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Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 53.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Annual Reviews Inc..
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ISSN 0066-4146Verify ISSN ↗1545-4282Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Annual Reviews Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space and Planetary Science | 1 / 105 | 99th | Q1 |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | 1 / 97 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 53.7.
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics is Q1 in Space and Planetary Science (rank 1 of 105) and Q1 in Astronomy and Astrophysics (rank 1 of 97), by CiteScore 2025.
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 53.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 14.119, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 227.
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics is published by Annual Reviews Inc. Its print ISSN is 0066-4146 and its online ISSN is 1545-4282.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics has an h-index of 300 and a 2-year mean of 20.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 53.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 99 Scopus journals in Space and Planetary Science.
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 18. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 79 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (38%), United Kingdom (13.1%) and Germany (10.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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