Aim & Scope

Aim

International Journal of Computing Systems and Software Engineering provides a peer-reviewed venue for computing systems and software engineering. The journal is intended for software engineering scholars, systems researchers, developers of research infrastructure, and computing educators. Its editorial goal is to publish articles that make the research question, method, evidence, and limitations visible enough for readers to evaluate and reuse.

Core Scope

The journal considers manuscripts in the following areas:

  • Original studies in software architecture with transparent assumptions and evaluable evidence.
  • Research on distributed systems that explains methods, data, and interpretation limits.
  • Applied work involving program analysis where practical relevance is supported by analysis rather than assertion.
  • Interdisciplinary work connecting reliable computing to adjacent scientific, engineering, health, environmental, social, or policy questions.

Article Types Considered

The journal may consider empirical software studies, systems papers, tool papers, replication studies, education reports, and reviews. Article type should be selected according to the main contribution, not according to desired length or perceived prestige.

Method and Evidence Expectations

For this field, manuscripts should pay particular attention to:

  • system architecture
  • experimental workload
  • software versioning
  • evaluation environment
  • threats to validity

Out of Scope

The journal does not consider manuscripts that are purely promotional, lack a research question, duplicate previously published work, make unsupported clinical or policy claims, present unverifiable results, or fall outside computing systems and software engineering. Manuscripts that are technically sound but do not fit the journal's subject identity may be returned before peer review.

Editorial Standard

The journal does not require spectacular novelty. It requires a clear contribution, appropriate citations, transparent methods, relevant ethical approvals where needed, and a limitations section. Reviewers and editors should ask whether the work is trustworthy and useful for its intended readership.