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 | 9.588 |
| 2 | Astronomy and Astrophysics Review | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 09354956, 14320754 | 9.3 |
| 3 | Living Reviews in Solar Physics | Springer International Publishing AG | 16144961, 23673648 | 8.871 |
| 4 | Nature Physics | Nature Research | 17452473, 17452481 | 6.581 |
| 5 | Physical Review X | American Physical Society | 21603308 | 6.494 |
| 6 | New Astronomy Reviews | Elsevier B.V. | 13876473 | 5.925 |
| 7 | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | Annual Reviews Inc. | 846597 | 5.413 |
| 8 | Physics Reports | Elsevier B.V. | 3701573 | 5.32 |
| 9 | PRX Quantum | American Physical Society | 26913399 | 5.222 |
| 10 | Nature Communications | Nature Research | 20411723 | 4.904 |
| 11 | Nature Astronomy | Nature Publishing Group | 23973366 | 4.169 |
| 12 | ACS Nano | American Chemical Society | 1936086X, 19360851 | 4.102 |
| 13 | Reports on Progress in Physics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 13616633, 00344885 | 3.983 |
| 14 | Astrophysical Journal Letters | American Astronomical Society | 20418213, 20418205 | 3.878 |
| 15 | Annals of PDE | Springer Science + Business Media | 21992576, 25245317 | 3.464 |
| 16 | Advanced Science | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 21983844 | 3.288 |
| 17 | Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series | American Astronomical Society | 15384365, 00670049 | 3.269 |
| 18 | Physical Review Letters | American Physical Society | 10797114, 00319007 | 2.79 |
| 19 | Applied Physics Reviews | American Institute of Physics | 19319401 | 2.54 |
| 20 | Advances in Physics: X | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 23746149 | 2.522 |
| 21 | Space Science Reviews | Springer Netherlands | 15729672, 00386308 | 2.501 |
| 22 | Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Institute of Physics | 00046280, 15383873 | 2.492 |
| 23 | Astrodynamics | Tsinghua University Press | 25220098 | 2.422 |
| 24 | Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | Elsevier B.V. | 457825 | 2.323 |
| 25 | Astrophysical Journal | American Astronomical Society | 0004637X, 15384357 | 2.188 |
| 26 | NPJ Nanophotonics | Springer Nature | 2948216X | 2.171 |
| 27 | Quantum | Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 2521327X | 2.068 |
| 28 | Physics of Life Reviews | Elsevier B.V. | 18731457, 15710645 | 2.064 |
| 29 | Astronomy and Astrophysics | EDP Sciences | 00046361, 14320746 | 2.052 |
| 30 | Living Reviews in Relativity | Springer International Publishing AG | 14338351, 23673613 | 14.227 |
| 31 | Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15454282, 00664146 | 14.119 |
| 32 | Reviews of Modern Physics | American Physical Society | 00346861, 15390756 | 13.041 |
| 33 | Astronomical Journal | American Astronomical Society | 00046256, 15383881 | 1.966 |
| 34 | Selecta Mathematica, New Series | Springer International Publishing | 10221824, 14209020 | 1.925 |
| 35 | Combustion and Flame | Elsevier Inc. | 00102180, 15562921 | 1.899 |
| 36 | IEEE Wireless Communications Letters | IEEE Communications Society | 21622345, 21622337 | 1.894 |
| 37 | Journal of High Energy Astrophysics | Elsevier B.V. | 22144048 | 1.859 |
| 38 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Oxford University Press | 13652966, 00358711 | 1.852 |
| 39 | Materials Today Physics | Elsevier Ltd | 25425293 | 1.841 |
| 40 | Reviews in Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 24054283 | 1.793 |
| 41 | Cell Reports Physical Science | Cell Press | 26663864 | 1.784 |
| 42 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters | Oxford University Press | 17453925, 17453933 | 1.76 |
| 43 | Communications Physics | Springer Nature | 23993650 | 1.641 |
| 44 | Physical Review Physics Education Research | American Physical Society | 24699896 | 1.586 |
| 45 | Ultrafast Science | American Association for the Advancement of Science | 20970331, 27658791 | 1.573 |
| 46 | Computer Physics Communications | Elsevier B.V. | 104655 | 1.564 |
| 47 | Journal of Computational Physics | Academic Press Inc. | 10902716, 00219991 | 1.552 |
| 48 | La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 18269850, 0393697X | 1.545 |
| 49 | Planetary Science Journal | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 26323338 | 1.518 |
| 50 | SciPost Physics | SciPost Foundation | 25424653 | 1.502 |
| 51 | Quantum Science and Technology | Institute of Physics Publishing | 20589565 | 1.492 |
| 52 | Physical Review Research | American Physical Society | 26431564 | 1.387 |
| 53 | Physics of the Dark Universe | Elsevier B.V. | 22126864 | 1.335 |
| 54 | Galaxies | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 20754434 | 1.31 |
| 55 | Physical Review D | American Physical Society | 24700010, 24700029 | 1.272 |
| 56 | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia | Cambridge University Press | 13233580, 14486083 | 1.265 |
| 57 | Physical Review Applied | American Physical Society | 23317019 | 1.253 |
| 58 | Open Journal of Astrophysics | National University of Ireland Maynooth | 25656120 | 1.252 |
| 59 | Icarus | Academic Press Inc. | 10902643, 00191035 | 1.202 |
| 60 | Fortschritte der Physik | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 15213978, 00158208 | 1.192 |
| 61 | Frontiers in Remote Sensing | Frontiers Media SA | 26736187 | 1.192 |
| 62 | Nonlinearity | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 09517715, 13616544 | 1.19 |
| 63 | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan | Oxford University Press | 2053051X, 00046264 | 1.178 |
| 64 | Food Physics | KeAi Publishing Communications Ltd. | 29500699 | 1.174 |
| 65 | European Physical Journal C | 14346052, 14346044 | 1.161 | |
| 66 | Astroparticle Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 9276505 | 1.127 |
| 67 | npj Microgravity | Nature Publishing Group | 23738065 | 1.124 |
| 68 | Chaos, Solitons and Fractals | Elsevier Ltd | 9600779 | 1.123 |
| 69 | Applied Surface Science | Elsevier B.V. | 1694332 | 1.117 |
| 70 | Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics | Oxford University Press | 20503911 | 1.087 |
| 71 | Science China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy | Science China Press | 18691927, 16747348 | 1.077 |
| 72 | European Polymer Journal | Elsevier Ltd | 143057 | 1.058 |
| 73 | Multiscale Modeling and Simulation | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Publications | 15403459, 15403467 | 1.055 |
| 74 | Frontiers of Physics | Higher Education Press Limited Company | 20950462, 20950470 | 1.033 |
| 75 | AAPPS Bulletin | Springer | 02182203, 23094710 | 1.029 |
| 76 | European Journal of Mechanics, A/Solids | Elsevier B.V. | 9977538 | 1.023 |
| 77 | Classical and Quantum Gravity | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 13616382, 02649381 | 1.02 |
| 78 | Chinese Physics Letters | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 17413540, 0256307X | 0.998 |
| 79 | Surfaces and Interfaces | Elsevier B.V. | 24680230 | 0.93 |
| 80 | Fire Safety Journal | Elsevier Ltd | 3797112 | 0.913 |
| 81 | Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico | 30618649, 01851101 | 0.898 |
| 82 | Physical Review Materials | American Physical Society | 24759953 | 0.892 |
| 83 | Journal of Chemical Physics | American Institute of Physics | 10897690, 00219606 | 0.877 |
| 84 | Communications in Computational Physics | Global Science Press | 18152406, 19917120 | 0.872 |
| 85 | Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics | Springer | 23673192 | 0.866 |
| 86 | Applied Physics Letters | American Institute of Physics | 10773118, 00036951 | 0.856 |
| 87 | RAS Techniques and Instruments | Oxford University Press | 27528200 | 0.856 |
| 88 | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics | Institute of Physics | 14757516 | 0.836 |
| 89 | International Journal of Multiphase Flow | Elsevier B.V. | 3019322 | 0.829 |
| 90 | Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Physik | Springer International Publishing | 14209039, 00442275 | 0.806 |
| 91 | Chaos | American Institute of Physics | 10541500, 10897682 | 0.797 |
| 92 | Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 16744527 | 0.797 |
| 93 | Experimental Astronomy | Springer Netherlands | 15729508, 09226435 | 0.79 |
| 94 | Granular Matter | Springer New York | 14347636, 14345021 | 0.787 |
| 95 | New Journal of Physics | Institute of Physics | 13672630 | 0.785 |
| 96 | Contemporary Physics | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 00107514, 13665812 | 0.778 |
| 97 | Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors | Elsevier B.V. | 18727395, 00319201 | 0.776 |
| 98 | Natural Sciences | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 26986248 | 0.771 |
| 99 | Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B: Physical and Biological Sciences | Japan Academy | 13492896, 03862208 | 0.771 |
| 100 | Chinese Physics C | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 16741137 | 0.769 |
| 101 | Diamond and Related Materials | Elsevier B.V. | 9259635 | 0.746 |
| 102 | Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences | Royal Society Publishing | 13645021, 14712946 | 0.735 |
| 103 | Experiments in Fluids | Springer Verlag | 14321114, 07234864 | 0.724 |
| 104 | Chemical Physics Impact | Elsevier B.V. | 26670224 | 0.72 |
| 105 | Computational Materials Science | Elsevier B.V. | 9270256 | 0.72 |
| 106 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences | Royal Society Publishing | 14712962, 1364503X | 0.703 |
| 107 | Particles | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 2571712X | 0.684 |
| 108 | Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data | American Institute of Physics | 15297845, 00472689 | 0.682 |
| 109 | Chaos, Solitons and Fractals: X | Elsevier Ltd | 25900544 | 0.68 |
| 110 | Physical Review Accelerators and Beams | American Physical Society | 24699888 | 0.679 |
| 111 | Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry | Elsevier B.V. | 18732666, 10106030 | 0.676 |
| 112 | Advances in Space Research | Elsevier Ltd | 02731177, 18791948 | 0.675 |
| 113 | General Relativity and Gravitation | Springer New York | 00017701, 15729532 | 0.674 |
| 114 | Solar Physics | Springer Netherlands | 00380938, 1573093X | 0.674 |
| 115 | Life Sciences in Space Research | Elsevier Ltd | 22145532, 22145524 | 0.666 |
| 116 | Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics | International Press, Inc. | 10950753, 10950761 | 0.657 |
| 117 | Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14772671, 10589759 | 0.653 |
| 118 | Earth and Planetary Physics | 20976860, 20963955 | 0.651 | |
| 119 | Journal of the Physical Society of Japan | The Physical Society of Japan | 13474073, 00319015 | 0.65 |
| 120 | Universe | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 22181997 | 0.642 |
| 121 | Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics | Royal Society of Chemistry | 14639084, 14639076 | 0.641 |
| 122 | Physica Medica | Associazione Italiana di Fisica Medica | 11201797, 1724191X | 0.638 |
| 123 | Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences | Frontiers Media SA | 2296987X | 0.633 |
| 124 | Journal of Electric Propulsion | Springer Nature | 27314596 | 0.622 |
| 125 | Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences | Korean Space Science Society | 20935587, 20931409 | 0.614 |
| 126 | Communications in Number Theory and Physics | International Press, Inc. | 19314523, 19314531 | 0.61 |
| 127 | Astronomy and Computing | Elsevier B.V. | 22131337 | 0.598 |
| 128 | Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 17518113, 17518121 | 0.595 |
| 129 | Results in Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 22113797 | 0.593 |
| 130 | Acta Astronomica | Copernicus Foundation for Polish Astronomy | 15237 | 0.592 |
| 131 | European Journal of Mechanics, B/Fluids | Elsevier B.V. | 9977546 | 0.589 |
| 132 | Chinese Journal of Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 5779073 | 0.576 |
| 133 | Flow, Turbulence and Combustion | 13866184, 15731987 | 0.576 | |
| 134 | Discover Applied Sciences | Springer Nature | 30049261 | 0.573 |
| 135 | Annales Geophysicae | Copernicus Publications | 14320576, 09927689 | 0.568 |
| 136 | Planetary and Space Science | Elsevier Ltd | 320633 | 0.568 |
| 137 | Annals of Physics | Academic Press Inc. | 00034916, 1096035X | 0.564 |
| 138 | Micron | Elsevier Ltd | 18784291, 09684328 | 0.563 |
| 139 | Romanian Reports in Physics | Publishing House of the Romanian Academy | 12211451, 18418759 | 0.561 |
| 140 | IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 23798793 | 0.543 |
| 141 | Astrophysics and Space Science | Springer Netherlands | 0004640X, 1572946X | 0.537 |
| 142 | Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy | Springer Netherlands | 15729478, 09232958 | 0.536 |
| 143 | Fluid Phase Equilibria | Elsevier B.V. | 3783812 | 0.531 |
| 144 | Journal of Applied Physics | American Institute of Physics | 10897550, 00218979 | 0.528 |
| 145 | School Science and Mathematics | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 00366803, 19498594 | 0.526 |
| 146 | Plasma | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 25716182 | 0.524 |
| 147 | Journal of Geometry and Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 3930440 | 0.523 |
| 148 | Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy | Springer | 09737758, 02506335 | 0.522 |
| 149 | Ionics | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 09477047, 18620760 | 0.517 |
| 150 | Journal of Turbulence | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14685248 | 0.515 |
| 151 | Acta Mathematica Scientia | Springer | 15729087, 02529602 | 0.509 |
| 152 | Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology | Beilstein-Institut Zur Forderung der Chemischen Wissenschaften | 21904286 | 0.508 |
| 153 | Combustion Theory and Modelling | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 13647830, 17413559 | 0.507 |
| 154 | Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems | SPIE | 23294221, 23294124 | 0.505 |
| 155 | Journal of Biophotonics | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 18640648, 1864063X | 0.504 |
| 156 | Chemical Physics Letters | Elsevier B.V. | 92614 | 0.5 |
| 157 | Wave Motion | Elsevier B.V. | 1652125 | 0.499 |
| 158 | Cryogenics | Elsevier Ltd | 00112275, 18792235 | 0.492 |
| 159 | Current Applied Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 15671739 | 0.492 |
| 160 | Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 09351175, 14320959 | 0.491 |
| 161 | Physics Education | Institute of Physics | 00319120, 13616552 | 0.491 |
| 162 | Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation | World Scientific | 22511725, 22511717 | 0.487 |
| 163 | Shock Waves | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 14322153, 09381287 | 0.487 |
| 164 | Journal of Taibah University for Science | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 16583655 | 0.478 |
| 165 | Entropy | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 10994300 | 0.475 |
| 166 | Journal of Analytical Science and Technology | SpringerOpen | 20933134, 20933371 | 0.47 |
| 167 | Frontiers in Physics | Frontiers Media SA | 2296424X | 0.469 |
| 168 | Annalen der Physik | Wiley-Blackwell | 00033804, 15213889 | 0.468 |
| 169 | European Physical Journal H | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 21026467, 21026459 | 0.468 |
| 170 | International Journal of Modern Physics D | World Scientific | 02182718, 17936594 | 0.466 |
| 171 | Power Electronic Devices and Components | Elsevier B.V. | 27723704 | 0.464 |
| 172 | Romanian Journal of Physics | Publishing House of the Romanian Academy | 1221146X | 0.448 |
| 173 | International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics | SAGE Publications Inc. | 17568277, 17568285 | 0.444 |
| 174 | Composite Interfaces | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 09276440, 15685543 | 0.441 |
| 175 | Astronomy | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 26740346 | 0.44 |
| 176 | Gravitation and Cosmology | Pleiades Publishing | 19950721, 02022893 | 0.438 |
| 177 | Journal of Geodetic Science | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 20819943 | 0.433 |
| 178 | Serbian Astronomical Journal | Astronomical Observatory | 1450698X | 0.431 |
| 179 | European Physical Journal Plus | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 21905444 | 0.426 |
| 180 | Discover Space | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | 2948295X | 0.425 |
| 181 | Europhysics Letters | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 02955075, 12864854 | 0.425 |
| 182 | Symmetry | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 20738994 | 0.424 |
| 183 | Communications in Theoretical Physics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 2536102 | 0.422 |
| 184 | Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics | Springer Verlag | 9462171 | 0.421 |
| 185 | Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 03400204, 14374358 | 0.421 |
| 186 | Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy | Springer Nature | 03700046, 24549983 | 0.421 |
| 187 | Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 3759601 | 0.418 |
| 188 | Solids | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 26736497 | 0.414 |
| 189 | New Astronomy | Elsevier B.V. | 13841092, 13841076 | 0.411 |
| 190 | Chemical Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 3010104 | 0.407 |
| 191 | Physics Teacher | American Institute of Physics | 0031921X, 19434928 | 0.407 |
| 192 | Applied Physics Express | Japan Society of Applied Physics | 18820786, 18820778 | 0.406 |
| 193 | Combustion Science and Technology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 1563521X, 00102202 | 0.405 |
| 194 | Metrology | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 26738244 | 0.404 |
| 195 | Journal of Holography Applications in Physics | 27833518, 27834778 | 0.403 | |
| 196 | Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society | Korean Astronomical Society | 12254614, 2288890X | 0.4 |
| 197 | Journal of Energetic Materials | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 07370652, 15458822 | 0.398 |
| 198 | Physica Scripta | Institute of Physics | 00318949, 14024896 | 0.393 |
| 199 | International Journal of Modern Physics E | World Scientific | 17936608, 02183013 | 0.39 |
| 200 | Comptes Rendus Physique | Academie des sciences | 18781535, 16310705 | 0.389 |
| 201 | European Journal of Physics | Institute of Physics | 01430807, 13616404 | 0.389 |
| 202 | Physics Today | American Institute of Physics | 319228 | 0.386 |
| 203 | International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics | World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd | 17936977, 02198878 | 0.382 |
| 204 | Physics-Uspekhi | 10637869, 14684780 | 0.382 | |
| 205 | European Physical Journal: Special Topics | Springer Verlag | 19516355, 19516401 | 0.378 |
| 206 | Optics | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 26733269 | 0.377 |
| 207 | Plasma Physics and Technology | Czech Technical University | 23362634, 23362626 | 0.373 |
| 208 | Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 10290419, 03091929 | 0.372 |
| 209 | African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 18117295, 24697656 | 0.37 |
| 210 | Physics (Switzerland) | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 26248174 | 0.366 |