Universe (journal)

Universe is a monthly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by MDPI covering several aspects of physics and astronomy and astrophysics. It was established in 2015. The editor-in-chief is Lorenzo Iorio of the Ministry of Public Education (Italy) since its inception.

Universe

Discipline	Physics
Language	English
Edited by	Lorenzo Iorio
Publication details
History	2015-present
Publisher	MDPI (Switzerland)
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Yes
Impact factor	2.6 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Universe
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	2218-1997
Links
Journal homepage

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus.^[1] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 2.5.^[2]

Young investigator award

Since 2020, the journal confers the Universe Young Investigator Award to a young researcher in recognition of their excellence in fields related to fundamental principles and discovered in the universe. The first awardee (2020) was Lavinia Heisenberg (ETH Zürich, Switzerland).^[3]