The Process of the Aging of Articles on Acoustics. The View from Akusticheskii Zhurnal

By analyzing references, one can obtain interesting information about the kind of research that is being performed, what approaches exist, information about scientists working in a field of interest, the institutions where such research is being carried out, and journals that reflect this information. Citation issues are discussed in the Akusticheskii Zhurnal articles. An analysis of the cited literature showed that with the advent of the Internet, the depth of citation increased, as did the reduced half-life of articles. Attention is drawn to references to Akusticheskii Zhurnal (hereafter – Acoustics or AJ) itself. An analogy is drawn with the statement of academician V.L. Ginzburg that our scientists do not receive the Nobel Prize “primarily due to their colleagues: Soviet physicists,” who, as it turns out, do not really nominate their compatriots. The same can be attributed to the inadequate impact factor of Acoustics, which is decreased by the authors themselves. The issues of information support in the field of Russian-speaking acoustics are discussed.