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</style><table class="infobox hproduct"><caption class="infobox-title" style="font-size:125%;"><i><span class="fn">Acta Informatica</span></i></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Outline_of_academic_disciplines" title="Outline of academic disciplines">Discipline</a></th><td class="infobox-data category" style="text-align:left;"><a href="Informatics_(academic_field)" class="mw-redirect" title="Informatics (academic field)">Informatics</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Editor-in-chief" title="Editor-in-chief">Edited</a> by</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;">Henning Fernau</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#dfc;color:#000;">Publication details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">History</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;">1971–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Academic_publishing" title="Academic publishing">Publisher</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media" title="Springer Science+Business Media">Springer</a> (<a href="Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Periodical_literature#Frequency" title="Periodical literature">Frequency</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;">4/year</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><span class="nowrap"><a href="Impact_factor" title="Impact factor">Impact factor</a></span></div></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;">0.871 (2021)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#dfc;color:#000;">Standard abbreviations<br><span class="infobox-journal-search " style="display:none;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://marcinwrochna.github.io/abbrevIso/?search=Acta_Informatica">ISO 4</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.issn.org/services/online-services/access-to-the-ltwa/">alt</a>) <b>·</b> Bluebook (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://westerncriminology.org/publications/bluebook-abbreviations/">alt</a>)<br><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog?term=0001-5903%5BISSN%5D">NLM</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog?term=Acta+Informatica%5BJournal%5D">alt</a>) <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mathscinet.ams.org/msnhtml/serials.pdf">MathSciNet</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/search/journals.html?journalName=0001-5903&Submit=Search">alt</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Paid subscription required"></span></span>)</span></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="ISO_4" title="ISO 4">ISO 4</a></th><td class="infobox-data identifier" style="text-align:left;"><i>Acta Inform.</i></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#dfc;color:#000;">Indexing<br><span class="infobox-journal-search " style="display:none;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cassi.cas.org/searching.jsp?searchIn=issns&c=WIy460-R_DY&searchFor=0001-5903">CODEN</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cassi.cas.org/searching.jsp?searchIn=issns&c=WIy460-R_DY&searchFor=1432-0525">alt</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cassi.cas.org/searching.jsp?searchIn=titles&c=WIy460-R_DY&searchFor=Acta+Informatica">alt2</a>) <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/journals/00015903">JSTOR</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/showJournals?browseType=title">alt</a>) <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchArg1=0001-5903&argType1=all&searchCode1=KNUM&searchType=2">LCCN</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchArg1=Acta+Informatica&argType1=all&searchCode1=KTIL&searchType=2">alt</a>)<br><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://miar.ub.edu/issn/0001-5903">MIAR</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog?term=0001-5903%5BISSN%5D">NLM</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog?term=Acta+Informatica%5BJournal%5D">alt</a>) <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.scopus.com/sources?sortField=citescore&sortDirection=desc&isHiddenField=false&field=issn&issn=0001-5903">Scopus</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://managementtools4.wlu.edu/LawJournals/">W&L</a></span></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="type"><a href="ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;"><span class="value"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0001-5903">0001-5903</a></span> (print)<br><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:1432-0525">1432-0525</a> (web)<br></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="type"><a href="OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> no.</span></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39965310">39965310</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#dfc;color:#000;">Links</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align:left;">
<ul><li><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.springer.com/computer/theoretical+computer+science/journal/236">Journal homepage</a></span></li>
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<p><i><b>Acta Informatica</b></i> is a <a href="Peer_review" title="Peer review">peer-reviewed</a> <a href="Scientific_journal" title="Scientific journal">scientific journal</a>, publishing <a href="Original_research" class="mw-redirect" title="Original research">original research</a> papers in <a href="Computer_science" title="Computer science">computer science</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The journal is mainly known for publications in <a href="Theoretical_computer_science" title="Theoretical computer science">theoretical computer science</a>. One of the two 1988 papers that were awarded the <a href="G%C3%B6del_Prize" title="Gödel Prize">Gödel Prize</a> in 1995 has appeared in this journal.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The <a href="Editor-in-chief" title="Editor-in-chief">editor-in-chief</a> is Henning Fernau of <a href="Universit%C3%A4t_Trier" class="mw-redirect" title="Universität Trier">Universität Trier</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the <i><a href="Journal_Citation_Reports" title="Journal Citation Reports">Journal Citation Reports</a></i>, the journal had a 2021 <a href="Impact_factor" title="Impact factor">impact factor</a> of 0.871.<sup id="cite_ref-WoS_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WoS-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230432/http://www.sigact.org/Prizes/Godel/1995.html">"1995 Gödel Prize"</a>. Sigact.org. 1999-03-25. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sigact.org/Prizes/Godel/1995.html">the original</a> on 2016-03-03<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2012-07-26</span></span>.</cite></span>
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