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Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5). Published by Cambridge Scientific Publishers.
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ISSN 1055-6796Verify ISSN ↗1476-3540Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge Scientific Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instrumentation | 163 / 206 | 21st | Q4 |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | 84 / 97 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions is Q4 in Instrumentation (rank 163 of 206) and Q4 in Astronomy and Astrophysics (rank 84 of 97), by CiteScore 2025.
Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4, 21st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.167, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 6.
Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions is published by Cambridge Scientific Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1055-6796 and its online ISSN is 1476-3540.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #126 of 146 Scopus journals in Instrumentation.
Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions published 67 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2007 with 84. 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.
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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