About this journal
Aims and scope
Vehicle System Dynamics
is an international journal, providing a source of information for the vehicle engineer and the applied scientist. The journal emphasizes the theoretical background of research and development problems of all kinds of road, rail and other ground-based vehicles. Main topics are:
- Dynamics of vehicle systems and their components
- Control of motion and forces affecting vehicle behaviour
- Mathematical modelling, computer aided modelling and simulation, validation, parameter identification and testing, driver modelling
- Vehicle dynamics simulation tools and platforms
- Vehicle interactions with the environment including wheel-rail and tyre-ground behaviour
- Active safety systems including collision and derailment warning, avoidance and mitigation
- Intelligent vehicles, guided vehicles, automated traffic systems related to vehicle dynamics, unconventional vehicles
Authors are advised that all papers submitted to Vehicle Dynamic Systems must fit the following criteria:
- Provide archivable technical information of interest to the vehicle system dynamics community
- Broaden the understanding of the dynamic behaviour of the entire vehicle based on physical models and test results
- Include an adequate level of modelling detail, e.g. on the tyre-road or wheel-rail contact, to represent real or realistic system dynamics
- Preferably include both physical models and experimental results, e.g. for model development or system validation
If Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools have been used in the preparation of the manuscript, a detailed statement regarding the tool(s) and the nature of their use must be included.
Upon submission, all manuscripts undergo an initial editorial evaluation. At this stage, manuscripts may be rejected for reasons including insufficient originality, serious scientific issues, poor grammar use, or being outside the journal's scope and criteria. Only manuscripts meeting these requirements proceed to a formal peer review process.
All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous formal peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 299K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 3.5 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 4.2 (2023) 5 year IF
- 8.4 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 2.277 (2023) SNIP
- 1.268 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 23 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 82 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 9 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 23% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editors:
S. Horiuchi - Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
S.D. Iwnicki - University of Huddersfield, UK
M. Plöchl - Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Email: [email protected]
Founding Editors:
H.B. Pacejka - TU Delft, The Netherlands
H.K. Sachs - Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
Previous Editors:
M. Abe - Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan
M. Ahmadian - Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA
A. Alleyne - University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
R.J. Anderson - Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
J.K. Hedrick - UC Berkeley, USA
P. Lugner - TU Wien, Austria
K. Guo - Jilin University, Changchun, People's Republic of China
P. Lugner - TU Wien, Austria
W. Schiehlen - University of Stuttgart, Germany
H. True - Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
A.H. Wickens - Loughborough University, UK
J.Y. Wong - Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Associate Editors:
B. Liu - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
M. Massaro - University of Padova, Italy
M. Spiryagin - Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia
V. Vantsevich - Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Editorial Board:
M. Abe - Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan
J.A.C. Ambrosio - Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
M. Berg - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
I. Besselink - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
N. Bosso - Politecnico di Torino, Italy
D. Cole - University of Cambridge, UK
J. Deur - University of Zagreb, Croatia
J. Edelmann - TU Wien, Austria
C. Funfschilling - SNCF, France
T. Gordon - University of Lincoln, UK
P. Gruber - University of Surrey, UK
M. Guiggiani - University of Pisa, Italy
D. Hrovat - UC San Diego, USA
W. Huang - National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Canada
A. Khajepour - University of Waterloo, Canada
M. Klomp - Volvo Car Group, Sweden
Z. Li - TU Delft, The Netherlands
G. Mastinu - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
S. Mueller - TU Berlin, Germany
J. Nielsen - Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
A. Orlova - Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University, Russia
O. Polach - Independent Consultant, Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland
R. Rajamani - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
S. Rakheja - Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
J. Rauh - Mercedes-Benz AG, Sindelfingen, Germany
Z. Ren - Beijing Jiaotong University, People's Republic of China
Y. Suda - The University of Tokyo, Japan
E. Tseng - Ford Motor Company, USA
M. Valasek - Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
E. Vollebregt - Vtech CMCC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
M. Yamakado - Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan
W. Zhai - Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
X. Zhang - Jilin University, Changchun, People's Republic of China
Abstracting and indexing
Vehicle System Dynamics is abstracted and indexed in: Applied Mechanics Reviews; Astrophysics Data System; British Library Inside; Cambridge Scientific Abstracts; Compendex®; EBSCO Databases; Electronic Collections Online; Engineering Information Inc; INSPEC®; ISI Current Contents® - Engineering, Computing & Technology; ISI Science Citation Index Expanded™; New Jour; OCLC ArticleFirst; Scopus™; Transport Research Information Services and Zetoc.
Open access
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- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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