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The Astrophysical Journal Letters
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APC $2,978
DOAJ ✓
Earliest year 2009
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Publisher IOP Publishing · United Kingdom
Organiser American Astronomical Society · United States
Country/Region United Kingdom
Subject Physics and Astronomy
Open access ✓ (gold)
DOAJ ✓
License CC BY
Earliest year 2009
DOAJ article records 3,194
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Difficulty: average 8 weeks from submission to publication;11,869 articles per year
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Articles/yr 11,869
h-index 261
2-yr mean citedness 13.73
Last publication year 2026
DOAJ article records 3,194
Open access ✓
“2-yr mean citedness” is the OpenAlex field summary_stats.2yr_mean_citedness (CC0): mean citations per paper over a two-year window. It is a raw bibliometric field, not a journal rating, and is not used for default ranking.
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Earth and Planetary Sciences2,042
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