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JMIR Serious Games is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by JMIR Publications Inc..
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ISSN 2291-9279Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: JMIR Publications Inc.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rehabilitation | 4 / 172 | 97th | Q1 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 13 / 257 | 95th | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 56 / 580 | 90th | Q1 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 80 / 342 | 76th | Q1 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.5.
JMIR Serious Games is Q1 in Rehabilitation (rank 4 of 172), Q1 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 13 of 257) and Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 56 of 580), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
JMIR Serious Games 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 8.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.180, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 54.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,500 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.
JMIR Serious Games is published by JMIR Publications Inc. Its ISSN is 2291-9279.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
JMIR Serious Games has an h-index of 70 and a 2-year mean of 4.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 168 Scopus journals in Rehabilitation.
JMIR Serious Games published 132 papers in 2025. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (34.7%), South Korea (8.5%) and United States (6.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (1.1 per 1,000 papers). 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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