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ACM Transactions on Computing Education

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) · United States · Est. 2009

ISSN1946-6226eISSN1946-6226

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

1.024

H-Indexi

SNIPi

2.191

Total Worksi

640

Total Citationsi

19,396

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.52

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Education, Scientific Disciplines; Computer Science (miscellaneous); Education.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2009

Annual Volume~ 59 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications640

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?

1946-6226 / 1946-6226

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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

1.7k

2019

876

2020

1.2k

2021

1.4k

2022

777

2023

425

2024

238

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.

Computer Science (miscellaneous)Q1

EducationQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Education, Scientific Disciplines

Scopus Categories

Computer Science (miscellaneous)Education

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Teaching and Learning ProgrammingOnline Learning and AnalyticsGender and Technology in EducationInnovative Teaching and Learning MethodsEducational Games and GamificationSoftware Engineering Techniques and PracticesSoftware Engineering ResearchChild Development and Digital TechnologyExperimental Learning in EngineeringInformation Systems Education and Curriculum Development

Frequently asked questions about ACM Transactions on Computing Education

Is ACM Transactions on Computing Education a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for ACM Transactions on Computing Education: 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 Computing Education?

ACM Transactions on Computing Education 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 2.52.

Is ACM Transactions on Computing Education indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

ACM Transactions on Computing Education is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of ACM Transactions on Computing Education?