Overview
Virtual Reality is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes original research on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality.
- Established in 1995, the journal accepts submissions on real-time visualization, graphics, and applications as well as the development and evaluation of systems, tools, techniques, and software that advance the field.
- Covers the application of VR to a wide range of industries including manufacturing, commerce, telecommunications, entertainment, gaming, and medicine.
- Welcomes state-of-the-art reviews of specific aspects of VR/MR/AR.
- Features clear, well-written, and accessible articles that appeal to a multidisciplinary audience.
- Editors-in-Chief
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- Robert D. Macredie,
- Daniel Ballin
- Journal Impact Factor
- 4.4 (2023)
- 5-year Journal Impact Factor
- 5.4 (2023)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 11 days
- Downloads
- 637,114 (2023)
Latest articles
Journal updates
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Virtual Reality is now fully open access!
We are excited to announce that Virtual Reality has now become a fully open-access (OA) journal as of January 2024. This means that we will only be publishing articles as Open Access meaning content will be freely available to readers worldwide, enabling the widest possible dissemination and reuse.
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Guidelines for Special Issue Proposals
Instructions for submitting a Special Issue proposal to Virtual Reality
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CFP: Virtual Reality for Mental Health
Guest Editors: Nilufar Baghaei, Julie Henry, Pedro Gamito, Mark Billinghurst
Deadline for Submissions: 20th January 2025
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1434-9957
- Print ISSN
- 1359-4338
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- ACM Digital Library
- ANVUR
- BFI List
- Baidu
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Current Contents/Engineering, Computing and Technology
- DBLP
- DOAJ
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EI Compendex
- Google Scholar
- INSPEC
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Copyright information