Software Quality Journal

Software Quality Journal is a quarterly journal that Springer publishes under its Springer US imprint, and it treats software quality management as both a research field and a practical discipline. It was founded in 1992, has kept the same title throughout, and reaches volume 34 in 2026.《软件质量杂志》是 Springer 以 Springer US 书系按季出版的期刊，把软件质量管理同时当作研究领域与实践议题。该刊创刊于 1992 年，刊名沿用至今，2026 年出至第 34 卷。

Coverage runs from quality standards and measurement to testing, formal methods and the organisational side of quality management. The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4, with a five-year figure of 2.2, and the title sits in the third quartile of the JCR software engineering category.内容从质量标准与度量延伸到测试，形式化方法以及质量管理的组织层面。2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，五年影响因子为 2.2，在 JCR 软件工程类目中处于第三四分位。

It is a hybrid open access journal, with 29.51 per cent of recent articles published gold open access. A median of 12 days separates submission from a first decision, and the journal recorded 176,700 downloads in 2025.该刊为混合型开放获取期刊，近年文章中有 29.51% 以金色开放获取方式发表。从投稿到首次决定的中位时间为 12 天，2025 年该刊下载量为 17.67 万次。

Scope

• The aims statement sets three tasks: raising awareness of quality management in the construction, use and maintenance of software systems, providing a forum for exchanging experience and information, and publishing academic work on every aspect of software quality.宗旨声明列出三项任务，即提升人们对质量管理在软件系统构建，使用与维护中作用的认识，为经验与信息的交流提供论坛，并发表涵盖软件质量各个方面的学术成果。

• Contributions may come from industry or academia, and national and international policy and standards bodies are explicitly invited.稿件可以来自产业界或学术界，国家与国际层面的政策机构和标准制定机构也在受邀之列。

• The journal sets out to be the definitive international reference source for information about software quality.该刊以成为软件质量信息的权威国际参考源为目标。

• Research papers, technique papers, case studies, surveys and tutorials are all accepted, so empirical reports and methodological proposals appear side by side.研究论文，技术论文，案例研究，综述与教程均在接收之列，实证报告与方法学提案因此同卷出现。

• Internal and external quality standards form one strand of the scope, covering the standards themselves and the way organisations work to them.内部与外部质量标准构成范围中的一条线索，涉及标准本身以及组织如何按标准运作。

• Management of quality inside organisations is another strand, and the journal approaches it as an organisational question.组织内部的质量管理是另一条线索，该刊把它当作组织问题来处理。

• Technical aspects of quality and the quality concerns of product vendors are named as separate areas.质量的技术层面与产品供应商关注的质量议题被列为独立领域。

• Software measurement and metrics receive explicit treatment, as do software testing and other quality assurance techniques.软件度量与指标得到明确讨论，软件测试及其他质量保证技术同样如此。

• Total quality management and cultural questions sit beside the technical programme, keeping organisational and human factors in view.全面质量管理与文化议题同技术议程并列，组织因素与人的因素因此留在视野之中。

• Data management, formal methods, safety-critical applications and CASE complete the list of technical topics on the aims page.数据管理，形式化方法，安全关键应用与 CASE 构成宗旨页技术议题清单的其余部分。

• Two collections open for submissions in 2026 point to newer directions, one on quantum software quality and one on artificial intelligence and agentic automation for software testing.两份 2026 年仍在征稿的合集指向新的方向，一份聚焦量子软件质量，另一份聚焦人工智能与智能体自动化用于软件测试。

• A collection titled Software Quality in an AI-Driven World gathers work on assurance for systems that contain machine learning components.题为「人工智能驱动世界中的软件质量」的合集汇集了针对含机器学习组件系统的质量保证研究。

• Practice and theory are given equal weight, and case studies sit alongside theoretical papers in the list of accepted formats.实践与理论得到同等重视，案例研究与理论论文在接收体裁中并列。

History

• Volume 1, Issue 1 is dated March 1992, and the imprint on those early issues was Chapman & Hall of Andover, Hampshire.第 1 卷第 1 期标注 1992 年 3 月，早期各期的出版印记为汉普郡安多弗的 Chapman & Hall。

• The opening editorial was signed by Ken Croucher, who also wrote the editorials of several later volumes up to 1995.创刊社论由（Ken Croucher）署名，此后多卷的社论也出自他手，直至 1995 年。^[1]

• That first issue carried six items, including Robin Hunter on software standards and Fahmia Huda with David Preston on Kaizen techniques in IT.创刊号共刊六篇文字，其中包括（Robin Hunter）论软件标准的文章，以及（Fahmia Huda）与（David Preston）论日本改善手法在 IT 业适用性的文章。

• Shari Lawrence Pfleeger and colleagues reported a multiple-metrics study, while R. G. Dromey and A. D. McGettrick wrote on specifying software quality.（Shari Lawrence Pfleeger）与同事报告了多指标分析研究，（R. G. Dromey）与（A. D. McGettrick）则撰文讨论软件质量的规约。

• Copyright lines place the title with Chapman & Hall into the late 1990s, after which Kluwer Academic Publishers held the imprint.版权行显示该刊在 1990 年代后期仍属 Chapman & Hall，此后出版印记转至 Kluwer Academic Publishers。

• The 2004 volume still carried Kluwer's notice, and from 2005 the copyright line reads Springer Science + Business Media.2004 年那一卷仍署 Kluwer 的版权声明，2005 年起版权行改为 Springer Science + Business Media。

• The journal now appears under the Springer US imprint in New York, and NLM records that New York imprint as current.该刊如今以纽约的 Springer US 书系发行，美国国家医学图书馆把纽约印记记为现行出版地。

• Volume numbering has never restarted, so 2026 brings volume 34, thirty-four years after the first.卷号从未重新起算，2026 年出至第 34 卷，距首卷已三十四年。

• Each volume appears in four issues dated March, June, September and December.每卷分四期出版，分别标注 3 月，6 月，9 月与 12 月。

• The title is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, and JCR ranks it in Computer Science, Software Engineering.该刊被 Science Citation Index Expanded 收录，JCR 将其归入计算机科学软件工程类目。

• Abstracting and indexing widened over time, and Scopus, Ei Compendex, DBLP, INSPEC and ACM Digital Library now list the title.收录范围随时间扩展，Scopus，Ei Compendex，DBLP，INSPEC 与 ACM Digital Library 如今都收录该刊。

• The impact factor stood at 1.813 in 2022 and 1.7 in 2023, then rose to 2.3 in 2024 and 2.4 in 2025.影响因子在 2022 年为 1.813，2023 年为 1.7，随后升至 2024 年的 2.3 与 2025 年的 2.4。

• In the 2025 release it stands 67th of 128 journals in the category, a third-quartile placing.在 2025 年发布的榜单中，该刊于该类别的 128 份期刊里排第 67 位，属第三四分位。

• Springer runs the title as a hybrid journal, and 29.51 per cent of recent articles are gold open access.Springer 以混合模式经营该刊，近年文章中有 29.51% 为金色开放获取。

• The digital archive on Springer Nature Link runs from the 1992 first issue to the current volume, so the whole run can be read online.Springer Nature Link 的数字档案从 1992 年创刊号延伸到当前卷，全刊各卷均可在线查阅。

Editors

• Phuong Nguyen of the University of L'Aquila in Italy is Editor-in-Chief.主编为（Phuong Nguyen），任职于意大利拉奎拉大学。

• His research centres on software testing and on tooling for machine-learning models, and his work has appeared in ICSE's journal-first track.他的研究集中在软件测试，以及面向机器学习模型的工具开发，成果曾进入 ICSE 的期刊论文报告专场。

• The editorial board lists 37 members, and between them they work in Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, France, Austria, the Netherlands, Japan, South Korea, Cyprus and Türkiye.编委会列出 37 位成员，所在机构分布于意大利，英国，加拿大，美国，德国，瑞典，西班牙，葡萄牙，法国，奥地利，荷兰，日本，韩国，塞浦路斯与土耳其。

• Italian institutions are strongly represented, with editors at the University of L'Aquila, Milano-Bicocca, Salerno, Naples Federico II and Genoa.意大利机构占据较大比重，拉奎拉大学，米兰比可卡大学，萨莱诺大学，那不勒斯费德里科二世大学与热那亚大学都有编辑任职。

• The list also includes Foutse Khomh of Polytechnique Montréal, Alexander Pretschner of the Technical University of Munich, and Rachel Harrison and Hong Zhu of Oxford Brookes University.名单中还有蒙特利尔理工学院的（Foutse Khomh），慕尼黑工业大学的（Alexander Pretschner），以及牛津布鲁克斯大学的（Rachel Harrison）与（Hong Zhu）。

• Manuscripts go through Springer Nature's online submission system, reached from the Submit your manuscript link on the journal page.稿件经 Springer Nature 的在线投稿系统提交，入口是该刊页面上的「提交稿件」链接。

• Review is single-blind, the journal states, and guest editors do not handle papers they have written for their own issue.该刊说明评审采用单盲方式，客座编辑不处理自己投给该专刊的稿件。

• The median time from submission to first decision is 12 days, and most decisions are reached within three months.从投稿到首次决定的中位时间为 12 天，多数决定在三个月内作出。

• Recent calls have been guest-edited by Maurizio Leotta, Riccardo Coppola and Luca Ardito for gamification of software development, verification and validation.近期的征稿中，软件开发，验证与确认三个环节的游戏化主题由（Maurizio Leotta），（Riccardo Coppola）与（Luca Ardito）担任客座编辑。

• A call on dependable computing for complex systems lists Zheng Zheng, Junjun Zheng and Sigian Gong as guest editors.聚焦复杂系统可信计算的征稿把（Zheng Zheng），（Junjun Zheng）与（Sigian Gong）列为客座编辑。

• Authors declare funding, competing interests and data availability through the submission system, and Springer's editorial policies apply to ethics and misconduct questions.作者通过投稿系统申报资助来源，利益冲突与数据可得性，学术伦理与不端问题的处理适用 Springer 的编辑政策。