Journal for the History of Astronomy

1.2k papers and 3.5k indexed citations i.

About

The 1.2k papers published in Journal for the History of Astronomy in the last decades have received a total of 3.5k indexed citations. Papers published in Journal for the History of Astronomy usually cover Astronomy and Astrophysics (800 papers), Archeology (396 papers) and History and Philosophy of Science (346 papers) specifically the topics of Ancient Astronomy and Mathematical Instruments (575 papers), History and Developments in Astronomy (433 papers) and History of Science and Medicine (227 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Journal for the History of Astronomy are Michael Hoskin, Bernard R. Goldstein, Bradley E. Schaefer, F. R. Stephenson, N. M. Swerdlow, Juan Antonio Belmonte, Owen Gingerich, D. T. Whiteside, Albert Van Helden and Robert W. Smith.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in Journal for the History of Astronomy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in Journal for the History of Astronomy. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in Journal for the History of Astronomy.

Countries where authors publish in Journal for the History of Astronomy

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in Journal for the History of Astronomy. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in Journal for the History of Astronomy with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Journal for the History of Astronomy more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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