Journal of Systems and Software
The Journal of Systems and Software is a computer science journal in the area of software systems, established in 1979 and published by Elsevier.

The journal publishes research papers, state-of-the-art surveys, and practical experience reports. It includes papers covering issues of programming methodology, software engineering, and hardware/software systems. Topics include: "software systems, prototyping issues, high-level specification techniques, procedural and functional programming techniques, data-flow concepts, multiprocessing, real-time, distributed, concurrent, and telecommunications systems, software metrics, reliability models for software, performance issues, and management concerns."

Impact factor and h5-index
According to the 2020 Journal Citation Reports, the Journal of Systems and Software has an impact factor of 2.829.
According to Google Scholar, the journal has an h5-index of 61, which ranks no. 2 among international publication venues in software systems.

Past Editors in Chief 

 John Manley and Alan Salisbury (1979-1983)
 Richard E. Fairley (1984-1985)
 Robert L. Glass (1986-2001)
 David N. Card (2002-2008)
 Hans van Vliet (2009-2017)
 Paris Avgeriou & David Shepherd (2018-current)

Notable articles
A few of the most notable (downloaded) articles are:
 Software defect prediction based on enhanced metaheuristic feature selection optimization and a hybrid deep neural network
 A software engineering perspective on engineering machine learning systems: State of the art and challenges
 MeTeaM: A method for characterizing mature software metrics teams

References

External links
 
 Online access

Publications established in 1979
Computer science journals
Software engineering publications
Systems engineering
Elsevier academic journals
English-language journals
Monthly journals