IEEE Software
Last updated ISSN 0740-7459
IEEE Software is published by IEEE Computer Society in computer science. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $2,995.
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What it publishes
Recent work in IEEE Software concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Software Engineering Research
- Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Software System Performance and Reliability
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Software Reliability and Analysis Research
- Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
- Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
- Open Source Software Innovations
Key facts
| Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0740-7459, 1937-4194 |
| Subject area | Computer Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $2,995 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 7,538 |
| Publishing since | 1949 |
| Journal website | www.computer.org/software |
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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