📢 IJSG reaches a Scopus CiteScore of 5.0
We are pleased to announce that the International Journal of Serious Games (IJSG) has achieved a Scopus CiteScore of 5.0 in the 2025 release. This result confirms an outstanding growth trajectory over the last five years: • 2021: CiteScore 1.6 • 2022: CiteScore 2.7 • 2023: CiteScore 3.8 • 2024: CiteScore 4.9 • 2025: CiteScore 5.0 The journal is now ranked: Q1 in Applied Mathematics (#105/680, 84th percentile) Q1 in […]
Geoff Engelstein is keynote of GALA 2025
Geoff Engelstein is an award-winning table-top game designer and educator. His game titles include Space Cadets, The Expanse, and the Super Skill Pinball series, and book titles include Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design, Achievement Relocked, and The Universe Explained with a Cookie. Podcast credits include the long-running GameTek series on The Dice Tower, and […]
Hannah Boeijkens is keynote at GALA 2025
Hannah Boeijkens is a researcher at the Participatory Innovation in the Youth Landscape research group of the Centre of Expertise Perspective in Health at Avans University of Applied Sciences. She has a background in neuroscience and psychology. She specialises in co-creation with children, their social-emotional development, and the use of serious games to learn, motivate, […]
Hanneke Scholten is keynote at GALA 2025
Hanneke Scholten is an assistant professor at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology at Erasmus Medical Center, and co-director of the Games for Emotional and Mental Health (GEMH) lab. Her mission is to understand the world young people live in and to create or streamline digital experiences that matter to youth and improve their […]
Regan Mandryk is keynote at GALA 2025
Regan Mandryk is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Victoria, Canada. Prior to moving to UVic, she was a professor at the University of Saskatchewan for 15 years and was a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Digital Gaming Technologies and Experiences there. She pioneered the area of affective physiological evaluation for […]