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Journal of Systems and Software Template

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About the Journal of Systems and Software format

Journal of Systems and Software is a peer-reviewed journal published by Elsevier, covering Software Engineering Research, Software Reliability and Analysis Research, Software Engineering Techniques and Practices. Over its lifetime it has published 6,946 papers, which have received 190,560 citations.

PublisherElsevier
Reference styleNumbered (Elsevier)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
[1] A. Smith, B. Jones, C. Lee, A representative article title, Journal of Systems and Software 12 (2023) 45–58.

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Publishes research inSoftware Engineering Research Software Reliability and Analysis Research Software Engineering Techniques and Practices Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies Software System Performance and Reliability
ISSN0164-1212
Citation impact (2-yr)3.66
h-index164
i10-index3,508
Article processing charge$3,560
Top institutions publishing hereBlekinge Institute of Technology
Journal websitewww.elsevier.com
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Papers published in Journal of Systems and Software per year

204
2014
221
2015
269
2016
213
2017
197
2018
200
2019
197
2020
202
2021
190
2022
255
2023
283
2024
348
2025

Citation impact of Journal of Systems and Software by publication year

6.8K
2014
9.1K
2015
10.8K
2016
7.4K
2017
7.2K
2018
6.1K
2019
5.8K
2020
4.1K
2021
4.6K
2022
3.7K
2023
2K
2024
723
2025

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

Most-cited papers in Journal of Systems and Software

A decade of agile methodologies: Towards explaining agile software development

Torgeir Dingsøyr, Sridhar Nerur, VenuGopal Balijepally et al. · 7 Mar 2012

Ever since the agile manifesto was created in 2001, the research community has devoted a great deal of attention to agile software development. This article examines publications and citations to illustrate how the research on agile has progressed in the 10 years following the articulation of the manifesto. Specifically, we delineate the conceptual structure underlying…

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Journal of Systems and Software template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Journal of Systems and Software format?
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What reference style does Journal of Systems and Software use?
Journal of Systems and Software uses Numbered (Elsevier) references, shown as numbered [1], [2] markers in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, C. Lee, A representative article title, Journal of Systems and Software 12 (2023) 45–58.
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Elsevier journal (elsarticle). It is a multidisciplinary journal, published by Elsevier.
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