Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: impact and ranking
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.45 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,506 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 500. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.45 #1,506 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 500 #90 of 18,122
- Citations
- 3.7M #32 of 18,122
- Works
- 95k 38.6 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society?
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 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: 5.45, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society #1,506 of 18,122 journals, in the top 8%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society?
OpenAlex gives Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society an h-index of 500: 500 of its papers have each been cited at least 500 times. That ranks #90 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society publish?
OpenAlex records 94,884 works in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1827 to 2026, cited 3,665,463 times in all, 38.6 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #32 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0035-8711
- In OpenAlex
- 1827 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,046.
- Website
- mnras.oxfordjournals.org
- OpenAlex record
- S195663288
Journals ranked near Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,484 | Journal of Molecular Structure | 5.49 | 210 |
| 1,487 | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 5.49 | 499 |
| 1,499 | PLoS Pathogens | 5.47 | 314 |
| 1,521 | Journal of High Energy Physics | 5.41 | 376 |
| 1,525 | Neurocomputing | 5.39 | 258 |
| 1,536 | Cancers | 5.38 | 220 |
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.