This web page aims to provide a latest list of top Astronomy journals. The journals are Web of Science (SCI) indexed with high impact factor. Moreover, the listed journals are UGC CARE approved, Scopus indexed. The journals are sorted based on Scopus SJR score.
| S. No. | Journal Title | Publisher | ISSN | SJR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nature Reviews Physics | Springer International Publishing | 25225820 | 9.803 |
| 2 | Astronomy and Astrophysics Review | Springer Verlag | 09354956, 14320754 | 9.465 |
| 3 | Living Reviews in Solar Physics | Springer International Publishing AG | 16144961, 23673648 | 7.431 |
| 4 | Nature Physics | Nature Publishing Group | 17452473 | 7.125 |
| 5 | Physical Review X | American Physical Society | 21603308 | 6.415 |
| 6 | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | Annual Reviews Inc. | 846597 | 5.885 |
| 7 | Physics Reports | Elsevier B.V. | 3701573 | 5.735 |
| 8 | Reports on Progress in Physics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 13616633, 00344885 | 5.666 |
| 9 | PRX Quantum | American Physical Society | 26913399 | 5.341 |
| 10 | Nature Communications | Nature Research | 20411723 | 4.761 |
| 11 | ACS Nano | American Chemical Society | 1936086X, 19360851 | 4.497 |
| 12 | Nature Astronomy | Nature Publishing Group | 23973366 | 4.006 |
| 13 | Advanced Science | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 21983844 | 3.775 |
| 14 | Astrophysical Journal Letters | American Astronomical Society | 20418213, 20418205 | 3.713 |
| 15 | New Astronomy Reviews | Elsevier B.V. | 13876473 | 3.697 |
| 16 | Annals of PDE | Springer Science + Business Media | 21992576, 25245317 | 2.932 |
| 17 | Applied Physics Reviews | American Institute of Physics | 19319401 | 2.904 |
| 18 | Physical Review Letters | American Physical Society | 10797114, 00319007 | 2.856 |
| 19 | Quantum | Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 2521327X | 2.526 |
| 20 | Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Institute of Physics Publishing | 00046280, 15383873 | 2.517 |
| 21 | Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | Elsevier B.V. | 457825 | 2.412 |
| 22 | Physics of Life Reviews | Elsevier B.V. | 18731457, 15710645 | 2.384 |
| 23 | Journal of High Energy Astrophysics | Elsevier B.V. | 22144048 | 2.32 |
| 24 | Space Science Reviews | Springer Netherlands | 15729672, 00386308 | 2.289 |
| 25 | Materials Today Physics | Elsevier Ltd | 25425293 | 2.278 |
| 26 | IEEE Wireless Communications Letters | IEEE Communications Society | 21622345, 21622337 | 2.24 |
| 27 | Advances in Physics: X | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 23746149 | 2.237 |
| 28 | Astronomical Journal | American Astronomical Society | 00046256, 15383881 | 2.229 |
| 29 | Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics | Oxford University Press | 20503911 | 2.219 |
| 30 | Ultrafast Science | American Association for the Advancement of Science | 20970331, 27658791 | 2.179 |
| 31 | Cell Reports Physical Science | Cell Press | 26663864 | 2.098 |
| 32 | Astrophysical Journal | American Astronomical Society | 0004637X, 15384357 | 2.038 |
| 33 | Combustion and Flame | Elsevier Inc. | 00102180, 15562921 | 2.015 |
| 34 | Reviews of Modern Physics | American Physical Society | 00346861, 15390756 | 18.08 |
| 35 | Living Reviews in Relativity | Springer International Publishing AG | 14338351, 23673613 | 14.562 |
| 36 | Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15454282, 00664146 | 12.736 |
| 37 | Astronomy and Astrophysics | EDP Sciences | 00046361, 14320746 | 1.968 |
| 38 | Computer Physics Communications | Elsevier B.V. | 104655 | 1.946 |
| 39 | Quantum Science and Technology | Institute of Physics Publishing | 20589565 | 1.911 |
| 40 | Reviews in Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 24054283 | 1.903 |
| 41 | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia | Cambridge University Press | 13233580, 14486083 | 1.885 |
| 42 | Communications Physics | Springer Nature | 23993650 | 1.776 |
| 43 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Oxford University Press | 13652966, 00358711 | 1.702 |
| 44 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters | Oxford University Press | 17453925, 17453933 | 1.688 |
| 45 | Journal of Computational Physics | Academic Press Inc. | 10902716, 00219991 | 1.685 |
| 46 | SciPost Physics | SciPost Foundation | 25424653 | 1.61 |
| 47 | Astrodynamics | Tsinghua University Press | 25220098 | 1.598 |
| 48 | Physical Review Research | American Physical Society | 26431564 | 1.593 |
| 49 | Planetary Science Journal | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 26323338 | 1.582 |
| 50 | Fortschritte der Physik | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 15213978, 00158208 | 1.549 |
| 51 | Physical Review Physics Education Research | American Physical Society | 24699896 | 1.497 |
| 52 | Physical Review D | American Physical Society | 24700010, 24700029 | 1.458 |
| 53 | AAPPS Bulletin | Springer | 02182203, 23094710 | 1.379 |
| 54 | Physics of the Dark Universe | Elsevier B.V. | 22126864 | 1.362 |
| 55 | European Physical Journal C | 14346052, 14346044 | 1.343 | |
| 56 | La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 18269850, 0393697X | 1.335 |
| 57 | Applied Surface Science | Elsevier B.V. | 1694332 | 1.31 |
| 58 | Physical Review Applied | American Physical Society | 23317019 | 1.288 |
| 59 | Nonlinearity | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 09517715, 13616544 | 1.262 |
| 60 | Chinese Physics Letters | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 17413540, 0256307X | 1.199 |
| 61 | Frontiers of Physics | Higher Education Press Limited Company | 20950462, 20950470 | 1.174 |
| 62 | Classical and Quantum Gravity | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 13616382, 02649381 | 1.154 |
| 63 | Galaxies | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 20754434 | 1.085 |
| 64 | European Polymer Journal | Elsevier Ltd | 143057 | 1.076 |
| 65 | Astroparticle Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 9276505 | 1.059 |
| 66 | Icarus | Academic Press Inc. | 10902643, 00191035 | 1.059 |
| 67 | Frontiers in Remote Sensing | Frontiers Media SA | 26736187 | 1.052 |
| 68 | npj Microgravity | Nature Publishing Group | 23738065 | 1.045 |
| 69 | Communications in Computational Physics | Global Science Press | 18152406, 19917120 | 1.036 |
| 70 | Surfaces and Interfaces | Elsevier B.V. | 24680230 | 1.036 |
| 71 | Communications in Number Theory and Physics | International Press, Inc. | 19314523, 19314531 | 0.988 |
| 72 | GAMM Mitteilungen | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 09367195, 15222608 | 0.988 |
| 73 | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan | Oxford University Press | 2053051X, 00046264 | 0.985 |
| 74 | Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics | Springer | 23673192 | 0.961 |
| 75 | Chinese Physics C | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 16741137 | 0.96 |
| 76 | Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Physik | Birkhauser Verlag Basel | 14209039, 00442275 | 0.953 |
| 77 | Experimental Astronomy | Springer Netherlands | 15729508, 09226435 | 0.951 |
| 78 | Physical Review Materials | American Physical Society | 24759953 | 0.945 |
| 79 | New Journal of Physics | Institute of Physics | 13672630 | 0.936 |
| 80 | International Journal of Multiphase Flow | Elsevier B.V. | 3019322 | 0.93 |
| 81 | Fire Safety Journal | Elsevier Ltd | 3797112 | 0.914 |
| 82 | Multiscale Modeling and Simulation | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Publications | 15403459, 15403467 | 0.906 |
| 83 | Applied Physics Letters | American Institute of Physics | 10773118, 00036951 | 0.896 |
| 84 | Natural Sciences | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 26986248 | 0.88 |
| 85 | Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B: Physical and Biological Sciences | Japan Academy | 13492896, 03862208 | 0.874 |
| 86 | RAS Techniques and Instruments | Oxford University Press | 27528200 | 0.837 |
| 87 | Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors | Elsevier B.V. | 18727395, 00319201 | 0.824 |
| 88 | Journal of Chemical Physics | American Institute of Physics | 10897690, 00219606 | 0.819 |
| 89 | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics | Institute of Physics | 14757516 | 0.795 |
| 90 | Diamond and Related Materials | Elsevier B.V. | 9259635 | 0.792 |
| 91 | Computational Materials Science | Elsevier B.V. | 9270256 | 0.782 |
| 92 | Contemporary Physics | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 00107514, 13665812 | 0.782 |
| 93 | Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 16744527 | 0.777 |
| 94 | Physica Medica | Associazione Italiana di Fisica Medica | 11201797, 1724191X | 0.771 |
| 95 | Chaos | 10541500, 10897682 | 0.77 | |
| 96 | Universe | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 22181997 | 0.767 |
| 97 | Solar Physics | Springer Netherlands | 00380938, 1573093X | 0.76 |
| 98 | Experiments in Fluids | Springer Verlag | 14321114, 07234864 | 0.754 |
| 99 | Journal of Computational Physics: X | Academic Press Inc. | 25900552 | 0.73 |
| 100 | Open Journal of Astrophysics | National University of Ireland Maynooth | 25656120 | 0.726 |
| 101 | General Relativity and Gravitation | Springer New York | 00017701, 15729532 | 0.716 |
| 102 | Advances in Space Research | Elsevier Ltd | 02731177, 18791948 | 0.704 |
| 103 | Annals of Physics | Academic Press Inc. | 00034916, 1096035X | 0.7 |
| 104 | Results in Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 22113797 | 0.699 |
| 105 | Granular Matter | Springer New York | 14347636, 14345021 | 0.698 |
| 106 | Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics | Royal Society of Chemistry | 14639084, 14639076 | 0.698 |
| 107 | Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry | Elsevier B.V. | 18732666, 10106030 | 0.694 |
| 108 | Annales Geophysicae | Copernicus Publications | 14320576, 09927689 | 0.69 |
| 109 | Acta Astronomica | Copernicus Foundation for Polish Astronomy | 15237 | 0.685 |
| 110 | Life Sciences in Space Research | Elsevier Ltd | 22145532, 22145524 | 0.684 |
| 111 | Combustion Theory and Modelling | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 13647830, 17413559 | 0.683 |
| 112 | Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data | American Institute of Physics | 15297845, 00472689 | 0.671 |
| 113 | Journal of the Physical Society of Japan | The Physical Society of Japan | 13474073, 00319015 | 0.671 |
| 114 | Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14772671, 10589759 | 0.671 |
| 115 | Particles | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 2571712X | 0.668 |
| 116 | Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 17518113, 17518121 | 0.659 |
| 117 | Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences | Frontiers Media SA | 2296987X | 0.654 |
| 118 | Earth and Planetary Physics | Science Press | 20963955 | 0.651 |
| 119 | Astronomy and Computing | Elsevier B.V. | 22131337 | 0.647 |
| 120 | Journal of Holography Applications in Physics | 27833518, 27834778 | 0.624 | |
| 121 | Physical Review Accelerators and Beams | American Physical Society | 24699888 | 0.62 |
| 122 | Journal of Geometry and Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 3930440 | 0.616 |
| 123 | Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics | International Press, Inc. | 10950753, 10950761 | 0.61 |
| 124 | International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics | SAGE Publications Inc. | 17568277, 17568285 | 0.608 |
| 125 | Planetary and Space Science | Elsevier Ltd | 320633 | 0.607 |
| 126 | Chemical Physics Impact | Elsevier B.V. | 26670224 | 0.588 |
| 127 | Chinese Journal of Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 5779073 | 0.587 |
| 128 | Micron | Elsevier Ltd | 18784291, 09684328 | 0.581 |
| 129 | Journal of Applied Physics | American Institute of Physics | 10897550, 00218979 | 0.58 |
| 130 | Fluid Phase Equilibria | Elsevier B.V. | 3783812 | 0.578 |
| 131 | Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 09351175, 14320959 | 0.575 |
| 132 | Acta Mathematica Scientia | Springer | 15729087, 02529602 | 0.574 |
| 133 | Wave Motion | Elsevier B.V. | 1652125 | 0.57 |
| 134 | Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy | Springer India | 2506335 | 0.566 |
| 135 | Annalen der Physik | Wiley-Blackwell | 00033804, 15213889 | 0.563 |
| 136 | Power Electronic Devices and Components | Elsevier B.V. | 27723704 | 0.547 |
| 137 | Chemical Physics Letters | Elsevier B.V. | 92614 | 0.546 |
| 138 | Physics-Uspekhi | Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk | 10637869, 14684780 | 0.544 |
| 139 | Discover Applied Sciences | Springer Nature | 30049261 | 0.543 |
| 140 | Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico | 1851101 | 0.541 |
| 141 | Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 03400204, 14374358 | 0.539 |
| 142 | Ionics | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 09477047, 18620760 | 0.532 |
| 143 | Journal of Biophotonics | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 1864063X | 0.531 |
| 144 | Solids | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 26736497 | 0.531 |
| 145 | Current Applied Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 15671739 | 0.53 |
| 146 | Entropy | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 10994300 | 0.524 |
| 147 | Physics Education | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 319120 | 0.523 |
| 148 | Shock Waves | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 14322153, 09381287 | 0.52 |
| 149 | New Space | Mary Ann Liebert Inc. | 21680264, 21680256 | 0.515 |
| 150 | International Journal of Modern Physics D | World Scientific | 02182718, 17936594 | 0.51 |
| 151 | Astrophysical Bulletin | Pleiades Publishing | 19903421, 19903413 | 0.508 |
| 152 | Astropolitics | Routledge | 14777622, 15572943 | 0.507 |
| 153 | Cryogenics | Elsevier Ltd | 00112275, 18792235 | 0.507 |
| 154 | Journal of Turbulence | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14685248 | 0.506 |
| 155 | American Journal of Physics | American Association of Physics Teachers | 29505 | 0.501 |
| 156 | Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation | World Scientific | 22511725, 22511717 | 0.496 |
| 157 | Communications in Theoretical Physics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 2536102 | 0.488 |
| 158 | European Physical Journal Plus | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 21905444 | 0.487 |
| 159 | Physics Today | American Institute of Physics | 319228 | 0.485 |
| 160 | Frontiers in Physics | Frontiers Media SA | 2296424X | 0.483 |
| 161 | Journal of Analytical Science and Technology | SpringerOpen | 20933134, 20933371 | 0.479 |
| 162 | Europhysics Letters | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 02955075, 12864854 | 0.478 |
| 163 | Foundations of Physics | Springer Netherlands | 15729516, 00159018 | 0.478 |
| 164 | Combustion Science and Technology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 1563521X, 00102202 | 0.468 |
| 165 | IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 23798793 | 0.468 |
| 166 | Symmetry | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 20738994 | 0.467 |
| 167 | Serbian Astronomical Journal | Astronomical Observatory | 1450698X | 0.457 |
| 168 | Journal of Electric Propulsion | Springer Nature | 27314596 | 0.454 |
| 169 | Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy | Springer Netherlands | 15729478, 09232958 | 0.448 |
| 170 | European Physical Journal: Special Topics | Springer Verlag | 19516355, 19516401 | 0.447 |
| 171 | Composite Interfaces | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 09276440, 15685543 | 0.444 |
| 172 | Chemical Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 3010104 | 0.439 |
| 173 | School Science and Mathematics | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 00366803, 19498594 | 0.438 |
| 174 | Romanian Reports in Physics | Publishing House of the Romanian Academy | 12211451, 18418759 | 0.436 |
| 175 | Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology | Beilstein-Institut Zur Forderung der Chemischen Wissenschaften | 21904286 | 0.435 |
| 176 | International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics | World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd | 17936977, 02198878 | 0.432 |
| 177 | Applied Physics Express | Japan Society of Applied Physics | 18820786, 18820778 | 0.427 |
| 178 | Physics Teacher | American Institute of Physics | 0031921X, 19434928 | 0.412 |
| 179 | Physics (Switzerland) | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 26248174 | 0.41 |
| 180 | Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings | American Association of Physics Teachers | 15399028, 23772379 | 0.408 |
| 181 | European Physical Journal H | Springer Verlag | 21026467, 21026459 | 0.406 |
| 182 | Comptes Rendus Physique | Academie des sciences | 18781535, 16310705 | 0.404 |
| 183 | International Journal of Modern Physics A | World Scientific | 0217751X, 1793656X | 0.402 |
| 184 | New Astronomy | Elsevier B.V. | 13841092, 13841076 | 0.401 |
| 185 | Journal of Energetic Materials | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 07370652, 15458822 | 0.4 |
| 186 | Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy | Springer Nature | 03700046, 24549983 | 0.394 |
| 187 | Romanian Journal of Physics | Publishing House of the Romanian Academy | 1221146X | 0.394 |
| 188 | Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials | World Scientific | 17936624, 02188635 | 0.389 |
| 189 | Physica Scripta | Institute of Physics | 00318949, 14024896 | 0.388 |
| 190 | Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society | Korean Astronomical Society | 12254614, 2288890X | 0.387 |
| 191 | Astrophysics and Space Science | Springer Netherlands | 0004640X, 1572946X | 0.378 |
| 192 | Plasma | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 25716182 | 0.377 |
| 193 | Modern Physics Letters A | World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd | 02177323, 17936632 | 0.376 |
| 194 | Baozha Yu Chongji/Explosion and Shock Waves | 10011455 | 0.375 | |
| 195 | Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 10290419, 03091929 | 0.374 |
| 196 | Metrology | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 26738244 | 0.372 |
| 197 | Astronomy | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 26740346 | 0.361 |
| 198 | Biointerphases | 15594106, 19348630 | 0.36 | |
| 199 | Pramana - Journal of Physics | Springer India | 03044289, 09737111 | 0.351 |
| 200 | Baghdad Science Journal | University of Baghdad | 24117986, 20788665 | 0.341 |