Journal rankings · indicator year 2001
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Field ranking · 2001
Earth and Planetary Sciences journal rankings 2001
281 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Earth and Planetary Sciences has 281 ranked journals in 2001. The median journal has an OJR of 0.73, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2000; Q1 starts at OJR 1.31. The top three are Radiocarbon, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, and American Journal of Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2001. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1998–2000, the window the 2001 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields in Earth and Planetary Sciences (8)
Up to Physical Sciences281 ranked journals
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2000. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1998–2000, the window the 2001 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1998–2000 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2001. | Compare |
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1RadiocarbonCambridge University Press · United States | 4.63Q1 | 0.98 3.44 down from 2000 | 102 | 98% | $2,487 | ||
2Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 4.35Q1 | 4.34 0.48 up from 2000 | 226 | 60% | $4,070 | ||
3American Journal of ScienceYale University · United States | 3.43Q1 | 3.61 1.24 up from 2000 | 79 | 47% | — | ||
4Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.33Q1 | 2.98 0.98 up from 2000 | 75 | 4% | $5,120 | ||
5Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 3.29Q1 | 3.20 0.20 up from 2000 | 658 | 56% | $3,530 | ||
6Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research PapersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.11Q1 | 3.29 0.88 up from 2000 | 288 | 4% | $3,270 | ||
7Journal of HydrometeorologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.99Q1 | 2.22no 2000 value | 36 | 40% | — | — | |
8PaleoceanographyAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.97Q1 | 3.47 0.85 down from 2000 | 197 | 55% | — | ||
9Quaternary Science ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 3.21 0.09 up from 2000 | 287 | 3% | $3,920 | ||
10Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.76Q1 | 2.29 0.56 up from 2000 | 116 | 6% | $3,720 | ||
11Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.62Q1 | 2.59 0.02 up from 2000 | 959 | 3% | $4,090 | ||
12Chemical GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.44Q1 | 2.52 0.55 up from 2000 | 552 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
13Geochemistry Geophysics GeosystemsOAWiley · United States | 2.40Q1 | 2.27 0.77 up from 2000 | 67 | 45% | $3,000 | ||
14Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 2.77 0.35 up from 2000 | 364 | 6% | $3,760 | ||
15GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 2.38Q1 | 2.01 0.68 down from 2000 | 1,191 | 5% | — | ||
16PaleobiologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 2.47 0.45 up from 2000 | 174 | 9% | $3,550 | ||
17Tellus BOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 2.23 0.37 down from 2000 | 339 | 53% | $1,410 | ||
18Marine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.18Q1 | 2.12 0.21 up from 2000 | 289 | 7% | $3,280 | ||
19Contributions to Mineralogy and PetrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.18Q1 | 2.10 0.22 down from 2000 | 316 | 4% | $3,990 | ||
20TectonicsWiley · United States | 2.18Q1 | 2.64 0.22 up from 2000 | 202 | 57% | $4,070 | ||
21Journal of Archaeological ResearchSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 2.17Q1 | 1.24 0.68 up from 2000 | 41 | 0% | $3,190 | ||
22Journal of Anthropological ArchaeologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.13Q1 | 1.12 0.09 up from 2000 | 47 | 10% | $3,370 | ||
23Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.11Q1 | 2.69 0.56 down from 2000 | 918 | 5% | $4,670 | ||
24Quaternary ResearchCambridge University Press · United States | 2.02Q1 | 2.47 0.12 up from 2000 | 240 | 8% | $3,550 | ||
25Geological Society of America BulletinGeological Society of America · United States | 1.98Q1 | 1.63 0.63 down from 2000 | 460 | 3% | — | ||
26Journal of Atmospheric ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.95Q1 | 2.81 0.54 up from 2000 | 167 | 2% | $4,090 | ||
27Journal of Metamorphic GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 1.79 0.05 down from 2000 | 156 | 16% | $5,000 | ||
28Journal of Physical OceanographyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.91Q1 | 2.42 0.26 up from 2000 | 553 | 37% | — | ||
29Marine GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.89Q1 | 2.04 0.07 up from 2000 | 457 | 3% | $3,770 | ||
30The HoloceneSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 2.31 0.41 down from 2000 | 210 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
31Bulletin of the Seismological Society of AmericaSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.88Q1 | 1.43 0.72 down from 2000 | 403 | 2% | — | ||
32EstuariesSpringer Nature · United States | 1.87Q1 | 1.84 0.35 up from 2000 | 251 | 3% | — | ||
33GeomorphologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 1.87 0.49 up from 2000 | 314 | 4% | $3,400 | ||
34LithosElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.83Q1 | 2.10 0.31 down from 2000 | 197 | 8% | $3,350 | ||
35Aerosol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.82Q1 | 1.34 0.06 down from 2000 | 240 | 65% | — | ||
36Applied GeochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 1.43 0.30 up from 2000 | 264 | 1% | $3,490 | ||
37SedimentologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 1.62 0.19 down from 2000 | 207 | 7% | $4,250 | ||
38Atmospheric EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 2.37 0.32 up from 2000 | 1,402 | 6% | $2,910 | ||
39Journal of Marine ResearchYale University · United States | 1.73Q1 | 1.56 0.23 up from 2000 | 119 | 20% | — | ||
40PalaiosSociety for Sedimentary Geology · United States | 1.72Q1 | 1.40 0.52 down from 2000 | 265 | 2% | — | ||
41ATMOSPHERE-OCEANTaylor & Francis · Canada | 1.70Q1 | 1.93 0.29 up from 2000 | 58 | 94% | — | ||
42Journal of the Atmospheric SciencesAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.70Q1 | 2.13 0.20 down from 2000 | 749 | 40% | — | ||
43Journal of Mammalian EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.68Q1 | 1.54 0.41 up from 2000 | 52 | 0% | $3,790 | ||
44Journal of Geophysical Research AtmospheresAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 1.66Q1 | 2.91 0.05 up from 2000 | 6,669 | 55% | $4,070 | ||
45The Journal of GeologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.63Q1 | 1.61 0.14 down from 2000 | 156 | 7% | — | ||
46Precambrian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.63Q1 | 2.25 0.04 down from 2000 | 250 | 2% | $3,600 | ||
47Journal of the Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 1.80 0.33 down from 2000 | 336 | 12% | — | ||
48Ore Geology ReviewsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.58Q1 | 0.54 2.22 down from 2000 | 67 | 5% | $3,310 | ||
49Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and EcologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.55Q1 | 1.53 0.05 up from 2000 | 625 | 3% | $3,270 | ||
50Basin ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 0.94 0.46 down from 2000 | 91 | 7% | $4,310 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, compared.
- Geophysics100
- Atmospheric Science60
- Paleontology53
- Oceanography45
- Earth-Surface Processes12
- Geochemistry and Petrology6
- Geology4
- Space and Planetary Science1
Journals
Citations made in 2001. Corpus-wide, 67.0% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
98 additional Earth and Planetary Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1998–2000, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2001. Publication window: 1998–2000. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 281
- Window papers (baseline)
- 106,376 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Median OJR
- 0.7268 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Rising journals (2025)
- 21Comparison-group list (21)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1998–2000 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 270 | 281 | 291 | 298 | 305 | 299 | 308 | 317 | 333 | 343 | 351 | 360 | 378 | 379 | 385 | 393 | 397 | 405 | 407 | 407 | 401 | 402 | 399 | 396 | 387 | 389 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 86,544 | 106,376 | 113,390 | 121,646 | 119,357 | 125,918 | 131,590 | 136,840 | 146,161 | 158,715 | 166,804 | 176,714 | 184,763 | 195,134 | 205,950 | 215,905 | 220,606 | 223,475 | 225,631 | 228,538 | 230,307 | 230,384 | 231,269 | 228,284 | 225,159 | 224,825 | |
| Median OJR | 0.7272 | 0.7268 | 0.8021 | 0.883 | 0.8018 | 0.8633 | 0.8763 | 0.87 | 0.882 | 0.8625 | 0.926 | 0.91 | 0.90 | 0.958 | 0.928 | 0.97 | 0.960 | 0.877 | 0.884 | 0.85 | 0.8764 | 0.84 | 0.77 | 0.750 | 0.745 | 0.76 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 6.5% | 303 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.384 per 1,000 | 282 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -8.8% | 362 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 62.6% | 389 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,200 | 236 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 37.4% | 369 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 389 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.76 | 387 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 32.1% | 389 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 41.4% | 389 journals |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.