Journal of Simulation
Last updated ISSN 1747-7778
Journal of Simulation is published by Taylor & Francis in decision sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Simulation concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Simulation Techniques and Applications
- Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization
- Transportation Planning and Optimization
- Business Process Modeling and Analysis
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization
- Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms
- Traffic control and management
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Assembly Line Balancing Optimization
Key facts
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1747-7778, 1747-7786, 1774-7786 |
| Subject area | Decision Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 681 |
| Publishing since | 2006 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/tjsm20/current |
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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