''Astrophysics and Space Science'' is a bimonthly
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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Content
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covering
astronomy
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,
astrophysics
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, and
space science
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and astrophysical aspects of
astrobiology
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. It was established in 1968 and is published by
Springer Science+Business Media
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Originally founded in 1842 in ...
. From 2016 to 2020 the editors-in-chief were both Prof. Elias Brinks and Prof.
Jeremy Mould
Jeremy Richard Mould (born 31 July 1949) is an Australian astronomer currently at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology.
Mould was previously Director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astr ...
. Since 2020 the sole
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
is Prof. Elias Brinks. Other editors-in-chief in the past have been
Zdeněk Kopal
Zdeněk Kopal (; 4 April 1914 – 23 June 1993) was a Czechoslovak astronomer who mainly worked in England.
Kopal was born and grew up in Litomyšl (Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic). In his early astronomical career, he studied variable ...
(Univ. of Manchester) (1968-1993) and
Michael A. Dopita (
Australian National University
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) (1994-2015).
Abstracting and indexing
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According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor
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of 1.830.
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