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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.8). Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1745-3925Verify ISSN ↗1745-3933Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$1,451 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space and Planetary Science | 17 / 105 | 84th | Q1 |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | 16 / 97 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.8.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters is Q1 in Space and Planetary Science (rank 17 of 105) and Q1 in Astronomy and Astrophysics (rank 16 of 97), by CiteScore 2025.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.8, quartile Q1, 84th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.760, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 130.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,451 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: Letters is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1745-3925 and its online ISSN is 1745-3933.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters has an h-index of 145 and a 2-year mean of 6.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #10 of 99 Scopus journals in Space and Planetary Science.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters published 117 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 278. 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 100 research articles (2025), authors are most often from United Kingdom (17.1%), United States (16.2%) and China (9.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 12 retracted papers are recorded (3.1 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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