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Journals for “Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations”
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Topic match is relative to the best match in this search (100% = best). Under each journal, "Publishes on" shows which of the matched topics it publishes and what share of its recent papers they make up. Fees are shown only where DOAJ records them; "Not recorded" does not mean the journal is free.
| # | Journal | Topic match | ITS Journal Score | Global rank | Papers 2021–2025 | Open access | Fee (APC) | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan Oxford University Press · United Kingdom Publishes on: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (18%) | 100% | 76.1 | #3,655 | 608 | 78% | Not recorded | |
| 2 | Journal of High Energy Astrophysics Elsevier BV · The Netherlands Publishes on: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (14%) | 78% | 71.4 | #6,006 | 416 | 36% | Not recorded | |
| 3 | Astronomische Nachrichten Wiley · Germany Publishes on: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (14%) | 79% | 64.4 | #10,143 | 721 | 57% | Not recorded | |
| 4 | New Astronomy Reviews Elsevier BV · The Netherlands Publishes on: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (13%) | 74% | 74.1 | #4,569 | 56 | 57% | Not recorded | |
| 5 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters Oxford University Press · United Kingdom Publishes on: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (11%) | 60% | 82.5 | #1,371 | 741 | 90% | Not recorded | |
| 6 | The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Institute of Physics · United Kingdom · DOAJ Publishes on: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (10%) | 54% | 86.8 | #576 | 1,631 | 100% | 2,356 GBP | |
| 7 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press · United Kingdom · DOAJ Publishes on: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (8%) | 47% | 89.5 | #289 | 16,818 | 90% | 2,310 GBP | |
| 8 | Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom Publishes on: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (13%) | 70% | 43.7 | #24,693 | 156 | 2% | Not recorded | |
| 9 | The Astrophysical Journal IOP Publishing · United Kingdom · DOAJ Publishes on: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (8%) | 44% | 90.1 | #239 | 17,299 | 100% | Not recorded | |
| 10 | Astronomy Letters Pleiades Publishing · United States Publishes on: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (9%) | 49% | 57.9 | #14,213 | 399 | 21% | Not recorded | |
| 11 | Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics Annual Reviews · United States Publishes on: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (6%) | 34% | 83.3 | #1,186 | 72 | 79% | Not recorded | |
| 12 | International Journal of Modern Physics D World Scientific · Singapore Publishes on: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (7%) | 40% | 72.0 | #5,676 | 841 | 63% | Not recorded | |
| 13 | Astronomy Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · DOAJ Publishes on: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (10%) | 54% | 45.0 | #23,528 | 83 | 100% | 1,000 CHF | |
| 14 | Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings CTU Central Library · Czechia · DOAJ Publishes on: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (10%) | 54% | 42.2 | #26,031 | 585 | 100% | Not recorded | |
| 15 | Classical and Quantum Gravity IOP Publishing · United Kingdom Publishes on: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (4%) | 24% | 81.2 | #1,772 | 2,023 | 83% | Not recorded | |
| 16 | Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Publishes on: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (7%) | 39% | 47.8 | #21,245 | 171 | 92% | Not recorded | |
| 17 | Turkish Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics Publishes on: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (9%) | 51% | 20.6 | #52,021 | 209 | 94% | Not recorded | |
| 18 | Veritas Villanova Research Journal Villanova University Publishes on: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (8%) | 46% | 18.0 | #54,731 | 63 | 98% | Not recorded | |
| 19 | Acta Astrophysica Taurica Crimean Astrophysical Observatory · Russia Publishes on: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (7%) | 37% | 13.7 | #58,305 | 78 | 100% | Not recorded | |
| 20 | Письма в астрономический журнал Астрономия и космическая астрофизика Nauka · Russia Publishes on: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (2%) | 13% | 22.4 | #49,966 | 232 | 41% | 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.
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