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Astrophysics is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer GmbH & Co, Auslieferungs-Gesellschaf.
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ISSN 0571-7256Verify ISSN ↗1573-8191Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer GmbH & Co, Auslieferungs-Gesellschaf
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | 74 / 97 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1965–1991 (also 1993–1996, 1999–present), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.2.
Astrophysics is Q4 in Astronomy and Astrophysics (rank 74 of 97), by CiteScore 2025.
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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 24th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.243, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 20.
Astrophysics is published by Springer GmbH & Co, Auslieferungs-Gesellschaf. Its print ISSN is 0571-7256 and its online ISSN is 1573-8191.
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.
Astrophysics has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #72 of 92 Scopus journals in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Astrophysics published 54 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 56. 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 95 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (26.8%), Russia (23.5%) and Armenia (20.2%).
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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