Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Astronomy and Astrophysics journal rankings 2022
111 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Astronomy and Astrophysics has 111 ranked journals in 2022. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2021 to 0.56, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.16. The top three are Space Science Reviews, New Astronomy Reviews, and The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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)
111 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1Space Science ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.26Q1 | 10.88 1.18 up from 2021 | 266 | 90% | $5,290 | ||
2New Astronomy ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.23Q1 | 6.65 1.95 down from 2021 | 36 | 44% | $4,350 | ||
3The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesOAInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 8.53 0.65 down from 2021 | 780 | 100% | $4,499 | ||
4The Astrophysical Journal LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 7.78 1.36 down from 2021 | 2,012 | 100% | $2,400 | ||
5Nature AstronomyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.92Q1 | 6.63 1.11 down from 2021 | 817 | 47% | $12,690 | ||
6The Open Journal of AstrophysicsOAIreland | 2.28Q1 | 3.35 3.02 down from 2021 | 49 | 100% | — | ||
7Reviews in Mineralogy and GeochemistryMineralogical Society of America · United States | 2.21Q1 | 5.73 2.20 down from 2021 | 31 | 28% | — | ||
8Publications of the Astronomical Society of AustraliaCambridge University Press · Australia | 2.16Q1 | 5.41 0.60 down from 2021 | 168 | 77% | $3,550 | ||
9Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter WavePublisher not listed | 2.08Q1 | 1.02 0.56 up from 2021 | 127 | — | — | ||
10Annual Review of Astronomy and AstrophysicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.88Q1 | 29.03 8.18 down from 2021 | 45 | 50% | — | ||
11Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle PhysicsInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 5.92 1.11 down from 2021 | 2,226 | 92% | $3,290 | ||
12Physics of the Dark UniverseElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 4.80 0.53 up from 2021 | 447 | 51% | $3,660 | ||
13Astronomy and AstrophysicsOAEDP Sciences · France | 1.66Q1 | 6.05 0.36 down from 2021 | 6,446 | 100% | $1,865 | ||
14Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society LettersOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 4.15 1.09 down from 2021 | 523 | 75% | $1,451 | ||
15Publications of the Astronomical Society of the PacificInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 3.18 1.46 down from 2021 | 341 | 97% | $3,325 | ||
16The Astronomical JournalOAInstitute of Physics · United States | 1.58Q1 | 4.84 0.73 down from 2021 | 1,708 | 100% | $4,499 | ||
17Journal of Geophysical Research PlanetsWiley · United States | 1.55Q1 | 5.46 0.49 up from 2021 | 684 | 65% | $4,070 | ||
18Fortschritte der PhysikWiley · Germany | 1.50Q1 | 2.81 1.53 down from 2021 | 171 | 57% | $3,460 | ||
19AstrobiologyMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.46Q1 | 3.95 0.44 down from 2021 | 328 | 52% | — | ||
20The Astrophysical JournalOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 4.81 0.68 down from 2021 | 9,162 | 100% | $4,499 | ||
21Journal of Space Weather and Space ClimateOAEDP Open · France | 1.38Q1 | 4.02 0.70 up from 2021 | 168 | 100% | $1,413 | ||
22Advances in Space ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 3.33 0.32 up from 2021 | 1,599 | 37% | $2,780 | ||
23Space WeatherOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 1.36Q1 | 4.15 0.25 down from 2021 | 400 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
24Earth and Space ScienceOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 1.35Q1 | 4.07 0.63 down from 2021 | 772 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
25Classical and Quantum GravityIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 3.29 0.44 down from 2021 | 1,288 | 86% | $3,325 | ||
26Frontiers in Astronomy and Space SciencesOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.19Q1 | 3.02 0.78 down from 2021 | 403 | 100% | $2,353 | ||
27Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.19Q1 | 4.82 0.39 down from 2021 | 11,318 | 81% | $3,046 | ||
28Chinese Journal of PhysicsElsevier BV · Taiwan | 1.16Q1 | 4.78 0.54 up from 2021 | 991 | 14% | $2,000 | ||
29IcarusElsevier BV · United States | 1.14Q2 | 2.94 0.56 down from 2021 | 1,191 | 72% | $3,810 | ||
30Publications of the Astronomical Society of JapanOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 2.29 0.90 down from 2021 | 412 | 64% | $2,398 | ||
31Journal of High Energy AstrophysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.04Q2 | 3.14 0.56 up from 2021 | 66 | 100% | $2,520 | ||
32Planetary and Space ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 2.51 0.08 up from 2021 | 501 | 54% | $3,680 | ||
33Experimental AstronomySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.99Q2 | 2.54 0.47 up from 2021 | 196 | 81% | $2,590 | ||
34Journal of Geophysical Research Space PhysicsWiley · United States | 0.97Q2 | 3.41 0.08 down from 2021 | 2,208 | 50% | $4,070 | ||
35Earth and Space 2021Publisher not listed | 0.96Q2 | 0.29no 2021 value | 184 | — | — | — | |
36The Planetary Science JournalOAInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 2.91 0.55 up from 2021 | 327 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
37General Relativity and GravitationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.95Q2 | 2.65 0.01 up from 2021 | 384 | 64% | $2,290 | ||
38Solar PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.94Q2 | 2.87 0.11 down from 2021 | 530 | 60% | $4,190 | ||
39Radio ScienceWiley · United States | 0.93Q2 | 2.10 0.11 up from 2021 | 292 | 33% | $3,700 | ||
40Space PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.93Q2 | 2.41 0.40 down from 2021 | 80 | 24% | $3,400 | ||
41Annales GeophysicaeOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.88Q2 | 2.48 0.74 down from 2021 | 248 | 100% | $1,186 | ||
42Astronomy and ComputingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.88Q2 | 2.12 0.12 down from 2021 | 145 | 64% | $2,260 | ||
43Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial PhysicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 2.52 0.24 down from 2021 | 519 | 36% | $2,770 | ||
44UniverseOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.85Q2 | 2.60 0.03 down from 2021 | 978 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
45Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical AstronomySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.85Q2 | 1.61 0.08 up from 2021 | 172 | 54% | $3,190 | ||
46GalaxiesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.82Q2 | 2.22 0.13 up from 2021 | 303 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
47International Journal of Modern Physics DWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.79Q2 | 1.79 0.73 down from 2021 | 605 | 45% | — | ||
48Contemporary PhysicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.77Q2 | 0.99 1.23 down from 2021 | 289 | 14% | — | ||
49New AstronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.75Q2 | 2.01 0.01 down from 2021 | 311 | 32% | $2,690 | ||
50Earth and Planetary PhysicsOAWiley · China | 0.74Q2 | 2.34 0.60 up from 2021 | 201 | 100% | $2,324 |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Astronomy and Astrophysics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics111
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics103
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics75
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics44
- Radiation28
- Condensed Matter Physics7
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
- Instrumentation0
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% 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 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 111
- Window papers (baseline)
- 97,739 -3.6% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.56 +3.8% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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 |
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| 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.