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ACM Transactions on Database Systems

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) · United States · Est. 1976

ISSN1557-4644

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.

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 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

0.719

H-Indexi

166

SNIPi

1.855

Total Worksi

1,179

Total Citationsi

109,724

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.21

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Computer Science, Information Systems; Computer Science, Software Engineering; Information Systems.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1976

Annual Volume~ 20 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,179

Publisher OrgAssociation for Computing Machinery

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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?

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1557-4644

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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

407

2019

314

2020

300

2021

201

2022

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.

Information SystemsQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Computer Science, Information SystemsComputer Science, Software Engineering

Scopus Categories

Information Systems

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Advanced Database Systems and QueriesData Management and AlgorithmsDistributed systems and fault toleranceSemantic Web and OntologiesAdvanced Data Storage TechnologiesAlgorithms and Data CompressionData Quality and ManagementLogic, Reasoning, and KnowledgeData Mining Algorithms and ApplicationsCloud Computing and Resource Management

Frequently asked questions about ACM Transactions on Database Systems

Is ACM Transactions on Database Systems a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for ACM Transactions on Database Systems: 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 ACM Transactions on Database Systems?

ACM Transactions on Database Systems 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 1.21.

Is ACM Transactions on Database Systems indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

ACM Transactions on Database Systems is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of ACM Transactions on Database Systems?