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Journal of the ACM

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) · United States

ISSN0004-5411eISSN1557-735X

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

1.372

H-Indexi

293

SNIPi

3.163

Total Worksi

3,289

Total Citationsi

399,187

2yr Mean Citednessi

3.81

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture; Computer Science, Information Systems; Computer Science, Software Engineering; Computer Science, Theory & Methods; Artificial Intelligence; Control and Systems Engineering; Hardware and Architecture; Information Systems; Software.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

Frequency3x/year

StatusActive

Total Publications3,289

Publisher OrgAssociation for Computing Machinery

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Submission Info

Publishing ModelSubscription

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0004-5411 / 1557-735X

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

731

2019

785

2020

663

2021

519

2022

290

2023

365

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Artificial IntelligenceQ1

Control and Systems EngineeringQ1

Hardware and ArchitectureQ1

Information SystemsQ1

SoftwareQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Computer Science, Hardware & ArchitectureComputer Science, Information SystemsComputer Science, Software EngineeringComputer Science, Theory & Methods

Scopus Categories

Information SystemsHardware and ArchitectureSoftwareControl and Systems EngineeringArtificial Intelligence

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Complexity and Algorithms in Graphssemigroups and automata theoryLogic, programming, and type systemsAlgorithms and Data CompressionOptimization and Search Problems

Frequently asked questions about Journal of the ACM

Is Journal of the ACM a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Journal of the ACM: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Journal of the ACM?

Journal of the ACM is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 3.81.

Is Journal of the ACM indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Journal of the ACM is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.