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TODS News

January 27, 2007

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

December 9, 2006

TODS will utilize double-blind review, starting February 1, 2007.

(Note: in double-blind review, the identity of the author and the reviewer are not revealed to each other.)

A detailed analysis of the scientific literature regarding blind reviewing, a comparison of costs and benefits, a double-blind reviewing procedure, a general discussion of relevant questions, and author and reviewer instructions appear in an editorial.

August 14, 2006

TODS was ranked 9th of 79 journals indexed in the software engineering category in 2005 in terms of its Journal Impact Factor by Thomson Scientific. The Impact Factor is a ratio of the number of citations in 2005 of a given journal compared to the journal's total citations for 2004 and 2003.