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Communications of the ACM

ISSN 0001-0782 · Association for Computing Machinery · United States · active 1958–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile
Q1
Cites per paper (2y)
3.3
SJR
1.54
h-index
431

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric. Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline.

Indexing & access

ScopusWeb of Science

Access status: unknown. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.

Scope

parallelcomputingoptimizationtechniqueshardwarearchitecturealgorithmsdatacompressionartificialintelligencedistributed

Frequently asked

Is Communications of the ACM a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Communications of the ACM. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, which is a positive signal.

Is Communications of the ACM indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Communications of the ACM appears in: Scopus, Web of Science. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is Communications of the ACM's impact?

Papers in Communications of the ACM are cited about 3.3 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 431. This is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric — and a citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

Is Communications of the ACM open access?

We hold no reliable open-access classification for Communications of the ACM. Check the journal's own site for its access model and any article processing charge.

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