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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.7), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0035-8711Verify ISSN ↗1365-2966Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space and Planetary Science | 10 / 105 | 90th | Q1 |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | 11 / 97 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1913 (also 1986–present), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.7.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society is Q1 in Space and Planetary Science (rank 10 of 105) and Q1 in Astronomy and Astrophysics (rank 11 of 97), by CiteScore 2025.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 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 10.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.852, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 414.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,046 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.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0035-8711 and its online ISSN is 1365-2966.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has an h-index of 503 and a 2-year mean of 5.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 99 Scopus journals in Space and Planetary Science.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society published 2,296 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 4,036. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (18.3%), United States (14.3%) and China (9.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 12 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 per 1,000 papers). 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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