Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

Aims & Scope

For papers that merit urgent publication, MNRAS Letters, the online section of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, publishes short, topical and significant research in all fields of astronomy.

Letters should be self-contained and describe the results of an original study whose rapid publication might be expected to have a significant influence on the subsequent development of research in the associated subject area.

The 5-page limit must be respected.

Authors are required to state their reasons for seeking publication in the form of a Letter when submitting their manuscript.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.688

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	125

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	1941

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1905

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Physics and Astronomy, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Too big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhaloes

  Citation: 1116

  Authors: Michael, James S., Manoj

• Efficient generation of jets from magnetically arrested accretion on a rapidly spinning black hole

  Citation: 969

  Authors: Alexander, Ramesh, Jonathan C.

• Raising the bar: new constraints on the Hubble parameter with cosmic chronometers at <i>z</i> ∼ 2

  Citation: 812

  Authors: Michele

• Information criteria for astrophysical model selection

  Citation: 812

  Authors: Andrew R.

• Dark matter halo concentrations in the <i>Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe</i> year 5 cosmology

  Citation: 799

  Authors: Alan R., Joop, Scott T., Claudio

• The age dependence of halo clustering

  Citation: 582

  Authors: Liang, Volker, Simon D. M.

• Fast TeV variability in blazars: jets in a jet

  Citation: 431

  Authors: Dimitrios, Dmitri A., Mitchell C.

• Low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations spectra and Lense–Thirring precession

  Citation: 406

  Authors: Adam, Chris, P. Chris

• <scp>polychord</scp>: nested sampling for cosmology

  Citation: 388

  Authors: W. J., M. P., A. N.

• A model for fast extragalactic radio bursts

  Citation: 374

  Authors: Yuri

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