The Journal of Systems and Software is a computer science journal in the area of software systems, established in 1979 and published by Elsevier.

The journal publishes research papers, state-of-the-art surveys, and practical experience reports.

It includes papers covering issues of programming methodology, software engineering, and hardware/software systems.

Topics include: "software systems, prototyping issues, high-level specification techniques, procedural and functional programming techniques, data-flow concepts, multiprocessing, real-time, distributed, concurrent, and telecommunications systems, software metrics, reliability models for software, performance issues, and management concerns.

[2] According to Google Scholar, the journal has an h5-index of 61, which ranks third among international publication venues in software systems, after ICSE and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.