The Astronomical Journal

18.4k papers and 477.4k indexed citations

About

The 18.4k papers published in The Astronomical Journal in the last decades have received a total of 477.4k indexed citations. Papers published in The Astronomical Journal usually cover Astronomy and Astrophysics (15.8k papers), Instrumentation (6.5k papers) and Computational Mechanics (2.5k papers) specifically the topics of Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (10.2k papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (6.5k papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (5.2k papers). The most active scholars publishing in The Astronomical Journal are L. B. Lucy, A. U. Landolt, William E. Harris, Ivan R. King, Yoshihide Kozai, David Jewitt, Jack Wisdom, J. Tonry, Allan Sandage and I. Neill Reid.

In The Last Decade

The Astronomical Journal

16.7k papers receiving 447.0k citations

Peers

Astronomy and Astrophysics 451.5k
Instrumentation 132.4k
Nuclear and High Energy Physics 63.8k
Computational Mechanics 20.8k
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 18.6k

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Citations per field, relative to The Astronomical Journal

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×0.6 268.1k

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×0.5 59.8k

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×0.9 59.3k

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×0.5 10.9k

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×1.4 25.7k

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Countries where authors publish in The Astronomical Journal

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in The Astronomical Journal. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in The Astronomical Journal with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites The Astronomical Journal more than expected).

Fields of papers published in The Astronomical Journal

Since Specialization

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This network shows the impact of papers published in The Astronomical Journal. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in The Astronomical Journal.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

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