Simulation (journal)


Simulation is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of computer Science. The journal's editor is Levent Yilmaz . It has been in publication since 1963 and is currently published by SAGE Publications in association with Society for Modeling and Simulation International.

Scope

Simulation publishes articles in areas such as the modelling and simulation of computer networking and communications, high performance computers and real-time systems. The journal publishes original research and review articles devoted to theory and applications, all with relevance to general modeling and simulation issues. Simulation aims to help professionals and researchers apply advances in modeling and simulation to their application areas.

Abstracting and indexing

Simulation is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2013 impact factor is 0.656, ranking it 85 out of 102 journals in the category ‘Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications’. and 76 out of 105 journals in the category ‘Computer Science, Software Engineering’.