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About the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters format

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters is a peer-reviewed journal published by Royal Astronomical Society, covering Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies. Over its lifetime it has published 3,863 papers, which have received 151,129 citations.

PublisherRoyal Astronomical Society
Reference styleAuthor–year (MNRAS)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

Formats any DOI in the closest standard style — Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters has no published style definition, so this is an approximation. No sign-up.

Publishes research inGalaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
ISSN1745-3925
Citation impact (2-yr)5.46
h-index143
i10-index2,823
Article processing charge$2,833
Top institutions publishing hereCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Journal websiteacademic.oup.com
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Papers published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters per year

187
2014
203
2015
278
2016
207
2017
241
2018
190
2019
206
2020
135
2021
173
2022
208
2023
107
2024
117
2025

Citation impact of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters by publication year

8.6K
2014
10.6K
2015
11.4K
2016
7.2K
2017
9.1K
2018
6.1K
2019
5.5K
2020
2.2K
2021
2.3K
2022
2.5K
2023
799
2024
423
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

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

Michael Boylan-Kolchin, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat · 6 Jun 2011

Abstract We show that dissipationless Λ cold dark matter simulations predict that the majority of the most massive subhaloes of the Milky Way are too dense to host any of its bright satellites (LV > 105 L⊙). These dark subhaloes have peak circular velocities at infall of Vinfall= 30–70 km s-1 and infall masses of…

1,398 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Efficient generation of jets from magnetically arrested accretion on a rapidly spinning black hole

Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Ramesh Narayan, Jonathan C. McKinney · 1 Nov 2011

ABSTRACT We describe global, 3D, time-dependent, non-radiative, general-relativistic, magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accreting black holes (BHs). The simulations are designed to transport a large amount of magnetic flux to the centre, more than the accreting gas can force into the BH. The excess magnetic flux remains outside the BH, impedes accretion, and leads to a magnetically…

1,228 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Raising the bar: new constraints on the Hubble parameter with cosmic chronometers at <i>z</i> ∼ 2

M. Moresco · 1 Apr 2015

Abstract One of the most compelling tasks of modern cosmology is to constrain the expansion history of the Universe, since this measurement can give insights on the nature of dark energy and help to estimate cosmological parameters. In this letter are presented two new measurements of the Hubble parameter H(z) obtained with the cosmic chronometer…

1,013 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Information criteria for astrophysical model selection

Andrew R. Liddle · 2 Apr 2007

Abstract Model selection is the problem of distinguishing competing models, perhaps featuring different numbers of parameters. The statistics literature contains two distinct sets of tools, those based on information theory such as the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC), and those on Bayesian inference such as the Bayesian evidence and Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC). The Deviance Information…

1,006 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Dark matter halo concentrations in the <i>Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe</i> year 5 cosmology

Alan R. Duffy, Joop Schaye, Scott T. Kay et al. · 1 Sep 2008

Abstract We use a combination of three large N-body simulations to investigate the dependence of dark matter halo concentrations on halo mass and redshift in the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe year 5 (WMAP5) cosmology. The median relation between concentration and mass is adequately described by a power law for halo masses in the range 1011–1015h−1…

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MNRAS Letters, rapid-publication letters section of MNRAS.
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