Journal History

2017	The inaugural issue was released. Big Data and Cognitive Computing was published as a quarterly journal.
2018	Big Data and Cognitive Computing held the first online Editorial Board Member meeting.
2020	Big Data and Cognitive Computing was indexed in Scopus.
2021	Big Data and Cognitive Computing was indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) - Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics). Big Data and Cognitive Computing received its first CiteScore (2020) of 5.3, ranked 23/114 (Q1) in “Management Information Systems”, 74/329 (Q1) in “Information Systems”, 164/693 (Q1) in “Computer Science Applications”, and 74/227 (Q2) in “Artificial Intelligence”.
2022	Big Data and Cognitive Computing was indexed in Ei Compendex - Engineering Village (Elsevier). Big Data and Cognitive Computing received its CiteScore (2021) of 6.1.
2023	Big Data and Cognitive Computing received its first Impact Factor (3.7), ranked Q2 in “Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence”, “Computer Science, Information Systems”, and “Computer Science, Theory & Methods”. Big Data and Cognitive Computing received its CiteScore (2022) of 4.9, ranked Q1 in “Management Information Systems”, Q2 in “Information Systems”, “Computer Science Applications”, and “Artificial Intelligence”.
2024	Big Data and Cognitive Computing adopted a monthly publication schedule. BDCC received its 2023 Impact Factor (3.7). BDCC received its CiteScore (2023) of 7.1.
2025	BDCC received its 2024 Impact Factor (4.4), ranked Q1 in "Computer Science, Theory and Methods" and "Computer Science, Information Systems", Q2 in "Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence". BDCC received its CiteScore (2024) of 9.8, ranked Q1 in "Computer Science Applications", "Information Systems", "Artificial Intelligence" and "Management Information Systems".
2026	BDCC established the following sections: Big Data; Cognitive System; Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems; Data Mining and Machine Learning; Large Language Models and Embodied Intelligence.