The academic journal Acta Acustica, sponsored by Institute of Acoustics and co-edited by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Journal of Acoustics, was elected as the "2008 outstanding Science and Technology Journal" according to the latest statistics published by Institute of Science and Technology Information of China.

Acta Acustica started publication in 1964. The Journal aims to increase and diffuse new discovery and knowledge worldwide in acoustics and acoustical signal processing with its paper publications of theoretical, experimental, and applied acoustical research results and device R&D.