The journal was established after a decision was issued by the Scientific Council at its sixth meeting for the academic year 1412/1413 AH on 11/12 / 1412H corresponding to 17/12/1991 approving the issuance of a branch in the Journal of King Saud University under the name of "Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Scineces" as of the beginning of the second semester of the year 1412/1413 H, with as goal publishing researches related to computer science and engineering and information systems.

The topics of the journal focus on the following general areas: Arabization, big data, bioinformatics, biometrics, cloud computing, computer graphics, computer vision, data mining, data warehousing, e-commerce, e-learning, embedded systems, grid computing, High Performance Computing, Image Processing, Information Security, Internet of Things, machine Learning, Mobile Computing, ...