Mapping of Astronomy and Astrophysics Publications: A Scientometric Study

This paper discusses about the Astronomy and Astrophysics publications and its citation available in the Scimago Journal and Country Rank data base by the authors from top 15 countries  (based on publications). The relevant data are collected from Scimago Journal and Country Rank  data base and it was analyzed. It shows among the Astronomy and Astrophysics publications totally 379440 articles were published maximum of 105940  (27.92%) articles published by United States and followed by Germany with 41152  (10.85%) publications during the study period.