The Astrophysical Journal Letters

9.1k papers and 270.4k indexed citations i.

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The 9.1k papers published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters in the last decades have received a total of 270.4k indexed citations. Papers published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters usually cover Astronomy and Astrophysics (9.0k papers), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (1.6k papers) and Instrumentation (1.3k papers) specifically the topics of Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (4.0k papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (2.7k papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (2.7k papers). The most active scholars publishing in The Astrophysical Journal Letters are Bing Zhang, Pieter van Dokkum, Abraham Loeb, Brian D. Metzger, Charlie Conroy, Marijn Franx, Ben Margalit, Anatoly Spitkovsky, Andrei M. Beloborodov and Luciano Rezzolla.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 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 Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Countries where authors publish in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 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 Astrophysical Journal Letters with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites The Astrophysical Journal Letters more than expected).

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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