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Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 1546-4261Verify ISSN ↗1546-427XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,350 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design | 52 / 131 | 60th | Q2 |
| Software | 237 / 503 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds is Q2 in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design (rank 52 of 131) and Q2 in Software (rank 237 of 503), by CiteScore 2025.
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.387, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 58.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,350 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1546-4261 and its online ISSN is 1546-427X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 2.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 100 Scopus journals in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design.
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds published 95 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 100. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (39.6%), South Korea (8.7%) and United States (7.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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