Journal profile · Engineering, Mechanical
Journal of Vibration and Control
ISSN 1077-5463 · eISSN 1741-2986 · SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD · ENGLAND · Semi-monthly · Founded 1995
Journal of Vibration and Control: CAS Zone 3 · Engineering (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.32; subscription journal; APC about USD 4,400; review about 6 months (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 488 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Vibration and Control is published by SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD and is in Zone 3 of Engineering in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids, Vibration and Dynamic Analysis and Structural Health Monitoring Techniques, together about 28.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Control and Systems Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of Vibration and Control is a peer-reviewed journal of analytical, computational and experimental studies of vibration phenomena and their control. The scope encompasses all linear and nonlinear vibration phenomena and covers topics such as: vibration and control of structures and machinery, signal analysis, aeroelasticity, neural networks, structural control and acoustics, noise and noise control, waves in solids and fluids and shock waves.
Source: LetPub
Research area (LetPub): Engineering, Mechanical
Editor-in-chief Mohamed TrabiaPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 15 in mainland China (about 14%); most named United States 33, Mainland China 15, Italy 7, United Kingdom 5, France 5 (107 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Vibration Control and Rheological FluidsEngineering11%
- Vibration and Dynamic AnalysisEngineering9.3%
- Structural Health Monitoring TechniquesEngineering8.1%
- Composite Structure Analysis and OptimizationEngineering5.7%
- Dynamics and Control of Mechanical SystemsEngineering4.9%
- Acoustic Wave Phenomena ResearchEngineering4.6%
- Machine Fault Diagnosis TechniquesEngineering4.3%
- Hydraulic and Pneumatic SystemsEngineering4.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Engineering Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Engineering, Mechanical | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Acoustics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Mechanics | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Engineering Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Acoustics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Engineering, Mechanical | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Mechanics | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Engineering Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Engineering, Mechanical | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Mechanics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Acoustics | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 2.32LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.4Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 2.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.59LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.1LetPub ·
- h-index
- 58LetPub ·
- h-index
- 96OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2,957OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.8OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 12.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 2.55%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 483LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 6,197 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 507 | 58 | 140 |
| 2025 | 488 | 108 | 623 |
| 2024 | 412 | 98 | 1,763 |
| 2023 | 367 | 80 | 2,854 |
| 2022 | 391 | 37 | 3,813 |
| 2021 | 296 | 27 | 4,297 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 6 monthsLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,400 / GBP 3,226 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted11, with length limits
- brief communicationPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article should include abstracts, keywor…Length not stated
- editorialPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article should include abstracts, keywor…Length not stated
- letter to the editorPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article should include abstracts, keywor…Length not stated
- letters to the editorPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article should include abstracts, keywor…Length not stated
- opinionPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article should include abstracts, keywor…Length not stated
- original research articlePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article should include abstracts, keywor…Length not stated
- perspectivePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article should include abstracts, keywor…Length not stated
- reviewPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article should include abstracts, keywor…Length not stated
- review articlePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article should include abstracts, keywor…main text ≤ 6,000 words
- short communicationPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article should include abstracts, keywor…Length not stated
- viewpointPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article should include abstracts, keywor…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship
Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more. Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures submitted in color will be published in color in the online version of the journal at no cost. If you wish to have color figures in the printed version, the fee will be determined at Production. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Access agreements, where authors can pub…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Single anonymized review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor and Senior Editors Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscript…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Semi-monthly
- Founded
- 1995
- ISSN
- 1077-5463
- Electronic ISSN
- 1741-2986
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Vibration and Control
What CAS zone is Journal of Vibration and Control in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Vibration and Control is in Zone 3 of Engineering, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Engineering, Mechanical / Acoustics / Mechanics. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Engineering. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Vibration and Control?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.32; CiteScore 6.1, h-index 96.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Vibration and Control?
Authors report an average review time of about 6 months; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of Vibration and Control based?
Of the 107 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 15 (about 14%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (33), Mainland China (15) and Italy (7). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Vibration and Control?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Vibration and Control is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Journal of Vibration and Control open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Vibration and Control is a subscription journal. APC about USD 4,400.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .