Aim & Scope

Aim

Journal of Visual Computing provides a peer-reviewed venue for visual computing. The journal is intended for visual computing researchers, graphics engineers, media technologists, and visualization practitioners. Its editorial goal is to publish articles that make the research question, method, evidence, and limitations visible enough for readers to evaluate and reuse.

Core Scope

The journal considers manuscripts in the following areas:

  • Original studies in computer graphics with transparent assumptions and evaluable evidence.
  • Research on visual analytics that explains methods, data, and interpretation limits.
  • Applied work involving image processing where practical relevance is supported by analysis rather than assertion.
  • Interdisciplinary work connecting interactive visualization to adjacent scientific, engineering, health, environmental, social, or policy questions.

Article Types Considered

The journal may consider research articles, graphics systems papers, visual analytics studies, dataset notes, user-study reports, and review articles. Article type should be selected according to the main contribution, not according to desired length or perceived prestige.

Method and Evidence Expectations

For this field, manuscripts should pay particular attention to:

  • visual result quality
  • comparison with relevant methods
  • dataset or scene description
  • user-study protocol where applicable
  • rendering or interaction performance

Out of Scope

The journal does not consider manuscripts that are purely promotional, lack a research question, duplicate previously published work, make unsupported clinical or policy claims, present unverifiable results, or fall outside visual computing. Manuscripts that are technically sound but do not fit the journal's subject identity may be returned before peer review.

Editorial Standard

The journal does not require spectacular novelty. It requires a clear contribution, appropriate citations, transparent methods, relevant ethical approvals where needed, and a limitations section. Reviewers and editors should ask whether the work is trustworthy and useful for its intended readership.