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Communications of the ACM is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.1), formerly ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Association for Computing Machinery.
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ISSN 0001-0782Verify ISSN ↗1557-7317Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Science (all) | 15 / 241 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1958–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.1.
Communications of the ACM is Q1 in Computer Science (all) (rank 15 of 241), by CiteScore 2025.
Communications of the ACM is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 14.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.540, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 259.
Communications of the ACM is published by Association for Computing Machinery. Its print ISSN is 0001-0782 and its online ISSN is 1557-7317.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
It was rated A in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Information Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Communications of the ACM has an h-index of 435 and a 2-year mean of 4.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #38 of 219 Scopus journals in Computer Science (all).
Communications of the ACM published 259 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 321. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 80 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (58.6%), Switzerland (4.1%) and Israel (3.8%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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