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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society is a peer-reviewed journal published by Royal Astronomical Society, covering Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies. Over its lifetime it has published 94,365 papers, which have received 3,638,727 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, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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

Publishes research inStellar, planetary, and galactic studies Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies Astronomy and Astrophysical Research Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
ISSN0035-8711
Citation impact (2-yr)4.9
h-index498
i10-index56,674
Article processing charge$2,833
Open accessYes — indexed in DOAJ
Top institutions publishing hereCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Journal websitemnras.oxfordjournals.org
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Papers published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society per year

2.7K
2014
3.1K
2015
3.6K
2016
3.4K
2017
3.5K
2018
3.6K
2019
4K
2020
3.8K
2021
3.8K
2022
4K
2023
2.8K
2024
2.3K
2025

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

158.3K
2014
168.6K
2015
177.6K
2016
149.2K
2017
145.9K
2018
132K
2019
117.9K
2020
84K
2021
57.9K
2022
54.4K
2023
23.4K
2024
7.1K
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

Stellar population synthesis at the resolution of 2003

Gustavo Bruzual, S. Charlot · 22 Sep 2003

We present a new model for computing the spectral evolution of stellar populations at ages between 100,000 yr and 20 Gyr at a resolution of 3 A across the whole wavelength range from 3200 to 9500 A for a wide range of metallicities. These predictions are based on a newly available library of observed stellar…

10,653 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
On the variation of the initial mass function

Pavel Kroupa · 1 Apr 2001

(shortened) In this contribution an average or Galactic-field IMF is defined, stressing that there is evidence for a change in the power-law index at only two masses: near 0.5 Msun and 0.08 Msun. Using this supposed universal IMF, the uncertainty inherent to any observational estimate of the IMF is investigated, by studying the scatter introduced…

7,542 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Smoothed particle hydrodynamics: theory and application to non-spherical stars

R. A. Gingold, J. J. Monaghan · 1 Dec 1977

A new hydrodynamic code applicable to a space of an arbitrary number of dimensions is discussed and applied to a variety of polytropic stellar models. The principal feature of the method is the use of statistical techniques to recover analytical expressions for the physical variables from a known distribution of fluid elements. The equations of…

7,163 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
The cosmological simulation code gadget-2

Volker Springel · 14 Nov 2005

We discuss the cosmological simulation code GADGET-2, a new massively parallel TreeSPH code, capable of following a collisionless fluid with the N-body method, and an ideal gas by means of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). Our implementation of SPH manifestly conserves energy and entropy in regions free of dissipation, while allowing for fully adaptive smoothing lengths.…

6,375 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Electromagnetic extraction of energy from Kerr black holes

R. D. Blandford, R. L. Znajek · 1 Jul 1977

When a rotating black hole is threaded by magnetic field lines supported by external currents flowing in an equatorial disc, an electric potential difference will be induced. If the field strength is large enough, the vacuum is unstable to a cascade production of electron–positron pairs and a surrounding force-free magnetosphere will be established. Under these…

5,088 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

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