Focus and scope

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