Nature Astronomy

Nature Astronomy

Discipline	Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Planetary science
Language	English
Edited  by	Paul Woods
Publication details
History	2017–present
Publisher	Nature Portfolio  (United Kingdom)
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	15.647 (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Nat. Astron.
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	2397-3366
LCCN	2018242063
OCLC  no.	1165479718
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Nature Astronomy is a peer reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio. ^{[1] [2]} It was first published in January 2017 (volume 1, issue 1), although the first content appeared online in December 2016. The editor-in-chief is Paul Woods, who is a full-time professional editor employed by the journal. ^[3] . Dr. Woods took over the leadership of the journal in April 2024 from May Chiao ^[4] , who launched the journal. The founding editors of this journal, in addition to May Chiao, were Paul Woods, Luca Maltagliati and Marios Karouzos. ^[3]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Astrophysics Data System (ADS) ^[5]
• Science Citation Index Expanded ^[6]
• Scopus ^[7]

According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 15.647, ranking it 5th out of 69 journals in the category "Astronomy & Astrophysics", behind four Review journals. Nature Astronomy is the leading primary research journal in astronomy & astrophysics, ranked by Journal Impact Factor. ^[8]

References

1. "Announcing five new Nature titles: Nature Astronomy, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Human Behaviour and Nature Reviews Chemistry - Group - Springer Nature - A new force in research publishing". www.springernature.com.
2. "A new astronomy publication: Nature Astronomy | British Astronomical Association". britastro.org.
3. "About the Editors - Nature Astronomy". www.nature.com.
4. "Under new management". www.nature.com.
5. "NASA/ADS Search (Beta Interface)". ui.adsabs.harvard.edu.
6. Analytics, Clarivate. "Journal Search - Clarivate Analytics". mjl.clarivate.com.
7. "Nature Astronomy". Scopus . Retrieved 2022-07-04.
8. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Astronomy & Astrophysics". 2021 Journal Citation Reports . Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2022.

External links

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