--- title: "AI journal rankings: citations and h-index" description: "Among the 29 tracked AI journals, Artificial Intelligence Review has the highest 2-year mean citedness in OpenAlex (33.69), followed by Nature Machine Intelligence (25.05) and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (16.56). By h-index, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence leads with 563." url: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/ai markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/ai.md license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) share_text: "Among the 29 tracked AI journals, Artificial Intelligence Review has the highest 2-year mean citedness in OpenAlex (33.69), followed by Nature Machine Intelligence (25.05) and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and… (as of 2026-10-31)" data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json updated: 2026-10-31T07:48:13+09:00 window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31 source: OpenAlex (CC0) --- # AI journal rankings by citations The 29 tracked AI journals ranked by 2-year mean citedness, with their h-index, i10-index and papers and citations in 2025. 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. By category: [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/finance.md) · [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/accounting.md) · [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/economics.md) · [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/health-economics-and-policy.md) · [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/management.md) · [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/marketing.md) · [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/information-systems.md) · [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/tourism-and-hospitality.md) · [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/operations-research.md) · [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/statistics.md) · [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/ai.md) ## Key findings - Among the 29 tracked AI journals, Artificial Intelligence Review has the highest 2-year mean citedness in OpenAlex (33.69), followed by Nature Machine Intelligence (25.05) and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (16.56). - By h-index, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence leads with 563. - Expert Systems with Applications published the most papers in 2025 (4,299). *Tracked AI journals by 2-year mean citedness (OpenAlex)* | # | Journal | 2-year citedness | h-index | i10-index | Papers 2025 | Citations 2025 | Publisher | |---:|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---| | 1 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 33.69 | 202 | 2,129 | 402 | 43,910 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 2 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 25.05 | 155 | 823 | 207 | 30,774 | Nature Portfolio | | 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 16.56 | 563 | 8,441 | 942 | 145,129 | IEEE Computer Society | | 4 | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 16.13 | 125 | 877 | 292 | 23,689 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 5 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 13.30 | 221 | 2,610 | 1,065 | 49,300 | Elsevier BV | | 6 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 11.48 | 294 | 2,704 | 286 | 38,954 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 11.05 | 257 | 4,433 | 343 | 32,288 | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | | 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 10.82 | 273 | 5,159 | 508 | 46,431 | IEEE Computer Society | | 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 10.24 | 248 | 6,056 | 807 | 81,403 | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | | 10 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 7.99 | 352 | 20,077 | 4,299 | 172,289 | Elsevier BV | | 11 | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 7.48 | 190 | 3,679 | 475 | 22,363 | Elsevier BV | | 12 | [Cognitive Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cognitive-computation.md) | 7.29 | 91 | 897 | 144 | 6,734 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 13 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 7.10 | 302 | 10,035 | 1,563 | 61,074 | Elsevier BV | | 14 | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 7.04 | 250 | 1,757 | 222 | 33,685 | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | | 15 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 6.94 | 223 | 7,638 | 2,079 | 65,615 | Elsevier BV | | 16 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 6.65 | 193 | 6,909 | 828 | 53,203 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 17 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 6.08 | 253 | 5,292 | 1,315 | 45,085 | Elsevier BV | | 18 | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 5.48 | 101 | 1,227 | 647 | 11,697 | Springer Nature | | 19 | [IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-artificial-intelligence.md) | 5.44 | 62 | 575 | 488 | 7,529 | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | | 20 | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | 5.13 | 125 | 1,558 | 336 | 9,079 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 21 | [Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/data-mining-and-knowledge-discovery.md) | 4.79 | 144 | 860 | 93 | 7,960 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 22 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 4.68 | 132 | 3,818 | 922 | 25,878 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 23 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 4.29 | 248 | 1,801 | 323 | 44,928 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 24 | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | 4.16 | 308 | 2,817 | 110 | 13,624 | Elsevier BV | | 25 | [Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/autonomous-agents-and-multi-agent-systems.md) | 3.71 | 91 | 559 | 41 | 1,689 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 26 | [Computer Speech & Language](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computer-speech-language.md) | 3.14 | 113 | 1,001 | 116 | 3,714 | Elsevier BV | | 27 | [International Journal of Approximate Reasoning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-approximate-reasoning.md) | 2.88 | 135 | 1,825 | 193 | 5,369 | Elsevier BV | | 28 | [Language Resources and Evaluation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/language-resources-and-evaluation.md) | 2.56 | 67 | 500 | 83 | 2,753 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 29 | [Journal of Automated Reasoning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-automated-reasoning.md) | 1.49 | 92 | 705 | 33 | 1,341 | Springer Science+Business Media | ## Cite this page Scholar4AI. (2026). AI journal rankings by citations. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/ai ```bibtex @misc{scholar4ai-rankings-journal-metrics-ai, author = {{Scholar4AI}}, title = {AI journal rankings by citations}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/ai}}, urldate = {2026-10-31}, note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0} } ``` License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).