Association for Computing Machinery journals

Association for Computing Machinery journals
Title	Association for Computing Machinery journals
Discipline	Computer science
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Country	United States
History	1947–present
Frequency	Monthly / Quarterly / Irregular

Contents

Association for Computing Machinery journals.

The Association for Computing Machinery journals are a portfolio of peer-reviewed periodicals published by the Association for Computing Machinery, serving communities in computer science, software engineering, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, human–computer interaction, databases, computer architecture, theoretical computer science, networking, security engineering, operating systems, and related fields. The journals contribute to scholarly communication alongside major venues such as the Proceedings of the ACM, the Communications of the ACM, the IEEE Transactions on Computers, the Journal of the ACM, and conference series like ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGMOD, and ACM SIGPLAN.

Overview

ACM journals publish original research, survey articles, case studies, and technical notes across subfields connected to institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Cambridge. Editorial leadership often includes scholars affiliated with MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Microsoft Research, Google Research, IBM Research, and national laboratories like Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. ACM journals interact with awards like the Turing Award, the Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, the ACM Fellowship, and the SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award.

The ACM began publishing scholarly outlets in the mid-20th century, contemporaneous with milestones such as the founding of Bell Labs, the launch of Project MAC, the formation of DARPA, and developments at Princeton University and Harvard University. Early ACM journals documented research from pioneers associated with John von Neumann, Alan Turing, Donald Knuth, Edsger Dijkstra, and Barbara Liskov, while later expansions reflected growth in communities around SIGGRAPH, SIGOPS, SIGPLAN, SIGCOMM, and SIGMOD. Shifts to digital distribution paralleled initiatives by ARPA, the National Science Foundation, and the emergence of platforms like the ACM Digital Library, influenced by collaborations with CrossRef and standards bodies such as the World Wide Web Consortium.

ACM journals maintain scopes aligned with special interest groups including SIGARCH, SIGACT, SIGCHI, SIGCSE, SIGCOMM, SIGDA, SIGGRAPH, SIGMOD, SIGPLAN, and SIGSOFT. Manuscripts undergo peer review coordinated by editors-in-chief and editorial boards drawn from faculties at places like Princeton, Caltech, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, ETH Zurich, University of Toronto, and Imperial College London. Processes integrate tools and policies from organizations such as ORCID, COPE, IEEE, Springer Nature, and Elsevier for ethical guidelines, while indexing interacts with services like Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and CrossRef.

Prominent journals and series in the ACM portfolio include titles historically linked to SIGs and research centers: flagship theoretical venues similar in scope to the Journal of the ACM; applied outlets paralleling ACM Transactions on Graphics associated with SIGGRAPH; systems-focused journals analogous to ACM Transactions on Computer Systems tied to SIGOPS; programming-language venues akin to ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems linked to SIGPLAN; database journals comparable to ACM Transactions on Database Systems connected with SIGMOD; HCI journals reflecting SIGCHI interests; security outlets resonant with SIGSAC; and networking journals aligned with SIGCOMM. Special series have paralleled efforts at ACM Computing Surveys, Communications of the ACM, and themed collections curated with partners such as ACM Books and university presses at Oxford University Press and MIT Press.

ACM journals are distributed through the ACM Digital Library, which interacts with institutional subscribers including public research libraries at Harvard, Yale University, Columbia University, University of Michigan, and consortia like LIBER and SPARC. Licensing models have evolved toward open-access options in dialogue with funders and mandates from agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the European Research Council, and national research councils in United Kingdom, Germany, and France. Rights and licensing practices reference standards from Creative Commons, Sherpa Romeo, and archiving collaborations with repositories like arXiv and LOCKSS.

ACM journals contribute to citation metrics tracked by Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, and altmetrics providers such as Altmetric and PlumX. High-impact articles have informed innovations at companies and labs including Intel Corporation, AMD, NVIDIA, Amazon Web Services, Facebook AI Research, and OpenAI, and have underpinned technologies demonstrated at venues like SIGGRAPH, NeurIPS, ICML, and KDD. Editorial recognition connects to awards like the ACM Fellows program, the ACM-IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award, and lifetime honors bestowed at conferences such as CHI and SIGMOD Conference.

ACM journals maintain formal and informal links with conference programs at ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGMOD, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGPLAN, ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGMETRICS, and ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles through mechanisms like special issues, invited papers, and extended versions of best-paper awardees from conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, KDD, SOSP, and OSDI. Collaborative initiatives have partnered with organizations like IEEE Computer Society, SIAM, ACM Europe, and national academies including the National Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society to curate interdisciplinary collections and retrospectives.