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Software Testing Verification and Reliability

John Wiley and Sons Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 1980

ISSN1099-1689

SJR Q2✓ 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.

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📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.482

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.868

Total Worksi

1,215

Total Citationsi

21,239

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.03

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Computer Science, Software Engineering; Media Technology; Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality; Software.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1980

Annual Volume~ 37 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,215

Publisher OrgWiley

Submission Info

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?

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1099-1689

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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

188

2019

213

2020

281

2021

165

2022

120

2023

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.

Media TechnologyQ2

Safety, Risk, Reliability and QualityQ2

SoftwareQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Computer Science, Software Engineering

Scopus Categories

SoftwareSafety, Risk, Reliability and QualityMedia Technology

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Software Testing and Debugging TechniquesSoftware Reliability and Analysis ResearchSoftware Engineering ResearchSoftware System Performance and ReliabilityFormal Methods in VerificationHuman auditory perception and evaluationEducational Robotics and EngineeringDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesAdvanced Software Engineering MethodologiesAdvanced Malware Detection Techniques

Frequently asked questions about Software Testing Verification and Reliability

Is Software Testing Verification and Reliability a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Software Testing Verification and Reliability: 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 Software Testing Verification and Reliability?

Software Testing Verification and Reliability 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 1.03.

Is Software Testing Verification and Reliability indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Software Testing Verification and Reliability is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Software Testing Verification and Reliability?