FAQs and figures

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) was founded in 1992 under the guidance of Rick Adrion as the charter Editor-in-Chief (EIC). Thompson ISI's Impact Factor rankings for 2005, the most recently published, ranks TOSEM second out of 79 journals in the software engineering category. The Impact Factor is a ratio of the number of citations in 2005 of a given journal compared to the journal's total articles for 2004 and 2003. In other words, Rick and his successors as EIC - Axel van Lamsweerde and Carlo Ghezzi - have taken TOSEM from zero to sixty in just 15 years. They didn't make this remarkable leap alone: they had help from ACM, from the exceptionally diligent editorial assistants, from the dedicated associate editors, and of course from the software engineering research community, in particular the reviewers and, even more, the authors.