Requirements Engineering

Requirements Engineering is a Springer journal, issued since 1996, that focuses on the elicitation, representation and validation of the requirements of software-intensive systems. It takes a multi-disciplinary view of that work, and its 2025 impact factor is 3.3.《需求工程》是施普林格出版的一份期刊，自 1996 年发行，关注软件密集型系统需求的获取，表示与确认。该刊对这项工作持多学科视角，2025 年影响因子为 3.3。

Scope

• The journal provides a focus for new results about the elicitation, representation and validation of requirements for software-intensive information systems.该刊为新成果提供一个汇聚之处，这些成果涉及软件密集型信息系统需求的获取，表示与确认。

• Theoretical and applied submissions are welcome, but every paper has to address the practical consequences of its ideas for the design of complex systems.理论与应用投稿都受欢迎，但每篇论文都必须说明其思想对复杂系统设计的实际后果。

• A paper also has to show how its ideas should be judged by a reflective practitioner.论文还必须说明其思想应如何由一位善于反思的从业者来评判。

• The subject is treated as multi-disciplinary, so a requirement is seen as an activity of agreement as much as a specification.该主题被当作多学科的，因此一项需求既被看作规格说明，也被看作达成一致的活动。

• Contributions come from software engineering, from information systems and from human-computer interaction.投稿来自软件工程，信息系统与人机交互。

• Occupational sociology and organisational psychology are named as well, since a requirement arises inside an organisation.职业社会学与组织心理学也被列出，因为需求产生于组织之内。

• Computer-supported cooperative work is on the list of contributing fields.计算机支持的协同工作位于供稿领域清单之上。

• Linguistics and philosophy are named among the fields that contribute, when a paper addresses the subject directly.语言学与哲学被列为供稿领域，条件是一篇论文直接处理该主题。

• Elicitation techniques are studied, including ethnography, task analysis and user-centred approaches.获取技术受到研究，包括民族志，任务分析与以用户为中心的方法。

• Participatory design and facilitation techniques are covered, so a study may look at how people agree on what a system should do.参与式设计与引导技术也在覆盖之列，因此一项研究可以考察人们如何就系统应当做什么达成一致。

• The cultural, political and organisational factors that shape the work are analysed.塑造这项工作的文化，政治与组织因素受到分析。

• The architecture and the functions of computer-based tools for the field are examined.该领域基于计算机的工具的架构与功能受到考察。

• Scenarios, design rationales and argumentation-based approaches are taken as subjects in their own right.场景，设计依据与基于论证的方法本身被当作选题接收。

• The intersection with business engineering is explored, which links the subject to the enterprise.与业务工程的交叉受到探讨，这使该主题与企业相联系。

• The journal takes papers that report what happened when a method was tried on a real project, since a case can teach more than a claim.该刊接收报告某方法在真实项目中试行结果的文章，因为一个案例比一句主张更能教人。

• Work on the quality of a specification is taken, and a paper may ask how far a written statement can be checked.针对规格质量的工作会被接收，论文可以追问一份书面陈述能在多大程度上被核查。

• Studies of large industrial projects appear, because the editors ask for evidence from practice as well as from theory.大型工业项目的研究出现于该刊，因为编辑要求既有来自理论的证据，也有来自实践的证据。

• The journal covers the way a team negotiates what a system will do, and how a disagreement is settled.该刊覆盖团队就系统将做什么进行协商的方式，以及分歧如何解决。

• Tools that help an analyst record and trace a single requirement are examined.帮助分析师记录并追踪单项需求的工具受到考察。

• The boundary between the subject and architecture is explored, since a decision at one level constrains the other.该主题与架构之间的边界受到探讨，因为一个层面的决定会约束另一个层面。

• Reviews that gather findings usually kept apart are welcome, and a paper may set out a unifying view.把通常分散的发现汇集起来的综述受到欢迎，论文可以提出一种统一的看法。

• The journal states that a contribution may come from outside computing when it bears on the subject.该刊声明，来自计算领域之外却关涉该主题的投稿也可以被接收。

• The journal is edited in Europe, and its readership is international.该刊在欧洲编辑，其读者遍及国际。

• Its pages carry both empirical studies and analyses that set out a vision for later work.其版面既载实证研究，也载为后续工作提出愿景的分析。

• A statement of publishing ethics governs authorship and the disclosure of interests.一份出版伦理声明管理署名与利益披露。

• The journal is listed by the indexing services of the computing field, so a paper is easy to find.该刊被计算领域的索引服务收录，因此论文易于找到。

• The journal publishes work on how a requirement is traced from the first interview through to the delivered system, since a break in that chain is where projects tend to go wrong.该刊发表一项需求如何从最初的访谈一直追踪到交付系统的研究，因为这条链条一旦断裂，项目往往就会出问题。

• A paper may examine how a change to a requirement ripples through a design, since late changes are a common source of cost.论文可以考察需求的改动如何波及设计，因为后期改动是成本的常见来源。

• The journal takes studies that compare two ways of writing down what a system must do, and it asks which one a team can actually keep.该刊接收比较两种记述系统必须做什么之方式的研究，并追问哪一种团队真正守得住。

• The journal takes work on the way a requirement is agreed between parties who want different things, since a compromise is where a system is really specified.该刊接收在诉求不同的各方之间就需求达成一致的方式的研究，因为妥协之处才是系统真正被确定之处。

• A paper may report a notation and show what it cannot express, which the editors regard as more useful than a claim of completeness.论文可以报告一种记法并说明它无法表达什么，编辑认为这比声称完备更有用。

• The journal's pages are read by people who build systems as much as by those who study them.构建系统的人与研究系统的人都阅读该刊的版面。

History

• The journal was founded in 1996, and its first volume appeared in that year.该刊创办于 1996 年，其第一卷于当年出版。

• It is published by Springer, under the imprint of Springer-Verlag London.该刊由施普林格出版，使用 Springer-Verlag London 的出版标记。

• The print number is 0947-3602 and the electronic number 1432-010X.其印本刊号为 0947-3602，电子刊号为 1432-010X。

• Publication runs on a hybrid model, so an author may choose the open access route or the subscription one.出版采用混合模式，因此作者可以选择开放获取路径或订阅路径。

• Its impact factor stood at 3.3 for 2025, with a five-year figure of 3.0.其 2025 年影响因子为 3.3，五年影响因子为 3.0。

• Earlier values were 2.1 for 2023 and 2.275 for 2022.较早年份的数值为 2023 年的 2.1 与 2022 年的 2.275。

• The journal reports a median of five days from submission to a first decision.该刊报告投稿至首次决定的中位数为五天。

• It recorded 167000 downloads in 2025, which shows use beyond its authors.该刊 2025 年记录到 167000 次下载，说明其使用超出作者群。

• It is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, in Scopus and in the ACM Digital Library.该刊被科学引文索引扩展版，Scopus 与 ACM 数字图书馆收录。

• DBLP and EI Compendex carry its record as well, and Current Contents lists it under engineering and computing.DBLP 与 EI Compendex 也载有它的记录，Current Contents 在工程与计算之下将其列出。

• Research articles and research commentaries are the two types the journal sets out.研究论文与研究评论是该刊列出的两种类型。

• A research commentary surveys a subject and points to directions for later work.研究评论综述一个主题并指出后续工作的方向。

• Special issues are organised from time to time, and guidelines for them are published on the site.专辑不时组织出版，其指引在网站上公布。

• The journal reached its thirtieth year in 2026, and a set of invited papers appeared for the occasion.该刊在 2026 年迎来三十周年，一批约稿论文为此出版。

Editors

• (Fabiano Dalpiaz) is the editor-in-chief of the journal.（Fabiano Dalpiaz）是该刊主编。

• The journal is edited for Springer, and the editor works with a board that covers the subject.该刊为施普林格编辑，主编与一个覆盖该主题的编委会合作。

• A submission is read by reviewers who work in the area it addresses.投稿由其所属领域的评审人阅读。

• The editors ask that a paper include a scientific means of evaluating what it claims.编辑要求论文包含评价其主张的科学手段。

• Such means may be an experiment, a case study, a simulation or a formal analysis.此类手段可以是实验，案例研究，仿真或形式化分析。

• A research commentary is judged on the strength of its argument rather than on new data.研究评论据其论证的力度来评判，而不是据新数据。

• The editors state that a paper which touches the subject only in passing is not taken.编辑声明只在行文中顺带提及该主题的论文不会被接收。

• The review process is described on the publisher's pages for the journal.评审流程在出版方为该刊设立的页面上有所说明。

• The journal office handles correspondence with authors while a paper is under review.稿件在评审期间，该刊办公室处理与作者的通信。