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Sound and Vibration is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2), WoS ESCI. Published by Academic Publishing Pte. Ltd..
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ISSN 1541-0161Verify ISSN ↗2693-1443Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academic Publishing Pte. Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acoustics and Ultrasonics | 26 / 54 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 139 / 282 | 50th | Q2 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 461 / 740 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present (also 1978–1979, 1976), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.
Sound and Vibration is Q2 in Acoustics and Ultrasonics (rank 26 of 54), Q2 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 139 of 282) and Q3 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 461 of 740), by CiteScore 2025.
Sound and Vibration is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.341, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 38.
Sound and Vibration is published by Academic Publishing Pte. Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1541-0161 and its online ISSN is 2693-1443.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sound and Vibration has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 1.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #23 of 40 Scopus journals in Acoustics and Ultrasonics.
Sound and Vibration published 58 papers in 2025. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (37%), Malaysia (12.7%) and Jordan (5.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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.
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