Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The first issue of MNRAS was published on 9 February 1827 as Monthly Notices of the Astronomical Society of London and it has been in continuous publication ever since. It took its current name from the second volume, after the Astronomical Society of London became the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). Until 1960 it carried the monthly notices of the RAS, at which time these were transferred to the newly established Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1960–1996) and then to its successor journal Astronomy & Geophysics (since 1997). Until 1965, MNRAS was published in-house by the society; from 1965 to 2012 it was published by Blackwell Publishing (later part of Wiley-Blackwell) on behalf of the RAS. From 2013, MNRAS is published by Oxford University Press (OUP). ==Content==

MNRAS publishes peer-reviewed articles on original research in astronomy and astrophysics. Two sorts of article are carried by MNRAS: papers, which can be of any length, and letters, which are published more quickly but are limited to five pages in length. Editorial control of the journal is exercised by the RAS through an editorial board of professional astronomers; , the editor-in-chief has been David Flower (University of Durham). In 2022 MNRAS published 3441 articles, more than any other astronomy journal. ==Open access==

In January 2024 MNRAS became a gold open access journal, making all articles free to read online as soon as they are published, under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence. There are no subscription fees for readers, instead the costs of publication are met by an article processing charge (APC) on the authors. , the APCs are £2310 for a standard article and £1100 for a letter; RAS Fellows receive a 20% discount on these fees. In many cases the APCs are paid for by a read and publish agreement between the author's institution and OUP, and authors based in developing countries are entitled to an APC waiver. If an author is not from a developing country but is unable to pay the APC, MNRAS provides partial or full waivers on a case-by-case basis. == Editors-in-chief ==

The following persons have served as Editor-in-Chief (formerly titled Managing Editor or simply Editor): • David Flower (2012–present)–?)–1979) • Richard Proctor (1872–1874) • Arthur Cayley (1860–1872) • Robert Grant (?–1881) • Richard Sheepshanks == Abstracting and indexing ==

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 4.8. ==See also==