IEEE Computer Architecture Letters

IEEE Computer Architecture Letters is published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 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 Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Advanced Data Storage Technologies and Interconnection Networks and Systems, together about 47.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Computer Networks and Communications and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

IEEE Computer Architecture Letters is a rigorously peer-reviewed forum for publishing early, high-impact results in the areas of uni- and multiprocessor computer systems, computer architecture, microarchitecture, workload characterization, performance evaluation and simulation techniques, and power-aware computing. Submissions are welcomed on any topic in computer architecture, especially but not limited to: microprocessor and multiprocessor systems, microarchitecture and ILP processors, workload characterization, performance evaluation and simulation techniques, compiler-hardware and operating system-hardware interactions, interconnect architectures, memory and cache systems, power and thermal issues at the architecture level, I/O architectures and techniques, independent validation of previously published results, analysis of unsuccessful techniques, domain-specific processor architectures (e.g., embedded, graphics, network, etc.), real-time and high-availability architectures, reconfigurable systems.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): COMPUTER SCIENCE, HARDWARE & ARCHITECTURE

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

1.69LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

2.7LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.54LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.72LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

31LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

52OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

287OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.64OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

3.88%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

98LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

ISSN

1556-6056

Electronic ISSN

1556-6064

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex