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Journal of the ACM is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.7), formerly ABDC C, 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 0004-5411Verify ISSN ↗1557-735XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Systems Engineering | 97 / 390 | 75th | Q1 |
| Hardware and Architecture | 68 / 245 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Information Systems | 144 / 519 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Software | 146 / 503 | 71st | Q2 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 169 / 570 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1954–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.7.
Journal of the ACM is Q1 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 97 of 390), Q2 in Hardware and Architecture (rank 68 of 245) and Q2 in Information Systems (rank 144 of 519), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal 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 6.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.372, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 154.
Journal of the ACM is published by Association for Computing Machinery. Its print ISSN is 0004-5411 and its online ISSN is 1557-735X.
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 C in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of the ACM has an h-index of 295 and a 2-year mean of 4.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #62 of 306 Scopus journals in Control and Systems Engineering.
Journal of the ACM published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 64. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (42.7%), United Kingdom (8.8%) and Germany (8.6%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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