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Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) · United States · Est. 2017

ISSN2475-1421eISSN2475-1421

SJR Q1✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.928

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.796

Total Worksi

2,340

Total Citationsi

29,833

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.54

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

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

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2017

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications2,340

Publisher OrgAssociation for Computing Machinery

OA Since2017

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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?

2475-1421 / 2475-1421

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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

269

7.7k

2019

170

3.2k

2020

171

2.2k

2021

194

2.5k

2022

302

3.4k

2023

371

2.4k

2024

427

795

2025

314

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.

Safety, Risk, Reliability and QualityQ1

SoftwareQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Computer Science, Software Engineering

Scopus Categories

SoftwareSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Logic, programming, and type systemsFormal Methods in VerificationParallel Computing and Optimization TechniquesSoftware Testing and Debugging TechniquesSecurity and Verification in ComputingSoftware Engineering ResearchDistributed systems and fault toleranceLogic, Reasoning, and KnowledgeAdvanced Malware Detection TechniquesSoftware System Performance and Reliability

Frequently asked questions about Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages

Is Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages: 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 Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages?

Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages 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 2.54.

Is Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages?