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Romanian Astronomical Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI. Published by Publishing House of the Romanian Academy.
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ISSN 1220-5168Verify ISSN ↗2285-3758Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Publishing House of the Romanian Academy
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | 86 / 97 | 11th | Q4 |
| Space and Planetary Science | 97 / 105 | 8th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Romanian Astronomical Journal is Q4 in Astronomy and Astrophysics (rank 86 of 97) and Q4 in Space and Planetary Science (rank 97 of 105), by CiteScore 2025.
Romanian Astronomical Journal is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 11th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.131, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 6.
Romanian Astronomical Journal is published by Publishing House of the Romanian Academy. Its print ISSN is 1220-5168 and its online ISSN is 2285-3758.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Romanian Astronomical Journal has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #61 of 92 Scopus journals in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Romanian Astronomical Journal published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 14. 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 29 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Romania (66.7%), Indonesia (10.3%) and India (6.9%). 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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