Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Last updated ISSN 0035-8711

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society is published by Oxford University Press in physics and astronomy. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,046.

Is your paper a fit?

The surest way to know is to compare your own abstract against what this journal has actually been publishing, rather than against its aims-and-scope page. Paste your abstract and Journal Hunt will tell you how close Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society is — and show you journals like it.

What it publishes

Recent work in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:

Key facts

PublisherOxford University Press
ISSN0035-8711, 1365-2966, 1365-8711
Subject areaPhysics and Astronomy
AccessOpen access
Article processing charge$3,046
Indexed inWeb of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ
Articles published94,987
Publishing since1827
Journal websitemnras.oxfordjournals.org/

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.

Journals like Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Other established journals in physics and astronomy, if this one is not the right home for your paper: