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astro-ph.IM2026
Which is the best day of the week to submit to arXiv:astro-ph?
Chirag Sharma, Shantanu Desai
We examine whether the citations received by refereed astronomy papers vary systematically with the day of the week of their arXiv preprint release. We use NASA ADS citation data f…
astro-ph.IM2025
How stable are the impact factors of major astrophysics journals
Rayani Venkat Sai Rithvik, Shantanu Desai
We examine the long-term trends in impact factor over the past decade (2015-2014) for seven flagship journals widely used in Astrophysics: ApJ, AJ, ApJL, ApJS,A &A, JCAP, and MNRAS…
astro-ph.IM2024
A meta-analysis of impact factors of astrophysics journals
Rayani Venkat Sai Rithvik, Shantanu Desai
We calculate the 2024 impact factors for the 38 most widely used journals in Astrophysics, using the citations collated by NASA/ADS (Astrophysics Data System) and compare them to t…