ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems
Academic journal
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The ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) is a quarterly, open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal on the topic of programming languages published by the Association for Computing Machinery.
| Discipline | Programming language |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Alastair F. Donaldson |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1979–present |
| Publisher | ACM (United States) |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| 0.410 (2020) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0164-0925 (print) 1558-4593 (web) |
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It has been used as a model for teaching the peer review process to graduate students because of its "reputation as a top journal within the computer science community".[1]
Background
Published since 1979, the journal's scope includes programming language design, implementation, and semantics of programming languages, compilers and interpreters, run-time systems, storage allocation and garbage collection, and formal specification, testing, and verification of software. It is indexed in Scopus and SCImago.[2]
The editor-in-chief is Alastair F. Donaldson (Imperial College London).[3] After being ranked as a top-quartile journal in software by SCImago from 1999 to 2016, it has been ranked as second-quartile from 2021 through 2024, with an impact factor of 0.564.[4]
