Scimago Journal & Country Rank

Nature Astronomy

Country

United Kingdom

Universities and research institutions in United Kingdom
Media Ranking in United Kingdom

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group

H-Index

71

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

23973366

Coverage

2016-2022

Information

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Scope

Astronomy is arguably the oldest science, and has featured strongly throughout the history of Nature — the first quasar, the first exoplanet, the nature of spiral nebulae, to name but a few of the advances reported in its pages. The launch of Nature Astronomy now enables much expanded coverage of the modern discipline: the journal welcomes research across astronomy, astrophysics and planetary science, with the aim of fostering closer interaction between the researchers in each of these areas. Like all Nature-branded journals, Nature Astronomy is characterized by a dedicated team of professional editors, a fair and rigorous peer-review process, high standards of copy-editing and production, swift publication and editorial independence. In addition to publishing original research, Nature Astronomy publishes Comments, Reviews, News and Views, Features and Correspondence from across the full range of disciplines concerned with astronomy. Topics covered in the journal include: -Observational astronomy -Theoretical astrophysics -Computational techniques in astrophysics -Instrumentation and techniques -Planetary science -Exoplanets -Solar & stellar physics -Interplanetary & interstellar medium -Galactic & extragalactic astronomy -High energy astrophysics -Cosmology -Astrochemistry -Astronomical big data Join the conversation about this journal
Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

CategoryYearQuartile
Astronomy and Astrophysics2018Q1
Astronomy and Astrophysics2019Q1
Astronomy and Astrophysics2020Q1
Astronomy and Astrophysics2021Q1
Astronomy and Astrophysics2022Q1
SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

YearSJR
20182.862
20192.505
20203.085
20212.647
20223.269
Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

YearDocuments
2017269
2018275
2019271
2020268
2021269
2022280
Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per documentYearValue
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20176.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20183.763
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20194.323
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20205.131
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20215.564
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20225.993
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20176.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20183.763
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20194.323
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20205.119
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20216.129
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20226.636
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20176.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20183.763
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20194.313
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20205.685
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20216.926
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20226.467
Total Cites 
Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

CitesYearValue
Self Cites20170
Self Cites201822
Self Cites201964
Self Cites202097
Self Cites202192
Self Cites2022103
Total Cites20176
Total Cites20181016
Total Cites20192356
Total Cites20204172
Total Cites20214989
Total Cites20225362
External Cites per Doc 
Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

CitesYearValue
External Cites per document20176.000
External Cites per document20183.681
External Cites per document20194.206
External Cites per document20205.000
External Cites per document20216.016
External Cites per document20226.509
Cites per document20176.000
Cites per document20183.763
Cites per document20194.323
Cites per document20205.119
Cites per document20216.129
Cites per document20226.636
% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

YearInternational Collaboration
201728.25
201832.00
201938.38
202045.15
202147.58
202244.29
Citable documents 
Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

DocumentsYearValue
Non-citable documents20171
Non-citable documents2018132
Non-citable documents2019279
Non-citable documents2020466
Non-citable documents2021464
Non-citable documents2022411
Citable documents20170
Citable documents2018138
Citable documents2019266
Citable documents2020349
Citable documents2021350
Citable documents2022397
Cited documents 
Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

DocumentsYearValue
Uncited documents20170
Uncited documents2018154
Uncited documents2019284
Uncited documents2020393
Uncited documents2021364
Uncited documents2022333
Cited documents20171
Cited documents2018116
Cited documents2019261
Cited documents2020422
Cited documents2021450
Cited documents2022475
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