Space Science and Technology-Kosmicna Nauka i Tehnologia

Space Science and Technology-Kosmicna Nauka i Tehnologia is published by Publishing House Akademperiodyka and is in Zone 4 of Physics & Astronomy in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, Earthquake Detection and Analysis and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics, together about 25.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Astronomy and Astrophysics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Journal was established in 1995 by the Resolution № 307 of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on December 28, 1994. State registration certificate of print media: KV 23700-13540PR on 21.11.2018. The Journal is intended for professionals in space science and technology, to those who uses space technologies for various applications, as well as for the foreign readers who want to get acquainted with the achievements of space-rocketindustry and space science of Ukraine. The Journal became a worthy successor of the previous specialized journals, which were established by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, such as the "Space Research in Ukraine" (1973-1984) and the "Space Science and Technique" (1986-1992). In the course of twenty-six years of activity, the “Space Science and Technology” journal has gained wide recognition in Ukraine and abroad as well as has significantly provided space research in Ukraine. Thanks to the efforts of the Editorial Board and Editorial Office, the 28 volumes (namely 139 issues and 19 supplements) had been published by the end of December 2022. These issues contain more than 2080 articles, where 30 % of them were prepared with the participation of foreign authors. The summary is given in the paper “Space Science and Technology” journal: Statistics and Scientometrics for 1995–2020" by Vavilova I.B., Zievako V.S., Pakuliak L.K., Potapovych L.P. Space Sci. & Technol. 2020, 26(6):094-103. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/knit2020.06.094 Thematics: space-rocket vehicles, spacecrafts design and manufacture scientific payload of spacecrafts control systems, dynamics, and energetics of space vehicles and spacecrafts study of the Earth from space space physics and astronomy space biology and medicine, space material science space communications, navigation, and information systems organizational, legal, and philosophical aspects of space research history of space research The Ukrainian Branch of the International Academy of Astronautics has been participating in the preparation of the Journal's archive digitization since 2015. Editor-in-chief: Yaroslav YatskivEditorial Board Executive Secretary: Iryna Vavilova Executive Editorial Office Secretary: Olga Klymenko Address: Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 27 Akademik Zabolotny St., off. 201, Kyiv, Ukraine 03143 E-mail: reda@mao.kiev.ua Теl.: +380-44-526-47-63 Fax: +380-44-526-21-47

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Editor-in-chief YATSKIV YaroslavPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Ukraine 24, United States 1, Netherlands 1, Poland 1, Belgium 1 (28 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

0.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.19LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.52LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

16OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

34OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.51OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

25%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

47LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Publishing House Akademperiodyka

ISSN

1561-8889

Electronic ISSN

2518-1459

Official links

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