Simulation & Gaming
Last updated ISSN 1046-8781
Simulation & Gaming is published by SAGE Publishing in psychology. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,650.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Simulation & Gaming concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Educational Games and Gamification
- Digital Games and Media
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Artificial Intelligence in Games
- Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences
- Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1046-8781, 1552-826X |
| Subject area | Psychology |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,982 |
| Publishing since | 1976 |
| Journal website | sag.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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