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About the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems format

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems is a peer-reviewed journal published by ACM, covering Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Distributed systems and fault tolerance, Advanced Data Storage Technologies. Over its lifetime it has published 621 papers, which have received 85,921 citations.

PublisherACM
Reference styleNumbered (ACM)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
[1] Ada Smith, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. A representative article title. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 12, 3, Article 45 (2023).

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Publishes research inParallel Computing and Optimization Techniques Distributed systems and fault tolerance Advanced Data Storage Technologies Cloud Computing and Resource Management Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
ISSN0734-2071
Citation impact (2-yr)1.26
h-index139
i10-index439
Top institutions publishing hereCarnegie Mellon University
Journal websitetocs.acm.org
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Papers published in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems per year

12
2014
19
2015
16
2016
18
2017
16
2018
9
2019
7
2020
6
2021
3
2022
7
2023
6
2024
29
2025

Citation impact of ACM Transactions on Computer Systems by publication year

1.8K
2014
1.2K
2015
412
2016
336
2017
241
2018
145
2019
44
2020
55
2021
14
2022
45
2023
16
2024
44
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

Bigtable

Fay W. Chang, Jay B. Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat et al. · 1 Jun 2008

Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. Many projects at Google store data in Bigtable, including web indexing, Google Earth, and Google Finance. These applications place very different demands on Bigtable, both in terms…

3,439 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
The part-time parliament

Leslie Lamport · 1 May 1998

Recent archaeological discoveries on the island of Paxos reveal that the parliament functioned despite the peripatetic propensity of its part-time legislators. The legislators maintained consistent copies of the parliamentary record, despite their frequent forays from the chamber and the forgetfulness of their messengers. The Paxon parliament's protocol provides a new way of implementing the state…

2,725 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
A logic of authentication

Michael T. Burrows, Martı́n Abadi, Roger M. Needham · 1 Feb 1990

Authentication protocols are the basis of security in many distributed systems, and it is therefore essential to ensure that these protocols function correctly. Unfortunately, their design has been extremely error prone. Most of the protocols found in the literature contain redundancies or security flaws. A simple logic has allowed us to describe the beliefs of…

2,522 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Practical byzantine fault tolerance and proactive recovery

Miguel Castro, Barbara Liskov · 7 Oct 2002

Our growing reliance on online services accessible on the Internet demands highly available systems that provide correct service without interruptions. Software bugs, operator mistakes, and malicious attacks are a major cause of service interruptions and they can cause arbitrary behavior, that is, Byzantine faults. This article describes a new replication algorithm, BFT, that can be…

2,474 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Distributed snapshots

K. Mani Chandy, Leslie Lamport · 1 Feb 1985

This paper presents an algorithm by which a process in a distributed system determines a global state of the system during a computation. Many problems in distributed systems can be cast in terms of the problem of detecting global states. For instance, the global state detection algorithm helps to solve an important class of problems:…

2,441 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

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