Journal rankings · indicator year 2001
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Subfield ranking · 2001
Paleontology journal rankings 2001
53 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Paleontology has 53 ranked journals in 2001. The median OJR fell 0.14 on 2000 to 0.61, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.95. The top three are Radiocarbon, Paleobiology, and Journal of Archaeological Research.
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)
53 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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1RadiocarbonCambridge University Press · United States | 4.63Q1 | 0.98 3.44 down from 2000 | 102 | 98% | $2,487 | ||
2PaleobiologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 2.47 0.45 up from 2000 | 174 | 9% | $3,550 | ||
3Journal of Archaeological ResearchSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 2.17Q1 | 1.24 0.68 up from 2000 | 41 | 0% | $3,190 | ||
4Journal of Anthropological ArchaeologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.13Q1 | 1.12 0.09 up from 2000 | 47 | 10% | $3,370 | ||
5PalaiosSociety for Sedimentary Geology · United States | 1.72Q1 | 1.40 0.52 down from 2000 | 265 | 2% | — | ||
6Journal of Mammalian EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.68Q1 | 1.54 0.41 up from 2000 | 52 | 0% | $3,790 | ||
7AntiquityCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 0.60 0.07 down from 2000 | 507 | 11% | $3,550 | ||
8Cambridge Archaeological JournalCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 0.56 0.05 up from 2000 | 83 | 6% | $3,550 | ||
9American AntiquityCambridge University Press · United States | 1.25Q1 | 1.02 0.17 up from 2000 | 213 | 9% | $3,550 | ||
10Journal of Vertebrate PaleontologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.08Q1 | 1.32 0.40 up from 2000 | 249 | 3% | — | ||
11Journal of Field ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.07Q1 | 0.60 0.01 down from 2000 | 229 | 2% | — | ||
12LethaiaOAWiley · Norway | 1.02Q1 | 0.93 0.03 up from 2000 | 112 | 0% | $3,300 | ||
13Acta Palaeontologica PolonicaOAInstitute of Paleobiology · Poland | 1.00Q1 | 1.24 0.57 up from 2000 | 44 | 100% | $23 | ||
14PalaeontologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.95Q1 | 0.88 0.20 down from 2000 | 105 | 52% | $5,000 | ||
15European Journal of ArchaeologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 0.24 0.11 down from 2000 | 179 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
16Proceedings of the Prehistoric SocietyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.91Q2 | 0.38 0.14 down from 2000 | 56 | 27% | $3,550 | ||
17Latin American AntiquityCambridge University Press · United States | 0.91Q2 | 0.47 0.18 up from 2000 | 146 | 12% | $3,550 | ||
18Journal of AnatomyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 1.62 0.14 up from 2000 | 332 | 22% | $4,050 | ||
19Norwegian Archaeological ReviewRoutledge · Norway | 0.81Q2 | 0.46 0.17 up from 2000 | 37 | 14% | — | ||
20FaciesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.78Q2 | 0.83 0.20 down from 2000 | 70 | 24% | $2,490 | ||
21Vegetation History and ArchaeobotanySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.78Q2 | 0.66 0.63 down from 2000 | 66 | 5% | $3,790 | ||
22Zoological Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.74Q2 | 0.66 0.08 down from 2000 | 282 | 21% | $3,541 | ||
23Cretaceous ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.71Q2 | 0.93 0.32 up from 2000 | 131 | 7% | $3,560 | ||
24Environmental ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 0.24 0.15 down from 2000 | 104 | 0% | — | ||
25Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 0.68Q2 | 0.58 0.17 down from 2000 | 39 | 0% | — | ||
26GeodiversitasOAMuséum national d'histoire naturelle · France | 0.62Q2 | 0.62 0.34 up from 2000 | 39 | 0% | — | ||
27Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of EdinburghCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.61Q2 | 0.29 0.43 down from 2000 | 100 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
28Journal of PaleontologyCambridge University Press · United States | 0.57Q3 | 0.71 0.03 down from 2000 | 498 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
29GeobiosElsevier BV · France | 0.55Q3 | 0.60 0.08 down from 2000 | 247 | 1% | $3,030 | ||
30Proceedings of the Geologists AssociationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 0.57 0.10 down from 2000 | 101 | 2% | $3,300 | ||
31Journal of MorphologyWiley · United States | 0.54Q3 | 0.72 0.04 down from 2000 | 333 | 6% | $4,220 | ||
| 0.50Q3 | 0.61 0.27 up from 2000 | 63 | 14% | — | |||
33Palaeontologia ElectronicaOAUnited States | 0.50Q3 | 0.44 0.20 down from 2000 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
34Ichnos/Ichnos : an international journal for plant and animal tracesTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.48Q3 | 0.34 0.24 down from 2000 | 59 | 0% | — | ||
35Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of PalaeontologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.47Q3 | 0.40 0.49 down from 2000 | 66 | 11% | — | ||
36The Paleontological Society PapersCambridge University Press · United States | 0.47Q3 | 0.11 0.20 down from 2000 | 50 | 11% | — | ||
37Paläontologische ZeitschriftSpringer Nature · Germany | 0.46Q3 | 0.38 0.08 down from 2000 | 95 | 9% | $3,190 | ||
38Historical BiologyTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.45Q3 | 0.34 0.60 down from 2000 | 43 | 4% | — | ||
39Scottish Journal of GeologyZoological Society of London · United Kingdom | 0.42Q3 | 0.36 0.73 down from 2000 | 58 | 0% | — | ||
40Ancient MesoamericaCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.40Q3 | 0.21 0.22 down from 2000 | 67 | 12% | $3,550 | ||
41Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - AbhandlungenE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 0.38Q4 | 0.36 0.06 up from 2000 | 217 | 0% | — | ||
42Senckenbergiana lethaeaSpringer Nature · Germany | 0.38Q4 | 0.22 0.38 down from 2000 | 125 | 4% | — | ||
43Paleontological ResearchJapan | 0.38Q4 | 0.53 0.18 up from 2000 | 84 | 96% | — | ||
44Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en MijnbouwCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.36Q4 | 0.34 0.07 up from 2000 | 117 | 98% | $1,725 | ||
45American Museum NovitatesAmerican Museum of Natural History · United States | 0.27Q4 | 0.30 0.12 up from 2000 | 115 | 63% | — | ||
46Annales de PaléontologieElsevier BV · France | 0.23Q4 | 0.22 0.19 down from 2000 | 39 | 0% | $2,800 | ||
47Revue de MicropaléontologieElsevier BV · France | 0.20Q4 | 0.19 0.11 down from 2000 | 64 | 0% | $2,470 | ||
48Journal of Nannoplankton ResearchPublisher not listed | 0.16Q4 | 0.06 0.19 down from 2000 | 31 | 0% | — | ||
49Fossil recordOAWiley · Germany | 0.14Q4 | 0.71 0.41 up from 2000 | 75 | 100% | $1,240 | ||
50Geology TodayWiley · United Kingdom | 0.13Q4 | 0.07 0.01 down from 2000 | 217 | 2% | $1,100 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Paleontology 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.
19 additional Paleontology 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
- 53
- Window papers (baseline)
- 7,924 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Median OJR
- 0.61 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 | 53 | 53 | 54 | 53 | 53 | 51 | 53 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 66 | 66 | 69 | 71 | 71 | 70 | 73 | 76 | 77 | 76 | 78 | 78 | 77 | 73 | 77 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,057 | 7,924 | 8,570 | 9,199 | 9,500 | 9,801 | 10,405 | 10,925 | 11,640 | 12,204 | 12,986 | 13,788 | 14,602 | 15,085 | 15,876 | 16,591 | 17,958 | 18,584 | 19,596 | 19,477 | 19,946 | 19,760 | 20,309 | 19,925 | 19,964 | 19,466 | |
| Median OJR | 0.75 | 0.61 | 0.619 | 0.63 | 0.620 | 0.708 | 0.660 | 0.65 | 0.69 | 0.715 | 0.7325 | 0.735 | 0.80 | 0.81 | 0.829 | 0.90 | 0.93 | 0.87 | 0.79 | 0.832 | 0.831 | 0.78 | 0.7318 | 0.68 | 0.657 | 0.64 |
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.