It is published by Elsevier and the current editor-in-chief is Taehong Cho (Hanyang University).

[1] The journal also has a 2018 CiteScore of 2.35 (based on the citations recorded in the Scopus ), ranked among top 5% in the field of Language and Linguistics.

The Journal of Phonetics publishes papers of an experimental or theoretical nature that deal with phonetic aspects of language and linguistic communication processes.

Papers dealing with technological and/or pathological topics, or papers of an interdisciplinary nature are also suitable, provided that linguistic-phonetic principles underlie the work reported.

Themed issues are also published, devoted entirely to a specific subject of interest within the field of phonetics.