ORBIT20 Hardware and Architecture journals (Computer Science) in ORBIT Tier 1 with at least 10 papers in 2025. ORBIT Tier 1: top quarter of Computer Science by citation impact, our own ranking. Not a Scopus or Web of Science quartile.
As of 27 October 2026. From OpenAlex, Crossref and DOAJ. ORBIT Tier is our own ranking within a field, not a Scopus or Web of Science quartile.
| Journal | ISSN | Papers in 2025 | ORBIT Tier | Fee to publish | Open access | DOAJ | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IEEE Transactions on Computers | 0018-9340 | 301 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Systems Architecture | 1383-7621 | 257 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Sustainable Computing Informatics and Systems | 2210-5379 | 176 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems | 1539-9087 | 173 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| IEEE Micro | 0272-1732 | 163 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| IEEE Embedded Systems Letters | 1943-0663 | 153 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization | 1544-3566 | 150 | 1 | Fee not published | Yes | No | United States |
| IEEE Design and Test | 2168-2356 | 110 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| IEEE Computer Architecture Letters | 1556-6056 | 108 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Electronic Testing | 0923-8174 | 56 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Microprocessors and Microsystems | 0141-9331 | 56 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems | 1936-7406 | 54 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| International Journal of Reconfigurable and Embedded Systems (IJRES) | 2089-4864 | 53 | 1 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Indonesia |
| ACM SIGAda Ada Letters | 1094-3641 | 51 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Signal Processing Systems | 1939-8018 | 27 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Parallel Computing | 0167-8191 | 27 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| International Journal of Parallel Programming | 0885-7458 | 26 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Real-Time Systems | 0922-6443 | 21 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Computing Science and Engineering | 1976-4677 | 14 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | South Korea |
| ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing | 2329-4949 | 11 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |