The ''Journal of Vibration and Control'' is a

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that covers all aspects of linear and nonlinear

vibration Vibration is a mechanical phenomenon whereby oscillations occur about an equilibrium point. The word comes from Latin ''vibrationem'' ("shaking, brandishing"). The oscillations may be periodic function, periodic, such as the motion of a pendulum ...

phenomena and their control. It was established in 1995 and is published by

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. The editors-in-chief are Mehdi Ahmadian (

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), Fabio Casciati (

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), and Fabrizio Vestroni ( Sapienza University of Rome).

Peer review fraud

In 2014, SAGE Publications retracted 60 papers published in the journal due to a case of academic fraud, in which Peter Chen ( National Pingtung University of Education, Taiwan) created false accounts in order to subvert the peer review process. Ali H. Nayfeh, the editor-in-chief of the journal, retired from his academic post and resigned from his position with the journal following completion of the investigation.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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and the

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. In 2014 the journal had its impact factor suppressed due to anomalous stacked citation patterns. In 2016, the journal is included in the Journal Citation Reports and its impact factor becomes 1.643

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External links

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