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Journal of the ACM is a peer-reviewed journal published by ACM, covering Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs, semigroups and automata theory, Logic, programming, and type systems. Over its lifetime it has published 3,296 papers, which have received 401,898 citations.

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

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Publishes research inComplexity and Algorithms in Graphs semigroups and automata theory Logic, programming, and type systems Algorithms and Data Compression Optimization and Search Problems
ISSN0004-5411
Citation impact (2-yr)4.19
h-index294
i10-index2,343
Top institutions publishing hereMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Journal websitejacm.acm.org
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Papers published in Journal of the ACM per year

46
2014
57
2015
53
2016
61
2017
54
2018
43
2019
36
2020
48
2021
47
2022
38
2023
45
2024
34
2025

Citation impact of Journal of the ACM by publication year

2.2K
2014
2.6K
2015
2.2K
2016
1.8K
2017
1.6K
2018
694
2019
748
2020
639
2021
500
2022
277
2023
331
2024
65
2025

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

Most-cited papers in Journal of the ACM

Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment

Jon Kleinberg · 1 Sep 1999

The network structure of a hyperlinked environment can be a rich source of information about the content of the environment, provided we have effective means for understanding it. We develop a set of algorithmic tools for extracting information from the link structures of such environments, and report on experiments that demonstrate their effectiveness in a…

9,071 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Scheduling Algorithms for Multiprogramming in a Hard-Real-Time Environment

C. L. Liu, J. W. Layland · 1 Jan 1973

The problem of multiprogram scheduling on a single processor is studied from the viewpoint of the characteristics peculiar to the program functions that need guaranteed service. It is shown that an optimum fixed priority scheduler possesses an upper bound to processor utilization which may be as low as 70 percent for large task sets. It…

8,359 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Robust principal component analysis?

Emmanuel J. Candès, Xiaodong Li, Yi Ma et al. · 1 May 2011

This article is about a curious phenomenon. Suppose we have a data matrix, which is the superposition of a low-rank component and a sparse component. Can we recover each component individually? We prove that under some suitable assumptions, it is possible to recover both the low-rank and the sparse components exactly by solving a very…

6,886 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty process

Michael J. Fischer, Nancy Lynch, Michael S. Paterson · 1 Apr 1985

The consensus problem involves an asynchronous system of processes, some of which may be unreliable. The problem is for the reliable processes to agree on a binary value. In this paper, it is shown that every protocol for this problem has the possibility of nontermination, even with only one faulty process. By way of contrast,…

4,566 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
`` Direct Search'' Solution of Numerical and Statistical Problems

Robert Hooke, T. A. Jeeves · 1 Apr 1961

article Free Access`` Direct Search'' Solution of Numerical and Statistical Problems Authors: Robert Hooke Wesinghouse Research Laboratories, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Wesinghouse Research Laboratories, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaView Profile , T. A. Jeeves Wesinghouse Research Laboratories, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Wesinghouse Research Laboratories, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaView Profile Authors Info & Claims Journal of the ACMVolume 8Issue 2April 1961 pp 212–229https://doi.org/10.1145/321062.321069Published:01 April 1961Publication…

4,262 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

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What reference style does Journal of the ACM use?
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