Journal for the History of Astronomy

Journal for the History of Astronomy is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the history of astronomy from earliest times to the present, and in history in the service of astronomy. The journal's founding editor-in-chief was Michael Hoskin (Cambridge University)^[1] and it is currently^[when?] edited by James Evans (University of Puget Sound).^{[citation needed]}

Journal for the History of Astronomy

Discipline	History of astronomy
Language	English
Edited by	James Evans
Publication details
History	1970-present
Publisher	SAGE Publishing
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	0.3 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Hist. Astron.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0021-8286 (print) 1753-8556 (web)
LCCN	73618135
OCLC no.	645363374
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

History

The journal was established in 1970 and was published by Science History Publications through to 2013, and since 2014 by SAGE Publishing. From 1979 to 2002, Archaeoastronomy was published as a supplement, but was incorporated in 2003.^[1]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 0.3.^[2]