Open Access
Astrophysical Journal
SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q1
Impact factor
4.8
SJR
1.905
CiteScore
8.4
Categories
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science
Areas
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Physics and Astronomy
Years of issue
1984-2025
journal names
Astrophysical Journal
ASTROPHYS J
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Top-3 organizations

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Top-3 countries
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American Astronomical Society
1972395 citations, 32.22%
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Oxford University Press
1170510 citations, 19.12%
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EDP Sciences
714519 citations, 11.67%
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Springer Nature
462829 citations, 7.56%
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IOP Publishing
386144 citations, 6.31%
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Elsevier
260457 citations, 4.25%
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American Physical Society (APS)
195022 citations, 3.19%
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Cambridge University Press
161638 citations, 2.64%
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Wiley
80907 citations, 1.32%
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Pleiades Publishing
42683 citations, 0.7%
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Annual Reviews
42063 citations, 0.69%
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MDPI
40297 citations, 0.66%
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AIP Publishing
38436 citations, 0.63%
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World Scientific
28291 citations, 0.46%
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
18148 citations, 0.3%
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Frontiers Media S.A.
16608 citations, 0.27%
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American Geophysical Union
14402 citations, 0.24%
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American Chemical Society (ACS)
13501 citations, 0.22%
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Taylor & Francis
13381 citations, 0.22%
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The Royal Society
10345 citations, 0.17%
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
7790 citations, 0.13%
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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
7607 citations, 0.12%
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Science in China Press
6769 citations, 0.11%
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SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
6024 citations, 0.1%
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Hindawi Limited
5860 citations, 0.1%
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Optica Publishing Group
5677 citations, 0.09%
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Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk Journal
4997 citations, 0.08%
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Mary Ann Liebert
3514 citations, 0.06%
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Astronomical Society of Korea
3419 citations, 0.06%
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
3348 citations, 0.05%
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The Russian Academy of Sciences
2401 citations, 0.04%
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Canadian Science Publishing
2273 citations, 0.04%
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Copernicus
2000 citations, 0.03%
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Walter de Gruyter
1446 citations, 0.02%
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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
1134 citations, 0.02%
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Societa Italiana di Fisica
1050 citations, 0.02%
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National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences
986 citations, 0.02%
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Infra-M Academic Publishing House
936 citations, 0.02%
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Astronomical Observatory
874 citations, 0.01%
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SAGE
804 citations, 0.01%
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Mineralogical Society of America
798 citations, 0.01%
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National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Co. LTD Ukrinformnauka) (Publications)
767 citations, 0.01%
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Scientific Research Publishing
764 citations, 0.01%
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Physical Society of Japan
693 citations, 0.01%
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Acta Physica Sinica, Chinese Physical Society and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
633 citations, 0.01%
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The Korean Space Science Society
597 citations, 0.01%
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F1000 Research
503 citations, 0.01%
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Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
490 citations, 0.01%
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Stichting SciPost
429 citations, 0.01%
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
396 citations, 0.01%
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IntechOpen
389 citations, 0.01%
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American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
380 citations, 0.01%
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Japan Academy
354 citations, 0.01%
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American Meteorological Society
322 citations, 0.01%
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The Open Journal
310 citations, 0.01%
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Institute of Mathematical Statistics
293 citations, 0%
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Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
282 citations, 0%
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245 citations, 0%
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Allerton Press
238 citations, 0%
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The Korean Astronomical Society
237 citations, 0%
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The Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research (JSPF)
208 citations, 0%
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Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics
187 citations, 0%
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Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
181 citations, 0%
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
169 citations, 0%
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Japan Society of Applied Physics
166 citations, 0%
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The Geochemical Society of Japan
166 citations, 0%
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Steklov Mathematical Institute
156 citations, 0%
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
150 citations, 0%
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Social Science Electronic Publishing
150 citations, 0%
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124 citations, 0%
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