Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Astronomy and Astrophysics journal rankings 2023
110 ranked journals · Subfield in Physics and Astronomy
Astronomy and Astrophysics has 110 ranked journals in 2023. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2022 to 0.62, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.17. The top three are New Astronomy Reviews, Space Science Reviews, and The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
110 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1New Astronomy ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.60Q1 | 14.17 7.51 up from 2022 | 33 | 33% | $4,350 | ||
2Space Science ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.65Q1 | 9.26 1.62 down from 2022 | 282 | 93% | $5,290 | ||
3The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesOAInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 6.99 1.55 down from 2022 | 863 | 100% | $4,499 | ||
4The Astrophysical Journal LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.79Q1 | 8.12 0.33 up from 2022 | 1,978 | 100% | $2,400 | ||
5Nature AstronomyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 6.59 0.04 down from 2022 | 804 | 44% | $12,690 | ||
6Reviews in Mineralogy and GeochemistryMineralogical Society of America · United States | 2.30Q1 | 6.22 0.49 up from 2022 | 54 | 24% | — | ||
7Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter WavePublisher not listed | 1.98Q1 | 1.33 0.32 up from 2022 | 127 | — | — | ||
8Annual Review of Astronomy and AstrophysicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.77Q1 | 19.16 9.87 down from 2022 | 42 | 87% | — | ||
9Fortschritte der PhysikWiley · Germany | 1.77Q1 | 5.18 2.36 up from 2022 | 164 | 67% | $3,460 | ||
10Physics of the Dark UniverseElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 4.71 0.08 down from 2022 | 480 | 32% | $3,660 | ||
10Journal of Space Weather and Space ClimateOAEDP Open · France | 1.75Q1 | 4.37 0.35 up from 2022 | 163 | 100% | $1,413 | ||
12Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle PhysicsInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 4.71 1.21 down from 2022 | 2,238 | 71% | $3,290 | ||
13Publications of the Astronomical Society of AustraliaCambridge University Press · Australia | 1.71Q1 | 3.07 2.34 down from 2022 | 181 | 91% | $3,550 | ||
14Journal of High Energy AstrophysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.69Q1 | 4.08 0.94 up from 2022 | 88 | 100% | $2,520 | ||
15Earth and Space 2021Publisher not listed | 1.69Q1 | 0.68 0.39 up from 2022 | 184 | — | — | ||
16Astronomy and AstrophysicsOAEDP Sciences · France | 1.57Q1 | 4.83 1.22 down from 2022 | 6,547 | 100% | $1,865 | ||
17Space WeatherOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 1.55Q1 | 4.89 0.74 up from 2022 | 445 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
18Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society LettersOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 3.62 0.53 down from 2022 | 508 | 89% | $1,451 | ||
19The Astronomical JournalOAInstitute of Physics · United States | 1.45Q1 | 4.43 0.41 down from 2022 | 1,737 | 100% | $4,499 | ||
20Publications of the Astronomical Society of the PacificInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 3.06 0.12 down from 2022 | 321 | 82% | $3,325 | ||
21Journal of Geophysical Research PlanetsWiley · United States | 1.35Q1 | 4.12 1.34 down from 2022 | 786 | 89% | $4,070 | ||
22AstrobiologyMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.34Q1 | 3.81 0.14 down from 2022 | 328 | 51% | — | ||
23Advances in Space ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 3.01 0.32 down from 2022 | 1,854 | 43% | $2,780 | ||
24The Astrophysical JournalOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 4.22 0.59 down from 2022 | 9,294 | 100% | $4,499 | ||
25Space PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 2.86 0.45 up from 2022 | 85 | 35% | $3,400 | ||
26Chinese Journal of PhysicsElsevier BV · Taiwan | 1.28Q1 | 4.52 0.26 down from 2022 | 1,000 | 11% | $2,000 | ||
27Classical and Quantum GravityIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 3.26 0.03 down from 2022 | 1,195 | 92% | $3,325 | ||
28Earth and Space ScienceOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 1.17Q1 | 3.34 0.72 down from 2022 | 874 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
29Frontiers in Astronomy and Space SciencesOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.17Q2 | 3.18 0.17 up from 2022 | 739 | 100% | $2,353 | ||
30GalaxiesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.15Q2 | 3.21 0.99 up from 2022 | 330 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
31The Planetary Science JournalOAInstitute of Physics · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 3.58 0.68 up from 2022 | 601 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
32Experimental AstronomySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.10Q2 | 2.58 0.03 up from 2022 | 225 | 45% | $2,590 | ||
33The Open Journal of AstrophysicsOAIreland | 1.07Q2 | 3.21 0.15 down from 2022 | 51 | 100% | — | ||
34Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.06Q2 | 4.12 0.70 down from 2022 | 11,516 | 84% | $3,046 | ||
35General Relativity and GravitationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.04Q2 | 2.08 0.56 down from 2022 | 386 | 35% | $2,290 | ||
36Journal of Geophysical Research Space PhysicsWiley · United States | 1.02Q2 | 3.29 0.12 down from 2022 | 2,072 | 89% | $4,070 | ||
37UniverseOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.96Q2 | 2.47 0.13 down from 2022 | 1,410 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
38Solar PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.92Q2 | 2.81 0.05 down from 2022 | 498 | 54% | $4,190 | ||
39IcarusElsevier BV · United States | 0.91Q2 | 2.50 0.44 down from 2022 | 1,168 | 71% | $3,810 | ||
40Annales GeophysicaeOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.86Q2 | 2.55 0.07 up from 2022 | 207 | 100% | $1,186 | ||
41Geoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systemsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.85Q2 | 2.36 0.05 down from 2022 | 88 | 100% | $1,035 | ||
42Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical AstronomySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.83Q2 | 1.53 0.08 down from 2022 | 166 | 64% | $3,190 | ||
43Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial PhysicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 2.60 0.08 up from 2022 | 458 | 56% | $2,770 | ||
44Radio ScienceWiley · United States | 0.81Q2 | 2.02 0.08 down from 2022 | 307 | 71% | $3,700 | ||
45New AstronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.81Q2 | 1.85 0.16 down from 2022 | 383 | 35% | $2,690 | ||
46International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern PhysicsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.78Q2 | 2.05 0.38 up from 2022 | 797 | 12% | — | ||
47Planetary and Space ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.78Q2 | 1.86 0.65 down from 2022 | 439 | 54% | $3,680 | ||
48Publications of the Astronomical Society of JapanOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.77Q2 | 1.91 0.38 down from 2022 | 362 | 60% | $2,398 | ||
49Astronomy and ComputingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.77Q2 | 2.02 0.10 down from 2022 | 168 | 37% | $2,260 | ||
50ChemSystemsChemWiley · Germany | 0.70Q2 | 2.77 0.13 down from 2022 | 114 | 77% | $4,030 |
Subfields of Physics and Astronomy, with Astronomy and Astrophysics highlighted.
- Astronomy and Astrophysics110
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics108
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics69
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics47
- Radiation26
- Condensed Matter Physics8
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics0
- Instrumentation0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% 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 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 110
- Window papers (baseline)
- 94,651 -7.0% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.617 +5.5% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.