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Best Acoustics and Ultrasonics journals

48 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Acoustics and Ultrasonics. The top 48 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 14 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

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# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Ultrasonics Sonochemistry 16.9 99th Q1 SCIE – Yes
2 IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing 14.5 97th Q1 – – No
3 Journal of Sound and Vibration 10.2 95th Q1 SCIE – No
4 IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control 9.1 93th Q1 – – No
5 Applied Acoustics 8.3 91th Q1 SCIE – No
6 Ultrasonics 8.3 89th Q1 SCIE – No
7 Journal of Low Frequency Noise Vibration and Active Control 6.8 87th Q1 SCIE – Yes
8 Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 5.9 86th Q1 SCIE – No
9 Eurasip Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing 5.7 84th Q1 – – Yes
10 Journal of Vibration and Acoustics 5.1 82th Q1 SCIE – No
11 Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology 5 80th Q1 SCIE – No
12 Noise Mapping 4.9 78th Q1 ESCI – Yes
13 IEEE Open Journal of Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control 4.5 76th Q1 ESCI – No
14 Journal of Vibration Engineering and Technologies 4.5 75th Q1 SCIE – No
15 Building Acoustics 4.3 73th Q2 ESCI – No
16 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 4.1 71th Q2 SCIE – No
17 Acoustics Australia 3.8 69th Q2 SCIE – No
18 Medical Ultrasonography 3.4 67th Q2 SCIE – No
19 Acoustics 3 65th Q2 ESCI – Yes
20 Acta Acustica 2.9 63th Q2 SCIE – Yes
21 International Journal of Aeroacoustics 2.8 62th Q2 SCIE – No
22 JASA Express Letters 2.6 60th Q2 ESCI – Yes
23 Noise and Vibration Worldwide 2.6 58th Q2 – – No
24 Journal of Theoretical and Computational Acoustics 2.4 56th Q2 SCIE – No
25 Image Analysis and Stereology 2.4 54th Q2 SCIE – Yes
26 Sound and Vibration 2 52th Q2 ESCI – No
27 International Journal of Acoustics and Vibrations 1.9 50th Q2 SCIE – No
28 Zhendong yu Chongji/Journal of Vibration and Shock 1.9 49th Q3 – – No
29 Phonetica 1.8 47th Q3 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
30 Acoustical Physics 1.8 45th Q3 SCIE – No
31 Journal of Biomedical Photonics and Engineering 1.7 43th Q3 – – Yes
32 Archives of Acoustics 1.6 41th Q3 SCIE – Yes
33 Romanian Journal of Acoustics and Vibration 1.5 39th Q3 ESCI – No
34 Acoustical Science and Technology 1.4 36th Q3 ESCI – No
35 Zhendong Gongcheng Xuebao/Journal of Vibration Engineering 1.3 34th Q3 – – No
36 Zhendong Ceshi Yu Zhenduan/Journal of Vibration, Measurement and Diagnosis 1.2 32th Q3 – – Yes
37 Noise Control Engineering Journal 1 28th Q3 SCIE – No
38 Physics of Wave Processes and Radio Systems 0.9 26th Q3 – – Yes
39 Shengxue Xuebao/Acta Acustica 0.8 25th Q3 – – No
40 IUTAM Bookseries 0.8 23th Q4 – – No
41 Yadian Yu Shengguang/Piezoelectrics and Acoustooptics 0.7 19th Q4 – – No
42 Akustika 0.6 17th Q4 ESCI – No
43 Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea 0.5 15th Q4 ESCI – No
44 Canadian Acoustics - Acoustique Canadienne 0.3 13th Q4 – – No
45 Rivista Italiana Di Acustica 0.2 6th Q4 – – Yes
46 IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 0.1 4th Q4 – – No
47 Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the Ultrasonic Industry Association, UIA 0 2th Q4 – – No
48 Acoustics Bulletin 0 0th Q4 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Acoustics and Ultrasonics Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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