Acoustics research culture is unusually collegial compared to other fields

Evidence

I have found that the culture of the acoustical science community is open, welcoming, and polite. The literature is full of books and articles that give ample credit and equal time to competing theories, and most everyone acknowledges the important contributions of their colleagues. This is just as one would wish it to be, but it is not the case in every field. This leads me to a general apology to professionals in acoustics: I did not have the space to be comprehensive about competing theories, even if they are perfectly good alternatives. I choose to present those that fit the unifying pedagogical schemes of this book, which involve resonance, impulse response, autocorrelation, and power spectra. — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 34

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the book’s four unifying conceptual schemes: resonance, impulse response, autocorrelation, and power spectra.