''Cosmic Research'' (Russian: ''Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya'') is a bimonthly

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that was established in 1963. It is published by MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica and published online by

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. The

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is Anatoli A. Petrukovich (

Space Research Institute The Russian Space Research Institute (russian: Институт космических исследований Российской академии наук, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, SRI RAS, Russian abbrevia ...

, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia). The journal is a continuation of the Soviet-Russian publication ''Artificial Earth Satellites'' (), in existence between 1960–1964.

Scope

The journal covers research in

space science Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually conside ...

and related space technologies. Subject coverage includes cosmic physics,

astronautics Astronautics (or cosmonautics) is the theory and practice of travel beyond Earth's atmosphere into outer space. Spaceflight is one of its main applications and space science its overarching field. The term ''astronautics'' (originally ''astron ...

geophysics Geophysics () is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. The term ''geophysics'' so ...

, and astronautics in general.

Abstracting and indexing

This journal is abstracted and indexed in

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/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences,

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, Inspec, and

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 0.419.

References

External links

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