New Astronomy

New Astronomy is an Elsevier research journal, published in Amsterdam under the Elsevier B.V. imprint, and since 1996 it has carried observational, theoretical and numerical work across the whole of astronomy. The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4, the five-year figure is 1.9 and CiteScore is 4.4.《新天文学》是 Elsevier 在阿姆斯特丹以 Elsevier B.V. 名义出版的研究期刊，自 1996 年起刊载覆盖整个天文学领域的观测，理论与数值工作。该刊 2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，五年影响因子为 1.9，CiteScore 为 4.4。

Scope

• The aims and scope statement fixes the field as all areas of astronomy, from the solar system through cosmology, and adds a second axis in all wavelengths from radio to gamma-ray.宗旨与范围声明把领域划定为天文学的全部方向，从太阳系一直到宇宙学，并给出第二条轴线，即从射电到伽马射线的全部波段。
• Observational, experimental, theoretical and numerical work are all actively encouraged, so a paper is judged by the astronomy it does rather than by the technique it happens to prefer.观测，实验，理论与数值工作都受到积极鼓励，稿件因此按其所做的天文研究来评判，而不看它偏重哪一种技术手段。
• One restriction is stated plainly, in that physics papers offering no clear pathway for observational tests of the ideas proposed are not considered at all.有一条限制写得直白，凡是所提想法找不到观测检验路径的物理论文，一律不予考虑。
• The test may be mounted with current facilities or with reasonably conceivable future missions, observatories and experiments, and the wording leaves that latitude open on purpose.检验可以靠现有设施完成，也可以靠尚未建成而可以合理设想的任务，天文台与实验来完成，措辞有意留出这一余地。
• An author who cannot tell whether a project sits inside that boundary may send a pre-submission inquiry to the editor-in-chief before the work is built into a full manuscript.作者若拿不准课题是否落在这条界内，可以在把研究写成完整稿件之前先向主编发出投稿前咨询。
• The solar system end of the range takes in the Sun, the planets and small bodies, while the far end reaches galaxies, large-scale structure and the cosmological model itself.范围的一端是太阳系，涵盖太阳，行星与小天体，另一端抵达星系，大尺度结构与宇宙学模型本身。
• Binary stars are one recurring centre, with eclipse timing, orbital period variation and light curve modelling appearing in volume after volume, beside exoplanet transit work built on TESS photometry and ground-based follow-up.双星是反复出现的中心之一，食变时刻、轨道周期变化与光变曲线建模在各卷中接连出现，旁边还有依托 TESS 测光与地面跟踪的系外行星凌星工作。
• Waveband coverage sits in the same sentence, so radio, millimetre, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy are treated as one field rather than as separate specialities.波段覆盖写在同一句话里，射电，毫米波，红外，光学，紫外，X 射线与伽马射线天文被当作一个领域，不拆成各自独立的专业。
• The test of a paper is observational, so a result may rest on a space mission such as TESS, on a radio array such as MeerKAT, or on a ground-based campaign, and the choice of instrument is left to the author.评判论文的落点在观测，结果可以依托 TESS 这样的空间任务，也可以依托 MeerKAT 这样的射电阵列，或一轮地面观测，用哪种仪器由作者自定。
• Theory is welcome whenever it can be tied to observation, and recent volumes carry a steady run of papers on dark energy, modified gravity and the structure of compact objects.理论工作只要能与观测挂钩就受欢迎，近年的卷里持续出现暗能量、修改引力与致密天体结构方面的论文。
• Numerical work is represented as well, from smoothed particle hydrodynamics of an icy moon with an internal ocean to N-body integrations of few-body systems, with machine learning now used to classify light curves and estimate stellar parameters.数值工作同样有人做，从带内部海洋的冰质卫星的平滑粒子流体动力学模拟，到少体系统的 N 体积分，机器学习如今也被用来给光变曲线分类、估计恒星参数。
• Regular reviews are taken alongside original research, and the expectation is that such a paper summarises a field for readers who work outside it.除原创研究之外，该刊也收常规综述，这类稿件的任务是把某一领域的状貌讲给领域之外的读者听。
• Focus reviews form a shorter category, modest in length and typically under twenty pages, covering recent developments within a field instead of the entirety of it.焦点综述是更短的一类，篇幅适中，通常在 20 页以内，只覆盖某一领域的近期进展，不铺开整个领域。
• Proposals for special editions are welcomed, whether they arrive as conference proceedings, as sets of papers tied to a new mission, or as collections built around some other theme.该刊欢迎专刊提案，形式可以是会议论文集，可以是围绕一项新任务组织的一组论文，也可以是围绕其他主题编成的专辑。

History

• The first issue is dated July 1996 and is printed as volume 1 issue 1, and the volume numbering has run without a break from that point to the present day.创刊号标注的日期为 1996 年 7 月，印作第 1 卷第 1 期，卷号从那时起一路连续沿用至今，中间没有重起。
• Two serial numbers were assigned at launch, 1384-1076 for the printed edition and 1384-1092 for the online one, and both remain in use thirty years later.创刊时配了两个连续出版物号，印刷版为 1384-1076，网络版为 1384-1092，两者在三十年后仍在使用。
• The imprint is Elsevier B.V. of Amsterdam, and the copyright line of the current site still names that company for the 2026 volumes.出版方是阿姆斯特丹的 Elsevier B.V.，现行网站的版权行到 2026 年各卷仍署这家公司。
• Volume and year did not run in step during the early years, since 1997 drew on volumes 1 and 2 while 2000 drew on volumes 4 and 5, which suggests a title still finding its rhythm.早期卷号与年份并不同步，1997 年跨第 1 卷与第 2 卷，2000 年又跨第 4 卷与第 5 卷，可见这份刊物当时还在摸索自己的节奏。
• From 2013 the pace settled at roughly eight volumes a year, with volumes 18 to 25 covering that year and a similar count in every year since.从 2013 年起节奏稳定在每年约 8 卷，当年由第 18 卷至第 25 卷覆盖，此后每年的卷数都大致相当。
• The 2026 range runs from volume 122 to volume 129, and 2027 has already opened with volumes 130 and 131, the latter carrying a February 2027 date.2026 年的卷次为第 122 卷至第 129 卷，2027 年已排到第 130 卷与第 131 卷，后者标注的日期是 2027 年 2 月。
• Articles are published continuously inside a volume rather than in numbered issues, and the Crossref record for the title carries volume numbers with no issue field at all.文章在卷内连续出版，不编期号，Crossref 中该刊的记录只带卷号，期号字段整个空缺。
• Indexing has been stable for years, with the title in the Science Citation Index Expanded, and the 2025 citation report places it at 42 of 86 in astronomy and astrophysics.收录状况多年稳定，该刊在 Science Citation Index Expanded 之中，2025 年版的引文报告把它列在天文学与天体物理类 86 种期刊的第 42 位。
• Output runs at roughly 98 papers a year, the citation total stands near 2,581 and the cited half-life is 6.7 years, which is brisk for a title of this age.年发文量约 98 篇，总被引接近 2581 次，被引半衰期为 6.7 年，对一份这个年纪的刊物而言周转得相当快。
• Speed is a selling point, and the published medians are 10 days from submission to a first decision and 42 days to a decision reached after review.速度是这份刊物的卖点，站方公布的中位数是投稿到首次决定 10 天，外审之后作出决定 42 天。
• The same table gives 117 days from submission to acceptance and 11 days from acceptance to appearance online, so the long stretch sits in revision rather than in production.同一张表还给出投稿到接收 117 天，接收到上线 11 天，可见漫长的一段落在修改环节，不在生产环节。
• Open access is an option rather than the default, the journal page marks the title as supporting open access, and the publisher lists an article publishing charge for authors who take that route.开放获取是可选项而非默认设置，期刊页把该刊标为支持开放获取，出版方为选择这条路线的作者列有文章处理费。
• The share of papers published under the gold model has reached about one in ten, and the rest still appear behind the subscription wall.以金色模式发表的论文占比已达约十分之一，其余论文仍出现在订阅墙之内。
• Thirty years separate the 2026 volumes from the first issue, and that year passes the anniversary without any renumbering or relaunch of the title.2026 年的各卷距创刊号问世正好三十年，这一年以平常的编法走过这个节点，既没有重新编号，也没有改版。

Editors

• Jasjeet Bagla of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali is editor-in-chief, and his own research runs on cosmology, galaxy formation and gravitational lensing.主编是印度科学教育与研究学院莫哈利分校（Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali）的 Jasjeet Bagla，其本人的研究集中在宇宙学，星系形成与引力透镜。
• Seven receiving editors carry the subject load, each with a defined patch of astronomy, so a manuscript reaches someone who reads that literature as a matter of course.七位收稿编辑分担学科事务，每人负责一片确定的天文领域，稿件因此会落到平时就读这类文献的人手里。
• Manoneeta Chakraborty of the Indian Institute of Technology Indore looks after X-ray binaries, neutron stars, pulsars, black holes and magnetars.Indian Institute of Technology Indore 的 Manoneeta Chakraborty 负责 X 射线双星，中子星，脉冲星，黑洞与磁星。
• Oleg Gnedin of the University of Michigan takes galaxy and star cluster formation and evolution, together with high performance computing and cosmological simulation.University of Michigan 的 Oleg Gnedin 负责星系与星团的形成和演化，兼及高性能计算与宇宙学模拟。
• Eduard Kontar of the University of Glasgow covers solar and heliospheric physics, flare particle acceleration and transport, plasma kinetic theory, and solar radio and X-ray astronomy.University of Glasgow 的 Eduard Kontar 负责太阳与日球物理，耀斑中的粒子加速与传播，等离子体动理论，以及太阳射电与 X 射线天文。
• Baojiu Li of the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University handles computational cosmology, large-scale structure, dark energy, modified gravity and numerical relativity.Durham University 计算宇宙学研究所的 Baojiu Li 负责计算宇宙学，大尺度结构，暗能量，修改引力与数值相对论。
• Hsi-An Pan of Tamkang University in Taiwan handles extragalactic astronomy and star formation.台湾淡江大学（Tamkang University）的 Hsi-An Pan 负责河外天文与恒星形成。
• Simon Portegies Zwart of Leiden University covers computational astrophysics, stellar dynamics, planetary systems, machine learning and high performance computing.Leiden University 的 Simon Portegies Zwart 负责计算天体物理，恒星动力学，行星系统，机器学习与高性能计算。
• Shengbang Qian of the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences looks after close binaries and pulsating variables, cataclysmic variables, stellar activity, and planets and black holes inside stellar systems.中国科学院云南天文台的 Shengbang Qian 负责密近双星与脉动变星，激变变星，恒星活动，以及恒星系统中的行星与黑洞。
• Eight scientists form the scientific advisory board, drawn from the University of Rochester, UNAM in Mexico, Peking University, Texas Tech University, Johns Hopkins University, the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences in Santiago and the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.科学顾问委员会由 8 位学者组成，分别来自 University of Rochester，UNAM，Peking University，Texas Tech University，Johns Hopkins University，Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands，Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences 与 Bauman Moscow State Technical University。
• Counting the editor-in-chief, the receiving editors and the advisers, the board page lists 20 people from 12 countries and regions, with five in the United States, three in Britain, two in China and two in India.把主编，收稿编辑与顾问一并计入，编委页列出 20 人，来自 12 个国家或地区，其中美国 5 人，英国 3 人，中国 2 人，印度 2 人。
• Review is single anonymized, the editor first decides whether a paper is suitable, and a manuscript that clears that check is normally sent to at least one independent reviewer.评审为单盲，编辑先判断稿件是否合适，通过这一关的稿件通常至少送一位独立审稿人。
• An appeal is heard once per submission and its outcome is final, so a rejected paper argued back into review gets one further hearing and no further recourse.每篇投稿只受理一次申诉，申诉结果即为终局，被拒的稿件即便申诉成功重回评审，也只有这一次机会。
• Source files must arrive as editable Word or LaTeX, a PDF is not accepted in their place, a Word manuscript is set in a single column, and tables have to be supplied as live text rather than as pictures.源文件须为可编辑的 Word 或 LaTeX，PDF 不能顶替源文件使用，Word 稿件按单栏排版，表格要以可编辑文本提交，不能做成图片。
• An abstract may not exceed 250 words and must stand on its own, keywords run from one to seven, and three to five highlights of no more than 85 characters each are compulsory, sent in a file of their own.摘要不超过 250 词且须能独立阅读，关键词为 1 至 7 个，另须提交 3 至 5 条 Highlights，每条不超过 85 个字符，单独成文件。
• Only one corresponding author is recognised, and any use of generative AI tools in preparing the manuscript has to be declared at submission.该刊只认一位通讯作者，文稿准备过程中若用过生成式 AI 工具，投稿时须予声明。