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Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society
ISSN 0104-6500 · eISSN 1678-4804 · Springer Nature · United Kingdom
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 13 weeks (community reports); 77 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus; the journal's website says submissions are paused or closed.
The journal's website says submissions are paused or closed: The JBCS will no longer accept submissions of systematic review articles, surveys, or other review-based manuscripts. This decision aims to better align the journal’s editorial scope with its mission of publishing original research contributions. Source ↗Publisher website ·
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society is published by Springer Nature. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies, Software Engineering Techniques and Practices and Topic Modeling, together about 27.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Artificial Intelligence. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS) is a publication of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). It is an international journal that serves as a forum for disseminating innovative research in all fields of computer science and related subjects. Topics covered by JBCS extend to all computer science topics, computer systems development, and formal and theoretical aspects of computing, including: algorithms and complexity; artificial intelligence and machine learning; computational biology; computer architecture; computer graphics and visualization; computer music; computers and society; computer vision and pattern recognition; data engineering and information retrieval; electronic government; embedded systems; games and digital entertainment; geoinformatics; high-performance computing; human-computer interaction; image processing; information and computational systems security; logic; multimedia and web systems; optimization; natural language processing; software engineering; ubiquitous computing; virtual reality; VLSI design and software-hardware co-design; Computers in Education; ...and much more.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Computer Science-Computer Science (all)
Editor-in-chief Soraia RauppPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Brazil 83, United States 4, United Kingdom 2, France 2, Netherlands 2 (98 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Advanced Software Engineering MethodologiesComputer Science11.1%
- Software Engineering Techniques and PracticesComputer Science9.5%
- Topic ModelingComputer Science6.8%
- Software Engineering ResearchComputer Science6.2%
- Natural Language Processing TechniquesComputer Science5%
- Model-Driven Software Engineering TechniquesComputer Science4.7%
- Semantic Web and OntologiesComputer Science4.4%
- Distributed systems and fault toleranceComputer Science4.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Computer Science | Q4 | 217/241 | 10th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
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.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.9LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 2.3Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.18LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.28LetPub ·
- h-index
- 36OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 194OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.28OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 866 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 142 | 142 | 383 |
| 2025 | 77 | 77 | 425 |
| 2024 | 44 | 44 | 397 |
| 2023 | 9 | 9 | 375 |
| 2022 | 10 | 10 | 412 |
| 2021 | 17 | 17 | 452 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 13 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 13 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 1,390 / EUR 1,190 / GBP 1,060 | — | — | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
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 prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Not considered
- systematic review articles; surveys
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- AI use An approach to Data Literacy through a Personalized Interactive LGPD Guide using LLM for Educators
César Murilo da Silva Junior, Silvio E. Quincozes, Juliana Saraiva, Rafael D. Araújo 453-471 PDF
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship On the Limits of Genetically-Optimized Homogeneous Ensembles for Credit Risk Classification
Ricardo Franceli da Silva, Leandro dos Santos Maciel 1685-1698 PDF
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest A declaration of any potential competing interests
The name of the special issue that you are submitting for (if this is the case)
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
Published under CC BY 4.0 license. Model summary
Authors of articles published in JBCS retain the copyright of their articles and authorize SBC to publish them under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC 4.0). Thus, the authors or third parties can reproduce or distribute, in part or in whole, content extracted from the published articles, verbatim, adapted, or remixed, provided th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Diamond Open access
Open access, no fees for authors or readers. Model summary
JBCS is open access and free of charge for both authors and readers. All articles published by JBCS are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. We believe the adopted policy brings greater visibility to published articles by eliminating economic and geographic barriers and making them available to a broad, g…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Systematic reviews, surveys, and other review-based manuscripts are no longer accepted; authors are directed to SBC Reviews on Computer Science (ROCS). Model summary
The JBCS will no longer accept submissions of systematic review articles, surveys, or other review-based manuscripts. This decision aims to better align the journal’s editorial scope with its mission of publishing original research contributions.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
Preprint policy: prior posting on preprint servers such as arXiv is allowed and not considered a violation of originality, provided the manuscript is unpublished (not accepted or published elsewhere). Model summary
The JBCS allows the submission of articles previously made available on preprint servers, such as arXiv. Prior publication on such platforms is not considered a violation of originality, provided the manuscript submitted to JBCS is unpublished because it has not been accepted or published in another conference or journal.
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
- Springer Nature
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0104-6500
- Electronic ISSN
- 1678-4804
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 32, Issue 1 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society
How long does peer review take at Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society?
Authors report an average review time of about 13 weeks. 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society based?
Of the 98 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Brazil (83), United States (4) and United Kingdom (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, DOAJ; 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .