International Journal of Unconventional Computing

International Journal of Unconventional Computing is published by Old City Publishing and is in Zone 4 of Computer Science in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are DNA and Biological Computing, Cellular Automata and Applications and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence, together about 32.6% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The International Journal of Unconventional Computing offers the opportunity for rapid publication of theoretical and experimental results in non-classical computing. Specific topics include but are not limited to: physics of computation (e.g. conservative logic, thermodynamics of computation, reversible computing, quantum computing, collision-based computing with solitons, optical logic) chemical computing (e.g. implementation of logical functions in chemical systems, image processing and pattern recognition in reaction-diffusion chemical systems and networks of chemical reactors) bio-molecular computing (e.g. conformation based, information processing in molecular arrays, molecular memory) cellular automata as models of massively parallel computing complexity (e.g. computational complexity of non-standard computer architectures; theory of amorphous computing; artificial chemistry) logics of unconventional computing (e.g. logical systems derived from space-time behavior of natural systems; non-classical logics; logical reasoning in physical, chemical and biological systems) smart actuators (e.g. molecular machines incorporating information processing, intelligent arrays of actuators) novel hardware systems (e.g. cellular automata VLSIs, functional neural chips) mechanical computing (e.g. micromechanical encryption, computing in nanomachines, physical limits to mechanical computation).

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): Computer Science, Theory & Methods

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

0.44LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

1LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.13LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.12LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

15LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

18OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

38OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

14LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

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The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

Old City Publishing

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

ISSN

1548-7199

Electronic ISSN

1548-7202

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex