Journal rankings · indicator year 2001
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Subfield ranking · 2001
Geophysics journal rankings 2001
100 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Geophysics has 100 ranked journals in 2001. The median journal has an OJR of 0.70, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2000; Q1 starts at OJR 1.40. The top three are American Journal of Science, Earth-Science Reviews, and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
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 of Earth and Planetary Sciences (8)
100 ranked journals
Filters
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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1American Journal of ScienceYale University · United States | 3.43Q1 | 3.61 1.24 up from 2000 | 79 | 47% | — | ||
2Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.33Q1 | 2.98 0.98 up from 2000 | 75 | 4% | $5,120 | ||
3Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.62Q1 | 2.59 0.02 up from 2000 | 959 | 3% | $4,090 | ||
4Chemical GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.44Q1 | 2.52 0.55 up from 2000 | 552 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
5Geochemistry Geophysics GeosystemsOAWiley · United States | 2.40Q1 | 2.27 0.77 up from 2000 | 67 | 45% | $3,000 | ||
6GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 2.38Q1 | 2.01 0.68 down from 2000 | 1,191 | 5% | — | ||
7Contributions to Mineralogy and PetrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.18Q1 | 2.10 0.22 down from 2000 | 316 | 4% | $3,990 | ||
8TectonicsWiley · United States | 2.18Q1 | 2.64 0.22 up from 2000 | 202 | 57% | $4,070 | ||
9Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.11Q1 | 2.69 0.56 down from 2000 | 918 | 5% | $4,670 | ||
10Geological Society of America BulletinGeological Society of America · United States | 1.98Q1 | 1.63 0.63 down from 2000 | 460 | 3% | — | ||
11Journal of Metamorphic GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 1.79 0.05 down from 2000 | 156 | 16% | $5,000 | ||
12Bulletin of the Seismological Society of AmericaSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.88Q1 | 1.43 0.72 down from 2000 | 403 | 2% | — | ||
13LithosElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.83Q1 | 2.10 0.31 down from 2000 | 197 | 8% | $3,350 | ||
14The Journal of GeologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.63Q1 | 1.61 0.14 down from 2000 | 156 | 7% | — | ||
15Precambrian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.63Q1 | 2.25 0.04 down from 2000 | 250 | 2% | $3,600 | ||
16Journal of the Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 1.80 0.33 down from 2000 | 336 | 12% | — | ||
17Ore Geology ReviewsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.58Q1 | 0.54 2.22 down from 2000 | 67 | 5% | $3,310 | ||
18Basin ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 0.94 0.46 down from 2000 | 91 | 7% | $4,310 | ||
19American MineralogistMineralogical Society of America · United States | 1.52Q1 | 1.64 0.33 down from 2000 | 630 | 2% | $100 | ||
20Bulletin of VolcanologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.51Q1 | 1.41 0.18 down from 2000 | 153 | 8% | $4,090 | ||
21Journal of PetrologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 2.12 0.07 up from 2000 | 433 | 36% | $4,353 | ||
22Petroleum GeoscienceZoological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 0.99 0.28 up from 2000 | 117 | 0% | — | ||
23Physics and Chemistry of MineralsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.45Q1 | 1.37 0.21 down from 2000 | 233 | 3% | $3,490 | ||
24International Journal of Earth SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.42Q1 | 1.19 0.43 up from 2000 | 134 | 13% | $3,890 | ||
25Journal of Structural GeologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 1.56 0.04 down from 2000 | 415 | 3% | $3,380 | ||
26Geological MagazineCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.31Q2 | 1.21 0.32 down from 2000 | 153 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
27TectonophysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.20Q2 | 1.37 0.21 down from 2000 | 891 | 1% | $3,190 | ||
28Geophysical Journal InternationalOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.17Q2 | 1.66 0.17 down from 2000 | 777 | 65% | $3,416 | ||
29Australian Journal of Earth SciencesTaylor & Francis · Australia | 1.12Q2 | 1.23 0.36 down from 2000 | 244 | 9% | — | ||
30Terra NovaWiley · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 0.89 0.31 down from 2000 | 164 | 15% | $3,720 | ||
31Economic GeologyUnited States | 1.09Q2 | 1.00 0.70 down from 2000 | 383 | 7% | — | ||
32Computers & GeosciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 0.77 0.04 up from 2000 | 335 | 5% | $4,010 | ||
33Geological Society London Special PublicationsGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 0.80 0.08 down from 2000 | 1,178 | 3% | — | ||
34Journal of GeodynamicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 1.41 0.74 up from 2000 | 185 | 0% | $3,470 | ||
35European Journal of MineralogyOAElsevier BV · Germany | 1.01Q2 | 0.90 0.38 down from 2000 | 331 | 8% | $1,024 | ||
36GeophysicsSociety of Exploration Geophysicists · United States | 1.00Q2 | 1.14 0.20 down from 2000 | 615 | 5% | — | ||
37Pure and Applied GeophysicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 0.95Q2 | 0.89 0.06 up from 2000 | 320 | 2% | $3,790 | ||
38Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.95Q2 | 0.93 0.18 down from 2000 | 458 | 6% | $3,420 | ||
39Mineralium DepositaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.92Q2 | 0.98 0.40 down from 2000 | 153 | 15% | $3,890 | ||
40Annual Review of Earth and Planetary SciencesAnnual Reviews · United States | 0.90Q2 | 4.11 1.33 down from 2000 | 57 | 14% | — | ||
41Canadian Journal of Earth SciencesNRC Research Press · Canada | 0.89Q2 | 1.08 0.06 down from 2000 | 348 | 1% | — | ||
42Physics of The Earth and Planetary InteriorsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.87Q2 | 1.37 0.38 down from 2000 | 377 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
43International Geology ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.85Q2 | 0.75 0.34 down from 2000 | 190 | 11% | — | ||
44Seismological Research LettersSeismological Society of America · United States | 0.84Q2 | 0.55 0.05 up from 2000 | 315 | 2% | — | ||
45Journal of Asian Earth SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.80Q2 | 0.92 0.23 up from 2000 | 158 | 4% | $3,330 | ||
46Surveys in GeophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.76Q2 | 0.45 0.66 down from 2000 | 69 | 0% | $4,290 | ||
47Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic SciencesOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 0.74Q2 | 0.68 0.31 up from 2000 | 142 | 100% | $2,090 | ||
48Marine Geophysical ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.73Q2 | 0.62 0.01 up from 2000 | 62 | 4% | $3,590 | ||
49Journal of Applied GeophysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.73Q2 | 0.73 0.04 up from 2000 | 156 | 0% | $3,180 | ||
50GFFTaylor & Francis · Sweden | 0.70Q2 | 0.58 0.23 down from 2000 | 213 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Geophysics highlighted.
- 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.
36 additional Geophysics 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
- 100
- Window papers (baseline)
- 24,527 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Median OJR
- 0.698 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 96 | 100 | 104 | 106 | 110 | 110 | 112 | 115 | 124 | 125 | 132 | 132 | 137 | 135 | 138 | 142 | 143 | 147 | 143 | 147 | 144 | 144 | 143 | 145 | 144 | 144 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 22,195 | 24,527 | 25,899 | 27,552 | 29,389 | 30,972 | 32,060 | 33,149 | 34,149 | 36,589 | 37,411 | 39,777 | 41,391 | 44,251 | 47,185 | 51,168 | 52,798 | 54,046 | 54,830 | 55,678 | 56,225 | 55,555 | 55,836 | 55,115 | 54,102 | 52,558 | |
| Median OJR | 0.696 | 0.698 | 0.800 | 0.89 | 0.815 | 0.803 | 0.853 | 0.824 | 0.76 | 0.8290 | 0.81 | 0.882 | 0.8469 | 0.93 | 0.91 | 0.879 | 0.90 | 0.84 | 0.8292 | 0.79 | 0.77 | 0.8472 | 0.72 | 0.73 | 0.750 | 0.749 |
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.