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 | Astronomy and Astrophysics Review | Springer Verlag | 09354956, 14320754 | 9.937 |
| 2 | Nature Reviews Physics | Springer Nature Switzerland AG | 25225820 | 9.34 |
| 3 | Nature Physics | Nature Publishing Group | 17452473 | 7.955 |
| 4 | Living Reviews in Solar Physics | Springer International Publishing AG | 16144961, 23673648 | 7.235 |
| 5 | Physical Review X | American Physical Society | 21603308 | 6.267 |
| 6 | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | Annual Reviews Inc. | 846597 | 6.083 |
| 7 | Physics Reports | Elsevier | 3701573 | 5.691 |
| 8 | Nature Communications | Nature Publishing Group | 20411723 | 5.116 |
| 9 | ACS Nano | American Chemical Society | 1936086X, 19360851 | 4.728 |
| 10 | Reports on Progress in Physics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 13616633, 00344885 | 4.467 |
| 11 | Annals of PDE | Springer Science + Business Media | 21992576, 25245317 | 4.425 |
| 12 | PRX Quantum | American Physical Society | 26913399 | 4.415 |
| 13 | Applied Physics Reviews | AIP Publishing LLC | 19319401 | 4.143 |
| 14 | Advanced Science | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 21983844 | 4.086 |
| 15 | Nature Astronomy | Nature Publishing Group | 23973366 | 3.269 |
| 16 | Physical Review Letters | American Physical Society | 10797114, 00319007 | 3.118 |
| 17 | IEEE Wireless Communications Letters | IEEE Communications Society | 21622345, 21622337 | 3.092 |
| 18 | Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series | American Astronomical Society | 15384365, 00670049 | 3.086 |
| 19 | Reviews of Modern Physics | American Physical Society | 00346861, 15390756 | 20.343 |
| 20 | New Astronomy Reviews | Elsevier | 13876473 | 2.825 |
| 21 | Reviews in Physics | Elsevier BV | 24054283 | 2.811 |
| 22 | Space Science Reviews | Springer Netherlands | 15729672, 00386308 | 2.768 |
| 23 | Materials Today Physics | Elsevier Ltd. | 25425293 | 2.767 |
| 24 | Astrophysical Journal Letters | American Astronomical Society | 20418213, 20418205 | 2.726 |
| 25 | Quantum | Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 2521327X | 2.702 |
| 26 | Cell Reports Physical Science | Cell Press | 26663864 | 2.598 |
| 27 | Quantum Science and Technology | Institute of Physics Publishing | 20589565 | 2.341 |
| 28 | Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | Elsevier | 457825 | 2.218 |
| 29 | Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Institute of Physics Publishing | 00046280, 15383873 | 2.151 |
| 30 | Astronomical Journal | American Astronomical Society | 00046256, 15383881 | 2.025 |
| 31 | Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15454282, 00664146 | 14.486 |
| 32 | Living Reviews in Relativity | Springer International Publishing AG | 14338351, 23673613 | 11.561 |
| 33 | Astronomy and Astrophysics | EDP Sciences | 00046361, 14320746 | 1.999 |
| 34 | Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics | Oxford University Press | 20503911 | 1.958 |
| 35 | Astrophysical Journal | American Astronomical Society | 0004637X, 15384357 | 1.925 |
| 36 | SciPost Physics | SciPost Foundation | 25424653 | 1.897 |
| 37 | Advances in Physics: X | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 23746149 | 1.895 |
| 38 | Physics of Life Reviews | Elsevier | 18731457, 15710645 | 1.848 |
| 39 | Communications Physics | Springer Nature | 23993650 | 1.844 |
| 40 | Physical Review Research | American Physical Society | 26431564 | 1.824 |
| 41 | Selecta Mathematica, New Series | Birkhauser Verlag Basel | 10221824 | 1.784 |
| 42 | Journal of Computational Physics | Academic Press Inc. | 10902716, 00219991 | 1.753 |
| 43 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Oxford University Press | 13652966, 00358711 | 1.734 |
| 44 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters | Oxford University Press | 17453925, 17453933 | 1.696 |
| 45 | Physical Review D | American Physical Society | 24700010, 24700029 | 1.639 |
| 46 | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia | Cambridge University Press | 13233580, 14486083 | 1.536 |
| 47 | European Physical Journal C | Springer New York | 14346052, 14346044 | 1.526 |
| 48 | Physical Review Applied | American Physical Society | 23317019 | 1.492 |
| 49 | Nonlinearity | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 09517715, 13616544 | 1.491 |
| 50 | Physics of the Dark Universe | Elsevier BV | 22126864 | 1.431 |
| 51 | Chaos, Solitons and Fractals | Elsevier Ltd. | 9600779 | 1.393 |
| 52 | Contemporary Physics | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 00107514, 13665812 | 1.342 |
| 53 | Journal of Computational Physics: X | Elsevier Inc. | 25900552 | 1.314 |
| 54 | Computer Physics Communications | Elsevier | 104655 | 1.312 |
| 55 | Classical and Quantum Gravity | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 13616382, 02649381 | 1.264 |
| 56 | Icarus | Academic Press Inc. | 10902643, 00191035 | 1.241 |
| 57 | Chinese Physics C | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 16741137 | 1.231 |
| 58 | New Journal of Physics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 13672630 | 1.224 |
| 59 | Fortschritte der Physik | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 15213978, 00158208 | 1.209 |
| 60 | Frontiers of Physics | Higher Education Press | 20950462, 20950470 | 1.198 |
| 61 | Journal of Chemical Physics | American Institute of Physics | 10897690, 00219606 | 1.196 |
| 62 | Applied Surface Science | Elsevier | 1694332 | 1.187 |
| 63 | Astroparticle Physics | Elsevier | 9276505 | 1.167 |
| 64 | Publication of the Astronomical Society of Japan | Oxford University Press | 2053051X, 00046264 | 1.119 |
| 65 | Science China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy | Science Press (China) | 16747348 | 1.112 |
| 66 | Astrodynamics | Tsinghua University Press | 25220098 | 1.106 |
| 67 | Physical Review Materials | American Physical Society | 24759953 | 1.105 |
| 68 | European Journal of Mechanics, A/Solids | Elsevier BV | 9977538 | 1.082 |
| 69 | Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors | Elsevier | 319201 | 1.082 |
| 70 | Journal of High Energy Astrophysics | Elsevier BV | 22144048 | 1.06 |
| 71 | Communications in Computational Physics | Global Science Press | 18152406, 19917120 | 1.057 |
| 72 | Applied Physics Letters | American Institute of Physics | 10773118, 00036951 | 1.043 |
| 73 | Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Physik | Birkhauser Verlag Basel | 14209039, 00442275 | 1.023 |
| 74 | Physical Review Physics Education Research | American Physical Society | 24699896 | 1.015 |
| 75 | Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B: Physical and Biological Sciences | Japan Academy | 13492896, 03862208 | 1.015 |
| 76 | Physical Review Accelerators and Beams | American Physical Society | 24699888 | 1.003 |
| 77 | International Journal of Multiphase Flow | Elsevier BV | 3019322 | 0.985 |
| 78 | Communications in Number Theory and Physics | International Press of Boston, Inc. | 19314523, 19314531 | 0.977 |
| 79 | Experimental Astronomy | Springer Netherlands | 15729508, 09226435 | 0.947 |
| 80 | Planetary Science Journal | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 26323338 | 0.935 |
| 81 | Annals of Physics | Academic Press Inc. | 00034916, 1096035X | 0.917 |
| 82 | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics | Elsevier Ltd. | 13552198, 18792502 | 0.894 |
| 83 | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 14757516 | 0.893 |
| 84 | European Polymer Journal | Elsevier Ltd. | 143057 | 0.884 |
| 85 | Combustion and Flame | Elsevier Inc. | 102180 | 0.878 |
| 86 | Fire Safety Journal | Elsevier Ltd. | 3797112 | 0.877 |
| 87 | Physica Medica | Associazione Italiana di Fisica Medica | 11201797, 1724191X | 0.877 |
| 88 | npj Microgravity | Nature Publishing Group | 23738065 | 0.859 |
| 89 | Surfaces and Interfaces | Elsevier BV | 24680230 | 0.856 |
| 90 | Multiscale Modeling and Simulation | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Publications | 15403459, 15403467 | 0.855 |
| 91 | Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics | Springer New York | 09351175, 14320959 | 0.843 |
| 92 | La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento | Societa Italiana di Fisica | 0393697X | 0.83 |
| 93 | Journal of Turbulence | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14685248 | 0.829 |
| 94 | Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics | Royal Society of Chemistry | 14639084, 14639076 | 0.824 |
| 95 | Chaos | American Institute of Physics | 10541500, 10897682 | 0.82 |
| 96 | Chinese Physics Letters | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 17413540, 0256307X | 0.816 |
| 97 | Solar Physics | Springer Netherlands | 00380938, 1573093X | 0.814 |
| 98 | Astronomy and Computing | Elsevier BV | 22131337 | 0.806 |
| 99 | Galaxies | MDPI AG | 20754434 | 0.802 |
| 100 | General Relativity and Gravitation | Springer New York | 00017701, 15729532 | 0.8 |
| 101 | Universe | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 22181997 | 0.796 |
| 102 | Acta Astronomica | Copernicus Foundation for Polish Astronomy | 15237 | 0.779 |
| 103 | Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences | Frontiers Media S.A. | 2296987X | 0.777 |
| 104 | Computational Materials Science | Elsevier | 9270256 | 0.766 |
| 105 | Experiments in Fluids | Springer Verlag | 14321114, 07234864 | 0.764 |
| 106 | FAU Studies Mathematics and Physics | FAU University Press | 21967482 | 0.756 |
| 107 | Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences | Royal Society Publishing | 13645021, 14712946 | 0.752 |
| 108 | Romanian Reports in Physics | Publishing House of the Romanian Academy | 12211451, 18418759 | 0.745 |
| 109 | Granular Matter | Springer New York | 14347636, 14345021 | 0.729 |
| 110 | Results in Physics | Elsevier BV | 22113797 | 0.719 |
| 111 | Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 17518113, 17518121 | 0.718 |
| 112 | Journal of the Physical Society of Japan | The Physical Society of Japan | 13474073, 00319015 | 0.714 |
| 113 | Journal of Applied Physics | American Institute of Physics | 10897550, 00218979 | 0.706 |
| 114 | Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics | International Press of Boston, Inc. | 10950761 | 0.705 |
| 115 | Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry | Elsevier | 18732666, 10106030 | 0.678 |
| 116 | Planetary and Space Science | Elsevier Ltd. | 320633 | 0.67 |
| 117 | International Journal of Modern Physics D | World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd | 02182718, 17936594 | 0.649 |
| 118 | Chinese Journal of Physics | Elsevier BV | 5779073 | 0.643 |
| 119 | Journal of Biophotonics | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 1864063X | 0.64 |
| 120 | Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences | The Royal Society | 14712962, 1364503X | 0.637 |
| 121 | Shock Waves | Springer New York | 14322153, 09381287 | 0.631 |
| 122 | Annalen der Physik | Wiley-Blackwell | 00033804, 15213889 | 0.63 |
| 123 | Flow, Turbulence and Combustion | Springer Netherlands | 13866184, 15731987 | 0.63 |
| 124 | IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 23798793 | 0.628 |
| 125 | Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 03400204, 14374358 | 0.626 |
| 126 | Diamond and Related Materials | Elsevier BV | 9259635 | 0.61 |
| 127 | Frontiers in Physics | Frontiers Media S.A. | 2296424X | 0.607 |
| 128 | Chaos, Solitons and Fractals: X | Elsevier Ltd. | 25900544 | 0.604 |
| 129 | Advances in Space Research | Elsevier Ltd. | 02731177, 18791948 | 0.599 |
| 130 | European Physical Journal: Special Topics | Springer Verlag | 19516355, 19516401 | 0.597 |
| 131 | Applied Physics Express | Japan Society of Applied Physics | 18820786, 18820778 | 0.585 |
| 132 | Wave Motion | Elsevier | 1652125 | 0.584 |
| 133 | Earth and Planetary Physics | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 20963955 | 0.576 |
| 134 | Annales Geophysicae | European Geosciences Union | 14320576, 09927689 | 0.572 |
| 135 | Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology | Beilstein-Institut Zur Forderung der Chemischen Wissenschaften | 21904286 | 0.57 |
| 136 | Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 16744527 | 0.564 |
| 137 | European Journal of Mechanics, B/Fluids | Elsevier BV | 9977546 | 0.558 |
| 138 | Fluid Phase Equilibria | Elsevier | 3783812 | 0.549 |
| 139 | European Physical Journal Plus | Springer Science + Business Media | 21905444 | 0.548 |
| 140 | Comptes Rendus Physique | Academie des sciences | 18781535, 16310705 | 0.545 |
| 141 | Europhysics Letters | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 02955075, 12864854 | 0.545 |
| 142 | Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14772671, 10589759 | 0.543 |
| 143 | Entropy | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 10994300 | 0.541 |
| 144 | Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society | Korean Astronomical Society | 12254614, 2288890X | 0.54 |
| 145 | Cryogenics | Elsevier Ltd. | 00112275, 18792235 | 0.534 |
| 146 | Physics-Uspekhi | Turpion Ltd. | 10637869, 14684780 | 0.532 |
| 147 | American Journal of Physics | American Association of Physics Teachers | 29505 | 0.524 |
| 148 | Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics | Elsevier | 3759601 | 0.523 |
| 149 | Physics Teacher | American Institute of Physics | 0031921X, 19434928 | 0.514 |
| 150 | Ionics | Institute for Ionics | 9477047 | 0.507 |
| 151 | Physics Today | American Institute of Physics | 319228 | 0.507 |
| 152 | Communications in Theoretical Physics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 2536102 | 0.506 |
| 153 | Letters in High Energy Physics | Andromeda Publishing And Academic Services LTD | 26322714 | 0.497 |
| 154 | Journal of Analytical Science and Technology | SpringerOpen | 20933134, 20933371 | 0.494 |
| 155 | Microgravity Science and Technology | Springer Netherlands | 9380108 | 0.489 |
| 156 | International Journal of Modern Physics A | World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd | 0217751X, 1793656X | 0.486 |
| 157 | Symmetry | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 20738994 | 0.483 |
| 158 | Waves in Random and Complex Media | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17455049, 17455030 | 0.483 |
| 159 | Chemical Physics Letters | Elsevier | 92614 | 0.48 |
| 160 | Current Applied Physics | Elsevier | 15671739 | 0.475 |
| 161 | Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data | American Institute of Physics | 15297845, 00472689 | 0.473 |
| 162 | Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy | Springer India | 2506335 | 0.472 |
| 163 | Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems | SPIE | 23294221, 23294124 | 0.47 |
| 164 | Fluid Dynamics Research | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 1695983 | 0.469 |
| 165 | Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy | Springer Netherlands | 15729478, 09232958 | 0.466 |
| 166 | Romanian Journal of Physics | Publishing House of the Romanian Academy | 1221146X | 0.458 |
| 167 | Micron | Elsevier Ltd. | 18784291, 09684328 | 0.457 |
| 168 | Composite Interfaces | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 09276440, 15685543 | 0.455 |
| 169 | Journal of Geometry and Physics | Elsevier | 3930440 | 0.455 |
| 170 | Journal of Energetic Materials | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 7370652 | 0.453 |
| 171 | Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics | Springer Verlag | 9462171 | 0.449 |
| 172 | Chemical Physics | Elsevier | 3010104 | 0.448 |
| 173 | Astrophysical Bulletin | Pleiades Publishing | 19903421, 19903413 | 0.446 |
| 174 | Pramana - Journal of Physics | Springer India | 03044289, 09737111 | 0.442 |
| 175 | Physica Scripta | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 318949 | 0.441 |
| 176 | Biointerphases | American Vacuum Society | 15594106, 19348630 | 0.435 |
| 177 | Acta Mathematica Scientia | Elsevier BV | 2529602 | 0.425 |
| 178 | SN Applied Sciences | Springer Nature | 25233971 | 0.424 |
| 179 | School Science and Mathematics | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 00366803, 19498594 | 0.414 |
| 180 | Laser Physics Letters | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 1612202X, 16122011 | 0.409 |
| 181 | New Astronomy | Elsevier | 13841092, 13841076 | 0.409 |
| 182 | Life Sciences in Space Research | Elsevier BV | 22145532, 22145524 | 0.408 |
| 183 | Astrophysics and Space Science | Springer Netherlands | 0004640X, 1572946X | 0.406 |
| 184 | Physics Education | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 319120 | 0.402 |
| 185 | Physics (Switzerland) | MDPI AG | 26248174 | 0.393 |
| 186 | Quantum Information and Computation | Rinton Press Inc. | 15337146 | 0.393 |
| 187 | European Journal of Physics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 1430807 | 0.389 |
| 188 | JETP Letters | Pleiades Publishing | 10906487, 00213640 | 0.389 |
| 189 | International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics | SAGE Publications Inc. | 17568277, 17568285 | 0.38 |
| 190 | Combustion Science and Technology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 1563521X, 00102202 | 0.377 |
| 191 | Chemical Physics Letters: X | Elsevier BV | 25901419 | 0.376 |
| 192 | Quantum Reports | MDPI AG | 2624960X | 0.374 |
| 193 | AIP Advances | American Institute of Physics | 21583226 | 0.373 |
| 194 | Modern Physics Letters A | World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd | 02177323, 17936632 | 0.371 |
| 195 | Plasma Physics Reports | Pleiades Publishing | 15626938, 1063780X | 0.369 |
| 196 | Solar System Research | Pleiades Publishing | 00380946, 16083423 | 0.366 |
| 197 | International Journal of Modern Physics E | World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd | 17936608, 02183013 | 0.364 |
| 198 | Japanese Journal of Applied Physics | Japan Society of Applied Physics | 13474065, 00214922 | 0.364 |
| 199 | Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 15693937, 09205071 | 0.363 |
| 200 | Fluid Dynamics | Pleiades Publishing | 15738507, 00154628 | 0.36 |