The VLDB Journal
Last updated ISSN 0949-877X
The VLDB Journal is published by Springer Science+Business Media in computer science. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $2,990.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The VLDB Journal concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Data Management and Algorithms
- Advanced Database Systems and Queries
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Distributed systems and fault tolerance
- Data Quality and Management
- Advanced Data Storage Technologies
- Algorithms and Data Compression
- Graph Theory and Algorithms
- Data Mining Algorithms and Applications
- Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0949-877X, 1066-8888 |
| Subject area | Computer Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $2,990 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,298 |
| Publishing since | 1992 |
| Journal website | www.springer.com/journal/778 |
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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