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Astronomy and Astrophysics Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 44.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 0935-4956Verify ISSN ↗1432-0754Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$5,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space and Planetary Science | 3 / 105 | 97th | Q1 |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | 3 / 97 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present (also 2002–2004, 1989–2000), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 44.3.
Astronomy and Astrophysics Review is Q1 in Space and Planetary Science (rank 3 of 105) and Q1 in Astronomy and Astrophysics (rank 3 of 97), by CiteScore 2025.
Astronomy and Astrophysics Review 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 44.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 9.300, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 89.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,290 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Astronomy and Astrophysics Review is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0935-4956 and its online ISSN is 1432-0754.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Astronomy and Astrophysics Review has an h-index of 108 and a 2-year mean of 18.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 44.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 99 Scopus journals in Space and Planetary Science.
Astronomy and Astrophysics Review published 8 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 9. 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 41 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Italy (22.3%), United States (16.5%) and Germany (11.4%).
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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