Real-Time Systems

Aims & Scope

Papers published in Real-Time Systems cover, among others, the following topics: requirements engineering, specification and verification techniques, design methods and tools, programming languages, operating systems, scheduling algorithms, architecture, hardware and interfacing, dependability and safety, distributed and other novel architectures, wired and wireless communications, wireless sensor systems, distributed databases, artificial intelligence techniques, expert systems, and application case studies.

Applications are found in command and control systems, process control, automated manufacturing, flight control, avionics, space avionics and defense systems, shipborne systems, vision and robotics, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, and in an abundance of embedded systems.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.3
2024	1.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.491

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	61

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	11770

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	76

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Specifying real-time properties with metric temporal logic

  Citation: 803

  Authors: Ron

• Measuring the Performance of Schedulability Tests

  Citation: 683

  Authors: Enrico, Giorgio C.

• Controller Area Network (CAN) schedulability analysis: Refuted, revisited and revised

  Citation: 594

  Authors: Robert I., Alan, Reinder J., Johan J.

• Aperiodic task scheduling for Hard-Real-Time systems

  Citation: 582

  Authors: Brinkley, Lui, John

• Stack-based scheduling of realtime processes

  Citation: 556

  Authors: T. P.

• Real Time Scheduling Theory: A Historical Perspective

  Citation: 406

  Authors: Lui, Tarek, Karl-Erik, Anton, Theodore, Alan, Giorgio, Marco, John, Aloysius K.

• Algorithms and complexity concerning the preemptive scheduling of periodic, real-time tasks on one processor

  Citation: 398

  Authors: Sanjoy K., Louis E., Rodney R.

• Calculating the maximum execution time of real-time programs

  Citation: 379

  Authors: P., Ch.

• An extendible approach for analyzing fixed priority hard real-time tasks

  Citation: 353

  Authors: K. W., A., A. J.

• Feedback Control Real-Time Scheduling: Framework, Modeling, and Algorithms*

  Citation: 293

  Authors: Chenyang, John A., Sang H., Gang

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