IEEE Software

IEEE Software is published by IEEE Computer Society 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 Software Engineering Techniques and Practices, Software Engineering Research and Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies, together about 36.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Information Systems. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

IEEE Software delivers reliable, useful, leading-edge software development information to keep engineers and managers abreast of rapid technology change. Its mission is to build the community of leading software practitioners. The authority on translating software theory into practice, this magazine positions itself between pure research and pure practice, transferring ideas, methods, and experiences among researchers and engineers. Peerreviewed articles and columns by seasoned practitioners illuminate all aspects of the industry, including process improvement, project management, development tools, software maintenance, Web applications and opportunities, testing, and usability. The magazine's readers specify, design, document, test, maintain, purchase, engineer, sell, teach, research, and manage the production of software or systems that include software. IEEE Software welcomes articles describing how software is developed in specific companies, laboratories, and university environments as well as articles describing new tools, current trends, and past projects' limitations and failures as well as successes. Sample topics include geographically distributed development; software architectures; program and system debugging and testing; the education of software professionals; requirements, design, development, testing, and management methodologies; performance measurement and evaluation; standards; program and system reliability, security, and verification; programming environments; languages and language-related issues; Web-based development; usability; and software-related social and legal issues.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): Computer Science, Software Engineering

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

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

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.

Impact

Impact factor

4LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

5.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.63LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.96LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

99LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

186OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

2,297OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.54OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

18.97%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

55LetPub · 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)

6–12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly 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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

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

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Bimonthly

ISSN

0740-7459

Electronic ISSN

1937-4194

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub