Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

*Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society*
	Cover image of MNRAS in 2022
Discipline	Astronomy, astrophysics
Language	English
Edited by	David Flower
Publication details
Former name(s)	Monthly Notices of the Astronomical Society of London
History	1827–present
Publisher	Oxford University Press (since 2013) on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society (United Kingdom)
Frequency	36/year
Open access	Gold (since 2024)
License	CC-BY (since 2024)
Impact factor	4.8 (2022)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.
NLM	Mon Not R Astron Soc
Indexing;
CODEN	MNRAA4
ISSN	0035-8711 (print); 1365-2966 (web);
LCCN	sf85001279
OCLC no.	10340650
Links
	Journal homepage; MNRAS online access; MNRAS Letters online access;

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in astronomy, astrophysics and related fields. It publishes original research in two formats: papers (of any length) and letters (limited to five pages). MNRAS publishes more articles per year than any other astronomy journal.^[3]

The learned society journal has been in continuous existence since 1827 and became online only in 2020. It operates as a partnership between the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), who select and peer-review the contents, and Oxford University Press (OUP), who publish and market the journal. Despite its name, MNRAS is no longer monthly, nor does it carry the notices of the RAS.^[4] In 2024 MNRAS became a purely gold open access journal.^[2]

^ Smith, Keith (28 June 2012). "RAS journals to be published by Oxford University Press". Royal Astronomical Society. Archived from the original on 13 May 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
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^ Carswell, Bob; Clube, Kim (2008). "Monthly Notices of the RAS". Astronomy & Geophysics. 49 (5): 14. Bibcode:2008A&G....49e..14C. doi:10.1111/j.1468-4004.2008.49514.x.

[oup-1] Smith, Keith (28 June 2012). "RAS journals to be published by Oxford University Press". Royal Astronomical Society. Archived from the original on 13 May 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2017.

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[ag2008-4] Carswell, Bob; Clube, Kim (2008). "Monthly Notices of the RAS". Astronomy & Geophysics. 49 (5): 14. Bibcode:2008A&G....49e..14C. doi:10.1111/j.1468-4004.2008.49514.x.

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