Frontiers in Virtual Reality: Impact Factor 2026, APC, Indexing and Published Papers

01Impact factor

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03Indexing

Indexing of Frontiers in Virtual Reality

eISSN

2673-4192

Publisher

Frontiers Media SA

Country

Switzerland

Language

English

Scopus source type

Journal

Web of Science categories

Computer Science, Software Engineering

From the indexing lists used on ScholarsColab, updated 1 March 2026. Indexing can change: confirm on the Web of Science Master Journal List or the Scopus source list before submitting. Official Journal Impact Factors and JCR quartiles are published by Clarivate; the impact factor and quartile on this page are calculated from OpenAlex open data (see how the impact factor works).

04What it publishes

What Frontiers in Virtual Reality publishes: real papers

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05Published papers

Papers published in Frontiers in Virtual Reality

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1. VR environment of digital design laboratory: A usability study20250 citations
2. VR haptics for glovebox operations training20250 citations
3. A systematic review on the use of virtual reality in post-stroke patients: exploring when modalities make the difference in executive and motor recovery20250 citations
4. Programmable reality20250 citations
5. Enhancing empathy of medical students in clinical training: a narrative-driven virtual reality experience for understanding undiagnosed chronic pain20250 citations
6. Enhancing adaptations to peripheral distractors during basketball throwing in real world through virtual reality application20250 citations
7. Mental health clients' perspectives on telehealth-based virtual reality therapy20250 citations
8. Panoramic imaging in immersive extended reality: a scoping review of technologies, applications, perceptual studies, and user experience challenges20250 citations
9. Current possibilities and challenges of using metaverse-like environments and technologies in education20250 citations
10. Effects of virtual reality use in children aged 10 to 12 years20250 citations
11. Enhancing eyes-free interaction in virtual reality using sonification for multiple object selection20250 citations
12. Visual performance standards for virtual and augmented reality20250 citations
13. Virtual assessment: using in-game behaviors during immersive role-play for contextually relevant assessment of fear of intimacy20250 citations
14. “Did you hear that?”: Software-based spatial audio enhancements increase self-reported and physiological indices on auditory presence and affect in virtual reality20250 citations
15. Practical considerations of clinical XR (AR/VR) deployments20250 citations
16. Enhancing augmented reality with machine learning for hands-on origami training20250 citations
17. Examining immersive audio's role in flow and gaze behavior in pseudo-VR environments20250 citations
18. Energy expenditure during virtual reality exergaming in adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder20250 citations
19. Shaping the future: principles for policy recommendations for responsible innovation in virtual worlds20250 citations
20. Metaverse, implemented. A philosophical perspective on agenda-setting ethical tools for the development of immersive technologies20250 citations
21. I am here with you: an examination of factors relating to social presence in social VR20250 citations
22. A critical appraisal of computer vision in orthodontics20250 citations
23. Automated interaction may reduce emotional reactivity in VR: a randomized study with healthy participants20250 citations
24. Gamified virtual exercise as a strategic management tool to foster inclusivity in women's wellbeing and sports tourism20250 citations
25. Quantifying neck muscle activity during head fixation in VR20250 citations
26. ARchitect: advancing architectural visualization and interaction through handheld augmented reality20250 citations
27. Virtual reality for emergency medicine training on traffic accident injury treatment: a randomized controlled trial20250 citations
28. Evolution and research trends in virtual reality and augmented reality technologies for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry: a systematic …20250 citations
29. Current status of virtual reality researches at healthcare: thematic and bibliometric analysis20250 citations
30. Virtual reality in heritage education for enhanced learning experience: a mini-review and design considerations20250 citations
31. Luminosity thresholds in projection mapping under environmental lighting20250 citations
32. Safety for mobile encountered-type haptic devices in large-scale virtual reality20250 citations
33. Understanding glyph characteristics on the legibility for native and non-native speakers in virtual reality20250 citations
34. Redefining the pedagogy in virtual and augmented reality in medical science education20250 citations
35. “Virtual unreality”: unreal augmentation of perception and action must fit the task to be beneficial20250 citations
36. Social facilitation within immersive virtual reality enhances perseverance in stroke rehabilitation training20250 citations
37. Neuroadaptive haptics: a proof-of-concept comparing reinforcement learning from explicit ratings and neural signals for adaptive XR systems20250 citations
38. Applications of augmented reality in cardiology till 2024: a comprehensive review of innovations and clinical impacts20250 citations
39. Use of AR/MR/VR in the context of occupational safety and health20250 citations
40. Human task performance and associated internal states in extended reality: a systematic review of cognitive, psychophysiological, and physiological dimensions20250 citations
41. Test-retest reliability of gaze precision of a novel virtual reality-based medical device20250 citations
42. Using virtual reality for teacher education: a systematic review and meta-analysis of literature from 2014 to 202420250 citations
43. The impact of audience avatar movements on presence in virtual live events20250 citations
44. Impacts of 3D visualizations and virtual reality in display designs for remote monitoring of satellite operations20250 citations
45. Digital twin embodied interactions design: Synchronized and aligned physical sensation in location-based social VR20250 citations
46. Use of body and gaze in extended reality20250 citations
47. The evolution of virtual identity: a systematic review of avatar customization technologies and their behavioral effects in VR environments20250 citations
48. Inter-brain synchrony in real-world and virtual reality search tasks using EEG hyperscanning20250 citations
49. Does contextual learning matter in fire hazard recognition awareness campaigns?20250 citations
50. A multi-criteria framework for the holistic ergonomic design evaluation of VR products20250 citations
51. Coaching 5.0, coaching for the fifth industrial revolution20250 citations
52. The impact of virtual map visual design and landmark description location on users' wayfinding visual search performance and experience in intelligent shopping …20250 citations
53. The use of virtual reality technologies in children with adverse health conditions: can it improve neuromotor function? a systematic review of randomized clinical trials20250 citations
54. A multidisciplinary approach to understanding the technology, opportunities, challenges, and implications for society of the metaverse20250 citations
55. Are you drunk? No, I am CybAR sick!–interacting with the real world via pass-through augmented reality is a sobering discovery20250 citations
56. Pain intensity control in virtual reality via modulated cooling rates in thermal grill illusion20250 citations
57. Reducing foreign language anxiety through repeated exposure to a customizable VR public speaking application20250 citations
58. Embracing differences in virtual reality: inclusive user-centered design of bimanual interaction techniques20250 citations
59. AffectTracker: Real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive Virtual Reality20250 citations
60. Effects of interactive loading interfaces for virtual reality game environments on time perception, cognitive load, and emotions20250 citations
61. Effects of storytelling on user experience and performance in VR: a case study of Steady the drums!20250 citations
62. HIPS: evaluating a virtual reality training simulation for total hip arthroplasty (THA) and insights into qualitative assessment of surgical training simulations20250 citations
63. Visual attention and cognitive effects of facial anonymization in 360° videos20250 citations
64. Enjoy it! Cosmetic try-on apps and augmented reality, the impact of enjoyment, informativeness and ease of use20250 citations
65. The effects of using augmented reality in rehabilitation and recovery exercise on patients' outcomes and experiences: a systematic review20250 citations
66. Charting the landscape of presence in virtual reality research: a bibliometric review20250 citations
67. Influence of mental effort on sound evaluations in virtual and real experimental environments20250 citations
68. Towards teleconsultations in the metaverse: design and preliminary study of an immersive teleclinic for neuro-psychological assessment20250 citations
69. Wayfinding in immersive virtual environments as social activity supported by virtual agents20240 citations
70. Assessing the impact of stimulation environment and error probability on ErrP EEG response, detection and subject attention: an explorative study20240 citations
71. Features of adaptive training algorithms for improved complex skill acquisition20240 citations
72. A holistic quality taxonomy for virtual reality experiences20240 citations
73. TurnAware: motion-aware Augmented Reality information delivery while walking20240 citations
74. Visual search for hazardous items: using virtual reality (VR) in laypersons to test wearable displays for firefighters20240 citations
75. Fostering the AR illusion: a study of how people interact with a shared artifact in collocated augmented reality20240 citations
76. Mixed reality strategies for piano education20240 citations
77. Networked microcontrollers for accessible, distributed spatial audio20240 citations
78. Virtual reality in planning, design, and management of urban green and blue infrastructure20240 citations
79. A real-time digital twin for active safety in an aircraft hangar20240 citations
80. Privacy threats of behaviour identity detection in VR20240 citations
81. Influence of habituation on pseudo-haptic weight perception of virtual objects20240 citations
82. Automatic cybersickness detection by deep learning of augmented physiological data from off-the-shelf consumer-grade sensors20240 citations
83. Stop to smell the virtual roses: a mixed-methods pilot study on the impact of multisensory virtual reality nature experiences on feelings of relaxation20240 citations
84. RealTHASC—a cyber-physical XR testbed for AI-supported real-time human autonomous systems collaborations20230 citations
85. Real-time affect detection in virtual reality: A technique based on a three-dimensional model of affect and EEG signals20230 citations
86. Augmented reality as a participation tool for youth in urban planning processes: Case study in Oslo, Norway20230 citations
87. Leveraging digital twin and game-engine for traffic simulations and visualizations20230 citations
88. Sex differences in spatial tasks: Considering environmental factors, navigation strategies, and age20230 citations
89. Prediction of cybersickness in virtual environments using topological data analysis and machine learning20220 citations
90. Stress reduction interventions: A scoping review to explore progress toward use of haptic feedback in virtual reality20220 citations
91. Ubiq-exp: A toolkit to build and run remote and distributed mixed reality experiments20220 citations
92. Using physics-based digital twins and extended reality for the safety and ergonomics evaluation of cobotic workstations20220 citations
93. Entering hyper-reality:“Resonance-In-Sight,” a mixed-reality art installation20220 citations
94. Digital body, identity and privacy in social virtual reality: A systematic review20220 citations
95. Earth-fixed books reduce motion sickness when reading with a head-mounted display20220 citations
96. Authoring with virtual reality nuggets—lessons learned20220 citations
97. Thermal pain and detection threshold modulation in augmented reality20220 citations
98. emteqpro—fully integrated biometric sensing array for non-invasive biomedical research in virtual reality20220 citations
99. Head-mounted display-based virtual reality and physiological computing for stroke rehabilitation: A systematic review20220 citations
100. Cloud-based cross-platform collaborative augmented reality in flutter20220 citations
101. Effects on mood and EEG states after meditation in augmented reality with and without adjunctive neurofeedback20210 citations
102. Virtually real, but not quite there: Social and economic barriers to meeting virtual reality's true potential for mental health20210 citations
103. Corrective filter based on kinematics of human hand for pose estimation20210 citations
104. The ultimate display for physical rehabilitation: a bridging review on immersive virtual reality20200 citations
105. Virtual reality improves clinical assessment of the optic nerve20200 citations

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