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Astrophysical Journal

The Astrophysical Journal is devoted to recent developments, discoveries, and theories in astronomy and astrophysics. Publications in ApJ constitute significant new research that is directly relevant to astrophysical applications, whether based on observational results or on theo...

ISSN: 0004-637X

Publisher: American Astronomical Society

Category: Astronomy and Astrophysics

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SJR Impact Factor trending_up

2,038 Q1

H-index 499

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15% Highly selective

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Publication cost (APC) payments

2.000 € Open Access

Non-OA path 1000 €

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SJR Impact

2,038

H-index

499

Docs (year)

3741

Docs 3y

9061

Total refs

303884

Cites 3y

46066

Citable 3y

9061

Cites/Doc 2y

5.22

Ref/Doc

81.23

Immediate OA

2000 €

Embargoed OA

NPD

Non OA / Submission

1000 €

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Best articles by citations

Detection of interstellar sodium hydroxide in self-absorption toward the galactic center

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Far-infrared sources in Cygnus X - an extended emission complex at DR 21 and unresolved sources at S106 and ON 2

Excitation of interstellar hydrogen chloride

Evolution of the cluster X-ray luminosity function slope

Evidence for accretion activity and obscured hot component stars in W Serpentis type binaries

Erratum - Ultraviolet Absorption by Interstellar Gas Near the Large Magellanic Cloud Star HD36402 in the Interstellar Bubble N51D

Erratum - Near Millimeter Spectrum of the Microwave Background

Erratum - Isotope-Selective Photodestruction of Carbon Monoxide

Erratum - High Velocity Molecular Emission in Orion - a Case for Stellar Winds

Erratum - Comments on the Origin of the Carbon and Nitrogen Variations Within NGC6752 and 47-TUCANAE

Energetic activity in a star-forming molecular cloud core - A disk constrained bipolar outflow in NGC 2071

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Double galaxy investigations. II - The redshift periodicity in optically observed pairs

A nuclear spectroscopic survey of disk galaxies. II - Galaxies with emission lines not excited by stellar photoionization

Cosmic turbulence and the angular momenta of astronomical systems

Conversion from /C-12/O integrated intensity at 2.6 millimeter wavelength to hydrogen column density

Confirmation of a conspiracy - Dual-band VLBI maps of the flat-spectrum radio source 2021 + 614

C IV and Lyman-alpha emission lines in Seyfert 1 galaxies

Analysis of the ultraviolet spectrum of RWT 152 - A subluminous O star with a main-sequence visual spectrum

Analysis of integrated spectra of red star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds

An X-ray image of Tycho's supernova remnant

Acoustic waves in supernova remnants

Abundances in five nearby galactic H II regions from infrared forbidden lines

Absolute dimensions and masses of eclipsing binaries. III - CW Canis Majoris

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Astrophysical Journal has an SJR of 2,038 (best quartile Q1) in the CountryOfPapers database.

Immediate OA APC is 2000 EUR. Non-OA / submission fee is 1000 EUR.

The acceptance rate recorded for Astrophysical Journal is 15%.

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