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Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics 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 Institute of Physics.
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ISSN 1674-4527Verify ISSN ↗2397-6209Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Physics
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | 35 / 97 | 64th | Q2 |
| Space and Planetary Science | 46 / 105 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.4.
Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics is Q2 in Astronomy and Astrophysics (rank 35 of 97) and Q2 in Space and Planetary Science (rank 46 of 105), by CiteScore 2025.
Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics 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 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.797, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 60.
Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics is published by Institute of Physics. Its print ISSN is 1674-4527 and its online ISSN is 2397-6209.
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.
Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics has an h-index of 63 and a 2-year mean of 1.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #44 of 92 Scopus journals in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics published 320 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 375. 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 China (80.6%), India (3.6%) and Russia (2.6%). 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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