Communications of the ACM
Last updated ISSN 0001-0782
Communications of the ACM 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 Communications of the ACM concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
- Algorithms and Data Compression
- Information Systems Education and Curriculum Development
- Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
- Logic, programming, and type systems
- Software Engineering Research
- Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Advanced Database Systems and Queries
- Distributed systems and fault tolerance
- Teaching and Learning Programming
Key facts
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0001-0782, 1557-7317 |
| Subject area | Computer Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 16,163 |
| Publishing since | 1942 |
| Journal website | cacm.acm.org |
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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