ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems
# ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems

The ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) is a bimonthly, open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal on the topic of programming languages published by the Association for Computing Machinery.

## Background

Published since 1979, the journal's scope includes programming language design, implementation, and semantics of programming languages, compilers and interpreters, run-time systems, storage allocation and garbage collection, and formal specification, testing, and verification of software. It is indexed in Scopus and SCImago.

The editor-in-chief is Andrew Myers (Cornell University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2020 impact factor of 0.410.

