Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics journal rankings 2008
78 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Astronomy and Astrophysics has 78 ranked journals in 2008. The median journal has an OJR of 0.48, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2007; Q1 starts at OJR 1.05. The top three are The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Contemporary Physics, and Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2008. 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 2005–2007, the window the 2008 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)
78 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 2007. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2005–2007 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 2008. | Compare |
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1The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesOAInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 6.96Q1 | 14.42 6.43 up from 2007 | 423 | 93% | $4,499 | ||
2Contemporary PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 2.23 3.13 down from 2007 | 66 | 12% | — | ||
3Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle PhysicsInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 6.45 0.16 down from 2007 | 653 | 99% | $3,290 | ||
4The Astronomical JournalOAInstitute of Physics · United States | 2.48Q1 | 5.01 0.09 down from 2007 | 1,373 | 99% | $4,499 | ||
5Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society LettersOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 4.37 0.33 down from 2007 | 403 | 93% | $1,451 | ||
6Reviews in Mineralogy and GeochemistryMineralogical Society of America · United States | 2.23Q1 | 3.02 0.36 up from 2007 | 156 | 0% | — | ||
7The Astrophysical JournalOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 6.39 0.08 down from 2007 | 8,218 | 98% | $4,499 | ||
8Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 5.23 0.16 up from 2007 | 4,048 | 95% | $3,046 | ||
9Publications of the Astronomical Society of the PacificInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 3.06 0.30 down from 2007 | 428 | 82% | $3,325 | ||
10Space Science ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.71Q1 | 3.02 0.12 down from 2007 | 426 | 34% | $5,290 | ||
11Annual Review of Astronomy and AstrophysicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.70Q1 | 24.15 4.74 up from 2007 | 48 | 31% | — | ||
12Astronomy and AstrophysicsOAEDP Sciences · France | 1.68Q1 | 4.05 0.02 up from 2007 | 6,063 | 99% | $1,865 | ||
13IcarusElsevier BV · United States | 1.64Q1 | 3.69 0.23 up from 2007 | 1,028 | 26% | $3,810 | ||
14AstrobiologyMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.56Q1 | 2.98 0.13 up from 2007 | 176 | 6% | — | ||
15Publications of the Astronomical Society of JapanOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 4.13 1.66 up from 2007 | 435 | 74% | $2,398 | ||
16Classical and Quantum GravityIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 3.08 0.13 up from 2007 | 1,536 | 87% | $3,325 | ||
17Planetary and Space ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.39Q1 | 2.85 0.66 up from 2007 | 524 | 12% | $3,680 | ||
18Publications of the Astronomical Society of AustraliaCambridge University Press · Australia | 1.30Q1 | 2.24 0.97 up from 2007 | 94 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
19Solar PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.30Q1 | 2.94 0.20 up from 2007 | 509 | 36% | $4,190 | ||
20New AstronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.05Q1 | 1.80 0.08 up from 2007 | 215 | 54% | $2,690 | ||
21Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical AstronomySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.05Q2 | 1.71 0.47 up from 2007 | 179 | 34% | $3,190 | ||
22International Journal of Modern Physics DWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.01Q2 | 1.94 0.11 down from 2007 | 551 | 60% | — | ||
23International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern PhysicsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.99Q2 | 1.60 0.88 up from 2007 | 212 | 54% | — | ||
24EosOAWiley · United States | 0.89Q2 | 0.96 0.08 down from 2007 | 1,260 | 44% | — | ||
25Annales GeophysicaeOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.88Q2 | 1.83 0.19 up from 2007 | 820 | 100% | $1,186 | ||
26General Relativity and GravitationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.88Q2 | 1.93 0.79 up from 2007 | 578 | 72% | $2,290 | ||
27Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial PhysicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 1.57 0.16 down from 2007 | 640 | 6% | $2,770 | ||
28Radio ScienceWiley · United States | 0.83Q2 | 1.40 0.09 up from 2007 | 372 | 64% | $3,700 | ||
29Origins of Life and Evolution of BiospheresSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.74Q2 | 1.47 0.14 down from 2007 | 155 | 49% | $1,520 | ||
30Modern Physics Letters AWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.71Q2 | 1.27 0.21 down from 2007 | 848 | 60% | — | ||
31Astronomische NachrichtenWiley · Germany | 0.65Q2 | 1.12 0.08 up from 2007 | 556 | 48% | $2,810 | ||
32Fortschritte der PhysikWiley · Germany | 0.63Q2 | 1.21 0.45 down from 2007 | 222 | 51% | $3,460 | ||
33Space WeatherOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 0.62Q2 | 1.26 0.12 down from 2007 | 162 | 41% | $3,000 | ||
34Meteoritics and Planetary ScienceWiley · United States | 0.61Q2 | 1.45 0.29 down from 2007 | 454 | 48% | $3,300 | ||
35New Astronomy ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.59Q2 | 0.97 0.03 down from 2007 | 420 | 30% | $4,350 | ||
36Earth Moon and PlanetsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.57Q2 | 0.94 0.03 up from 2007 | 166 | 48% | $1,520 | ||
37Advances in Space ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.55Q2 | 0.82 0.16 down from 2007 | 2,385 | 7% | $2,780 | ||
38International Journal of AstrobiologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.50Q2 | 1.04 0.08 down from 2007 | 97 | 30% | $3,550 | ||
39Journal of Low Temperature PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.48Q2 | 0.83 0.11 up from 2007 | 912 | 21% | $3,390 | ||
40Space PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.47Q3 | 0.92 0.71 up from 2007 | 161 | 0% | $3,400 | ||
41Science in China. Series G, Physics, mechanics & astronomy/Science in China. Series G, Physics, Mechanics & AstronomyChinese Academy of Sciences · China | 0.47Q3 | 0.90 0.26 up from 2007 | 159 | 9% | — | ||
42Astrophysics and Space ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.46Q3 | 1.12 0.40 up from 2007 | 1,056 | 37% | $3,490 | ||
43Astronomy LettersPleiades Publishing · United States | 0.45Q3 | 0.82 0.01 up from 2007 | 283 | 22% | — | ||
44Experimental AstronomySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.43Q3 | 0.72 0.25 up from 2007 | 73 | 86% | $2,590 | ||
45Solar System ResearchPleiades Publishing · United States | 0.39Q3 | 0.66 0.34 down from 2007 | 163 | 2% | — | ||
46Serbian Astronomical JournalOAAstronomical Observatory, Department of Astronomy, Belgrade · Serbia | 0.32Q3 | 0.67 0.09 down from 2007 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
47Journal of Astrophysics and AstronomySpringer Nature · India | 0.31Q3 | 0.60 0.25 up from 2007 | 104 | 10% | — | ||
48Scientific Research and EssaysOAAcademic Journals · Nigeria | 0.31Q3 | 0.34 0.04 down from 2007 | 90 | 100% | — | ||
49Physics TodayAIP Publishing · United States | 0.27Q3 | 0.21 0.15 down from 2007 | 3,159 | 5% | — | ||
50Journal of the British Interplanetary SocietyBritish Interplanetary Society · United Kingdom | 0.26Q3 | 0.29no change | 59 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Astronomy and Astrophysics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics78
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics70
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics62
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics30
- Radiation23
- Condensed Matter Physics6
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
- Instrumentation0
Journals
Citations made in 2008. Corpus-wide, 71.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
27 additional Astronomy and Astrophysics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2005–2007, 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: 2008. Publication window: 2005–2007. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 78
- Window papers (baseline)
- 78,966 +11.7% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.48 +5.3% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2005–2007 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.