Open Computer Science

Open Computer Science is published by De Gruyter 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 Network Security and Intrusion Detection, Software Engineering Research and IoT and Edge/Fog Computing, together about 18.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Artificial Intelligence. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

About this journal Open Computer Science is a fully peer-reviewed, open access, electronic journal devoted to computer science. The journal provides readers with free, instant, and permanent access to all content worldwide. Aims and Scope The topics include (but are not limited to): Algorithms and Complexity Theory Operations Research Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Trustworthy and Responsible AI Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Computer Networks and Security Data Mining and Information Systems Human Computer Interaction Programming Languages Computing Systems and Software Engineering Evolutionary Computation and Fuzzy Systems Theoretical Computer Science Open Computer Science accepts submissions of research articles, reviews, and communications. Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described is not copyrighted, published, or submitted elsewhere, except in abstract form. The corresponding author should ensure that all authors approve the manuscript before submission. Your Benefits As an author of Open Computer Science, You benefit from fair and constructive peer review quick online publication of accepted papers (continuous publication model) language polishing services upon acceptance for authors from non-English speaking regions no limitations on colour figures and word count in published articles all articles are freely available to the academic community worldwide without any restrictions promotion of published papers to readers and citers distribution to open access directories (such as DOAJ) and thousands of libraries worldwide liberal policies on copyrights (authors retain copyright) and on self-archiving (no embargo periods) (License to Publish (CC-BY)) secure archiving by De Gruyter and the independent archiving service Portico Article Processing Charges In order to sustain the publishing process, each article accepted for publication in Open Computer Science is subject to an Article Processing Charge of €1050. This fee is used to cover the costs of the peer-review process, professional typesetting and copyediting, as well as online hosting, long-term preservation, and extensive promotion to potential readers. There is no submission fee. Information regarding payment of the charge will be provided following acceptance for publication. For more information please go to Article Processing Charges . Publication Ethics and Editorial Policies Detailed information on Editorial P

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS

Editor-in-chief Christos AnagnostopoulosPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

EBSCO, ProQuest, OCLCPublisher website

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher)

1.2Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

1.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

4.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

4.1Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.31LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.64LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

29OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

106OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.05OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

8.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

30LetPub · 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)

about 25 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 25 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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.

• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ

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

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

De Gruyter

Country or region

Poland

Language

English

ISSN

2299-1093

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
• Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗DOAJ
• Editorial board ↗DOAJ
• Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ