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Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets 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 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA).
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ISSN 0022-4650Verify ISSN ↗1533-6794Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aerospace Engineering | 50 / 169 | 70th | Q2 |
| Space and Planetary Science | 44 / 105 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1964–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.4.
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets is Q2 in Aerospace Engineering (rank 50 of 169) and Q2 in Space and Planetary Science (rank 44 of 105), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets 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 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.805, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 98.
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets is published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA). Its print ISSN is 0022-4650 and its online ISSN is 1533-6794.
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 Spacecraft and Rockets has an h-index of 117 and a 2-year mean of 2.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #46 of 141 Scopus journals in Aerospace Engineering.
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets published 160 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 195. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (63%), China (9.4%) and Italy (4.5%). 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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