Impact Factor News

The 2010 Impact Factor for IET Software is 0.671

Scope

IET Software publishes papers on all aspects of the software lifecycle, including design, development, implementation and maintenance. The focus of the journal is on the methods used to develop and maintain software, and their practical application. Authors are especially encouraged to submit papers on the following topics, although papers on all aspects of software engineering are welcome:

• Software and systems requirements engineering
• Formal methods, design methods, practice and experience
• Software architecture, aspect and object orientation, reuse and re-engineering
• Testing, verification and validation techniques
• Software dependability and measurement
• Human systems engineering and human-computer interaction
• Knowledge engineering; expert and knowledge-based systems, intelligent agents
• Information systems engineering
• Application of software engineering in industry and commerce
• Software engineering technology transfer
• Management of software development
• Theoretical aspects of software development
• Education and training, including continuing professional development

Forthcoming Special Issues

• Web and Requirements Engineering - Call for Papers
• Management of Global Software Development: Opportunities, Challenges and Lessons Learned - Call for Papers
• Selected papers from 15th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2011) - Call for Papers
• European Software Process Improvement (EuroSPI) - Call for Papers
• Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2011) - Call for Papers

Published Special Issues

• Automation of Software Test (AST '09) - Vol.5, No.2, April 2011
• Social Semantic Web Support for Software Development - Volume 4, Number 6, December 2010
• Automated Compositional Verification - Volume 4, Number 3, June 2010

Featured Paper

Exploiting Java scientific libraries with the Scala language within the ScalaLab environment, Vol.5, No.6, p.543–551

Author and Reader Benefits

• Worldwide readership and database coverage (including ISI and Inspec)
• Rapid times to decision (typically less than 16 weeks)
• No page charges to authors
• All content also available via the IEEE Xplore digital library

IET Research Journals are available online (in advance of printed publication) via the IET Digital Library. To access the full-text of articles for this journal, you will need a valid subscription, or you can purchase individual articles by clicking the 'Buy This PDF' link on the article abstract page.

Citing this Journal

IET Software is usually cited by the abbreviated title 'IET Softw.' Every article in this journal is assigned a Crossref DOI, which is displayed on the article abstract page.

Previous Title

Online subscribers to IET Software can access all backfile issues from 2007 onwards as well as all issues of IEE Proceedings Software from 1997-2006 as part of their current online subscription.