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Manuscript Auditing →01Impact factor
Impact factor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2026)
The impact factor shown here is the 2-year mean citedness: citations received in a year by the papers IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering published in the two previous years, divided by the number of those papers. That is the same formula as the Journal Impact Factor, applied to the open citation data of OpenAlex. The journal is listed in JCR 2024, so it also has an official Journal Impact Factor published by Clarivate, which can differ because it counts citations from Web of Science journals only.
Rank in its subject categories
- Q1Computer Science, Software Engineeringrank 9 of 134 journals
- Q1Engineering, Electrical & Electronicrank 34 of 382 journals
Quartiles here rank journals of the same Web of Science category by 2-year citedness; they are not the official JCR quartiles.
Citations and papers per year
Article processing charge listed at about US$2,645.
02Indexing
Indexing of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
- ISSN
- 0098-5589
- eISSN
- 1939-3520
- Publisher
- IEEE Computer Soc
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Scopus source type
- Journal
- Web of Science categories
- Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
From the indexing lists used on ScholarsColab, updated 1 March 2026. Indexing can change: confirm on the Web of Science Master Journal List or the Scopus source list before submitting. Official Journal Impact Factors and JCR quartiles are published by Clarivate; the impact factor and quartile on this page are calculated from OpenAlex open data (see how the impact factor works).
03What it publishes
What IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering publishes: real papers
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04Published papers
Papers published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Papers from the publication records ScholarsColab tracks, with their year and citations. Author names are not shown.
- Rumadai: A plug-in to record and replay client-side events of web sites with dynamic content20126 citations
- Semantic Consensus Decoding: Backdoor Defense for Verilog Code Generation20260 citations
- Cold-Start Anti-Patterns and Refactorings in Serverless Systems: An Empirical Study20260 citations
- Software Vulnerability Detection Using a Lightweight Graph Neural Network20260 citations
- An empirical smart contracts latency analysis on ethereum blockchain for trustworthy inter-provider agreements20240 citations
05Reviewer comments
Reviewer comments and rejection reasons for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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How it works: no AI or language model is used. Your words are matched against the titles of real published journal papers, by our mentors and by other researchers (shown without names); journals are ranked by how many closely matching papers they published. Indexing comes from the SCIE, SSCI, AHCI, ESCI, Scopus and JCR 2024 lists, matched by journal name; “not found in our indexing lists” does not prove a journal is unindexed. Always check a journal’s scope and current indexing before submitting.
08Questions
Frequently asked questions
What is the impact factor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering?
Based on OpenAlex citation data (October 2026), the 2-year impact factor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering is 7.27: papers it published in the two previous years were cited 7.27 times on average in a year. The journal is listed in JCR 2024, so Clarivate also publishes an official Journal Impact Factor, which can differ.
What is the h-index of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering?
The h-index of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering is 294 (OpenAlex, October 2026): 294 of its papers have each been cited at least 294 times. Its i10-index is 3,708.
What is the APC of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering?
OpenAlex lists an article processing charge (APC) of about US$2,645 for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (data from October 2026). APCs change and can differ by article type, country or discounts, so confirm the current charge on the journal’s website before submitting.
Is IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering a Q1 journal?
By 2-year citedness, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering ranks 9 of 134 journals in Computer Science, Software Engineering, which places it in Q1 of that Web of Science category. This ranking is calculated by ScholarsColab from OpenAlex data; the official JCR quartile can differ.
Is IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering indexed in Scopus?
Yes. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering appears in the Scopus list, according to the indexing lists used on ScholarsColab (updated 1 March 2026). Always confirm the current status on the official list before submitting.
Is IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering an SCIE journal?
Yes. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering is listed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), according to the indexing lists used on ScholarsColab (updated 1 March 2026). Always confirm the current status on the official list before submitting.
Is IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering in Journal Citation Reports (JCR)?
Yes. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering is listed in JCR 2024, so it has a Journal Impact Factor. For the current impact factor and quartile, check Journal Citation Reports.
What topics does IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering publish?
The papers published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering that we track most often mention empirical. Check the journal’s aims and scope for its full coverage.
How many papers published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering does ScholarsColab track?
We track 5 papers published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering between 2012 and 2026, cited 6 times in total, with a median of 0 citations per paper.
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