SoftwareX
Last updated ISSN 2352-7110
SoftwareX is published by Elsevier BV in decision sciences. It is open access. The article processing charge is $1,200.
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What it publishes
Recent work in SoftwareX concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Computational Physics and Python Applications
- Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
- Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
- Machine Learning in Materials Science
- Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
- Software Engineering Research
- Cell Image Analysis Techniques
- Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Data Visualization and Analytics
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2352-7110 |
| Subject area | Decision Sciences |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $1,200 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 2,606 |
| Publishing since | 2005 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/softwarex |
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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