Category: Latest News

20 August 2025
Assigning DOIs to data published in the journals

Starting in 2025, we are further enhancing the digital data published in the AAS Journals by giving each contributed dataset or online-only figure a unique digital object identifier (DOI).    Improving data publication in the journals  For over twenty-five years,…

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5 August 2025
AAS Publication Support Fund Process Change

In response to feedback from authors, AAS journals will now adjudicate requests for publication support when a manuscript is submitted, rather than waiting until a manuscript is accepted as was done previously. Under the new processing workflow, the Editor in…

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30 July 2025
Editorial on New Authorship Contribution Section

In this editorial published in the Bulletin of the AAS, AAS Journals Editor in Chief Ethan Vishniac describes the role of the new Authorship Contribution Section in AAS journal articles.

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30 June 2025
AAS Journals Again Receive Strong Impact Factors

The American Astronomical Society’s peer-reviewed journals remain among the highest-ranked publications in the astronomical sciences according to several key metrics, including impact factor.

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28 May 2025
Updates to Manuscript Status Access for Authors

Starting 28 May 2025, all contributing authors on submitted AAS journal manuscripts will have the ability to check on the status of the manuscript within the submission portal.

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15 April 2025
Research Notes of the AAS Celebrates Its 2,000th Publication

Since 2017, RNAAS has provided a venue for brief research reports, student work, null results, and more. Editor Chris Lintott shares his reflections on a recent RNAAS milestone: 2,000 Notes.

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4 March 2025
Introducing AASTeX v7.0

AAS publishing is proud to announce the latest release of our popular AASTeX package! Learn more about the new features in AASTeX v7.0 and download the package here.

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14 January 2025
Author Contribution Statements

With the release of AASTeX v7.0, AAS Journals authors now have the ability to include Author Contribution statements in their manuscripts.

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16 September 2024
A Few Updates to AAS Journal Style

The Journals staff has been hard at work on a complete revamping of the AASTeX code. In tandem with this, the Publications Committee has identified a few key spots in AAS journal style where improvements could be made to better…

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10 September 2024
Welcome to Kerry Kroffe, AAS Director of Scholarly Publishing

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) is pleased to announce that Kerry Kroffe is serving as the Director of Scholarly Publishing for the organization as of 9 September, 2024, following the recent retirement of AAS Chief Publishing Officer Julie Steffen.

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