Review Scimago Journal & Country Rank (scimagojr.com) for journal rankings; Q1 is the aim
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"Virtual Reality" by Springer Nature ISSN: 13594338 : Top choice so far
Journal Impact Factor: 4.4 (2023); 5-year Journal Impact Factor: 5.4 (2023); Submission to first decision (median): 11 days; Is part of Springer Nature which has a Read and Publish agreement with UniSA.
From Scimago: H-Index 64 ; Q1 rating; huge growth in citations since 2017 (Q1 since 2019)
from Scimago; H-Index 82; Q1 since 2003; ISSN 13824996, 15731677
I've been looking at options for submitting our bibliometric review (see below for an overview - "Frontiers in Virtual Reality"). Overall, the target audience is people with a virtual reality focus and an interest in the psychological impact of VR experiences. I have added a scientometric journal option below, however, I don't think my methods are innovative enough to entice an information science journal to publish our bibliometric review–I mostly follow established review processes. I am not sure if we would get much traction in health education journals because health education data doesn't really come into the results of this paper–but I could be wrong. Possibly, they may be interested in the connection between presence and learning in VR, although this would need more explicit detailing in the introduction section. Could Clinical Simulation in Nursing or Simulation in Health Care be a fit? Let me know what you think, I am certainly open to any other options.
This is my first choice:
"Frontiers in Virtual Reality" H-index 33 (up from 22), Q1 (up from Q2) rating; from Scimago.
This would be my next best choice. When I first looked into this journal, it was a Q2 and H-index of 22 so it has progressed rapidly. The chief editor is Mel Slater, who features in the bibliometric review as the leading writer on presence in VR over the last 30 years. Mark Billinghurst is the specialty chief editor - is it worth reaching out to him about this journal as an option for this paper or do we need to stay within the journals submission process? They did publish a bibliometric review a couple of years ago so it is in their realm to some extent. Maximum word count of 12,000 words.
My second choice is:
"Computers in Human Behavior"; From Scimago; H-Index 275; Q1 since 2009; ISSN 07475632; This seems like an excellent backup choice mostly because they are interested in computing from a psychological perspective and they publish many articles related to virtual reality. They have published bibliometric reviews here and here.
A third choice is:
Journal of Medical Internet Research; H-Index: 197, Q1 since 2003; ISSN 14388871, 14394456 >> This is a little different to the other options however they have published many bibliometric reviews (such as this one recently) plus it is more closely related to our future research direction in health training and they have published extensively on VR. They may be too medical/specialist focused rather than nursing and allied health.
Further choices:
"Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking" ; H-index 190; Q1 since 2009 From Scimago; ISSN: 21522715, 21522723; This is a very strong contender partly because Giuseppe Riva is an editor who features prominently in the bibliometric review because he has written extensively on presence in VR for many years. He co-authored with Pianzola one of my favourite presence articles. What tips the scale away from this journal is that they have not published any bibliometric reviews in the past.
"Scientometrics": H-Index 154, Q1 (from Scimago) ISSN: 01389130, 15882861;
This journal published one of the articles that I use to justify my methodology, that is, a means to combine WoS and Scopus bibliometric data. This journal publishes many bibliometric articles but do not feature virtual reality (such as this article). I am not confident that they would find any particularly new ground in scientometrics in our article.
"Sensors": H-Index 273, Q1 (from Scimago); ISSN: 14248220
This journal published another of the main articles I used to guide my methodology in combining Scopus and WoS bibliometric data. Their aims tend not to be so much on virtual reality, although they do have an interest in human-computer interactions. That said, they are mostly interested in 'sensor' technology rather than psychological impacts of technology.
"Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments" USA, MIT, Q3 Rating; H-index 101; From Scimago; ISSN; 10547460, 15313263; Decreasing impact over recent 10 years;
"International Journal of Virtual Reality" : Not found in Scimago
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