Astronomy & Astrophysics: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences	23
2	Astrophysical Journal Letters	16
3	Space Science Reviews	15
4	Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics	12
-	Nature Astronomy	12
-	Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series	12
7	Astrophysical Journal	10
-	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society	10
9	Physics of the Dark Universe	9
-	Astronomy & Astrophysics	9
-	Physics Letters B	9
-	Astronomical Journal	9
13	Astrobiology	7
-	Icarus	7
15	Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific	6
-	Universe	6
-	Classical and Quantum Gravity	6
-	Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences	6
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics	6
-	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	6
-	Experimental Astronomy	6
22	Solar Physics	5
-	Advances in Space Research	5
-	Astroparticle Physics	5
-	Earth and Space Science	5
-	Life Sciences in Space Research	5
-	New Astronomy	5
-	Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan	5
29	Journal of High Energy Astrophysics	4
-	International Journal of Modern Physics D	4
-	Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy	4
-	Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate	4
-	Planetary and Space Science	4
-	Astronomy and Computing	4
-	General Relativity and Gravitation	4
36	Modern Physics Letters A	3
-	Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia	3
-	Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics	3
-	Astrophysics and Space Science	3
-	Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics	3
-	Radio Science	3
-	Advances in Astronomy	3
-	Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy	3
-	International Journal of Astrobiology	3
45	Kinematics and Physics of Celestial Bodies	2
-	Open Astronomy	2
-	Astronomy Letters-A Journal of Astronomy and Space Astrophysics	2
-	Solar System Research	2
-	Astronomy Reports	2
-	Astrophysical Bulletin	2

-	Astrophysics	2
-	Gravitation & Cosmology	2
53	Astronomische Nachrichten	1
-	Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica	1
-	Cosmic Research	1
56	Astronomy & Geophysics	0