--- title: "Journal of Computational Social Science: citation impact" description: "Journal of Computational Social Science has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.62 and an h-index of 37 in OpenAlex, #22 of 28 tracked information systems journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 96 papers, and its papers received 1,406 citations." url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-computational-social-science markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-computational-social-science.md license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) share_text: "Journal of Computational Social Science has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.62 and an h-index of 37 in OpenAlex, #22 of 28 tracked information systems journals by citedness. (as of 2026-11-03)" data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00 window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03 source: OpenAlex (CC0) --- # Journal of Computational Social Science - 1 paper in the last 7 days - category: Information Systems - publisher: Springer Nature - ISSN 2432-2717 - Journal website: https://link.springer.com/journal/42001 - ISSN portal: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2432-2717 - OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/S4210196583 Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journals.md Rankings of Information Systems: [Information Systems dashboard](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) · [Information Systems journal rankings by citations](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/information-systems.md) · [Top information systems institutions, 2023–2025](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/information-systems.md) · [Top funders of information systems research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders/information-systems.md) · [Companies in information systems research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/information-systems.md) · [Open access in information systems journals](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/information-systems.md) · [Top Information Systems conferences](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/categories/information-systems.md) ## Key findings - Journal of Computational Social Science has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.62 and an h-index of 37 in OpenAlex, #22 of 28 tracked information systems journals by citedness. - In 2025 it published 96 papers, and its papers received 1,406 citations. - Journal of Computational Social Science published 6 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #178 of 480 journals. - Leading institutions: University of Tartu (2), Wakayama University (1) and Kobe University (1). - Countries: Estonia (2), Japan (1) and United Kingdom (1). - From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, Journal of Computational Social Science published 6 papers (0 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex). - Its most frequent keywords over that period were “Baltic states” (1), “Bayesian networks” (1) and “COVID-19 patients” (1). ## Citation metrics *Citation metrics (OpenAlex)* | Metric | Value | |---|---:| | 2-year mean citedness | 5.62 | | h-index | 37 | | i10-index | 128 | | Papers in OpenAlex | 495 | | Citations in OpenAlex | 6,149 | | Rank among tracked information systems journals | [#22 of 28](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/information-systems.md) | *Papers per year and the citations the journal's papers received that year (OpenAlex)* | Year | Papers | Citations received | |---|---:|---:| | 2026 (so far) | 55 | 1,287 | | 2025 | 96 | 1,406 | | 2024 | 114 | 1,002 | | 2023 | 38 | 800 | | 2022 | 41 | 693 | | 2021 | 57 | 561 | | 2020 | 36 | 254 | | 2019 | 30 | 95 | | 2018 | 14 | 38 | | 2017 | 14 | 4 | | 2016 | 0 | 4 | 2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly. Official metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate) and CiteScore (Scopus) are licensed by their owners and not copied here; the publisher shows them on the journal's website. Journal website: https://link.springer.com/journal/42001 ## The last 36 months *Papers by publication date, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026* | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months | |---:|---:|---:|---:| | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | *Most frequent keywords, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026* | # | Keyword | Papers | |---:|---|---:| | 1 | Baltic states | 1 | | 2 | Bayesian networks | 1 | | 3 | COVID-19 patients | 1 | | 4 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 1 | | 5 | European Union | 1 | | 6 | Facebook | 1 | | 7 | Global South | 1 | | 8 | Russia | 1 | | 9 | Russian propaganda | 1 | | 10 | [Twitter](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/twitter.md) | 1 | *Papers, newest first.* | Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations | |---|---|---|---|---| | 2026-10-30 | [FinTime-Fuse: a multimodal LLM for aligning news and financial time-series in enhanced forecasting](https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-026-00494-z) | [Journal of Computational Social Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-computational-social-science.md) | Shangyang Mou, Qiang Xue, Jinhui Chen et al. | Kobe University; Wakayama University; Center for Computational Social Science, Kobe University | | 2026-10-22 | [Synthetic data publishing using Bayesian Network: a case study of COVID-19 patients data in Jakarta, Indonesia](https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-026-00501-3) | [Journal of Computational Social Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-computational-social-science.md) | Bahrul Ilmi Nasution, Yudhistira Nugraha, Muhammad Erza Aminanto et al. | University of Manchester; Telkom University; Monash University, Indonesia | | 2026-10-14 | [Computational propaganda campaigns by domestic political actors in Pakistan on Facebook](https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-026-00502-2) | [Journal of Computational Social Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-computational-social-science.md) | Hassan Mustafa, Markus Luczak–Roesch, David Johnstone | Victoria University of Wellington | | 2026-10-12 | [A study of diplomatic discourse and network dynamics on Twitter](https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-026-00500-4) | [Journal of Computational Social Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-computational-social-science.md) | Raquel Rodríguez-García, Rajesh Sharma, Roberto Centeno et al. | Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia; Plaksha University; University of Tartu | | 2026-10-12 | [Bringing topological heterogeneities into the study of time-series data on militarized international disputes: a deep learning approach](https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-026-00499-8) | [Journal of Computational Social Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-computational-social-science.md) | Badredine Arfi | University of Florida | | 2026-10-09 | [A comprehensive multi-method study of russian propaganda techniques and narratives in the Baltic countries](https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-026-00496-x) | [Journal of Computational Social Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-computational-social-science.md) | Darius Plikynas, Ģirts Dimdiņš, Uku Kangur et al. | Vilnius University; University of Latvia; University of Tartu | ## Cite this page Scholar4AI. 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