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Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI. Published by Science Press.
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ISSN 1440-2807Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 473 / 1936 | 75th | Q1 |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | 79 / 97 | 19th | Q4 |
| Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) | 77 / 88 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.8.
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage is Q1 in History (rank 473 of 1936), Q4 in Astronomy and Astrophysics (rank 79 of 97) and Q4 in Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) (rank 77 of 88), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.205, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 8.
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage is published by Science Press. Its ISSN is 1440-2807.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #667 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage published 99 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 132. 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 29 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Australia (16.7%), United Kingdom (13.8%) and Uzbekistan (12.1%).
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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