''ACM Transactions on Algorithms'' (''TALG'') is a quarterly
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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Content
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covering the field of
algorithms
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. It was established in 2005 and is published by the
Association for Computing Machinery. The
editor-in-chief
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is Edith Cohen. The journal was created when the
editorial board
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of the
''Journal of Algorithms'' resigned out of protest to the pricing policies of the publisher,
Elsevier
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. Apart from regular submissions, the journal also invites selected papers from the
''ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)''.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the
Science Citation Index Expanded,
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History
''Cur ...
/Engineering, Computing & Technology,
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.Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2020 impact factor
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of 1.104.
Past editors
The following persons have been editors-in-chief of the journal:
See also
*''Algorithmica
''Algorithmica'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal focusing on research and the application of computer science algorithms. The journal was established in 1986 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media. The editor in chief is ...
''
* ''Algorithms'' (journal)
References
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Quarterly journals
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