Noise Control Engineering Journal

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NCEJ is the pre-eminent academic journal of noise control. It is the International Journal of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA.

NCEJ reaches noise control professionals around the world, covering over 50 national noise control societies and institutes.

INCE-USA encourages you to submit your next paper to NCEJ. Choosing NCEJ:
Provides the opportunity to reach a global audience of NCE professionals, academics, and students;
Enhances the prestige of your work;
Validates your work by formal peer review.

Submissions to NCEJ receive thorough review by INCE peers. Final acceptance of any submission is solely based on the outcome of the anonymous peer review process.

Article types

As well as Technical Papers, NCEJ accepts Case Studies. Unlike Technical Papers, Case Studies are focused on providing reference-level information for practicing noise control engineers. A Case Study must adhere to the same format and organizational requirements of a Technical Paper as outlined in the NCEJ MS Word Template for Paper Submissions. It must be written clearly and provide a well-organized discussion of a noise control application with strong technical content describing what was done and the effectiveness of the controls.

Acceptable Paper Topics for NCEJ

Acceptable paper topics include submissions related to airborne and structurally transmitted noise. This does not include electric circuit or electromagnetic radiation noise. There is a vast range of topics covered under this umbrella. While it is impossible to provide a comprehensive list, a short summary is provided below.

  • Emission: noise sources
  • Physical phenomena related to noise generation and propagation
  • Noise control elements – including but not limited to: barriers, enclosures, isolation, silences, absorptive materials, hearing protection, and many more elements
  • Vibration and shock generation, transmission, isolation, and reduction
  • Immission – physical aspects of environmental noise
  • Immission – effects of noise: perception, physiological effects, psychological effects, sociological effects, and others
  • Analysis – instrumentation, tests, test facilities, signal processing, analytical methods, modeling, audiometry, and psychoacoustical evaluations
  • Requirements – standards, regulations, ordinances, etc.
  • Tutorials on good noise and vibration practice with documentation.

For a more detailed listing, see the INCE Classification of Subjects. (https://inceusa.org/pub/?id=b65db6e5-bc11-32fd-3b69-a3935163fefe/)

NCEJ Policy on the use of Artifical Intelligence tools

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in preparing a paper for submission to NCEJ is not prohibited. However, such usage should be limited to support for the authors and not for critical analysis, technical expertise, the evaluation of results, or the development of conclusions from the work performed.

Author Resources

NCEJ Process

  1. Submit your paper using the template and provide all the necessary infomraiton. Please be sure tremove any identifying informaiton for the submission since NCEJ does double blind reviews. The reviewers will have no information about the identity of the authors and the authors will have no infomration about the identity of the reviews.
  2. Your paper will be assigned to an Editor who will solicity and manager reviews. Once the Editor has at least three review she/he can make decision on the paper which will be immediately avialbe to you.
  3. You can check on the status of your paper on your dashboard. Please note that your paper may need one or more steps of revision before it can be accepted. The typical time is 30-60 days for each review step.
  4. Once your paper has been accepted, it will be formated for publication. The average submission to acceptance time frame is 6-7 months. There may be questions or information required in the process. You will be contacted to provide corrections and updates.
  5. Once the final manuscript is complted, you paper will be designated for the the next available issue. Once the issue is finalized, you will be notified of the status.

Publication and Copyrights

The Noise Control Engineering Journal (NCEJ) offers authors two options for publication. The fisrt is the tradicional option. This options with the copyright held by INCE-USA provides access to the article through the INCE Digital Library or subscriptions at no charge to the author. This is the default option and the author does not need to take any extra steps for this option.

NCEJ is also offering authors the option of publishing their papers with Open Access. Authors may choose this option if they wish to have their accepted manuscripts published open access immediately upon publication without any embargo period. Open access might be a requirement of their institutions or research funders, or for other reasons.

For this option, authors, their institutions or their research funders are required to pay an Article Publication Charge (APC) of $1,300 or $1,000 for INCE-USA members. Receipt of payment is a prerequisite of publishing the article with open acess. For more information about Open Access (http://www.inceusa.org/pub/?id=0475C958-9798-5CF2-C3EB-9B5106E6DC39).