ACM Computing Surveys is a peer review

Peer review

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ed scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 published by the Association for Computing Machinery

Association for Computing Machinery

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. The journal publishes survey article

Survey article

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s and tutorials related to computer science

Computer science

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 and computing

Computing

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. It was founded in 1969; the first editor-in-chief was William S. Dorn.

In ISI Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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, ACM Computing Surveys has the highest impact factor

Impact factor

The impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed...

 among all computer science journals. In a 2008 ranking of computer science journals, ACM Computing Surveys received the highest rank “A*”.

External links

• ACM Computing Surveys home page.
• ACM Computing Surveys in ACM Digital Library.
• ACM Computing Surveys in DBLP
  DBLP
  DBLP is a computer science bibliography website hosted at Universität Trier, in Germany. It was originally a database and logic programming bibliography site, and has existed at least since the 1980s. DBLP listed more than 1.3 million articles on computer science in January 2010...
  
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