About the Journal

Archives of Acoustics is an English-language peer-reviewed online quarterly journal publishing original research papers from all areas of acoustics and abstracts from some specialized acoustical conferences. It gives free internet access to its full content to current issues.

Archives of Acoustics, the peer-reviewed online quarterly journal, publishes original research papers from areas of acoustics like:

  • linear and nonlinear acoustics:
    theory, acoustical measurements, and instrumentation

  • acoustics of music:
    music theory, signal processing, and instrument building 

  • physiological acoustics:
    hearing, audiology, and psychoacoustics

  • speech processing and communication systems: 
    speech production and perception, voice recognition and control

  • architectural, building, and environmental acoustics and soundscape

  • computational and numerical acoustics

  • sound and ultrasound in biology and medicine:
    ultrasonic imaging, ultrasonography, high-intensity ultrasound, therapeutic ultrasound

  • electroacoustics:
    research in the field of microphones, loudspeakers, headphones, accelerometers, acoustic calibrators

  • noise, noise control, and vibration:
    theory and instrumentation for noise determination and sound quality criteria, audio signal processing and transducers, acoustic materials

  • sonochemistry: 
    acoustic cavitation, sonoprocessing, and all aspects of physical and chemical effects of sound

  • ultrasound and ultrasonic transducers

  • underwater acoustics:
    acoustical oceanography and fisheries acoustics

  • acousto-optics

  • artificial intelligence in acoustic research

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. All articles are published on Creative Commons licence CC BY 4.0. 

Archives of Acoustics is available in Diamond Open Access and no fees are charged to the authors or readers.

Journal Metrics
MNiSW (2024): 100 |  Impact Factor 2024: 0.9 (2023: 0.6) | CiteScore 2024: 1.6 (2023: 1.8)  |  SJR 2024: 0.233 (2023: 0.239)  | 
SNIP 2024: 0.597 (2023: 0.570)

Announcements

New Journal guidelines

2025-07-21

We would like to inform you that the Author Guidelines for Archives of Acoustics have been updated.

The revised guidelines include clearer formatting requirements for manuscripts and figures, updated rules on reference style and citation format, ethical standards regarding originality and prior publication, etc. 

We kindly ask all authors to carefully review the new instructions before submitting a manuscript. Submissions not prepared according to the updated guidelines will be returned for correction.

Read more about New Journal guidelines

Current Issue

Vol. 50 No. 2 (2025)

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This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. All articles in Archives of Acoustics are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0.