Astronomy and Astrophysics: impact and ranking
Astronomy and Astrophysics has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.24 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,609 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 399. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.24 #1,609 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 399 #205 of 18,122
- Citations
- 2.4M #85 of 18,122
- Works
- 56k 42.2 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Astronomy and Astrophysics?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Astronomy and Astrophysics: 5.24, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Astronomy and Astrophysics #1,609 of 18,122 journals, in the top 9%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Astronomy and Astrophysics?
OpenAlex gives Astronomy and Astrophysics an h-index of 399: 399 of its papers have each been cited at least 399 times. That ranks #205 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Astronomy and Astrophysics publish?
OpenAlex records 56,244 works in Astronomy and Astrophysics from 2001 to 2026, cited 2,371,935 times in all, 42.2 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #85 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Publisher
- EDP Sciences
- Country
- France
- ISSN-L
- 0004-6361
- In OpenAlex
- 2001 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Astronomy and Astrophysics as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$1,865.
- Website
- www.aanda.org
- OpenAlex record
- S205231332
Journals ranked near Astronomy and Astrophysics
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Astronomy and Astrophysics on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,586 | Energies | 5.30 | 231 |
| 1,604 | Remote Sensing | 5.25 | 275 |
| 1,607 | Psychological Medicine | 5.24 | 331 |
| 1,614 | Journal of Affective Disorders | 5.23 | 307 |
| 1,616 | Scientific Reports | 5.23 | 461 |
| 1,623 | The Astronomical Journal | 5.23 | 354 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.