Advances in Space Research

Advances in Space Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published 24 times per year by Elsevier. It was established in 1981 and is the official journal of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). The editor-in-chief is Pascal Willis.^[1]

Advances in Space Research

Discipline	Astronomy, astrophysics, space science
Language	English
Edited by	Pascal Willis
Publication details
History	1981–present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	24/year
Impact factor	2.152 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Adv. Space Res.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	ASRSDW
ISSN	0273-1177
LCCN	83645550
OCLC no.	7004415
Links
Journal homepage Online access

Topics of interest for this journal are all interactions observed in space research, including space studies of the Earth's surface, meteorology, and climate. Acceptable articles in the context of space research are from the perspective of astrophysics, materials science, the life sciences, and fundamental physics. Also included in this context is the study of planetary meteorologies, and planetary climates. Other research encompasses Earth-based astronomy observations, the study of space debris, and space weather.^[2][3]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the following databases:^[4]

• Chemical Abstracts
• Current Contents/Physics
• Current Contents/Chemistry & Earth Science
• Geographical Abstracts
• Geological Abstracts
• Inspec
• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings
• Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts
• Science Citation Index
• Scopus

According to the Journal Citation Reports, Advance in Space Research has a 2020 impact factor of 2.152.^[5]