ACM Computing Surveys

ACM Computing Surveys (ACM Comput. Surv.) is the survey and tutorial journal of the Association for Computing Machinery. Founded in 1969, it is among the oldest and most highly cited review titles in computing, publishes nothing but surveys and tutorials, appears monthly, and had a 2025 impact factor of 30.4.《美国计算机协会计算综述》（ACM Computing Surveys''''，缩写 ACM Comput. Surv.''）是美国计算机协会出版的综述与教程类期刊，1969 年创刊，是计算机领域创刊最早、影响因子最高的综述刊物之一。该刊只发综述与教程两类文章，现为月刊，二〇二五年影响因子为 30.4。

Scope

The journal treats a survey as an entry point to an entire literature: it must order what is already known, give the field a structure and sketch an agenda, all in terms that let a reader from outside the specialism find a way in. Submissions are not confined to a subfield and concentrate on:本刊的取稿立场是把一篇综述当作「一整片文献的入口」：既要梳理已有成果，也要给出该方向的结构化图景与后续议程，使非本专业的读者也能据此进入。稿件不设学科边界，重点覆盖：

• Theory and algorithms: computational complexity, algorithm design and analysis, formal methods and programming language theory, and the foundations of cryptography.理论与算法： 计算复杂性、算法设计与分析、形式化方法与程序语言理论、密码学基础。

• Architecture and systems: processor and memory hierarchies, parallel and distributed systems, cloud computing and data centres, and operating systems and runtimes.体系结构与系统： 处理器与存储体系、并行与分布式系统、云计算与数据中心、操作系统与运行时。

• Software and practice: software engineering methods and empirical studies, program analysis and verification, reliability and security, and the empirical evaluation of software practice.软件与实践： 软件工程方法与经验研究、程序分析与验证、可靠性与安全、软件工程的实证评估。

• Human-computer interaction and visualization: interaction design, usability and user studies, visualization and graphics, and accessibility and collaborative technologies.人机交互与可视化： 交互设计、可用性与用户研究、可视化与图形学、可访问性与协同技术。

• Artificial intelligence and machine learning: learning theory and algorithms, knowledge representation and reasoning, natural language processing, and multimodal learning and information retrieval.人工智能与机器学习： 学习理论与算法、知识表示与推理、自然语言处理、多模态学习与信息检索。

• Networks and cross-cutting areas: computer networks and the internet of things, databases and data management, quantum computing, data-intensive and scientific computing, and technology and society.网络与交叉方向： 计算机网络与物联网、数据库与数据管理、量子计算、数据密集与科学计算、技术与社会。

Papers come in three kinds, a long survey capped at thirty-five pages, a short survey capped at fifteen pages and a tutorial, all of them open to uninvited submission. Authors must supply an ORCID, and a paper rejected here may not be resubmitted within twelve months.稿件分长篇综述、简短综述与教程三类，长篇以三十五页为限、简短以十五页为限，三类均接受未经约稿的投稿；作者须提供研究者标识，被本刊拒稿的论文在十二个月内不得重投。^[1]

History

• Founding and the original title (1969): the first issue appeared in March 1969 under the title Computing Surveys with print ISSN 0010-4892, its subtitle describing it as the survey and tutorial journal of the association, and its first editor-in-chief was William S. Dorn.创刊与创刊题名（1969年）： 1969 年 3 月出版创刊号，创刊题名为 Computing Surveys，印刷 ISSN 为 0010-4892，副题自称协会的综述与教程期刊，首任主编为（William S. Dorn）。^[2]

• Rename and change of number (1971): the present name took effect in June 1971 together with a new print ISSN of 0360-0300. The running title on the page heads kept the older form until June 1986, and the copyright page of a 1985 issue still carries the old title beside the new number, a direct trace of the transition.更名与编号切换（1971年）： 1971 年 6 月起正式启用现名，同时改用新的印刷 ISSN 0360-0300；书眉上的运行题名仍沿用旧写法至 1986 年 6 月，1985 年一期的版权页同时印着旧题名与新编号，是这段过渡留下的直接痕迹。^[3]

• Move to monthly publication (about 2016): the journal was quarterly for most of its early life and became monthly, with twelve issues a year, around 2016. Recent volumes in the association's digital library run past twelve issue numbers, and the quarterly notes surviving in library catalogues are outdated.刊期加密（约 2016 年）： 创刊后长期为季刊，约在 2016 年前后改为月刊，每年十二期；协会数字图书馆近年卷次的期号已排到十二期以上，各图书馆目录中的季刊著录均属过时信息。^[4]

• Rise of the metrics (2019–2025): the impact factor rose from 7.99 in 2019 to 10.282 in 2020, 14.324 in 2021, 16.6 in 2022, 23.8 in 2023 and 28 in 2024, reaching 30.4 in 2025, a near fourfold increase in six years that has kept the journal at the top of the theory and methods category.指标跃升（2019—2025年）： 影响因子由 2019 年的 7.99 升至 2020 年 10.282、2021 年 14.324、2022 年 16.6、2023 年 23.8、2024 年 28，2025 年达 30.4，六年内提高近三倍，在计算机理论方法小类长期居于前列。^[5]

• Open access transition (2026): the association has been moving towards full open access through institutional read-and-publish agreements and has announced that all of its publications become fully open access from January 2026开放获取转型（2026年）： 协会以机构订阅与出版合并的协议方式推进全面开放获取，并宣布自 2026 年 1 月起全部出版物转为完全开放获取，本刊在此之前为混合出版模式。 until then the journal was a hybrid title.^[6]

Editors

The journal's editor-in-chief is appointed by the association, normally for a three-year term, and is supported by associate editors and a board that handle the review of long surveys. The association publishes a list of past editors-in-chief, which is unusual among its titles and makes the journal's editorial succession fully traceable.本刊由协会理事会任命主编，任期一般为三年，另设副主编与编委协助处理长篇综述的审稿。协会公开本刊历任主编名录，这在协会旗下刊物中并不常见，也使本刊的主编沿革可以完整追溯。^[7]

• Present co-editors-in-chief (since July 2025): Hanghang Tong of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and My T. Thai of the University of Florida have served jointly as editors-in-chief since 1 July 2025, with terms running to 30 June 2028.现任共同主编（2025年7月起任）： 童行行（Hanghang Tong，伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）与（My T. Thai，佛罗里达大学）自 2025 年 7 月 1 日起共同出任主编，任期至 2028 年 6 月 30 日。^[7]

• Recent holders: Sartaj Sahni held the chair until 2019, Albert Zomaya from December 2019 to March 2024, and David Atienza together with Michela Milano from March 2024 to June 2025.近十年数任： （Sartaj Sahni）任主编至 2019 年；（Albert Zomaya）自 2019 年 12 月任职至 2024 年 3 月；（David Atienza）与（Michela Milano）自 2024 年 3 月共同任职至 2025 年 6 月。^[7]

• Early editors: the first was William S. Dorn (1969–1972), followed by Elliot Organick (1973–1976), Peter J. Denning (1977–1979) and Adele Goldberg (1980–1982)早期主编： 首任主编（William S. Dorn，1969—1972年），其后依次为（Elliot Organick，1973—1976年）、（Peter J. Denning，1977—1979年）与（Adele Goldberg，1980—1982年），1987 至 1992 年由（Salvatore T. March）主持，2000 至 2007 年由（Gul Agha）主持。 Salvatore T. March held the chair from 1987 to 1992 and Gul Agha from 2000 to 2007.^[7]

• Standing in the field: the journal has long been treated as the benchmark for review publishing in computing学科地位： 本刊长期被视为计算机领域综述类刊物的标杆，许多综述成为后续教科书与课程大纲的基础引用，也是跨子领域研究者进入陌生方向的常用起点。 many of its surveys become the base citations of later textbooks and syllabuses, and it remains the customary starting point for researchers entering an unfamiliar subfield.^[5]