Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences is the official publication of the Korean Space Science Society, and it is built on a deliberate pairing rather than on one subject.《Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences》是韩国空间科学学会的会刊，它的立足点是一对有意的配对，并非单一学科。
The aims page says the journal exists to bridge two communities that usually publish apart, the space scientists who study what is out there and the engineers who build and fly the instruments.宗旨页说这份刊的用处是把两个通常各投各的圈子连起来，一边是研究天上有什么的空间科学家，一边是造仪器、送它上天的工程师。
Space astronomy and solar physics are the first two subjects named, and both are studied from the ground and from orbit.点名排在最前的是空间天文学与太阳物理学，两者都既有地面观测也有轨道观测。
Magnetospheric and ionospheric physics follow, and the journal treats the near-Earth plasma environment as a single subject rather than splitting it by altitude.其后是磁层与电离层物理，这份刊把近地等离子体环境当作一整门学问，不按高度切开。
Cosmic rays, space weather and planetary science complete the science side. Space weather in particular is the subject where the two communities meet most often.宇宙线、空间天气与行星科学补上科学这一侧。其中空间天气正是两个圈子碰面最频繁的地方。
On the engineering side the journal takes space instrumentation, satellite dynamics, geodesy, spacecraft control and spacecraft navigation.工程这一侧收空间仪器、卫星动力学、大地测量、航天器控制与航天器导航。
The list is not a fence. The aims page says plainly that work in other branches of space science and technology is welcome, which matters in a field where a new instrument often creates its own subject.这份单子不是围墙。宗旨页明说空间科学与技术的其它分支也欢迎，在一个新仪器常常自己造出一门学问的领域里，这句话有用。
Articles carry a DOI apiece and are open access, so a paper in a quarterly Korean journal is read on the same terms as one in an international monthly.每篇论文各给一个 DOI，并且开放获取，登在韩国季刊上的文章，与登在国际月刊上的读法一样。
The full texts sit in three places at once. They are on the journal's own site, in the Directory of Open Access Journals and in the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System.全文同时摆在三个地方。刊自己的网站上有，开放获取期刊目录里有，SAO/NASA 天体物理数据系统里也有。
Astronomy is a field where the data system matters as much as the journal, and a paper that is not in the Astrophysics Data System is effectively invisible to the people who would cite it.在天文学里，数据系统与刊物本身一样要紧，没进天体物理数据系统的论文，对会引用它的人来说等于看不见。
Four numbers a year carry the content, and the journal asks for fundamental work as well as applied work, which is a broader brief than most titles of this size carry.一年四期装载内容，基础工作与应用工作都要，对这样体量的刊来说，这个面铺得比多数同类宽。
The society supports the journal through a grant in aid of publication, which is how a small national journal keeps its pages free to readers.学会以出版补助的方式支持这份刊，一本小规模的国家级刊物能对读者免费，靠的就是这一类钱。
Korea contributes the core of the subject matter, notably through the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute and its spacecraft and ground instruments.韩国提供选题的核心部分，韩国天文与空间科学研究院及其航天器与地面仪器尤其如此。
The journal has widened beyond that base. Its board and its authors now include people working in the United States, Europe, China, India and Japan.这份刊早已越出那个基本盘。编委与作者里如今有在美国、欧洲、中国、印度与日本工作的人。
History
The journal was launched in 1984, and volume 35 fell in 2018, so the numbering has run for forty-three volumes to 2026.这份刊 1984 年创刊，2018 年出到第 35 卷，编号一路排到 2026 年的第 43 卷。
It has been the society's own publication from the start rather than a commercial title adopted by a learned society after the fact.它自始就是学会自己的刊物，不是一家商业出版社办起来、后来才被学会认领的那一类。
Indexing came in steps. The Korean Citation Index took it in 2007, Scopus followed in 2012, and Clarivate added it to the Emerging Sources Citation Index in 2017.索引是一步步进来的。韩国引文索引 2007 年收录，Scopus 2012 年跟上，科睿唯安 2017 年把它纳入新兴来源引文索引。
The Directory of Open Access Journals re-indexed the title in the same year, which is when the journal's metadata was brought up to the standard that directory now requires.开放获取期刊目录在同一年重新收录，那也是这份刊把元数据提到该目录现行标准上的时候。
Four issues a year have been the pattern through the volumes in view, and the 2026 volume has three numbers out so far.视野之内各卷都是一年四期，2026 年这一卷目前出了三期。
Output is small. Volumes have carried between 10 and 32 papers, and the 2025 volume had 10, which is what a narrow national journal looks like beside a commercial monthly.产量很小。各卷在 10 到 32 篇之间，2025 年那一卷只有 10 篇，一本窄口径的国家级刊与商业月刊并排时就是这个样子。
The Crossref deposit holds 241 records, and the run from volume 35 of 2018 is complete in it.Crossref 的存缴有 241 条记录，2018 年第 35 卷以来的各卷都齐全。
The impact factor was 0.6 in 2023 and 2.4 in 2025. A jump of that size in a journal of ten papers a year is a few well-cited papers moving the mean, not a change of readership.影响因子 2023 年是 0.6，2025 年是 2.4。一年十篇的刊出现这种幅度的跳变，是几篇高被引论文把均值抬起来，并非读者换了一批。
The five-year figure of 1.2 is well below the two-year figure, which points the same way. The recent years are doing far more work than the older volumes.五年影响因子 1.2 远低于两年值，指的方向一样。近几年的文章干的活比旧卷多得多。
Total citations are 304 and the cited half-life is 7.5 years. For a journal this small, the second number says the back catalogue still gets read long after publication.总被引 304 次，引用半衰期 7.5 年。对这么小的刊来说，后一个数字说明旧卷在发表很久之后仍有人读。
The Journal Citation Indicator is 0.32. The title sits in Q2 of Astronomy and Astrophysics at 42 of 86, with a percentile of 51.7.期刊引文指标 0.32。它在天文学与天体物理门类里列 Q2，86 种刊中排第 42 位，百分位 51.7。
There is no record for the title in the National Library of Medicine catalogue, so it is absent from MEDLINE and from PubMed. Space medicine apart, that costs the journal little.这个刊名在美国国家医学图书馆的编目里查不到，因此不在 MEDLINE 与 PubMed 上。除了空间医学那一点，这对它损失不大。
Everything is gold open access, and the society carries the cost through its grant rather than through an article processing charge levied on Korean authors.全部内容都是金色开放获取，成本由学会用补助承担，不向韩国作者收文章处理费。
The editorial office keeps the journal's own site as the record of versions, and each article carries a Crossref mark so that a correction can be attached to the version of record.编辑部以自家网站作为版本记录的存放处，每篇论文带 Crossref 标记，更正因此可以挂到正式版本上。
Editors
Young-Sook Lee of Chungnam National University is editor-in-chief, and the board page lists her alone above the editors rather than sharing the post.主编是忠南大学的 Young-Sook Lee，编委页上她一人独居编辑之上，这一职位不分设。
Twenty editors sit below her, and the list is roughly half Korean and half international, which matches the journal's own account of having widened beyond its base.她之下有二十位编辑，名单大致一半韩国、一半海外，与刊方自述已越出基本盘的说法对得上。
Dae-Young Lee of Chungbuk National University and Yong Ha Kim of Chungnam work on the ionosphere and the upper atmosphere, the journal's largest Korean subject.忠北大学的 Dae-Young Lee 与忠南大学的 Yong Ha Kim 做电离层与高层大气，那是这份刊在韩国最大的题目。
Paul A. Evenson of the University of Delaware and Edward F. Guinan of Villanova bring the American observational side, one on cosmic rays and the other on stars.特拉华大学的 Paul A. Evenson 与维拉诺瓦大学的 Edward F. Guinan 带来美国的观测一侧，一位管宇宙线，一位管恒星。
Ilya Usoskin of Oulu and Valery Nakariakov of Warwick cover solar and heliospheric physics, and both work on the long records that space weather forecasting depends on.奥卢的 Ilya Usoskin 与华威的 Valery Nakariakov 覆盖太阳与日球层物理，两人做的都是空间天气预报所依赖的长序列记录。
Three editors come from the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Young-Sil Kwak, Eun-Kyung Lim and Jaeheung Park, which keeps the national institute inside the editorial process.有三位编辑来自韩国天文与空间科学研究院，Young-Sil Kwak、Eun-Kyung Lim 与 Jaeheung Park，国家研究院因此在编辑流程之内。
Jiuhou Lei of the University of Science and Technology of China and Lin-Ni Hau of National Central University carry the East Asian ionospheric and plasma work that fills much of the journal.中国科学技术大学的 Jiuhou Lei 与中央大学的 Lin-Ni Hau 承担东亚电离层与等离子体方面的稿件，这份刊的篇幅很大一部分来自那里。
Xinlin Li of Colorado and Kyeong Ju Hwang of the Southwest Research Institute represent the magnetospheric and radiation belt community, where most cited papers in this field come from.科罗拉多大学的 Xinlin Li 与西南研究院的 Kyeong Ju Hwang 代表磁层与辐射带这一块，这个领域被引最多的论文多出自那里。
The spacecraft engineers are not an afterthought. Young-Joo Song of Kyung Hee works on trajectories and navigation, and June Gyu Park of Yonsei on instrumentation.航天器工程师并非事后补上的角色。庆熙大学的 Young-Joo Song 做轨道与导航，延世大学的 June Gyu Park 做仪器。
Two editors carry the far edges of the map, Valery V. Hegai of the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism in Moscow and Jeongwoo Lee of the New Jersey Institute of Technology.有两位编辑守在地图的两头，莫斯科地磁研究所的 Valery V. Hegai 与新泽西理工的 Jeongwoo Lee。
Suyeon Oh of Chonnam and Changsup Lee of the Korea Polar Research Institute fill out the Korean core, which the journal needs for referees as much as for authors.全南大学的 Suyeon Oh 与韩国极地研究所的 Changsup Lee 补上韩国这一块的核心，这份刊需要这些人当审稿人，与需要他们当作者一样急。