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Games and Culture

Games and Culture is a journal indexed in SJR in Anthropology and Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) with an H index of 66. It has an SJR impact factor of 0,888 and it has a best quartile of Q1. It has an SJR impact factor of 0,888.

ISSN: 1555-4120

Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.

Category: Anthropology

Indexation: verifiedScopus / SJR verifiedWeb of Science

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SJR Impact Factor trending_up

0,888 Q1

H-index 66

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30% Selective

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SJR Impact

0,888

H-index

Docs (year)

121

Docs 3y

185

Total refs

6697

Cites 3y

686

Citable 3y

184

Cites/Doc 2y

3.07

Ref/Doc

55.35

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Best articles by citations

Bridging the Gap

Worlds at Our Fingertips: Reading (in)What Remains of Edith Finch

Electing to Play: MTV's Fantasy Election and Changes in Political Engagement Through Gameplay

Does Streaming Esports Affect Players' Behavior and Performance?

Digital-Physical Reality Game: Mapping of Physical Space With Fantasy in Context-Based Learning Games

Deliberate Constructions of the Mind

Controller, Hand, Screen: Aesthetic Form in the Computer Game

Contested Convergence and the Politics of Play on GameTrailers.com

Confronting Heteronormativity in Online Games

Choose Your Own Disruption: Clown, Adaptation, and Play

Challenge Everything?

Casual Games Before Casual Games: Historicizing Paper Puzzle Games in an Era of Digital Play

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Canonizing Bioshock: Cultural Value and the Prestige Game

'Did This Game Scare You? Because it Sure as Hell Scared Me!'' F.E.A.R., the Abject and the Uncanny

Book Review: Hacking Society: How Reality Is Broken Constructs Gaming as a Necessary Cure-All

Blood Scythes, Festivals, Quests, and Backstories

Blackless Fantasy: The Disappearance of Race in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games

Beyond Diagonal Sciences: Applying Roger Caillois's Concepts of Symmetry and Dissymmetry toJourney

Art Video Games

An Iterative, Multidisciplinary Approach to Studying Digital Play Motivation

Amateur Gold Farming in China

A Realm of Mere Representation? "Live" E-Sports Spectacles and the Crafting of China's Digital Gaming Image

A Man Chooses, A Slave Obeys: BioShock and the Dystopian Logic of Convergence

(Mis)Representations of Prison: Gender- and Prison-Themed Video Games

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Games and Culture has an SJR of 0,888 (best quartile Q1) in the CountryOfPapers database.

Immediate OA APC is not available (NPD).

The acceptance rate recorded for Games and Culture is 30%.

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