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   The Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) is part of the family of journals produced by the ACM. TODS publishes one volume yearly. Each volume is comprised of four issues, which appear in March, June, September and December.

TODS News

July 4, 2009
TODS was ranked 6th of 86 journals indexed in the Software Engineering category, and it is the top Database Journal in this category according to the JCR Science Edition 2008 by Thomson Scientific in terms of Article Influence Score. It is ranked as the 8th out of 99 journals in Information Systems category, and again, it is the top Database Journal in this category in terms of Article Influence Score. The Article Influence Score measures the relative importance of the journal on a per-article basis, and is designed to reflect the prestige and citation influence of journals by considering scholarly literature as a network of journal-to-journal relationships. It is basically the normalized ratio of the number of citations to the total number of articles, excluding self citations.

October 18, 2007
TODS was ranked 3rd of 82 journals indexed in the software engineering category in 2006 in terms of its Journal Impact Factor by Thomson Scientific. The Impact Factor is a ratio of the number of citations in 2006 of a given journal compared to the journal's total citations for 2005 and 2004.

September 17, 2007
The ACM Publications Board has appointed Z. Meral Özsoyoğlu as the sixth Editor-in-Chief of ACM TODS, as of this date. Meral has long experience, serving as Associate Editor and member of the Editorial Board for over six years. She has also served as Vice Chair of ACM SIGMOD and as program chair of PODS.

June 15, 2007
Richard T. Snodgrass's term as Editor-in-Chief ends on July 1, 2007. Betty Salzberg will serve as the interim Editor-in-Chief until a replacement is found. Professor Salzberg's contact information can be found here.

January 27, 2007
A DBR FAQ addressing questions about the new TODS double-blind review procedure is now available.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
 
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