Astronomy & Astrophysics

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This article is about the journal. It is not to be confused with the science fields
of astronomy and astrophysics.
Not to be confused with Astronomy and Astro-Physics ISSN 1067-8603, published by
the Goodsell Observatory.

Astronomy & Astrophysics  

Discipline Astronomy, astrophysics

Language English

Edited by Thierry Forveille [fr]

Publication details

History 1969–present

Publisher EDP Sciences for European Southern Observatory

Frequency Monthly

Open access Delayed, 12 months

Impact factor 6.209 (2018)

 Standard abbreviations

ISO 4 Astron. Astrophys.

Indexing

CODEN AAEJAF

ISSN 0004-6361 (print)

1432-0746 (web)

LCCN 74220573

OCLC no. 1518497

Links

 Journal homepage

 Online access

Astronomy & Astrophysics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering theoretical,

observational, and instrumental astronomy and astrophysics. It is one of the premier
journals for astronomy in the world[citation needed]. The journal is published by EDP
Sciences every month.[1] The editor-in-chief is Thierry Forveille [fr] (Observatoire des
Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble). Previous editors in chief include Claude
Bertout, James Lequeux, Michael Grewing, Catherine Cesarsky and George
Contopoulos.

Contents

 1History
 2Sponsoring countries
 3Editors
 4Abstracting and indexing
 5Open access
 6See also
 7Further reading
 8References

History[edit]
Astronomy & Astrophysics was formed in 1969 by the merging of several national
journals of individual European countries into one comprehensive publication. [2] These
journals, with their ISSN and date of first publication are as follows: [3]

 Annales d'Astrophysique ISSN 0365-0499 (France), established in 1938

 Arkiv för Astronomi ISSN 0004-2048 (Sweden), established in 1948
 Bulletin of the Astronomical Institutes of the Netherlands ISSN 0365-
8910 (Netherlands), established in 1921
 Bulletin Astronomique ISSN 0245-9787 (France), established in 1884
 Journal des Observateurs ISSN 0368-3389 (France), established in 1915
 Zeitschrift für Astrophysik ISSN 0372-8331 (Germany), established in 1930
The publishing of Astronomy & Astrophysics was further extended in 1992 by the
incorporation of Bulletin of the Astronomical Institutes of Czechoslovakia, established in
1947. Astronomy & Astrophysics initially published articles in either English, French, or
German, but articles in French and German were always few. They were eventually
discontinued, in part due to difficulties in finding adequately specialized
independent referees who were also fluent in those languages.

Sponsoring countries[edit]
The original sponsoring countries were the four countries whose journals merged to
form Astronomy & Astrophysics (France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden),
together with Belgium, Denmark, Finland, and Norway. The European Southern
Observatory also participated as a "member country". Norway later withdrew, but
Austria, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland all joined. The Czech Republic, Estonia,
Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia all joined as new members in the 1990s. In 2001 the
words "A European Journal" were removed from the front cover in recognition of the fact
that the journal was becoming increasingly global in scope, and in 2002 Argentina was
admitted as an "observer". In 2004 the Board of Directors decided that the journal "will
henceforth consider applications for sponsoring membership from any country in the
world with well-documented active and excellent astronomical research". [4] Argentina
became the first non-European country to gain full membership in 2005. Brazil, Chile,
and Portugal all gained "observer" status at this time and have since progressed to full
membership. Brazil departed in 2016. The current list of member countries is listed
here[5].

Editors[edit]
The current editors[6] of A&A are:

 Editor in Chief: Thierry Forveille (Observatoire de Grenoble)

 Associate Editor in Chief : Joao Alves (University of Vienna, Austria)
 Managing Editor : David Elbaz (CEA Saclay, France)
 Associate Editors :
o Sergio Campana (Brera Astronomical Observatory, Italy)
o Françoise Combes (Observatoire de Paris, France)
o Zhanwen Han, (Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, China)
o Rubina Kotak (Tuorla Observatory, Finland)
o Emmanuel Lellouch (Observatoire de Paris, France)
o Dante Miniti (Universidad Andres Bello, Chile)
o David Mouillet (Observatoire de Grenoble, France)
o Benoît Noyelles (Université de Franche-Comté, France)
o Laura Pentericci (Rome Observatory, Italy)
o Maurizio Salaris (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
o Steven N. Shore (University of Pisa, Italy)
o Mario Tafalla (Spanish National Observatory, Spain)