The Astrophysical Journal: impact and ranking
The Astrophysical Journal has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.64 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,408 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 697. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.64 #1,408 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 697 #24 of 18,122
- Citations
- 7.6M #14 of 18,122
- Works
- 135k 55.9 citations per work
What is the impact factor of The Astrophysical 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 Astrophysical Journal: 5.64, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks The Astrophysical Journal #1,408 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 The Astrophysical Journal?
OpenAlex gives The Astrophysical Journal an h-index of 697: 697 of its papers have each been cited at least 697 times. That ranks #24 of 18,122 journals.
How much does The Astrophysical Journal publish?
OpenAlex records 135,275 works in The Astrophysical Journal from 1880 to 2026, cited 7,567,781 times in all, 55.9 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #14 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About The Astrophysical Journal
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0004-637X
- In OpenAlex
- 1880 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists The Astrophysical 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/apj
- OpenAlex record
- S1980519
Journals ranked near The Astrophysical Journal
The journals with a page that stand just above and below The Astrophysical Journal on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,392 | Journal of Ethnopharmacology | 5.67 | 305 |
| 1,406 | The American Journal of Sports Medicine | 5.65 | 361 |
| 1,407 | Frontiers in Microbiology | 5.64 | 343 |
| 1,427 | Annals of Surgery | 5.59 | 453 |
| 1,434 | Journal of Sound and Vibration | 5.57 | 274 |
| 1,437 | Analytica Chimica Acta | 5.57 | 305 |
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.