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ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) · United States · Est. 2004

ISSN2471-2566eISSN2471-2574

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.783

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.535

Total Worksi

339

Total Citationsi

5,418

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.86

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Computer Science, Information Systems; Computer Science (miscellaneous); Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2004

Annual Volume~ 42 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications339

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?

2471-2566 / 2471-2574

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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

949

2019

552

2020

666

2021

888

2022

469

2023

300

2024

136

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

Safety, Risk, Reliability and QualityQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Computer Science, Information Systems

Scopus Categories

Computer Science (miscellaneous)Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Advanced Malware Detection TechniquesNetwork Security and Intrusion DetectionPrivacy-Preserving Technologies in DataCryptography and Data SecuritySecurity and Verification in ComputingUser Authentication and Security SystemsAdversarial Robustness in Machine LearningInternet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-votingInformation and Cyber SecuritySpam and Phishing Detection

Frequently asked questions about ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security

Is ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security: 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 Privacy and Security?

ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security 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 2.86.

Is ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security?