Journal of Applied Biomechanics
An Official Journal of the International Society of Biomechanics
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Print ISSN: 1065-8483
Online ISSN: 1543-2688
2023 Impact Factor: 1.1
2023 CiteScore: 2.0
Mission
The mission of the Journal of Applied Biomechanics (JAB) is to disseminate the highest quality peer-reviewed studies that utilize biomechanical strategies to advance the study of human movement. Areas of interest include clinical biomechanics, gait and posture mechanics, musculoskeletal and neuromuscular biomechanics, sport mechanics, biomechanical modeling, and biomechanics education and outreach. Studies of sport performance that explicitly generalize to broader activities, contribute substantially to fundamental understanding of human motion, or are in a sport that enjoys wide participation, are welcome. Also within the scope of JAB are studies using biomechanical strategies to investigate the structure, control, function, and state (health and disease) of animals.
JAB is published bimonthly (February, April, June, August, October, and December), and contains original research articles, technical notes, computational model articles, review articles, target articles, and book reviews. JAB is an official journal of the International Society of Biomechanics, and has a working affiliation with the American Society of Biomechanics. JAB was formerly known as the International Journal of Sport Biomechanics, and has been continuously published since 1985.
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Editor
Katherine A. Boyer
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Deputy Editor
Jason R. Franz
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Editors Emeriti
Richard C. Nelson (Founding Editor: 1985–1990)
Robert J. Gregor (1991–1996)
Mark D. Grabiner (1997–2002)
Thomas S. Buchanan (2003–2011)
J.J. Trey Crisco (2012–2016)
Michael L. Madigan (2017-2021)
Associate Editors
Biomechanical Modeling
Dennis Anderson
Harvard Medical School, USA
Ross Miller
University of Maryland, USA
Clinical Biomechanics
Tom Kernozek
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, USA
Erika Nelson-Wong
Augustana University, USA
Education and Outreach
Sarah Breen
University of Oklahoma, USA
Gait & Posture Mechanics
Tanvi Bhatt
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Jocelyn Hafer
University of Delaware, USA
Christopher McCrum
Maastricht University, Netherlands
Musculoskeletal Biomechanics
Stephanie Forrester
Loughborough University, UK
Mark C. Miller
University of Pittsburgh, USA
Meghan E. Vidt
The Pennsylvania State University, USA, and Penn State College of Medicine, USA
Neuromuscular Biomechanics
Kelly J. Cole
Appalachian State University, USA
Laura-Anne Furlong
University College Dublin, Ireland
Jae Kun Shim
University of Maryland, USA
Sport Mechanics
Matthew T.G. Pain
Loughborough University, UK
Steve Rowson
Virginia Tech, USA
Editorial Board
Jack P. Callaghan, University of Waterloo, Canada
Allison Clouthier, University of Ottawa, Canada
Marius Henriksen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
Hiroaki Hobara, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Steven Kautz, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Dylan Kobsar, McMaster University, Canada
Alberto Leardini, Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli, Italy
Jason Machan, Rhode Island Hospital (Statistician), USA
Richard R. Neptune, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Riann M. Palmieri-Smith, University of Michigan, USA
Xingda Qu, Shenzhen University, China
Michael Rainbow, Queen's University, Canada
Stacie Ringleb, Old Dominion University, USA
Andrew Sawers, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
David John Saxby, Griffith University, Australia
Alison Sheets, Nike Sport Research Lab, USA
Anne K. Silverman, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Kota Takahashi, University of Utah, USA
Brian Umberger, University of Michigan, USA
Jaap H. van Dieën, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Cabel McCandless, Towson University, USA
Chrysostomos Sahinis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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The Journal of Applied Biomechanics (JAB) disseminates the highest quality peer-reviewed studies that utilize biomechanical strategies to advance the study of human movement.
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