Table 1. Corpus constructed to conduct the content analysis study.
| Venue | Venue Type | Year Range Retrieved | Total Articles Obtained | Subset of Articles containing the term “Verification” |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| System Dynamics Review | Journal | 1996–2014 | 23* | 23 |
| Journal of Simulation | Journal | 2007–2015 | 45* | 45 |
| Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation | Journal | 1998–2015 | 666 | 92 |
| Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology | Journal | 2004–2015 | 276 | 79 |
| SIMULATION: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International | Journal | 1963–1965 | 375 | 12 |
| Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory | Journal | 1994–2015 | 317* | 317 |
| Winter Simulation Conference | Conference | 1968–1971, 1973–2014 | 8933 | 1776 |
| Simulation Interoperability Workshop | Conference | 1997–2014 | 4012 | 936 |
| I/ITSEC Conference | Conference | 1968–2014 | 77* | 77 |
| System Dynamics Society | Conference | 1976–2014 | 5179 | 401 |
| Computer Generated Forces–BRIMS Conference | Conference | 1997–2008 | 557 | 88 |
| System of Systems Engineering Conference | Conference | 2006–2015 | 128* | 128 |
| Spring Simulation Conference | Conference | 2014–2015 | 317 | 73 |
| Total Papers | 20,905 | 4,047 |
* Indicates that only freely available papers were obtained.