Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
Last updated ISSN 0007-084X
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society is published by British Interplanetary Society in engineering. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of the British Interplanetary Society concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Spacecraft Design and Technology
- Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
- Space exploration and regulation
- Planetary Science and Exploration
- Astro and Planetary Science
- Space Satellite Systems and Control
- Space Exploration and Technology
- Rocket and propulsion systems research
- Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
- Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies
Key facts
| Publisher | British Interplanetary Society |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0007-084X |
| Subject area | Engineering |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,729 |
| Publishing since | 1949 |
| Journal website | www.jbis.org.uk/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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