IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

{{Infobox journal

| cover =

| editor = Sebastian Uchitel

| discipline = Software engineering

| abbreviation = IEEE Trans. Softw. Eng.

| publisher = IEEE Computer Society

| country =

| frequency = Monthly

| history = 1975–present

| openaccess =

| license =

| impact = 6.5

| impact-year =2023

| website = https://www.computer.org/csdl/journal/ts

| link1 = http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=32

| link1-name = Online access

| link2 = http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=32

| link2-name = Online archive

| JSTOR =

| OCLC = 1434336

| LCCN = 75644175

| CODEN = IESEDJ

| ISSN = 0098-5589

| eISSN = 1939-3520

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The IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Computer Society. It was established in 1975 and covers the area of software engineering. It is considered the leading journal in this field.{{cite journal |author=Wohlin, Claes |title=An analysis of the most cited articles in software engineering journals — 2000 |journal=Information and Software Technology |volume=49 |pages=2–11 |year=2007 |url=http://gridbus.org/press/MostCited-ArticliesIn-SoftwareEngineering-1986-2005.pdf |doi=10.1016/j.infsof.2006.08.004 |access-date=2008-01-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080722215253/http://gridbus.org/press/MostCited-ArticliesIn-SoftwareEngineering-1986-2005.pdf |archive-date=2008-07-22 |url-status=dead }}

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 6.5.{{cite book |year=2024 |chapter=IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering |title=2023 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Clarivate |edition=Science |via=Web of Science |title-link=Journal Citation Reports}}

Past editors-in-chief

Name

| Affiliation

| Term

Nenad Medvidović

| University of Southern California

| 2018–2022

Matthew B. Dwyer

| University of Nebraska–Lincoln

| 2014–2017

Bashar Nuseibeh

| Open University

| 2010–2013

Jeffrey Kramer

| Imperial College London

| 2006–2009

John C. Knight

| University of Virginia

| 2002–2005

Anneliese A. Andrews

| University of Denver

| 2000–2001

Richard Kemmerer

| University of California, Santa Barbara

| 1996–1999

Nancy Leveson

| Massachusetts Institute of Technology

| 1992–1995

Victor Basili

| University of Maryland, College Park

| 1988–1991

C. V. Ramamoorthy

| University of California, Berkeley

| 1984–1987

Laszlo A. Belady

| Thomas J. Watson Research Center

| 1980–1983

Raymond T. Yeh 

| University of Maryland, College Park

| 1975–1979

See also

References

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