ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation

ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation is a scholarly journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, which publishes work at the point where economic theory and the theory of computation meet.《美国计算机学会经济与计算汇刊》是美国计算机学会出版的一份学术期刊，刊载经济学理论与计算理论交汇处的研究。

It began in 2013, appears four times a year, and its 2025 impact factor is 1.3 with a five-year value of 1.8.该刊创刊于 2013 年，每年出四期，2025 年的影响因子为 1.3，五年值为 1.8。

Much of what it publishes is written for the community of game theory and mechanism design, and a steady part of each year is given over to guest-edited special issues.刊物所载多面向博弈论与机制设计这一社群，每年固定有一部分篇幅留给客座主编的专刊。

Scope

• The two fields in the title are the declared frame, and the journal presents work that uses one to shed light on the other.刊名中的那两个学科即其声明的框架，刊物呈现的是以其中一个照亮另一个的研究。

• Algorithmic game theory runs through the journal, appearing both in research articles and in the special issues devoted to the annual symposium of that name.算法博弈论贯穿全刊，既见于研究论文，也见于以该年度研讨会命名的专刊。

• Mechanism design is a standing subject, with papers that set out rules and ask how behaviour changes once the rules are in place.机制设计是常设主题，论文给出规则，并追问规则落定之后行为会如何改变。

• Auctions and the design of markets occupy a large share of what has appeared, including the analysis of payment rules and of the information a mechanism demands.拍卖与市场设计占相当比重，其中包括对支付规则的分析，以及对某一机制所需信息的考察。

• The economics of computation is a special case the journal has made its own, and it has devoted several issues to the workshop that carries that name.计算经济学是刊物据为己有的一块，多个专刊专门投向以该名号举办的研讨会。

• Web and internet economics has been marked in the same way, with issues built around the meeting devoted to that subject.网络与互联网经济学同样以专刊的形式呈现，议题围绕该领域的专门会议编排。

• Empirical work is accepted as well, using data on markets, platforms and online systems to test questions raised by the theory.实证研究同样在受理之列，以市场、平台与在线系统的数据去检验理论提出的问题。

• Incentives inside computing systems are examined too, from the design of a protocol to the way an online platform allocates scarce resources.计算系统内部的激励问题也在考察之列，从协议设计到在线平台分配稀缺资源的方式。

• Markets that are built out of software are treated as markets in their own right, and their equilibrium behaviour is analysed formally.由软件构成的市场被当作独立的市场对待，其均衡行为以形式化的方式加以分析。

• Prediction markets and the pricing of information appear in the journal, along with the study of how buyers and sellers behave under uncertainty.预测市场与信息定价也在刊内出现，并研究与买卖双方在不确定性下的行为。

• Work at the boundary of the two disciplines is what the journal is for, and it is aimed at readers who move between them.两大学科交界处的工作正是该刊的着眼点，其读者对象是在二者之间往来的研究者。

• Those readers include economists who write about computing systems, computer scientists who model economic behaviour, and both the designers of markets and the people who regulate them.这些读者中既有研究计算系统的经济学家，也有为经济行为建模的计算机科学家，还有市场设计者与相关监管者。

• Articles are grouped into regular issues and into the guest-edited special issues, and both forms carry original work of the kind the journal describes.论文分为常规各期与客座主编的专刊，两种形式都刊载该刊所描述的那类原创成果。

• The proceedings of the meetings that the journal covers are usually printed as a dedicated issue, which is why its pages are thick with papers on auction theory and algorithmic design.该刊所涉会议的论文集通常印成专门的专刊，这也是其篇幅中充满拍卖理论与算法设计论文的原因。

History

• Association for Computing Machinery is the publisher, and the journal carries both a print ISSN 2167-8375 and an online ISSN 2167-8383.出版方是美国计算机学会，该刊同时拥有印刷版 ISSN 2167-8375 与电子版 ISSN 2167-8383。

• Its first number appeared in 2013, and the registry of international standard serials notes that the title was taken from the cover of that issue.该刊第一期于 2013 年问世，国际标准连续出版物号登记机构记载，刊名取自那一期的封面。

• Volume 1 carries four issues, volume 2 four, and the pattern holds through the years, with the third and fourth numbers combined in 2018 and again in 2023.第 1 卷四期，第 2 卷四期，此一格局贯穿各年，唯独 2018 年与 2023 年的第三、四期合并出版。

• Volume 14 is the current one, dated 2026, and the volumes have run one per year since the first.最新一卷为第 14 卷，出版年份是 2026 年，自创刊以来每年一卷。

• Articles are deposited under the prefix 10.1145, the one the association uses for everything it publishes.论文以 10.1145 前缀存档，这是该学会全部出版物共用的前缀。

• The opening editorial of volume 1 was written by Vincent Conitzer and R. Preston McAfee, who set out what the new journal was for.第 1 卷的卷首社论由（Vincent Conitzer）与（R. Preston McAfee）撰写，文中说明了这份新刊的宗旨。^[1]

• The second issue of that first volume was given over to algorithmic game theory, and later volumes have carried the special issue on the economics of computation more than once.创刊号第二期整期交给了算法博弈论，后来的各卷又多次刊出计算经济学的专刊。

• Volume 3 in 2015 carried a special issue drawn from the workshop on the economics of computation of 2012, and its fourth issue was given to the web and internet economics meeting of 2013.2015 年的第 3 卷刊有源自 2012 年计算经济学研讨会的专刊，其第 4 期则交给了 2013 年的网络与互联网经济学会议。

• Volume 4 in 2016 followed the same pattern with the workshop of 2014, and volume 6 in 2018 took the papers of 2015.2016 年的第 4 卷沿用同一格局，刊出 2014 年研讨会的论文，2018 年的第 6 卷则收 2015 年的论文。

• Volume 8 in 2020 carried a special issue on the economics of computation of 2017 as well as one on the meeting of 2019.2020 年的第 8 卷既刊有 2017 年计算经济学会的专刊，也有 2019 年会议的专刊。

• Volume 9 in 2021 took the web and internet economics meeting of 2018 in two parts, and volume 10 in 2022 the meeting of 2020.2021 年的第 9 卷分两期刊出 2018 年网络与互联网经济学会议的内容，2022 年的第 10 卷则刊出 2020 年会议的内容。

• The 2026 volume continues the practice with a special issue for the symposium on algorithmic game theory of 2024.2026 年的这一卷延续惯例，刊出了 2024 年算法博弈论研讨会的专刊。

• In the 2025 edition of the journal citation report the journal is listed among the interdisciplinary applications of computer science, in the fourth quartile, with an indicator of 1.3.在 2025 年版期刊引证报告中，该刊列入计算机科学交叉应用类目，列第四区，期刊引证指标为 1.3。

• That indicator has moved from 1.1 in 2023 to 1.3 in 2025, and the journal publishes about nineteen papers a year, with a cited half life of 6.5 years.这一指标从 2023 年的 1.1 升至 2025 年的 1.3，该刊每年约发十九篇论文，被引半衰期为 6.5 年。

Editors

• Two editors-in-chief were named at the outset, Vincent Conitzer of Duke University and R. Preston McAfee, then at Google.创刊时设有两位主编，分别是杜克大学的（Vincent Conitzer）与当时任职于 Google 的（R. Preston McAfee）。

• In 2017 the journal changed hands, and an editorial from the incoming co-editors-in-chief was published to mark the change, the new names being David Pennock and Ilya Segal.2017 年该刊易手，并以新任共同主编的一篇社论记录了这一更替，新任者为（David Pennock）与（Ilya Segal）。^[2]

• A second handover came in 2023, with another editorial from the new co-editors-in-chief, Paul Goldberg of Oxford University and Utku Ünver of Boston College.2023 年又有一轮更替，新任共同主编以社论告知读者，两人是牛津大学的（Paul Goldberg）与波士顿学院的（Utku Ünver）。^[3]

• The pattern is therefore a pair rather than a single editor-in-chief, and the pair has changed twice since the journal began.由此可见该刊设的是双主编而非单一主编，且自创刊以来已两度更换人选。

• Both of the most recent co-editors sit in economics departments, one at Oxford and the other at Boston College, which fits a journal built on a meeting of two fields.最近一任两位共同主编都任职于经济学系，一人供职牛津大学，另一人供职波士顿学院，这与一份建立在两大学科交汇之上的刊物相合。

• The guest editors of the special issues come from the same field as the authors they invite, and each of them writes an introduction to the issue.专刊的客座主编与受邀作者出自同一领域，并由每位客座主编为该期撰写导言。

• Those introductions are themselves published in the journal, which makes them a record of how each subfield of economics and computation was framed at the time.这些导言本身也在刊物中发表，因而成为各专题在当时的框定方式的记录。

• The journal appears in the digital library of the association, and the publisher's own site sets out the guidance for authors who wish to submit.该刊收录于该学会的数字图书馆，出版方自有的网站则列明供投稿作者查阅的指南。

• Its place in the publisher's portfolio is among the interdisciplinary titles, where it carries the journal citation report category of the interdisciplinary applications of computer science.它在出版方的期刊序列中属于交叉类刊物，所对应的期刊引证报告类目是计算机科学的交叉应用。

• A substantial share of what it publishes is openly available to readers, and the report on the 2025 edition gives the proportion of gold open access articles as just under half.其刊载内容有相当一部分向读者开放获取，2025 年版报告给出的金色开放获取文章比例接近一半。

• Editors have used the journal to mark the changes of guard, a practice that leaves a short published record of who was in charge and when.编辑们以刊物自身记录看守更替，这一做法留下了一小段关于谁在何时主持的公开记载。