IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Scientific journal
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IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (often abbreviated IEEE CG&A) is a bimonthly[1][2] magazine on computer graphics published by the IEEE Computer Society since 1981.[3] The editor-in-chief is Pak Chung Wong.
| Discipline | Computer graphics |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Pak Chung Wong |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1981–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| 1.8 (2022) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | IEEE Comput. Graph. Appl. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0272-1716 (print) 1558-1756 (web) |
| LCCN | 81645722 |
| OCLC no. | 682071965 |
| Links | |
Content
The magazine features shorter and less technical content than would appear in an academic journal and is meant for both experts and non-experts and often tutorial in nature.[4] It connects the theory of computer graphics to its practice,[1] providing coverage on topics including modeling, rendering, animation, (data) visualization, HCI/user interfaces, novel applications, hardware architectures, haptics, virtual and augmented reality systems, and medical imaging.[5][2]
One of its publishing innovations was the first animated hologram to appear on a magazine cover. The hologram, on its July 1988 cover, featured the baby from the 1988 Pixar short film Tin Toy, opening and closing its mouth.[6][7]
Perhaps because of its familiarity to visualization researchers, publications in the magazine have been used as a test set for works studying the visualization of citation networks.[8][9] One such analysis, for an 18-year range of publications, details the most frequently cited journals, works, and authors from articles published in the magazine, and relates a factor analysis of the articles to their subtopics.[8]
Editors-in-chief
The following people have been editor-in-chief:[10]
- 1981–1984: Michael J. Wozny
- 1985–1986: Lansing (Chip) Hatfield
- 1987–1990: John Staudhammer
- 1991–1994: Peter R. Wilson
- 1995–1998: Bertram Herzog
- 1999–2002: James J. Thomas
- 2003–2006: John C. Dill
- 2007–2009: Maureen Stone
- 2010–2013: Gabriel Taubin
- 2014–2017: Miguel Encarnação
- 2018–2022: Torsten Möller
- 2023–2024: André Stork
- 2025–present: Pak Chung Wong
Abstracting and indexing
The magazine is indexed and abstracted in the following bibliographic databases:[11][12]
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the magazine has a 2022 impact factor of 1.8.[13]