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Virtual Reality and Intelligent Hardware is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design | 17 / 131 | 87th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 167 / 1022 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 49 / 196 | 75th | Q1 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.3.
Virtual Reality and Intelligent Hardware is Q1 in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design (rank 17 of 131), Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 167 of 1022) and Q1 in Human-Computer Interaction (rank 49 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
Virtual Reality and Intelligent Hardware 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 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.705, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 30.
Virtual Reality and Intelligent Hardware is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 2096-5796 and its online ISSN is 2666-1209.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Virtual Reality and Intelligent Hardware has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 5.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #15 of 100 Scopus journals in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design.
Virtual Reality and Intelligent Hardware published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 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 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (66.8%), United Kingdom (2.9%) and United States (2.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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