Journal of Geometric Mechanics

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Geometric Mechanics (JGM) aims to publish research articles devoted to geometric methods (in a broad sense) in mechanics and control theory, and intends to facilitate interaction between theory and applications.

Advances in the following topics are welcomed by the journal: 1.

Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics 2.

Symplectic and Poisson geometry and their applications to mechanics 3.

Geometric and optimal control theory 4.

Geometric and variational integration 5.

Geometry of stochastic systems 6.

Geometric methods in dynamical systems 7.

Continuum mechanics 8.

Classical field theory 9.

Fluid mechanics 10.

Infinite-dimensional dynamical systems 11.

Quantum mechanics and quantum information theory 12.

Applications in physics, technology, engineering and the biological sciences.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1
2024	1.00

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.252

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	18

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	18511

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	61

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Engineering and Mathematics, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Shape analysis on Lie groups with applications in computer animation

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Elena, Markus, Alexander

• The emergence of torsion in the continuum limit of distributed edge-dislocations

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Raz, Cy

• Control and maintenance of fully-constrained and underconstrained rigid body motion on Lie groups and their tangent bundles

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Brennan, Morad

• Two-component higher order Camassa-Holm systems with fractional inertia operator: A geometric approach

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Joachim, Tony

• Koopman wavefunctions and classical states in hybrid quantum–classical dynamics

  Citation: 13

  Authors: François, Cesare

• Neighboring extremal optimal control for mechanical systems on Riemannian manifolds

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Anthony M., Rohit, Ilya V.

• Dimension reduction in recurrent networks by canonicalization

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Lyudmila, Juan-Pablo

• Lagrangian–Hamiltonian formalism for cocontact systems

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Xavier, Daniel

• Minimal geodesics on GL(n) for left-invariant, right-O(n)-invariant Riemannian metrics

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Patrizio, Robert J.

• Time-adaptive Lagrangian variational integrators for accelerated optimization

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Valentin, Melvin

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