | 2.7journal website | Elsevier |
| CCF C | DCGDiscrete & Computational Geometry | Zone 4Mathematics | 0.66 | Springer |
| CCF C | SPLIEEE Signal Processing Letters | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.56 | IEEE |
| CCF C | IET-IPRIET Image Processing | Zone 4Computer Science | 2.39 | IET |
| CCF C | JVCIRJournal of Visual Communication and Image Representation | Zone 4Computer Science | 2.71 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | MSMultimedia Systems | Zone 4Computer Science | 2.81 | Springer |
| CCF C | MTAMultimedia Tools and Applications | Not zoned | 3.46 | Springer |
| CCF C | SIGPROSignal Processing | Zone 2Engineering | 3.61 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | IMAGESignal Processing: Image Communication | Zone 3Computer Science | 2.07 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | TVCThe Visual Computer | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.19 | Springer |
| CCF C | VIVisual Informatics | Zone 2Computer Science | 4.4journal website | 浙江大学出版社 |
| CCF C | VRIHVirtual Reality & Intelligent Hardware | Zone 32026 Xinrui edition only | 6.1journal website | 中国科技出版社/北京航空航天大学 |
| CCF C | GMODGraphical Models | Zone 3Computer Science | 1.76 | Elsevier |
Artificial Intelligence A 4 · B 21 · C 39
| CCF | Journal | CAS zone (2025) | Impact factor | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCF A | AIArtificial Intelligence | Zone 2Computer Science | 4.39 | Elsevier |
| CCF A | TPAMIIEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 19.57 | IEEE |
| CCF A | IJCVInternational Journal of Computer Vision | Zone 2Computer Science | 9.76 | Springer |
| CCF A | JMLRJournal of Machine Learning Research | Zone 4Computer Science | 6 | MIT Press |
| CCF B | TAPACM Transactions on Applied Perception | Zone 3Computer Science | 2.66 | ACM |
| CCF B | AAMASAutonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems | Zone 3Computer Science | 2.41 | Springer |
| CCF B | Computational Linguistics | Zone 2Computer Science | 12.24 | MIT Press |
| CCF B | CVIUComputer Vision and Image Understanding | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.58 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | DKEData & Knowledge Engineering | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.81 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | Evolutionary Computation | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.21 | MIT Press |
| CCF B | TACIEEE Transactions on Affective Computing | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 10.8 | IEEE |
| CCF B | TASLPIEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (formerly IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing) | Zone 2Computer Science · under its former title | 5.05former title | IEEE |
| CCF B | IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 11.12 | IEEE |
| CCF B | TECIEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 14.27 | IEEE |
| CCF B | TFSIEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 9.98 | IEEE |
| CCF B | TNNLSIEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and learning systems | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 9.15 | IEEE |
| CCF B | IJARInternational Journal of Approximate Reasoning | Zone 3Computer Science | 2.79 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | JAIRJournal of Artificial Intelligence Research | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.46 | AAAI |
| CCF B | Journal of Automated Reasoning | Zone 3Computer Science | 0.68 | Springer |
| CCF B | JSLHRJournal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research | Zone 2Medicine | 2.52 | American Speech- Language Hearing Association |
| CCF B | Machine Learning | Zone 4Computer Science | 4.7 | Springer |
| CCF B | Neural Computation | Zone 4Computer Science | 2.04 | MIT Press |
| CCF B | Neural Networks | Zone 2 TopComputer Science | 7.22 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | PRPattern Recognition | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 8.98 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | TACLTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics | Zone 2Computer Science | 11.86 | The Association for Computational Linguistics |
| CCF C | TALLIPACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing | Zone 4Computer Science | 2.25 | ACM |
| CCF C | Applied Intelligence | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.41 | Springer |
| CCF C | AIMArtificial Intelligence in Medicine | Zone 2 TopMedicine | 7.57 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | Artificial Life | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.76 | MIT Press |
| CCF C | Computational Intelligence | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.72 | Wiley |
| CCF C | Computer Speech & Language | Zone 3Computer Science | 2.94 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | Connection Science | Zone 3Computer Science | 2.98 | Taylor & Francis |
| CCF C | DSSDecision Support Systems | Zone 2 TopManagement | 7.18 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | EAAIEngineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 9 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | Expert Systems | Zone 4Computer Science | 3.31 | Blackwell/ Wiley |
| CCF C | ESWAExpert Systems with Applications | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 9.38 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | Zone 1 TopMathematics | 3 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | TGIEEE Transactions on Games | Zone 3Computer Science | 2.55 | IEEE |
| CCF C | IET-CVIIET Computer Vision | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.43 | IET |
| CCF C | IET Signal Processing | Zone 4Engineering | 1.36 | IET |
| CCF C | IVCImage and Vision Computing | Zone 3Computer Science | 4.89 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | IDAIntelligent Data Analysis | Zone 4Computer Science | 0.96 | IOS Press |
| CCF C | IJCIAInternational Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications | Zone 4Computer Science | — | World Scientific |
| CCF C | IJISInternational Journal of Intelligent Systems | Zone 3Computer Science | 4.55 | Wiley |
| CCF C | IJNSInternational Journal of Neural Systems | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 6.07 | World Scientific |
| CCF C | IJPRAIInternational Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence | Zone 4Computer Science | 0.81 | World Scientific |
| CCF C | IJUFKSInternational Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.02 | World Scientific |
| CCF C | IJDARInternational Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition | Zone 3Computer Science | 1.57 | Springer |
| CCF C | JETAIJournal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.96 | Taylor & Francis |
| CCF C | KBSKnowledge-Based Systems | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 8 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | Machine Translation | Zone 4Computer Science | — | Springer |
| CCF C | Machine Vision and Applications | Zone 4Computer Science | 2.03 | Springer |
| CCF C | Natural Computing | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.75 | Springer |
| CCF C | NLENatural Language Engineering | Zone 4Computer Science | 2.44 | Cambridge University Press |
| CCF C | NCANeural Computing and Applications | Not zoned | 4.96 | Springer |
| CCF C | NPLNeural Processing Letters | Zone 4Computer Science | 2.77 | Springer |
| CCF C | Neurocomputing | Zone 2Computer Science | 6.66 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | PAAPattern Analysis and Applications | Zone 4Computer Science | 2.61 | Springer |
| CCF C | PRLPattern Recognition Letters | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.33 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | Soft Computing | Zone 4Computer Science | 2.72 | Springer |
| CCF C | WIWeb Intelligence | Zone 4Computer Science | 0.4journal website | IOS Press |
| CCF C | TIISACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems | Zone 4Computer Science | 6.53 | ACM |
| CCF C | TELOACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization | No profile here yet | — | ACM |
| CCF C | JATSACM Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems | No profile here yet | — | ACM |
Human-Computer Interaction and Pervasive Computing A 2 · B 8 · C 5
| CCF | Journal | CAS zone (2025) | Impact factor | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCF A | TOCHIACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 9.43 | ACM |
| CCF A | IJHCSInternational Journal of Human-Computer Studies | Zone 2Computer Science | 5.64 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | CSCWComputer Supported Cooperative Work | Zone 3Computer Science | 2.17 | Springer |
| CCF B | HCIHuman-Computer Interaction | Zone 2Computer Science | 5.5 | Taylor & Francis |
| CCF B | IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems | Zone 2Computer Science | 4.37 | IEEE |
| CCF B | IWCInteracting with Computers | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.88 | Oxford University Press |
| CCF B | IJHCIInternational Journal of Human-Computer Interaction | Zone 3Computer Science | 6.01 | Taylor & Francis |
| CCF B | UMUAIUser Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction | Zone 2Computer Science | 4.49 | Springer |
| CCF B | TSMCIEEE Transactions on Systems, Man,and Cybernetics: Systems | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 8.44 | IEEE |
| CCF B | CCF TPCICCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.5journal website, 2025 | CCF/ Springer |
| CCF C | BITBehaviour & Information Technology | Zone 4Management | 4.1 | Taylor & Francis |
| CCF C | PUCPersonal and Ubiquitous Computing | Not zoned | 3.36 | Springer |
| CCF C | PMCPervasive and Mobile Computing | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.83 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | PACMHCIProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction | Not zoned | — | ACM |
| CCF C | THRIACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction | Zone 2Computer Science | — | ACM |
Interdisciplinary, Comprehensive and Emerging A 4 · B 15 · C 16
| CCF | Journal | CAS zone (2025) | Impact factor | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCF A | JACMJournal of the ACM | Zone 2Computer Science | 3.04 | ACM |
| CCF A | Proc. IEEEProceedings of the IEEE | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 30.58 | IEEE |
| CCF A | SCISScience China Information Sciences | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 8.12 | Science in China Press/Springer |
| CCF A | Bioinformatics | Zone 3Biology | 5.35 | Oxford University Press |
| CCF B | Briefings in Bioinformatics | Zone 2Biology | 7.08 | Oxford University Press |
| CCF B | Cognition | Zone 2 TopPsychology | 3.01 | Elsevier |
| CCF B | TASAEIEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering | Zone 2Computer Science | 7.65 | IEEE |
| CCF B | TGARSIEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | Zone 1 TopEarth Sciences | 9.1 | IEEE |
| CCF B | TITSIEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems | Zone 2 TopComputer Science | 8.93 | IEEE |
| CCF B | TMIIEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging | Zone 1 TopMedicine | 11.35 | IEEE |
| CCF B | TRIEEE Transactions on Robotics | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 10.83 | IEEE |
| CCF B | TCBBIEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Zone 3Biology | 4.06 | IEEE/ACM |
| CCF B | JCSTJournal of Computer Science and Technology | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.76 | SCIENCE PRESS/Springer |
| CCF B | JAMIAJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association | Zone 2Medicine | 7.11 | BMJ Journals |
| CCF B | PLOS Computational Biology | Zone 2Biology | 3.45 | Public Library of Science |
| CCF B | The Computer Journal | Zone 4Computer Science | 1.61 | Oxford University Press |
| CCF B | WWWWorld Wide Web | Zone 4Computer Science | 4.46 | Springer |
| CCF B | FCSFrontiers of Computer Science | Zone 2Computer Science | 7.39 | Higher Education Press |
| CCF B | BCRABlockchain: Research and Applications | Zone 2Computer Science | 6.5journal website | 浙江大学出版社 /Elsevier |
| CCF C | BMC Bioinformatics | Zone 4Biology | 4.38 | BioMed Central |
| CCF C | Cybernetics and Systems | Zone 4Computer Science | 3.78 | Taylor & Francis |
| CCF C | IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters | Zone 3Earth Sciences | 4.57 | IEEE |
| CCF C | JBHIIEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics | Zone 2 TopMedicine | 7.09 | IEEE |
| CCF C | TBDIEEE Transactions on Big Data | Zone 2Computer Science | 7.8 | IEEE |
| CCF C | IET Intelligent Transport Systems | Zone 3Engineering | 2.66 | IET |
| CCF C | JBIJournal of Biomedical Informatics | Zone 2Medicine | 5.66 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | Medical Image Analysis | Zone 1 TopMedicine | 13.87 | Elsevier |
| CCF C | TIIIEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics | Zone 1 TopComputer Science | 9.64 | IEEE |
| CCF C | TCPSACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems | Zone 4Computer Science | — | ACM |
| CCF C | TOCEACM Transactions on Computing Education | Zone 3Education | 3.83 | ACM |
| CCF C | EITEEENGINEERING Information Technology & Electronic Engineering (formerly Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering) | Zone 3Computer Science | 3.26 | 浙江大学出版社 (formerly Springer) |
| CCF C | TCSSIEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems | Zone 3Computer Science | 4.49 | IEEE |
| CCF C | IEEE Transactions on Reliability | Zone 2Computer Science | 5.45 | IEEE |
| CCF C | HEALTHACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare | Zone 32026 Xinrui edition only | — | ACM |
| CCF C | ACM DLTACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice | Not zoned | — | ACM |
FAQ
About CCF journals and CAS zones
Are all CCF A journals in CAS zone 1?
No. Of the 37 A journals in the 7th edition, 13 are in zone 1, 13 in zone 2, 8 in zone 3 and 3 in zone 4 (CAS 2025 upgraded edition); 17 are Top journals. The two rankings are made independently, and one journal can sit far apart in them.
How do CCF ranks and CAS zones differ?
The CCF list is drawn up by experts of the China Computer Federation: international conferences and journals in computing and related fields, in ranks A, B and C, revised every few years (the 6th edition in 2022, the 7th in 2026). The CAS journal ranking is compiled by the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: journals of every subject indexed in the Web of Science, in zones 1 to 4 within each major category, with Top journals marked, updated every year. Universities and institutes set their own rules on which one counts.
Which CCF A journals are CAS zone 1 Top journals?
13 of them: TPAMI, TKDE, TOG, TIP, TMM, TOCHI, Proc. IEEE, SCIS, JSAC, TMC, TIFS, TOSEM, TSE.
Which CCF journals have no CAS zone?
14: NCA, TELO, JATS, TORS, MTA, VRIH, PUC, PACMHCI, HEALTH, ACM DLT, WCMC, IJICS, SCN, CL. 3 of them have a zone in the 2026 Xinrui edition. 3 have no profile on this site yet.
Sources: the CCF list of recommended international conferences and journals, 7th edition (published 31 March 2026, corrected 9 April 2026); CAS zones and impact factors from this site's journal profiles (LetPub, collected with permission, and the journals' own websites). Each journal's page gives every figure with its source and date.