IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems is published by IEEE Computer Society and is in Zone 2 of Computer Science in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Interconnection Networks and Systems and Cloud Computing and Resource Management, together about 33.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Computer Networks and Communications. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) is published monthly. It publishes a range of papers, comments on previously published papers, and survey articles that deal with the parallel and distributed systems research areas of current importance to our readers. Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to: a) Parallel and distributed algorithms, focusing on topics such as: models of computation; numerical, combinatorial, and data-intensive parallel algorithms, scalability of algorithms and data structures for parallel and distributed systems, communication and synchronization protocols, network algorithms, scheduling, and load balancing. b) Applications of parallel and distributed computing, including computational and data-enabled science and engineering, big data applications, parallel crowd sourcing, large-scale social network analysis, management of big data, cloud and grid computing, scientific and biomedical applications, mobile computing, and cyber-physical systems. c) Parallel and distributed architectures, including architectures for instruction-level and thread-level parallelism; design, analysis, implementation, fault resilience and performance measurements of multiple-processor systems; multicore processors, heterogeneous many-core systems; petascale and exascale systems designs; novel big data architectures; special purpose architectures, including graphics processors, signal processors, network processors, media accelerators, and other special purpose processors and accelerators; impact of technology on architecture; network and interconnect architectures; parallel I/O and storage systems; architecture of the memory hierarchy; power-efficient and green computing architectures; dependable architectures; and performance modeling and evaluation. d) Parallel and distributed software, including parallel and multicore programming languages and compilers, runtime systems, operating systems, Internet computing and web services, resource management including green computing, middleware for grids, clouds, and data centers, libraries, performance modeling and evaluation, parallel programming paradigms, and programming environments and tools.

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Research area (LetPub): Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

5.66LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

15.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

1.87LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

2.29LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

120LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

203OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

4,241OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

4.68OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

3.4%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

6.06%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

190LetPub · 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)

about 7.5 monthsLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

25%LetPub · 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

Monthly

ISSN

1045-9219

Electronic ISSN

1558-2183

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub