Artificial Life
Last updated ISSN 1064-5462
Artificial Life is published by The MIT Press in engineering. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Artificial Life concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications
- Origins and Evolution of Life
- Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
- Cellular Automata and Applications
- Language and cultural evolution
- Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
- DNA and Biological Computing
Key facts
| Publisher | The MIT Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1064-5462, 1530-9185 |
| Subject area | Engineering |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,233 |
| Publishing since | 1987 |
| Journal website | www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/artl |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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