Journal of Software
Last updated ISSN 1796-217X
Journal of Software is published by Academy Publisher in computer science. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Software concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
- Software Engineering Research
- Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
- Software System Performance and Reliability
- Software Reliability and Analysis Research
- Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
- Advanced Computational Techniques and Applications
- Business Process Modeling and Analysis
Key facts
| Publisher | Academy Publisher |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1796-217X |
| Subject area | Computer Science |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,563 |
| Publishing since | 2006 |
| Journal website | bibpurl.oclc.org/web/22672 |
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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