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Communications of the ACM
Computer science
Among the 50 computer science journals in this index it has the 3rd highest h-index and the 35th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
Where its authors come from
Share of the 1 018 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 51% |
| United Kingdom | 7% |
| Germany | 5% |
| Canada | 3% |
| Australia | 3% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 97% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Ethics and Social Impacts of AI | 9% |
| History of Computing Technologies | 6% |
| Artificial Intelligence Applications | 4% |
| Information and Cyber Security | 2% |
| Logic, programming, and type systems | 2% |
| Teaching and Learning Programming | 2% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- Talking about Large Language Models (2024, 371 citations)
- Computing Education in the Era of Generative AI (2024, 312 citations)
- Making AI Less 'Thirsty' (2025, 166 citations)
- Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot’s Code Contributions (2025, 136 citations)
- egg: Fast and Extensible Equality Saturation (2026, 132 citations)
Official rankings
Many evaluations use a national or commercial list rather than raw citation counts. We don't reproduce those lists here; check the journal on each one directly (search for ISSN 0001-0782):
- Scimago (SJR and quartile): what quartiles mean
- Norwegian register (level 1 or 2): national lists explained
- Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO level 0 to 3)
Similar journals
- Computer
- ACM Computing Surveys
- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
- IEEE Transactions on Computers
- Journal of the ACM
- Artificial Intelligence
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