Empirical Software Engineering
Last updated ISSN 1382-3256
Empirical Software Engineering is published by Springer Science+Business Media in computer science. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $2,290.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Empirical Software Engineering concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Software Engineering Research
- Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Software Reliability and Analysis Research
- Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
- Software System Performance and Reliability
- Open Source Software Innovations
- Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
- Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Topic Modeling
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1382-3256, 1573-7616 |
| Subject area | Computer Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $2,290 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,182 |
| Publishing since | 1996 |
| Journal website | link.springer.com/journal/10664 |
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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