Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Astronomy and Astrophysics journal rankings 2015
102 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Astronomy and Astrophysics has 102 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR rose 0.09 on 2014 to 0.45, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.16. The top three are The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Space Science Reviews, and Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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)
102 ranked journals
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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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesOAInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 5.97Q1 | 12.13 0.17 down from 2014 | 512 | 97% | $4,499 | ||
2Space Science ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.89Q1 | 7.06 0.58 down from 2014 | 249 | 66% | $5,290 | ||
3Reviews in Mineralogy and GeochemistryMineralogical Society of America · United States | 3.86Q1 | 6.45 0.89 up from 2014 | 90 | 71% | — | ||
4The Astrophysical Journal LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.99Q1 | 6.08no change | 2,015 | 100% | $2,400 | ||
5Physics of the Dark UniverseElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.84Q1 | 5.39 2.97 down from 2014 | 67 | 67% | $3,660 | ||
6Annual Review of Astronomy and AstrophysicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.41Q1 | 40.96 5.03 up from 2014 | 42 | 72% | — | ||
7Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society LettersOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 4.83 0.02 down from 2014 | 546 | 98% | $1,451 | ||
8The Astronomical JournalOAInstitute of Physics · United States | 2.34Q1 | 4.51 0.08 down from 2014 | 968 | 99% | $4,499 | ||
9Publications of the Astronomical Society of the PacificInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 4.77 1.05 up from 2014 | 352 | 76% | $3,325 | ||
10The Astrophysical JournalOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 6.22 0.13 down from 2014 | 8,706 | 99% | $4,499 | ||
11Journal of Geophysical Research PlanetsWiley · United States | 2.19Q1 | 4.44 0.86 down from 2014 | 319 | 71% | $4,070 | ||
12Astronomy and AstrophysicsOAEDP Sciences · France | 1.93Q1 | 5.34 0.70 up from 2014 | 5,443 | 100% | $1,865 | ||
13Publications of the Astronomical Society of AustraliaCambridge University Press · Australia | 1.91Q1 | 4.01 0.50 up from 2014 | 145 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
14Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle PhysicsInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 5.77 0.30 down from 2014 | 1,807 | 99% | $3,290 | ||
15Journal of Space Weather and Space ClimateOAEDP Open · France | 1.84Q1 | 4.03 1.38 up from 2014 | 87 | 100% | $1,413 | ||
16Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 5.25 0.22 down from 2014 | 7,660 | 97% | $3,046 | ||
17GalaxiesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.65Q1 | 3.18 1.49 up from 2014 | 41 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
18Fortschritte der PhysikWiley · Germany | 1.51Q1 | 3.92 1.51 up from 2014 | 189 | 61% | $3,460 | ||
19IcarusElsevier BV · United States | 1.48Q1 | 3.55 0.19 down from 2014 | 1,378 | 39% | $3,810 | ||
20Classical and Quantum GravityIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 3.00 0.53 down from 2014 | 1,290 | 94% | $3,325 | ||
21Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical AstronomySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.39Q1 | 1.86 0.15 down from 2014 | 204 | 53% | $3,190 | ||
22AstrobiologyMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.31Q1 | 2.89 0.28 down from 2014 | 272 | 46% | — | ||
23Experimental AstronomySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.27Q1 | 2.66 0.61 up from 2014 | 143 | 77% | $2,590 | ||
24Solar PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.20Q1 | 2.93 0.83 up from 2014 | 699 | 60% | $4,190 | ||
25Astronomy and ComputingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.19Q1 | 2.32 0.21 up from 2014 | 68 | 67% | $2,260 | ||
26Planetary and Space ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.16Q1 | 2.26 0.32 down from 2014 | 641 | 31% | $3,680 | ||
27Radio ScienceWiley · United States | 1.00Q2 | 1.65 0.23 down from 2014 | 282 | 66% | $3,700 | ||
28Advances in Space ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 1.70 0.15 up from 2014 | 1,219 | 18% | $2,780 | ||
29International Journal of Modern Physics DWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.00Q2 | 2.09 0.29 up from 2014 | 512 | 69% | — | ||
30Meteoritics and Planetary ScienceWiley · United States | 0.96Q2 | 2.29 0.23 down from 2014 | 510 | 60% | $3,300 | ||
31Journal of Geophysical Research Space PhysicsWiley · United States | 0.91Q2 | 2.88 0.16 down from 2014 | 1,510 | 78% | $4,070 | ||
32General Relativity and GravitationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.91Q2 | 1.81 0.07 up from 2014 | 505 | 71% | $2,290 | ||
33Annales GeophysicaeOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.90Q2 | 1.98 0.14 down from 2014 | 455 | 100% | $1,186 | ||
34Advances in AstronomyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 0.83 0.56 down from 2014 | 86 | 100% | $1,130 | ||
35Space WeatherOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 0.89Q2 | 2.42 0.52 up from 2014 | 231 | 61% | $3,000 | ||
36Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial PhysicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 1.56 0.05 down from 2014 | 627 | 22% | $2,770 | ||
37Publications of the Astronomical Society of JapanOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 1.89 0.04 down from 2014 | 527 | 79% | $2,398 | ||
38Geoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systemsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.75Q2 | 1.48 0.15 down from 2014 | 76 | 100% | $1,035 | ||
39Astrophysics and Space ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.70Q2 | 1.50 0.53 down from 2014 | 1,226 | 37% | $3,490 | ||
40International Journal of AstrobiologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 1.48 0.18 up from 2014 | 159 | 52% | $3,550 | ||
41The European Physical Journal HSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 0.67Q2 | 1.21 0.14 down from 2014 | 84 | 23% | $3,790 | ||
42Origins of Life and Evolution of BiospheresSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.64Q2 | 1.52 0.08 up from 2014 | 125 | 46% | $1,520 | ||
43Journal of Astronomical InstrumentationWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.62Q2 | 0.91 0.74 down from 2014 | 50 | 55% | — | ||
44Modern Physics Letters AWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.60Q2 | 1.27 0.02 down from 2014 | 819 | 64% | — | ||
45Research in Astronomy and AstrophysicsIOP Publishing · China | 0.59Q2 | 1.09 0.12 down from 2014 | 402 | 94% | — | ||
46New AstronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.56Q2 | 1.07 0.19 down from 2014 | 284 | 45% | $2,690 | ||
| 0.48Q2 | 0.38 0.22 down from 2014 | 61 | 93% | — | |||
48Astronomische NachrichtenWiley · Germany | 0.47Q2 | 0.84 0.08 up from 2014 | 511 | 57% | $2,810 | ||
49Astronomy LettersPleiades Publishing · United States | 0.47Q2 | 0.92 0.49 down from 2014 | 233 | 29% | — | ||
50Earth Moon and PlanetsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.47Q2 | 1.03 0.26 up from 2014 | 65 | 39% | $1,520 |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Astronomy and Astrophysics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics102
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics87
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics67
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics37
- Radiation24
- Condensed Matter Physics7
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
- Instrumentation0
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
36 additional Astronomy and Astrophysics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 102
- Window papers (baseline)
- 96,932 +6.9% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.451 -10.2% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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.