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Best Acoustics and Ultrasonics journals

46 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Acoustics and Ultrasonics. The top 46 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 13 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

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