The ''Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics'' is an annual
peer reviewed
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scientific journal
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Content
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published by
Annual Reviews. The co-editors are
Ewine van Dishoeck
Ewine Fleur van Dishoeck (born 13 June 1955, in Leiden) is a Dutch astronomer and chemist. She is Professor of Molecular Astrophysics at Leiden Observatory, and served as the President of the International Astronomical Union (2018–2021) and a ...
and
Robert C. Kennicutt.
The journal reviews
scientific literature
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pertaining to local and distant celestial entities throughout the
observable universe
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, as well as
cosmology
Cosmology () is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe. The term ''cosmology'' was first used in English in 1656 in Thomas Blount (lexicographer), Thomas Blount's ''Glossographia'', and in 1731 taken up in ...
, instrumentation, techniques, and the history of developments. It was established in 1963.
History
In November of 1960, the board of directors of the nonprofit publisher
Annual Reviews began investigating the need for a new journal of
review article
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s that covered developments in
astronomy
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and
astrophysics
Astrophysics is a science that employs the methods and principles of physics and chemistry in the study of astronomical objects and phenomena. As one of the founders of the discipline said, Astrophysics "seeks to ascertain the nature of the h ...
. The board consulted an advisory group of experts, including
Ronald Bracewell,
Robert Jastrow
Robert Jastrow (September 7, 1925 – February 8, 2008) was an American astronomer and planetary physicist. He was a NASA scientist, populist author and futurist.
Education
Jastrow attended Townsend Harris High School. He also attended the ...
,
Joseph Kaplan Joseph Kaplan (September 8, 1902 – October 3, 1991) was a Hungarian-born American physicist.
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,
Paul Merrill,
Otto Struve
Otto Struve (August 12, 1897 – April 6, 1963) was a Russian-American astronomer of Baltic German origins. In Russian, his name is sometimes given as Otto Lyudvigovich Struve (Отто Людвигович Струве); however, he spent most o ...
, and
Harold Urey
Harold Clayton Urey ( ; April 29, 1893 – January 5, 1981) was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the discovery of deuterium. He played a significant role in the d ...
. The editorial committee met in August 1961 to determine the authors and topics for the first volume, which was published in 1963. As of 2020, it was published both in print and electronically.
It defines its scope as covering significant developments in astronomy and astrophysics, including the
Sun
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, the
Solar System
The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies. The International Astronomical Union, the authoritative body regarding astronomical nomenclature, specifies capitalizing the names of all individual astronomical objects but uses mixed "Solar S ...
,
exoplanet
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s,
star
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s, the
interstellar medium
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, the
Milky Way
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and other
galaxies
A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, dark matter, bound together by gravity. The word is derived from the Greek ' (), literally 'milky', a reference to the Milky Way galaxy that contains the Solar System. ...
, galactic nuclei,
cosmology
Cosmology () is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe. The term ''cosmology'' was first used in English in 1656 in Thomas Blount (lexicographer), Thomas Blount's ''Glossographia'', and in 1731 taken up in ...
, and the instrumentation and techniques used for research and analysis.
As of 2022, ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'' gives the journal an
impact factor
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of 37.226, ranking it first out of 69 journals in the category "Astronomy and Astrophysics".
It is
abstracted and indexed
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in
Scopus
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,
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,
Civil Engineering Abstracts,
Inspec, and
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, among others.
Editorial processes
The ''Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics'' is led by the editor or co-editors. They are is assisted by the editorial committee, which includes associate editors, regular members, and occasionally guest editors. Guest members participate at the invitation of the editor, and serve terms of one year. All other members of the editorial committee are appointed by the Annual Reviews board of directors and serve five-year terms. The editorial committee determines which topics should be included in each volume and solicits reviews from qualified authors. Unsolicited manuscripts are not accepted.
Peer review
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...
of accepted manuscripts is undertaken by the editorial committee.
Editors of volumes
Dates indicate publication years in which someone was credited as a lead editor or co-editor of a journal volume. The planning process for a volume begins well before the volume appears, so appointment to the position of lead editor generally occurred prior to the first year shown here. An editor who has retired or died may be credited as a lead editor of a volume that they helped to plan, even if it is published after their retirement or death.
*
Leo Goldberg
Leopold Goldberg (26 January 1913 – 1 November 1987) was an American astronomer who held professorships at Harvard and the University of Michigan and the directorships of several major observatories. He was president of both the International As ...
(1963–1973)
*
Geoffrey Burbidge
Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (24 September 1925 – 26 January 2010) was an English people, English astronomy professor and theoretical astrophysicist, most recently at the University of California, San Diego. He wa ...
(1974–2004)
*
Roger Blandford
Roger David Blandford, FRS, FRAS (born 1949) is a British theoretical astrophysicist, best known for his work on black holes.
Early life
Blandford was born in Grantham, England and grew up in Birmingham.
Career
Blandford is famous in the as ...
(2005–2011)
*
Ewine van Dishoeck
Ewine Fleur van Dishoeck (born 13 June 1955, in Leiden) is a Dutch astronomer and chemist. She is Professor of Molecular Astrophysics at Leiden Observatory, and served as the President of the International Astronomical Union (2018–2021) and a ...
and
Sandra Faber
Sandra Moore Faber (born December 28, 1944) is an American astrophysicist known for her research on the evolution of galaxies. She is the University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and works ...
(2012–2021)
* Ewine van Dishoeck and
Robert C. Kennicutt (present)
Current editorial committee
As of 2022, the editorial committee consists of the co-editors and the following members:
*
Conny Aerts
Conny Clara Aerts, born 26 January 1966, is a Belgian (Flemish) professor in astrophysics. She specialises in asteroseismology. She is associated with KU Leuven and Radboud University, where she leads the Chair in the Astroseismology group. In 2 ...
*
Joss Bland-Hawthorn
*
Xiaohui Fan
Xiaohui Fan (born 9 December 1971 in Beijing, China) is an American astronomer, and full professor at University of Arizona. He is widely known for his studies on quasars, extremely bright supermassive black holes, detected primarily at high reds ...
* Jonathan J. Fortney
*
Eve C. Ostriker
*
Eliot Quataert
See also
*
List of astronomy journals
This is a list of scientific journals publishing articles in astronomy, astrophysics, and space sciences.
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B
* ''Baltic Astronomy''
* '' Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society''
*''Bulgarian Astronomical Journal''
* ''Bulletin of the As ...
References
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