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Programming and Computer Software is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Pleiades Publishing.
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ISSN 0361-7688Verify ISSN ↗1608-3261Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software | 407 / 503 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1978–1992), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.3.
Programming and Computer Software is Q4 in Software (rank 407 of 503), by CiteScore 2025.
Programming and Computer Software 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 19th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.220, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 24.
Programming and Computer Software is published by Pleiades Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0361-7688 and its online ISSN is 1608-3261.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Programming and Computer Software has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 0.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #284 of 371 Scopus journals in Software.
Programming and Computer Software published 128 papers in 2025. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (47.8%), Mexico (22.8%) and Armenia (10.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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