Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
Choose a field to open its ranking, or a journal to find its row in its subfield’s list.
Subfield ranking · 2009
Astronomy and Astrophysics journal rankings 2009
78 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Astronomy and Astrophysics has 78 ranked journals in 2009. The median OJR rose 0.09 on 2008 to 0.57, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.27. The top three are The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, The Astronomical Journal, and Space Science Reviews.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesOAInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 6.91Q1 | 13.31 1.11 down from 2008 | 461 | 95% | $4,499 | ||
2The Astronomical JournalOAInstitute of Physics · United States | 2.51Q1 | 4.63 0.38 down from 2008 | 1,389 | 99% | $4,499 | ||
3Space Science ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.45Q1 | 4.71 1.69 up from 2008 | 492 | 31% | $5,290 | ||
4Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle PhysicsInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 2.44Q1 | 6.28 0.17 down from 2008 | 843 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
5Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society LettersOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 4.31 0.06 down from 2008 | 465 | 93% | $1,451 | ||
6The Astrophysical JournalOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 6.76 0.37 up from 2008 | 8,577 | 99% | $4,499 | ||
7Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 5.43 0.20 up from 2008 | 4,287 | 95% | $3,046 | ||
8Annual Review of Astronomy and AstrophysicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.93Q1 | 27.14 2.99 up from 2008 | 41 | 63% | — | ||
9Contemporary PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 2.13 0.11 down from 2008 | 77 | 37% | — | ||
10Reviews in Mineralogy and GeochemistryMineralogical Society of America · United States | 1.87Q1 | 2.47 0.55 down from 2008 | 147 | 15% | — | ||
11Astronomy and AstrophysicsOAEDP Sciences · France | 1.76Q1 | 4.18 0.13 up from 2008 | 5,955 | 99% | $1,865 | ||
12Publications of the Astronomical Society of the PacificInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 2.74 0.32 down from 2008 | 417 | 87% | $3,325 | ||
13IcarusElsevier BV · United States | 1.65Q1 | 3.93 0.24 up from 2008 | 1,031 | 21% | $3,810 | ||
14Publications of the Astronomical Society of JapanOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 4.65 0.52 up from 2008 | 507 | 74% | $2,398 | ||
15Solar PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.59Q1 | 3.75 0.81 up from 2008 | 567 | 45% | $4,190 | ||
16Publications of the Astronomical Society of AustraliaCambridge University Press · Australia | 1.59Q1 | 3.28 1.03 up from 2008 | 78 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
17Classical and Quantum GravityIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.34Q1 | 2.96 0.12 down from 2008 | 1,548 | 89% | $3,325 | ||
18AstrobiologyMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.32Q1 | 2.31 0.68 down from 2008 | 227 | 16% | — | ||
19Planetary and Space ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.31Q1 | 2.17 0.67 down from 2008 | 666 | 11% | $3,680 | ||
20Experimental AstronomySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.27Q1 | 3.31 2.59 up from 2008 | 111 | 33% | $2,590 | ||
21General Relativity and GravitationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.19Q2 | 2.45 0.52 up from 2008 | 508 | 76% | $2,290 | ||
22New AstronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.02Q2 | 1.91 0.11 up from 2008 | 220 | 54% | $2,690 | ||
23International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern PhysicsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.01Q2 | 1.59 0.01 down from 2008 | 234 | 51% | — | ||
24Origins of Life and Evolution of BiospheresSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.97Q2 | 2.23 0.76 up from 2008 | 144 | 54% | $1,520 | ||
25Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical AstronomySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.97Q2 | 1.85 0.14 up from 2008 | 190 | 24% | $3,190 | ||
26Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial PhysicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.94Q2 | 1.84 0.27 up from 2008 | 646 | 9% | $2,770 | ||
27International Journal of Modern Physics DWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.90Q2 | 1.12 0.83 down from 2008 | 620 | 73% | — | ||
28Annales GeophysicaeOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.89Q2 | 1.92 0.09 up from 2008 | 827 | 100% | $1,186 | ||
29New Astronomy ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.82Q2 | 1.65 0.68 up from 2008 | 386 | 47% | $4,350 | ||
30EosOAWiley · United States | 0.81Q2 | 1.06 0.09 up from 2008 | 1,295 | 43% | — | ||
31Radio ScienceWiley · United States | 0.75Q2 | 1.24 0.16 down from 2008 | 358 | 47% | $3,700 | ||
32Meteoritics and Planetary ScienceWiley · United States | 0.72Q2 | 2.30 0.85 up from 2008 | 455 | 52% | $3,300 | ||
33Space WeatherOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 0.71Q2 | 1.49 0.23 up from 2008 | 166 | 43% | $3,000 | ||
34Fortschritte der PhysikWiley · Germany | 0.67Q2 | 1.18 0.03 down from 2008 | 215 | 49% | $3,460 | ||
35Advances in Space ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.60Q2 | 1.26 0.43 up from 2008 | 1,603 | 13% | $2,780 | ||
36Astrophysics and Space ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.58Q2 | 1.33 0.21 up from 2008 | 982 | 40% | $3,490 | ||
37Journal of Low Temperature PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.58Q2 | 1.27 0.44 up from 2008 | 853 | 31% | $3,390 | ||
38Modern Physics Letters AWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.58Q2 | 1.07 0.20 down from 2008 | 943 | 62% | — | ||
39Science in China. Series G, Physics, mechanics & astronomy/Science in China. Series G, Physics, Mechanics & AstronomyChinese Academy of Sciences · China | 0.57Q2 | 1.01 0.11 up from 2008 | 329 | 13% | — | ||
40Astronomische NachrichtenWiley · Germany | 0.56Q3 | 1.00 0.11 down from 2008 | 595 | 51% | $2,810 | ||
41International Journal of AstrobiologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.49Q3 | 0.92 0.12 down from 2008 | 98 | 42% | $3,550 | ||
42Proceedings of From Planets to Dark Energy: the Modern Radio Universe — PoS(MRU)Publisher not listed | 0.41Q3 | 0.15no 2008 value | 105 | — | — | — | |
43Space PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.41Q3 | 0.70 0.22 down from 2008 | 157 | 1% | $3,400 | ||
44Astronomy LettersPleiades Publishing · United States | 0.40Q3 | 0.81 0.01 down from 2008 | 275 | 29% | — | ||
45Earth Moon and PlanetsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.39Q3 | 0.67 0.27 down from 2008 | 180 | 62% | $1,520 | ||
46Scientific Research and EssaysOAAcademic Journals · Nigeria | 0.37Q3 | 0.49 0.14 up from 2008 | 160 | 100% | — | ||
47Journal of Astrophysics and AstronomySpringer Nature · India | 0.33Q3 | 0.62 0.02 up from 2008 | 120 | 7% | — | ||
48Serbian Astronomical JournalOAAstronomical Observatory, Department of Astronomy, Belgrade · Serbia | 0.32Q3 | 0.81 0.14 up from 2008 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
49Journal of Atmospheric ElectricityOAJapan | 0.28Q3 | 0.38 0.12 down from 2008 | 35 | 31% | — | ||
50Astronomy ReportsPleiades Publishing · British Virgin Islands | 0.27Q3 | 0.54 0.07 up from 2008 | 297 | 12% | — |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Astronomy and Astrophysics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics78
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics73
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics61
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics31
- Radiation24
- Condensed Matter Physics6
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
- Instrumentation0
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
30 additional Astronomy and Astrophysics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 78
- Window papers (baseline)
- 83,523 +13.8% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.567 +7.2% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.