Journal rankings · indicator year 2006
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Subfield ranking · 2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics journal rankings 2006
74 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Astronomy and Astrophysics has 74 ranked journals in 2006. The median OJR rose 0.07 on 2005 to 0.53, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.97. The top three are The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2006. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2003–2005, the window the 2006 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy (8)
74 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2005. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2003–2005, the window the 2006 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2003–2005 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2006. | Compare |
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1The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesOAInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 7.70Q1 | 10.05 4.18 down from 2005 | 440 | 92% | $4,499 | ||
2Reviews in Mineralogy and GeochemistryMineralogical Society of America · United States | 3.10Q1 | 2.68 1.98 down from 2005 | 129 | 4% | — | ||
3Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society LettersOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 5.40 5.40 up from 2005 | 124 | 91% | $1,451 | ||
4The Astronomical JournalOAInstitute of Physics · United States | 2.73Q1 | 5.51 0.33 up from 2005 | 1,463 | 99% | $4,499 | ||
5Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle PhysicsInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 6.19 0.42 down from 2005 | 395 | 99% | $3,290 | ||
6The Astrophysical JournalOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.46Q1 | 7.00 0.84 up from 2005 | 7,594 | 98% | $4,499 | ||
7Publications of the Astronomical Society of the PacificInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 3.98 1.02 up from 2005 | 398 | 89% | $3,325 | ||
8Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 5.57 0.22 up from 2005 | 3,693 | 94% | $3,046 | ||
9Contemporary PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 3.29 1.25 up from 2005 | 103 | 32% | — | ||
10Annual Review of Astronomy and AstrophysicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.70Q1 | 18.53 2.64 up from 2005 | 56 | 71% | — | ||
11Space Science ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.57Q1 | 3.91 1.83 up from 2005 | 304 | 15% | $5,290 | ||
12IcarusElsevier BV · United States | 1.57Q1 | 3.57 0.28 down from 2005 | 813 | 12% | $3,810 | ||
13Astronomy and AstrophysicsOAEDP Sciences · France | 1.52Q1 | 4.33 0.47 up from 2005 | 5,731 | 99% | $1,865 | ||
14Classical and Quantum GravityIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.31Q1 | 2.97 0.04 down from 2005 | 1,630 | 88% | $3,325 | ||
15Publications of the Astronomical Society of AustraliaCambridge University Press · Australia | 1.14Q1 | 1.93 0.45 up from 2005 | 186 | 96% | $3,550 | ||
16New AstronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.07Q1 | 1.83 0.21 up from 2005 | 255 | 45% | $2,690 | ||
17AstrobiologyMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.06Q1 | 1.76 0.42 down from 2005 | 173 | 13% | — | ||
18Solar PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.97Q1 | 1.95 0.06 down from 2005 | 503 | 17% | $4,190 | ||
19Origins of Life and Evolution of BiospheresSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.97Q1 | 1.70 3.19 down from 2005 | 117 | 45% | $1,520 | ||
20Publications of the Astronomical Society of JapanOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 2.08no change | 353 | 76% | $2,398 | ||
21Fortschritte der PhysikWiley · Germany | 0.95Q2 | 2.29 0.79 up from 2005 | 277 | 55% | $3,460 | ||
22Radio ScienceWiley · United States | 0.93Q2 | 1.47 0.16 up from 2005 | 446 | 57% | $3,700 | ||
23EosOAWiley · United States | 0.92Q2 | 1.16 0.20 down from 2005 | 1,194 | 42% | — | ||
24Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical AstronomySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.90Q2 | 1.43 0.20 up from 2005 | 189 | 28% | $3,190 | ||
25New Astronomy ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.87Q2 | 1.77 0.31 up from 2005 | 483 | 32% | $4,350 | ||
26Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial PhysicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 1.54 0.09 down from 2005 | 545 | 5% | $2,770 | ||
27Physics TodayAIP Publishing · United States | 0.83Q2 | 0.77 0.19 down from 2005 | 1,672 | 9% | — | ||
28Meteoritics and Planetary ScienceWiley · United States | 0.83Q2 | 1.58 0.22 down from 2005 | 471 | 45% | $3,300 | ||
29Planetary and Space ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 1.56 0.03 down from 2005 | 399 | 10% | $3,680 | ||
30Space WeatherOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 0.80Q2 | 1.54 0.16 up from 2005 | 124 | 23% | $3,000 | ||
31Annales GeophysicaeOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.77Q2 | 1.61 0.15 down from 2005 | 870 | 100% | $1,186 | ||
32International Journal of Modern Physics DWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.76Q2 | 1.55 0.36 up from 2005 | 503 | 68% | — | ||
33International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern PhysicsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.68Q2 | 0.84 0.48 down from 2005 | 94 | 28% | — | ||
34Modern Physics Letters AWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.67Q2 | 1.51 0.36 up from 2005 | 883 | 68% | — | ||
35General Relativity and GravitationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.63Q2 | 1.19 0.01 up from 2005 | 587 | 62% | $2,290 | ||
36International Journal of AstrobiologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.53Q2 | 1.05 0.05 up from 2005 | 95 | 11% | $3,550 | ||
37Astronomy LettersPleiades Publishing · United States | 0.53Q2 | 1.20 0.33 up from 2005 | 298 | 31% | — | ||
38Journal of the British Interplanetary SocietyBritish Interplanetary Society · United Kingdom | 0.52Q3 | 0.52 0.08 down from 2005 | 39 | 0% | — | ||
39Symposium - International Astronomical UnionCambridge University Press | 0.47Q3 | 0.15 0.02 down from 2005 | 1,754 | — | — | ||
40Advances in Space ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 0.80 0.08 down from 2005 | 2,864 | 11% | $2,780 | ||
41Journal of Low Temperature PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.44Q3 | 0.79 0.05 up from 2005 | 800 | 12% | $3,390 | ||
42Astronomische NachrichtenWiley · Germany | 0.44Q3 | 1.05 0.47 up from 2005 | 606 | 42% | $2,810 | ||
43Experimental AstronomySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.44Q3 | 0.57 0.25 up from 2005 | 71 | 14% | $2,590 | ||
44Earth Moon and PlanetsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.36Q3 | 0.42 0.21 down from 2005 | 193 | 42% | $1,520 | ||
45Astrophysics and Space ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.33Q3 | 0.76 0.34 up from 2005 | 1,147 | 23% | $3,490 | ||
46Astronomy ReportsPleiades Publishing · British Virgin Islands | 0.27Q3 | 0.54 0.02 up from 2005 | 325 | 18% | — | ||
47Journal of Astrophysics and AstronomySpringer Nature · India | 0.27Q3 | 0.50 0.20 up from 2005 | 54 | 12% | — | ||
48Journal of Dynamical Systems and Geometric TheoriesTaylor & Francis · India | 0.24Q3 | 0.22 0.03 up from 2005 | 32 | 5% | — | ||
49Solar System ResearchPleiades Publishing · United States | 0.23Q3 | 0.58 0.08 up from 2005 | 163 | 0% | — | ||
50Space PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.23Q3 | 0.43 0.16 up from 2005 | 158 | 0% | $3,400 |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Astronomy and Astrophysics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics74
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics68
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics54
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics31
- Radiation19
- Condensed Matter Physics6
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
- Instrumentation0
Journals
Citations made in 2006. Corpus-wide, 71.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
26 additional Astronomy and Astrophysics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2003–2005, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2006. Publication window: 2003–2005. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 74
- Window papers (baseline)
- 73,394 +21.4% from indicator year 2003
- Median OJR
- 0.529 +36.9% from indicator year 2003
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2003–2005 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 62 | 63 | 62 | 68 | 70 | 74 | 74 | 76 | 78 | 78 | 82 | 91 | 94 | 99 | 102 | 102 | 107 | 106 | 108 | 116 | 119 | 117 | 111 | 110 | 109 | 107 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 49,871 | 52,213 | 55,700 | 60,437 | 65,920 | 70,690 | 73,394 | 77,611 | 78,966 | 83,523 | 84,714 | 89,298 | 90,669 | 93,523 | 93,711 | 96,932 | 98,375 | 101,058 | 100,696 | 101,399 | 101,729 | 100,324 | 97,739 | 94,651 | 92,261 | 91,149 | |
| Median OJR | 0.385 | 0.41 | 0.526 | 0.386 | 0.44 | 0.455 | 0.529 | 0.52 | 0.48 | 0.567 | 0.525 | 0.505 | 0.50 | 0.38 | 0.36 | 0.451 | 0.454 | 0.49 | 0.513 | 0.54 | 0.585 | 0.616 | 0.56 | 0.617 | 0.565 | 0.590 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.