Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience

About the Journal

Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience (SCPE, ISSN: 1895-1767) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to the present and future of parallel and distributed computing. Established in 2005 (as a proud continuation of Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices, founded in the late 1990s), SCPE boasts a rich history of over two decades in publishing cutting-edge research in computer science. The journal is published quarterly online by the West University of Timisoara.

• Open Access — free for readers, with an Article Processing Charge (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.

• High Visibility: Currently indexed in EBSCO, dblp - Computer Science, and CiteFactor. Historical archives and past volumes remain highly discoverable in Web of Science (ESCI, covered up to 2025) and Scopus (covered 2005–2022).

• Journal Metrics: Impact Factor: 0.9 (JCR 2023) / CiteScore: 1.0 (Scopus 2024 calculation).

• Rapid Publication: manuscripts undergo rigorous single-blind peer review to ensure high scientific quality, with a commitment to providing authors with fast and professional editorial decisions.

• Focus and Scope: strictly focuses on algorithm development, cloud and grid computing, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, and the execution of distributed architectures applied to real-world problems.

• A Rich Academic History: deeply rooted in the computing community, preserving a continuous, open-access publication record that traces back to the early days of scalable computing research.