The ''Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica'' (often ''RevMexAA'' or ''RMxAA'') is a
peer-review
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ed
scientific journal
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of
astronomy
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founded in 1974. It is a successor to the ''Boletín de los Observatorios de Tonantzintla y Tacubaya'' which was published from 1952 to 1972.
It is published by the Astronomical Institute (Instituto de Astronomia) of the
National Autonomous University of Mexico
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public university, public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countri ...
. It publishes two issues every year. For the first twenty years it also included, as separate volumes, proceedings of astronomical conferences in Mexico and Latin America, where 13 reports of meetings were produced. In 1995 it was decided to create a new publication dedicated to this purpose, the ''Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Serie de Conferencias'' (or ''RMxAC'').
Much information on the history of ''RmxAA'' was published in 2011, and previous information in other bibliometric articles.
It is considered one of the scientific journal in Latin America with the highest impact factor.
''Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Serie de Conferencias''
The conference series was created in 1995 as a vehicle to publish proceedings of meetings in astronomy and closely related fields. So far 46 proceedings of meetings have been published as part of this series. Altogether the series has included 13 Latin American Regional IAU Meetings (LARIM), 6 Texas-Mexico Conferences on Astrophysics, and several selected topics of interest to the community. The meetings have taken place in Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Uruguay, Argentina, Spain and the US.
Editors
The following astronomers have been editors of the RMxAA:
* E. E. Mendoza V., P. Pishmish & S. Torres-Peimbert (1974–1976)
* C. Cruz-Gonzalez, E. Mendoza V., P. Pishmish (1976–1977)
* C. Firmani, P. Pishmish & S. Torres-Peimbert (1978–1979)
* P. Pishmish, L. F. Rodriguez & S. Torres-Peimbert (1980–1983)
* P. Pishmish, & S. Torres-Peimbert (1983–1998)
* J. Cantó & L. F. Rodriguez (1999–2001)
* C. Allen (2002– )
And the editors of RMxAC have been:
* P. Pishmish, & S. Torres-Peimbert (1995–1998)
* J. Cantó & L. F. Rodriguez (1999–2001)
* C. Allen (2002)
* S. Torres-Peimbert (2001-)
References
External links
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''Boletín de los Observatorios Tonantzintla y Tacubaya '' archives
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