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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Among the 48 physics and astronomy journals in this index it has the 5th highest h-index and the 15th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
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Where its authors come from
Share of the 11 060 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 40% |
| United Kingdom | 38% |
| Germany | 22% |
| China | 17% |
| Italy | 15% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 97% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena | 29% |
| Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies | 19% |
| Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations | 9% |
| Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies | 9% |
| Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research | 6% |
| Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae | 6% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- Full spectrum fitting with photometry in ppxf : stellar population versus dynamical masses, non-parametric star formation history and metallicity for 3200 LEGA-C galaxies at redshift z ≈ 0.8 (2023, 291 citations)
- Efficient formation of massive galaxies at cosmic dawn by feedback-free starbursts (2023, 289 citations)
- The FLAMINGO project: cosmological hydrodynamical simulations for large-scale structure and galaxy cluster surveys (2023, 273 citations)
- On the stunning abundance of super-early, luminous galaxies revealed by JWST (2023, 234 citations)
- The JWST FRESCO survey: legacy NIRCam/grism spectroscopy and imaging in the two GOODS fields (2023, 225 citations)
Official rankings
Many evaluations use a national or commercial list rather than raw citation counts. We don't reproduce those lists here; check the journal on each one directly (search for ISSN 0035-8711):
- Scimago (SJR and quartile): what quartiles mean
- Norwegian register (level 1 or 2): national lists explained
- Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO level 0 to 3)
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