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Journals for “Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies”
Suggested journals
Topic match is relative to the best match in this search (100% = best). Fees are shown only where DOAJ records them.
| # | Journal | Topic match | ITS Journal Score | Global rank | Papers 2021–2025 | Open access | Fee (APC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Astronomical Journal Institute of Physics · United States · DOAJ | 100% | 86.4 | #626 | 3,016 | 100% | 2,356 GBP |
| 2 | Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica | 69% | 47.8 | #21,245 | 171 | 92% | Not recorded |
| 3 | The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Institute of Physics · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 42% | 86.8 | #576 | 1,631 | 100% | 2,356 GBP |
| 4 | Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics Annual Reviews · United States | 40% | 83.3 | #1,186 | 72 | 79% | Not recorded |
| 5 | Astrophysics Springer Science+Business Media · United States | 55% | 50.4 | #19,244 | 231 | 11% | Not recorded |
| 6 | Astronomy and Astrophysics EDP Sciences · France · DOAJ | 34% | 88.4 | #393 | 14,346 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 7 | Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Cambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 56% | 46.2 | #22,477 | 1,404 | 61% | Not recorded |
| 8 | Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Institute of Physics · United Kingdom | 39% | 77.8 | #2,950 | 641 | 84% | Not recorded |
| 9 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 28% | 89.5 | #289 | 16,818 | 90% | 2,310 GBP |
| 10 | The Astrophysical Journal IOP Publishing · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 28% | 90.1 | #239 | 17,299 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 11 | Research Notes of the AAS IOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 40% | 61.5 | #11,946 | 1,528 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 12 | The Astrophysical Journal Letters IOP Publishing · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 25% | 89.4 | #295 | 3,719 | 100% | 2,219 GBP |
| 13 | New Astronomy Elsevier BV · The Netherlands | 34% | 70.7 | #6,380 | 617 | 26% | Not recorded |
| 14 | Astrophysical Bulletin Pleiades Publishing · British Virgin Islands | 40% | 58.2 | #14,066 | 252 | 18% | Not recorded |
| 15 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 25% | 82.5 | #1,371 | 741 | 90% | Not recorded |
| 16 | New Astronomy Reviews Elsevier BV · The Netherlands | 29% | 74.1 | #4,569 | 56 | 57% | Not recorded |
| 17 | Astronomische Nachrichten Wiley · Germany | 34% | 64.4 | #10,143 | 721 | 57% | Not recorded |
| 18 | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 28% | 76.1 | #3,655 | 608 | 78% | Not recorded |
| 19 | Nature Astronomy Nature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 23% | 84.7 | #880 | 1,462 | 49% | Not recorded |
| 20 | Serbian Astronomical Journal Astronomical Observatory, Department of Astronomy, Belgrade · Serbia · DOAJ | 40% | 48.4 | #20,743 | 54 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 21 | Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège Société royale des sciences de Liège · Belgium | 37% | 52.7 | #17,623 | 213 | 94% | Not recorded |
| 22 | Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics IOP Publishing · China | 27% | 68.4 | #7,752 | 1,495 | 72% | Not recorded |
| 23 | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia Cambridge University Press · Australia | 24% | 73.5 | #4,896 | 478 | 90% | Not recorded |
| 24 | Experimental Astronomy Springer Science+Business Media · The Netherlands | 24% | 72.0 | #5,705 | 349 | 71% | Not recorded |
| 25 | Astronomy Reports Pleiades Publishing · British Virgin Islands | 31% | 60.3 | #12,772 | 691 | 20% | Not recorded |
| 26 | Open European Journal on Variable stars Czechia | 47% | 26.3 | #45,099 | 58 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 27 | Astronomy Letters Pleiades Publishing · United States | 29% | 57.9 | #14,213 | 399 | 21% | Not recorded |
| 28 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences Royal Society · United Kingdom | 15% | 82.1 | #1,492 | 1,662 | 76% | Not recorded |
| 29 | Astrophysics and Space Science Springer Science+Business Media · The Netherlands | 19% | 73.4 | #4,953 | 625 | 33% | Not recorded |
| 30 | Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems SPIE · United States | 24% | 63.5 | #10,721 | 734 | 67% | Not recorded |
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How the ITS Journal Score works
One formula applies to every ranked journal, using open data from OpenAlex: 45% citation impact, 35% h-index and 20% size (papers published 2021–2025). Citation impact is the smaller of the journal's two-year mean citedness and its five-year citations per paper, so a journal whose output collapsed cannot jump to the top on old citations. Each part is half a percentile and half a log-scaled value, so the very top is still separated. Growth and open-access share are shown separately and are not part of the score.
A journal is ranked only if it published at least 50 papers in 2021–2025 and was active in at least five of the last six years. Field rankings compare a journal only with journals in the same field; the field is the OpenAlex field with most of the journal's recent papers, or "Multidisciplinary" when no field has 30% of them.
What this is not: the ITS Journal Score is not a Journal Impact Factor, CiteScore or SJR, and this site does not say whether a journal is indexed in Scopus, Web of Science or PubMed. Always confirm aims and scope, indexing, peer review and fees on the journal's own website before you submit.