ACM Celebrates Impact Factor Success as 2026 Move to Full Open Access Publishing Approaches
New York, NY, July 2, 2025 — ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is proud to celebrate the strong success of its publications in the latest Journal Citation Reports (JCR) from Clarivate Analytics, with over 75% of ACM journals indexed in the JCR increasing their impact factors and the highest number to date of journals ranked in the first quartile in one or more categories. Leading survey and tutorial journal ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) continued its multi-year ascent in the rankings with an all-time-high impact factor of 28.0, taking top ranking in the Computer Science, Theory & Methods category for the second year in a row.
The ACM program had strong performance across the board. Highlights included flagship magazine Communications of the ACM (CACM) with an impact factor of 12.2, giving it a first-place ranking for the third year in a row in the Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture category, and rankings of 3 out of 128 in Computer Science, Software Engineering and 5 out of 147 in Computer Science, Theory & Methods. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) received its highest impact factor to date, 9.5, and a ranking of 5 of 128 journals in the Computer Science, Software Engineering category. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) increased its impact factor by nearly 70% to 9.1 for a ranking of 10 of 258 in Computer Science, Information Systems.
ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (HEALTH) had an impressive start to its inclusion in the JCR with a first-time impact factor of 8.0 and first quartile rankings in its two categories of Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications and Medical Informatics, placing 3 of 48 in the latter category.
Other strong performances included ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing (TQC) with an impact factor of 6.8 and first quartile rankings in both Computer Science, Theory & Methods and Quantum Science & Technology; ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) with an impact factor of 6.6 and first quartile rankings in the Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Information Systems categories; ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), which increased nearly 40% for its highest ever impact factor of 6.6 and first quartile placement in both of its categories, including fourth place in Computer Science, Cybernetics; ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) at 6.2 and a rank of 9 of 128 in Computer Science, Software Engineering; ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM) at 6.0; and ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI) at 5.5, placing it 10 of 48 in Robotics.
Numerous other ACM journals received their highest impact factors to date, including ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) and ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) both at 4.8; ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN) at 4.7; Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) at 4.5; ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB) at 4.1; ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE) at 3.8; ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIOT) at 3.7; ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS) at 3.6; and ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing(TACCESS) at 3.5.
Reflecting on this success, ACM’s Director of Publications Scott Delman commented, “The stellar performance of ACM’s publications in the JCR is a strong indication of the real-world benefits of ACM’s transition to open access publishing across our program. As an increasing proportion of our papers are open access, they are getting cited, downloaded, and used at ever higher rates.”
Associate Director of Publications Sara Kate Heukerott added, “It is incredibly gratifying to see the amazing work of our authors, editors, and journal teams recognized in this way. A tremendous amount of time and dedication go into each paper published by ACM, and this high level of citation activity demonstrates that we are truly living ACM’s mission of advancing computing as a science & profession.”
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