Journal profile · Computer Science, Theory & Methods
CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE
ISSN 1532-0626 · eISSN 1532-0634 · John Wiley and Sons Ltd · ENGLAND · Semimonthly · Founded 2001
CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE: CAS Zone 4 · Computer Science (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.09; hybrid open access; APC about USD 5,140; median 142 days to acceptance (120 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 579 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd and is in Zone 4 of Computer Science in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems, Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques and Cloud Computing and Resource Management, together about 35.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Computer Networks and Communications. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE) publishes high-quality, original research papers, and authoritative research review papers, in the overlapping fields of: Parallel and distributed computing; High-performance computing; Computational and data science; Artificial intelligence and machine learning; Big data applications, algorithms, and systems; Network science; Ontologies and semantics; Security and privacy; Cloud/edge/fog computing; Green computing; and Quantum computing. Emphasis on novel research related to practice and experience in these areas should be an essential aspect of contributions, rather than addressing theoretical aspects. Submissions should involve or imply significant concurrency and/or computational issues. Within these broad areas, the scope of CCPE includes the design, implementation, and optimization of compute and data-intensive applications for parallel and distributed systems. This includes the development of novel concurrent algorithms and applications, their parallel performance analysis and modelling, and new programming or modelling languages and relevant methodologies for composing them. Areas relevant to compute and data-intensive applications include, but are not limited to, large-scale computational science, artificial intelligence, and the processing of voluminous datasets from satellites, scientific experiments, sensor networks, medical instruments, and other sources. Techniques for resource management in the context of parallel and distributed systems, and energy-aware computing are also topics of interest. Abstracting and Indexing Information ACM Guide to Computing Literature (ACM) COMPENDEX (Elsevier) CompuMath Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics) CompuScience Database (FIZ Karlsruhe) Computer Abstracts (Emerald) Computer Science Index (EBSCO Publishing) Current Contents: Engineering, Computing & Technology (Clarivate Analytics) INSPEC (IET) Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics) Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics) SCOPUS (Elsevier) The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography (University of Trier) Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Editor-in-chief Jinjun ChenPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 11 in mainland China (about 27%); most named Mainland China 11, Australia 8, United Kingdom 6, India 3, Italy 3 (41 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Distributed and Parallel Computing SystemsComputer Science13.2%
- Parallel Computing and Optimization TechniquesComputer Science12.1%
- Cloud Computing and Resource ManagementComputer Science10.3%
- Advanced Data Storage TechnologiesComputer Science7.5%
- IoT and Edge/Fog ComputingComputer Science5.7%
- Distributed systems and fault toleranceComputer Science4.9%
- Scientific Computing and Data ManagementDecision Sciences4.8%
- Cryptography and Data SecurityComputer Science3.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Computer Science Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Computer Science | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Software Engineering | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Theory & Methods | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Computer Science Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Computer Science | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Software Engineering | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Theory & Methods | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Computer Science Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Computer Science | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Software Engineering | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Theory & Methods | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EI CompendexWeb of ScienceINSPECDBLPCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 2.09LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 5.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 5.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.45LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.7LetPub ·
- h-index
- 60LetPub ·
- h-index
- 99OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2,419OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.87OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 9.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 9.35%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 482LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 5Publisher website ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 544Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 273,729Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 8,478 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 467 | 88 | 101 |
| 2025 | 579 | 177 | 755 |
| 2024 | 374 | 172 | 1,800 |
| 2023 | 445 | 229 | 2,745 |
| 2022 | 792 | 83 | 6,453 |
| 2021 | 674 | 101 | 7,465 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
142 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 91 days – 190 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 18 days (120 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 163 days
- Sample
- 120 articles with submission and acceptance dates (1,075 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- 3–8 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 10%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 10%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 4 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 4 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 150 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 20 daysPublisher website ·
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 5,140 / EUR 4,300 / GBP 3,410 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Page charges
- Charged; see the journal's website for the amount
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Author–date
- Templates
- LaTeX and Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access, Plagiarism, Preprints
- License & copyright COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSIONS
If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
Open Access is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article. With Open Access, the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon pub…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism PLAGIARISM CHECK
iThenticate will be used to determine overlap of submitted papers with existing published material. All papers with 2% or more overlap with an existing published paper will be asked to cite overlapping paper and explain overlap. Large overlaps, especially with papers with different authors from submitted paper, may require special treatment. Small overlaps (2-5%) need not be removed; they must be …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprint policy
Wiley believes that journals publishing for communities with established pre-print servers should allow authors to submit manuscripts which have already been made available on a non-commercial preprint server. Allowing submission does not, of course, guarantee that an article will be sent out for review. It simply reflects our belief that journals should not rule out reviewing a paper simply becau…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Semimonthly
- Founded
- 2001
- ISSN
- 1532-0626
- Electronic ISSN
- 1532-0634
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 38, Issue 19 (October 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE
What CAS zone is CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE is in Zone 4 of Computer Science, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Computer Science, Software Engineering / Computer Science, Theory & Methods. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Computer Science. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.09; CiteScore 5.7, h-index 99.
How long does peer review take at CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE?
Based on the dates recorded on 120 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 142 days (interquartile range 91–190 days); authors report an average review time of 3–8 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 10% (2025). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Author–date; Templates: LaTeX and Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE based?
Of the 41 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 11 (about 27%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Mainland China (11), Australia (8) and United Kingdom (6). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists EI Compendex, Web of Science, INSPEC, DBLP and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE open access, and what is the APC?
CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 5,140.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .