Impact Factor
2024
0.3
CiteScore
2024
1.1

Volume

13, 4 issues

Latest issue

13:2 online 14 June 2024

Next issue

13:3 scheduled for September 2024

Back volumes

From volume 1, 2012

ISSN print

2211-3568

ISSN online

2211-3576

Aims & Scope

Computability is the journal of the association Computability in Europe. It is a peer reviewed international journal that is devoted to publishing original research of highest quality, which is centered around the topic of computability. The subject is understood from a multidisciplinary perspective, recapturing the spirit of Alan Turing (1912-1954) by linking theoretical and real-world concerns from computer science, mathematics, biology, physics, computational neuroscience, history and the philosophy of computing.

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Vasco Brattka
Institute 1
Faculty of Computer Science
Universität der Bundeswehr München
Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, 85577 Neubiberg,
Germany

and

Dept. of Mathematics & Applied Mathematics
University of Cape Town, South Africa

Managing Editors

Paola Bonizzoni
Università di Milano-Bicocca
Milan, Italy

Olivier Bournez
Ecole Polytechnique
Palaiseau, France

Elvira Mayordomo
Universidad de Zaragoza
Zaragoza, Spain

Editorial Board

Rodney G. Downey
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand
Rod.Downey@msor.vuw.ac.nz

Shuichi Hirahara
National Institute of Informatics
Tokyo, Japan
s_hirahara@nii.ac.jp

Hajime Ishihara
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Ishikawa, Japan
ishihara@jaist.ac.jp

Natasha Jonoska
University of South Florida
Tampa, USA
jonoska@math.usf.edu

Ulrich Kohlenbach
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Darmstadt, Germany
kohlenbach@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de

Alberto Marcone
Department of Mathematical, Computer and Physical Sciences
University of Udine
Udine, Italy
alberto.marcone@uniud.it

Russell Miller
City University of New York
New York, USA
Russell.Miller@qc.cuny.edu

Liesbeth de Mol
University of Lille
Lille, France
liesbeth.demol@univ-lille3.fr

Andrei Morozov
Novosibirsk State University
Novosibirsk, Russia
morozov@math.nsc.ru

André Nies
University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
nies.editor@gmail.com

Ludovic Patey
Équipe de logique, IMJ-PRG
Paris, France
ludovic.patey@gmail.com

Alberto Policriti
Department of Mathematical, Computer and Physical Sciences
University of Udine
Udine, Italy
alberto.policriti@uniud.it

Giuseppe Primiero
Department of Philosophy
University of Milan
G.Primiero@mdx.ac.uk 

Andrei Romashchenko 
CNRS, LIRMM
Montpellier, France
andrei.romashchenko@lirmm.fr 

Frank Stephan
National University of Singapore
Singapore
fstephan@comp.nus.edu.sg

Vinodchandran Variyam
School of Computing
University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Lincoln, USA
vinod@unl.edu

Vlatko Vedral
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
vlatko.vedral@qubit.org

Rineke Verbrugge
University of Groningen
Groningen, The Netherlands
L.C.Verbrugge@rug.nl

Linda Westrick
Department of Mathematics
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, USA
linda.westrick@gmail.com

Ning Zhong
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, USA
zhongn@ucmail.uc.ed

Honorary Editor

S. Barry Cooper †
Leeds, United Kingdom

Former Editors

Samson Abramsky
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom

Manindra Agrawal
Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur, India

Eric Allender
Rutgers University
Piscataway, USA
 
Jeremy Avigad
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, USA

Arnold Beckmann
Swansea University
Swansea, United Kingdom

Bruno Codenotti
Istituto di Informatica e Telematica
Pisa, Italy

Stephen A. Cook
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
 
Anuj Dawar
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Benedikt Löwe 
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
Prakash Panangaden
McGill University
Montreal, Canada

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Peer Review

Computability Peer Review Policy

Computability is a peer-reviewed journal. All articles submitted to the journal undergo a single blind peer review process. This means that the identity of the authors is known with the reviewers but the identity of the reviewers is not communicated to the authors. Please visit our reviewer guidelines for further information about how to conduct a review.

Each submitted article is pre-screened by the Editor-in-Chief to decide if it is suitable to be sent out for formal review. Reasons to reject a paper in the pre-screening process could for example be because the work does not fall within the aims and scope, the writing is of poor quality, the instructions to authors were not followed or the presented work is not novel.

Papers deemed suitable to be reviewed will be assigned a handling editor. The handling editor will then invite reviewers to comment on the work. Typically, a minimum of two reviews are required to be able make a decision on a paper.

Reviewers are asked to judge a paper on at least:

  • Relevance to the journal
  • Significance of results
  • Depth of results
  • Correctness of results

Clarity of presentation
Based on the received reviews the handling editor will propose to the Editor-in-Chief their recommendation:

  • Accept as is
  • Accept pending minor revisions
  • Revise and resubmit
  • Reject outright

For articles that receive a "Revise and resubmit" decision, often major revisions are required and articles may still be rejected in a second round of peer review.

Accept or reject decisions are made by the Editor-in-Chief, whose decision is final.