ACM SIGACT News
Last updated ISSN 0163-5700
ACM SIGACT News is published by Association for Computing Machinery in computer science. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in ACM SIGACT News concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
- Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
- Distributed systems and fault tolerance
- Optimization and Search Problems
- Algorithms and Data Compression
- Advanced Graph Theory Research
- Logic, programming, and type systems
- semigroups and automata theory
- Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
- Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation
Key facts
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0163-5700, 1943-5827 |
| Subject area | Computer Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Not recorded |
| Articles published | 2,086 |
| Publishing since | 1969 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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