ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems

The ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) is a bimonthly, open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal on the topic of programming languages published by the Association for Computing Machinery.

ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems

Discipline	Programming language
Language	English
Edited by	Andrew C. Myers
Publication details
History	1979–present
Publisher	ACM (United States)
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	0.410 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0164-0925 (print) 1558-4593 (web)
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

Background

Published since 1979, the journal's scope includes programming language design, implementation, and semantics of programming languages, compilers and interpreters, run-time systems, storage allocation and garbage collection, and formal specification, testing, and verification of software. It is indexed in Scopus and SCImago.^[1]

The editor-in-chief is Andrew Myers (Cornell University).^[2] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2020 impact factor of 0.410.^[3]