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Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SPIE.
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ISSN 2329-4124Verify ISSN ↗2329-4221Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SPIE
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instrumentation | 59 / 206 | 71st | Q2 |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | 33 / 97 | 66th | Q2 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 258 / 740 | 65th | Q2 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 139 / 390 | 64th | Q2 |
| Space and Planetary Science | 43 / 105 | 59th | Q2 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 144 / 318 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.4.
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems is Q2 in Instrumentation (rank 59 of 206), Q2 in Astronomy and Astrophysics (rank 33 of 97) and Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 258 of 740), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.505, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 42.
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems is published by SPIE. Its print ISSN is 2329-4124 and its online ISSN is 2329-4221.
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.
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 1.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #91 of 146 Scopus journals in Instrumentation.
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems published 234 papers in 2025. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (51.3%), China (10.5%) and Japan (5.9%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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