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Sound Perspectives
James Lynch
Address:
ASA Publications Office 17 High School Road Hyannis, Massachusetts 02601 USA
Email:
jlynch@whoi.edu
Elizabeth Bury
Address:
ASA Publications Office 17 High School Road Hyannis, Massachusetts 02601 USA
Email:
lbury@acousticalsociety.org
Mary Guillemette
Address:
ASA Publications Office 17 High School Road Hyannis, Massachusetts 02601 USA
Email:
maryguillemette@acousticstoday.org
Helen Wall Murray
Address:
ASA Publications Office 17 High School Road Hyannis, Massachusetts 02601 USA
Email:
poma@acousticalsociety.org
Acoustical Society of America Publications: Spotlight on Quality
Figure 1: Acoustical Society of America (ASA) publications personnel present at the March 15, 2018, Publications Summit held in Melville, New York. Seated (left to right): Charlie Church (editor, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America \\\\\\\[JASA\\\\\\\] Express Letters \\\\\\\[EL\\\\\\\]), Arthur Popper (editor, Acoustics Today), Jim Lynch (ASA editor in chief), Kent Gee (editor, POMA), Helen Wall Murray (manuscript manager, POMA), and Dan Farrell (ASA Web office manager). Standing (left to right): Kat Setzer (editorial coordinator, Acoustics Today), Liz Bury (managing edi- tor, JASA and JASA-EL), Ning Xiang (associate editor, JASA), Vladimir Ostashev (associate editor, JASA), and Kelly Quigley (manuscript manager, JASA). Missing are Adrian KC Lee (associate editor, JASA), who was en route to Australia, and Mary Guillemette (ASA publications manager) due to her being “snowed in” on Cape Cod, Massachusetts; KC and Mary called in for the meeting.
Introduction
Everyone wants “quality” in the things that they have and use, but really, what does that simple word mean? From experience, we know that the definition of quality varies from item to item and from person to person. And we know that quality is usually multidimensional. In a car, some combination of looks, reliability, com- fort, gas mileage, cost, accessories, etc. will define quality for a buyer. In academic publications, quality will be made up of a different set of factors. Our first goal in this article is to explore just what constitutes quality specifically for the publica- tions of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). After doing this, we then take a long look in the mirror to see how our main peer-reviewed journal, The Journal of
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