Communications of the ACM

Communications of the ACM is the flagship monthly magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery, published since January 1958 with Alan J. Perlis as its first editor-in-chief, covering research, practice, news and opinion across all of computing and free for all readers since its March 2024 relaunch as a web-first publication, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 7.1《ACM 通讯》（Communications of the ACM）是美国计算机学会（Association for Computing Machinery）的旗舰月刊，1958 年 1 月创刊，首任主编为（Alan J. Perlis），内容涵盖计算领域的研究、实践、新闻与观点，2024 年 3 月以「网络优先」形式改版后向所有读者免费开放，2025 年影响因子为 7.1。

Scope

• It is written for computing and information technology professionals and aims to give a broad perspective on computing practice and research rather than narrow technical detail该刊面向计算与信息技术从业者，旨在提供计算实践与研究的宽广视角，而非狭窄的技术细节。
• Its five editorial sections are Opinion, Research and Advances, Practice, Research Highlights and News, alongside Letters to the Editor and a lighter section called Last Byte该刊设五个编辑板块，即观点、研究与进展、实践、研究精华、新闻，此外还有「致编辑的信」与轻松的（Last Byte）板块。
• Opinion carries commentary on issues of broad interest to the computing community and welcomes controversial positions that are argued fairly观点板块刊载计算界广泛关注议题的评论，欢迎以公平论证支撑的争议性立场。
• Research and Advances presents innovative ideas, open challenges, technical visions and research results of broad interest, while Practice publishes articles of lasting value to practitioners and welcomes exemplary runnable code研究与进展板块呈现创新思想、开放挑战、技术愿景与广受关注的研究成果，实践板块则发表对从业者有长期价值的文章，并欢迎可供运行的示范代码。
• Research Highlights republishes outstanding research selected from a range of computing publications, each paired with a one-page Technical Perspective essay commissioned by the editorial board研究精华板块从众多计算类出版物中精选优秀研究重新刊发，每篇配有一页由编委会约请撰写的「技术视角」（Technical Perspective）评述。
• Research and Advances, Practice and Research Highlights submissions run to at most ten, ten and eight pages respectively, with reference limits of forty, forty and twenty-five研究与进展、实践、研究精华三类投稿的篇幅上限分别为 10 页、10 页与 8 页，参考文献上限分别为 40、40 与 25 条。
• All content is accessible without charge or sign-in, while commenting and use of the ACM Digital Library require an ACM Web Account全部内容无需付费或注册即可访问，但发表评论与使用（ACM Digital Library）需注册（ACM）网络账户。

History

• The first issue appeared in January 1958 as the second formal publication of the ACM after the Journal of the ACM began in 1954, with Alan J. Perlis as founding editor-in-chief创刊号于 1958 年 1 月面世，是（ACM）继 1954 年创刊的（Journal of the ACM）之后的第二种正式出版物，首任主编为（Alan J. Perlis）。
• Planning for the new publication was carried out in 1957 by an ACM committee chaired by Saul Gorn该刊的筹办工作由（ACM）1957 年组建、由（Saul Gorn）担任主席的委员会负责。
• Computing Reviews was inaugurated as part of Communications, which grew from a research bulletin into the association's flagship magazine（Computing Reviews）最初作为该刊的一部分问世，该刊也从早期研究通讯成长为学会的旗舰杂志。
• Robert L. Ashenhurst was editor-in-chief from 1973 to 1983 and wrote a review of the magazine's first quarter century in its twenty-fifth year（Robert L. Ashenhurst）于 1973 至 1983 年任主编，并在该刊第 25 年时撰写了回顾创刊四分之一世纪的文章。^[1]
• Moshe Y. Vardi of Rice University held the post from 2008 until 2022, having been asked to revitalise and redefine the magazine莱斯大学（Rice University）的（Moshe Y. Vardi）自 2008 年至 2022 年担任主编，其使命是重振并重新定位该刊。
• ACM relaunched CACM in March 2024 as a web-first publication accessible to everyone without charge, part of its transition to becoming a fully open access publisher2024 年 3 月，（ACM）将该刊改版为向所有人免费开放的「网络优先」出版物，作为其向完全开放获取出版方转型的一步。
• The magazine is still published monthly on paper and as a PDF digital edition, while ACM journals and transactions ceased print publication in January 2024, and its Journal Impact Factor was 14.065 for 2022, 12.2 for 2024 and 7.1 for 2025该刊仍为月刊，继续出版纸本与 PDF 电子版，而（ACM）旗下期刊与汇刊已于 2024 年 1 月停止纸本出版，其影响因子 2022 年为 14.065，2024 年为 12.2，2025 年为 7.1。

Editors

• James Larus, a professor and former dean of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL, was named editor-in-chief in 2022（James Larus）为洛桑联邦理工学院（EPFL）计算机与通信科学学院教授、前任院长，2022 年出任主编。
• Larus succeeded Andrew A. Chien of the University of Chicago, who had been editor-in-chief since 2017（Larus）接替自 2017 年起任主编的芝加哥大学（University of Chicago）的（Andrew A. Chien）。
• He steered the magazine back towards its roots as a forum for the whole computing community and rebuilt its website and mission他推动该刊回归服务整个计算界论坛的办刊本源，并重塑了其网站与使命。
• An editorial board led by the editor-in-chief oversees content selection in every section, and the selection criteria vary from section to section由主编领导的编委会负责各板块的内容遴选，各板块的遴选标准各不相同。
• Submissions are peer-reviewed, and the editorial board and the editor-in-chief review all submissions and retain the right to accept or reject any of them投稿须经同行评审，编委会与主编审阅全部投稿，并保留对其录用或退稿的权利。
• Simultaneous submission to another magazine or journal is declined outright, and accepted articles are heavily edited and copyedited to the Chicago Manual of Style house style一稿多投至其他杂志或期刊者会被直接退稿，录用文章也会经过大量编辑加工，并按（The Chicago Manual of Style）与刊内风格进行文字校订。