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Frontiers in Virtual Reality is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Frontiers Media SA.
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ISSN 2673-4192Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design | 20 / 131 | 84th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 206 / 1022 | 79th | Q1 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 61 / 196 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.9.
Frontiers in Virtual Reality is Q1 in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design (rank 20 of 131), Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 206 of 1022) and Q2 in Human-Computer Interaction (rank 61 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
Frontiers in Virtual 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 7.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.739, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 47.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,353 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.
Frontiers in Virtual Reality is published by Frontiers Media SA. Its ISSN is 2673-4192.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Frontiers in Virtual Reality has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 3.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #20 of 100 Scopus journals in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design.
Frontiers in Virtual Reality published 190 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 208. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (20.8%), Japan (12.7%) and China (10.7%).
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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