SIMULATION
Last updated ISSN 0037-5497
SIMULATION is published by SAGE Publishing in decision sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,150.
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What it publishes
Recent work in SIMULATION concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Simulation Techniques and Applications
- Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Business Process Modeling and Analysis
- Real-time simulation and control systems
- Modeling and Simulation Systems
- Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
- Embedded Systems Design Techniques
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0037-5497, 1741-3133 |
| Subject area | Decision Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,150 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 6,217 |
| Publishing since | 1963 |
| Journal website | sim.sagepub.com/ |
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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