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Formal Aspects of Computing is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), WoS SCIE. Published by Association for Computing Machinery.
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ISSN 0934-5043Verify ISSN ↗1433-299XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
Cost to publish: About US$2,780 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theoretical Computer Science | 68 / 135 | 50th | Q2 |
| Software | 298 / 503 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
Formal Aspects of Computing is Q2 in Theoretical Computer Science (rank 68 of 135) and Q3 in Software (rank 298 of 503), by CiteScore 2025.
Formal Aspects of Computing 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.315, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 46.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,780 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Formal Aspects of Computing is published by Association for Computing Machinery. Its print ISSN is 0934-5043 and its online ISSN is 1433-299X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Formal Aspects of Computing has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 12.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #5 of 125 Scopus journals in Theoretical Computer Science.
Formal Aspects of Computing published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 43. 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 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (17.5%), China (11.8%) and France (9.2%).
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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