Journal of the ACM | |
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Abbreviated title (ISO) | J. ACM |
Discipline | Computer science |
Edited by | Victor Vianu |
Publication details | |
Publisher | ACM (United States) |
Publication history | 1954 to present |
Frequency | 6 times a year |
Impact factor (2009) |
2.717 |
Indexing | |
ISSN | 0004-5411 |
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The Journal of the ACM (JACM) is the flagship scientific journal of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).[1] It is peer-reviewed and covers computer science in general, especially theoretical aspects. Its current editor-in-chief is Victor Vianu, from University of California, San Diego.
The journal has been published since 1954.[2] As Lowry, Romans & Curtis (2004) write, "computer scientists universally hold the Journal of the ACM (JACM) in high esteem".[3]