''Astrophysics and Space Science'' is a bimonthly
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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covering
astronomy
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,
astrophysics
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, and
space science
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and astrophysical aspects of
astrobiology
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. It was established in 1968 and is published by
Springer Science+Business Media
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Originally founded in 1842 in ...
. From 2016 to 2020, the editors-in-chief were both Prof. Elias Brinks and Prof.
Jeremy Mould. Since 2020 the sole
editor-in-chief
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is Prof. Elias Brinks. Other editors-in-chief in the past have been
Zdeněk Kopal (Univ. of Manchester) (1968–1993) and
Michael A. Dopita (
Australian National University
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) (1994–2015).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the following databases:
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 1.830.
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