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| Discipline | Astronomy |
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| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1849–present |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing for theAmerican Astronomical Society (United States) |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Gold open access | |
| 5.1 (2023) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Astron. J. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| CODEN | ANJOAA |
| ISSN | 0004-6256 (print) 1538-3881 (web) |
| LCCN | sf78000620 |
| OCLC no. | 194559707 |
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The Astronomical Journal (often abbreviatedAJ in scientific papers and references) is apeer-reviewed monthlyscientific journal owned by theAmerican Astronomical Society (AAS) and currently published byIOP Publishing. It is one of the premier journals for astronomy in the world.
Until 2008, the journal was published by theUniversity of Chicago Press on behalf of the AAS.[1] The reasons for the change to the IOP were given by the society as the desire of the University of Chicago Press to revise its financial arrangement and their plans to change from the particular software that had been developed in-house. The other two publications of the society, theAstrophysical Journal and its supplement series, followed in January 2009.[2]
The journal was established in 1849 byBenjamin A. Gould. It ceased publication in 1861 due to theAmerican Civil War, but resumed in 1885. Between 1909 and 1941 the journal was edited in Albany, New York. In 1941, editor Benjamin Boss arranged to transfer responsibility for the journal to the AAS.
The first electronic edition ofThe Astronomical Journal was published in January, 1998. With the July, 2006 issue,The Astronomical Journal begane-first publication, an electronic version of the journal released independently of the hardcopy issues.
As of 2016,[update] all of the scientific AAS journals were placed under a single editor-in-chief. On January 1, 2022, the AAS Journals, including AJ, transitioned toGold open access model, with all new papers released under aCreative Commons Attribution license and access restrictions and subscription charges removed from previously published papers.[3]
