Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds

Aims & Scope

With the advent of very powerful PCs and high-end graphics cards, there has been an incredible development in Virtual Worlds, real-time computer animation and simulation, games.

But at the same time, new and cheaper Virtual Reality devices have appeared allowing an interaction with these real-time Virtual Worlds and even with real worlds through Augmented Reality.

Three-dimensional characters, especially Virtual Humans are now of an exceptional quality, which allows to use them in the movie industry.

But this is only a beginning, as with the development of Artificial Intelligence and Agent technology, these characters will become more and more autonomous and even intelligent.

They will inhabit the Virtual Worlds in a Virtual Life together with animals and plants.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.7

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	15996

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	417

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.321

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	55

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Computer Science, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Capturing human motion using body‐fixed sensors: outdoor measurement and clinical applications

  Citation: 214

  Authors: Kamiar, Bijan

• Virtual world, defined from a technological perspective and applied to video games, mixed reality, and the Metaverse

  Citation: 191

  Authors: Kim J. L.

• A survey of mobile and wireless technologies for augmented reality systems

  Citation: 162

  Authors: George, Gurminder, Nadia

• Synthesizing multimodal utterances for conversational agents

  Citation: 153

  Authors: Stefan, Ipke

• A unified particle model for fluid–solid interactions

  Citation: 147

  Authors: Barbara, Jürg, Renato

• Interaction of fluids with deformable solids

  Citation: 130

  Authors: Matthias, Simon, Matthias, Bruno, Markus

• Mixing virtual and real scenes in the site of ancient Pompeii

  Citation: 103

  Authors: George, S�bastien, Brian, Marlene, Nadia, Andrew, Daniel

• Generic personality and emotion simulation for conversational agents

  Citation: 99

  Authors: Arjan, Sumedha, Nadia

• Agent‐based human behavior modeling for crowd simulation

  Citation: 94

  Authors: Linbo, Suiping, Wentong, Malcolm Yoke Hean, Feng, Yongwei, Xian, Dan

• Data‐driven projection method in fluid simulation

  Citation: 90

  Authors: Cheng, Xubo, Xiangyun

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