It covers research in all aspects of computational geometry.

All its papers are published free of charge to both authors and readers, and are made freely available through a Creative Commons Attribution license.

[1] The current editors-in-chief are Kenneth L. Clarkson and Günter Rote.

[2] Along with its regularly contributed papers, the journal has since 2014 invited selected papers from the annual Symposium on Computational Geometry to a special issue.

[3] The Journal of Computational Geometry is abstracted and indexed in MathSciNet,[4] Zentralblatt Math,[5] and the Emerging Sources Citation Index.