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Computers and Education: X Reality is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2949-6780Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 22 / 744 | 97th | Q1 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 48 / 196 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.3.
Computers and Education: X Reality is Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 22 of 744) and Q1 in Human-Computer Interaction (rank 48 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
Computers and Education: X Reality is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 9.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.339, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 19.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,850 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.
Computers and Education: X Reality is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2949-6780.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Computers and Education: X Reality has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 5.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Computers and Education: X Reality published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 43. 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 88 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (21.4%), Germany (11.5%) and Hong Kong SAR China (8.6%).
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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