Computer Science journals by time to acceptance (2025)
22 journals with 2025 figures · median days from submission to acceptance, measured from PubMed dates · data as of Sep 15, 2026
Sorted by median days from submission to acceptance in 2025. Faster is not better — this is a planning aid, not a ranking of quality. Click a column to re-sort.
| Open access | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journal of Imaging | 37 (28–47) | 467 | 4 | ≈$2,200 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Journal of Eye Movement Research | 69 (47–101) | 81 | 6 | ≈$1,222 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence | 85 (60–120) | 602 | 23 | ≈$2,383 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Current Computer - Aided Drug Design | 87 (72–109) | 52 | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science | 96 (65–135) | 650 | — | — | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Frontiers in Big Data | 98 (71–141) | 94 | 23 | ≈$1,436 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design | 103 (80–135) | 174 | 20 | ≈$4,190 | — | 0.0 |
| In Silico Pharmacology | 113 (74–207) | 246 | 22 | ≈$2,290 | — | 0.0 |
| Journal of Pathology Informatics | 119 (89–181) | 64 | 4 | $2,550 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Journal of Cheminformatics | 132 (103–171) | 188 | 25 | $2,390 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Journal of Biomedical Informatics | 142 (110–172) | 189 | 8 | ≈$3,410 | — | 0.0 |
| PeerJ Computer Science | 144 (106–190) | 466 | 35 | $1,395 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.36 |
| Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics | 144 (106–192) | 195 | 10 | ≈$3,180 | — | 0.0 |
| Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine | 150 (110–211) | 516 | 4 | ≈$3,350 | — | 0.39 |
| Patterns | 155 (121–191) | 85 | 27 | $4,900 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Health Information Science and Systems | 166 (114–268) | 92 | 20 | ≈$2,590 | — | 0.0 |
| Computers in Biology and Medicine | 167 (114–239) | 1,529 | 11 | ≈$3,080 | Hybrid | 0.32 |
| JMIR AI | 184 (128–266) | 112 | 51 | $1,985 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Neural Computation | 195 (138–287) | 63 | — | — | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Neural Networks | 207 (152–274) | 1,251 | 7 | ≈$3,110 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Medical Image Analysis | 252 (178–357) | 397 | 11 | ≈$4,170 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Artificial Intelligence in Medicine | 303 (203–389) | 185 | 6 | ≈$3,480 | — | 0.0 |
Journals are listed where at least 25% of their articles' topics fall in Computer Science (OpenAlex).
Latest available year: 2024
1 journal without enough usable 2025 data. Their 2024 figures are shown separately so they are never compared with 2025 figures.
| Open access | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Molecular Informatics | 133 (92–152) | 51 | — | ≈$3,800 | — | 0.0 |
Latest available year: 2023
2 journals without enough usable 2025 data. Their 2023 figures are shown separately so they are never compared with 2025 figures.
| Open access | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Education and Information Technologies | 164 (119–210) | 150 | 18 | ≈$3,590 | — | 3.09 |
| Multimedia Tools and Applications | 389 (308–478) | 141 | 22 | ≈$3,190 | Hybrid | 2.3 |
Latest available year: 2022
9 journals without enough usable 2025 data. Their 2022 figures are shown separately so they are never compared with 2025 figures.
| Open access | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journal of Environmental and Public Health | 31 (24–47) | 720 | 25 | ≈$1,450 | — | 524.79 |
| Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience | 46 (32–66) | 3,218 | 27 | ≈$2,550 | — | 251.97 |
| Informatics in Medicine Unlocked | 54 (38–78) | 73 | 6 | $2,660 | Open access (DOAJ) | — |
| Social Network Analysis and Mining | 157 (124–207) | 63 | 25 | ≈$3,190 | — | — |
| SN Computer Science | 183 (104–264) | 107 | 31 | ≈$3,190 | — | 0.0 |
| Neural Computing and Applications | 208 (154–264) | 106 | 26 | ≈$3,290 | Hybrid | 3.83 |
| Applied Soft Computing | 235 (170–294) | 50 | 9 | ≈$3,730 | — | — |
| Expert Systems with Applications | 244 (164–365) | 62 | 6 | ≈$3,500 | Hybrid | — |
| Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing | 324 (226–438) | 64 | 23 | ≈$3,490 | — | — |
Latest available year: 2021
1 journal without enough usable 2025 data. Their 2021 figures are shown separately so they are never compared with 2025 figures.
| Open access | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IEEE Access | 16 (10–23) | 61 | 6 | $2,160 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
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Among 22 Computer Science journals with enough dated articles in 2025, the shortest median time from submission to acceptance was 37 days (Journal of Imaging). The middle journal's median was 144 days. Speed is not a measure of quality; check scope, indexing and fees too.
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Data sources. Submission, acceptance and publication dates: Courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (PubMed, entries through Sep 15, 2026). NLM does not endorse Journal Clock, and these figures may not reflect the most current PubMed data. Journal fees and open-access listing: DOAJ (CC0, retrieved Sep 16, 2026). Fees paid by institutions: OpenAPC (Open Database License, retrieved Sep 16, 2026). Retractions: Retraction Watch Database via Crossref (retrieved Sep 16, 2026). Journal identifiers and topics: OpenAlex (CC0). Currency conversion: ECB reference rates (Sep 15, 2026). How these numbers are calculated · For organisations.