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Journal of Sound and Vibration is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Academic Press.
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ISSN 0022-460XVerify ISSN ↗1095-8568Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academic Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acoustics and Ultrasonics | 3 / 54 | 95th | Q1 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 67 / 740 | 91st | Q1 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 41 / 446 | 90th | Q1 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 45 / 408 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1964–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.2.
Journal of Sound and Vibration is Q1 in Acoustics and Ultrasonics (rank 3 of 54), Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 67 of 740) and Q1 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 41 of 446), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Sound and Vibration is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 10.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.331, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 230.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,190 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Sound and Vibration is published by Academic Press. Its print ISSN is 0022-460X and its online ISSN is 1095-8568.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Sound and Vibration has an h-index of 273 and a 2-year mean of 5.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 40 Scopus journals in Acoustics and Ultrasonics.
Journal of Sound and Vibration published 520 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 705. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 78 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (44.9%), Italy (9.6%) and United States (7.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 9 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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