The Astronomical Journal: impact and ranking
The Astronomical Journal has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.23 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,623 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 354. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.23 #1,623 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 354 #307 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.2M #297 of 18,122
- Works
- 33k 35.4 citations per work
What is the impact factor of The Astronomical Journal?
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 The Astronomical Journal: 5.23, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks The Astronomical Journal #1,623 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 The Astronomical Journal?
OpenAlex gives The Astronomical Journal an h-index of 354: 354 of its papers have each been cited at least 354 times. That ranks #307 of 18,122 journals.
How much does The Astronomical Journal publish?
OpenAlex records 32,919 works in The Astronomical Journal from 1849 to 2026, cited 1,165,316 times in all, 35.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #297 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About The Astronomical Journal
- Publisher
- Institute of Physics
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0004-6256
- In OpenAlex
- 1849 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists The Astronomical Journal as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,499.
- Website
- iopscience.org/aj
- OpenAlex record
- S100695177
Journals ranked near The Astronomical Journal
The journals with a page that stand just above and below The Astronomical Journal on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,609 | Astronomy and Astrophysics | 5.24 | 399 |
| 1,614 | Journal of Affective Disorders | 5.23 | 307 |
| 1,616 | Scientific Reports | 5.23 | 461 |
| 1,626 | Journal of Ecology | 5.22 | 364 |
| 1,636 | IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics | 5.21 | 391 |
| 1,643 | Genetics | 5.19 | 416 |
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.