Open Access Publishing in Astrophysics
I’ve got a short talk this afternoon here at INAM about Open Access Publishing in Astrophysics so I thought I’d share the slides here. Among other things, the talk contains some updates about the Open Journal of Astrophysics.
The month of August has been rather quiet in terms of publishing at the OJAp no doubt because authors and referees have been taking vacations. When I managed to reconnect to the internet last night, though, I saw that revised versions of two manuscripts have been accepted so, depending on when the final versions hit the arXiv, I expect to publish a couple of papers early next week. That will take us to 98…
Update: mine was the last talk of the meeting and I overran a bit but I think it was reasonably well received despite that. Now I’m on a train waiting to go home.
In the Dark 
August 25, 2023 at 2:03 pm
Really great initiative. I was trying to track down some research done on Convection at Queen Mary College since completed Ph.D but a similar tool trying to use, required an academic email, which I don’t have anymore.
August 26, 2023 at 9:08 am
Re slide 14, what is the impact factor of some other astrojournals?
August 26, 2023 at 9:39 am
The main ones (MNRAS,A&A and ApJ) are in the range 5-6 (it varies a bit per year). The highest IF journals in astrophysics are review journals, as review articles tend to attract large numbers of citations.