Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Field ranking · 2002
Earth and Planetary Sciences journal rankings 2002
291 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Earth and Planetary Sciences has 291 ranked journals in 2002. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2001 to 0.80, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.37. The top three are Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Earth-Science Reviews, and American Journal of Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2002. 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 1999–2001, the window the 2002 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 Sciences291 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 2001. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1999–2001 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 2002. | Compare |
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1Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 3.96Q1 | 4.62 0.28 up from 2001 | 250 | 62% | $4,070 | ||
2Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.59Q1 | 3.58 0.60 up from 2001 | 101 | 0% | $5,120 | ||
3American Journal of ScienceYale University · United States | 3.58Q1 | 3.74 0.13 up from 2001 | 87 | 81% | — | ||
4Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural HistoryAmerican Museum of Natural History · United States | 3.56Q1 | 3.10 0.84 down from 2001 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
5Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 3.46Q1 | 3.46 0.26 up from 2001 | 665 | 54% | $3,530 | ||
6Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research PapersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.42Q1 | 3.48 0.19 up from 2001 | 308 | 6% | $3,270 | ||
7Journal of Archaeological ResearchSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 3.37Q1 | 1.57 0.33 up from 2001 | 32 | 13% | $3,190 | ||
8Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.37Q1 | 3.04 0.76 up from 2001 | 177 | 3% | $3,720 | ||
9PaleoceanographyAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 3.21Q1 | 4.33 0.86 up from 2001 | 193 | 60% | — | ||
10Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 3.19 0.42 up from 2001 | 468 | 9% | $3,760 | ||
11Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 2.89 0.30 up from 2001 | 971 | 5% | $4,090 | ||
12Tellus BOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.72Q1 | 3.33 1.10 up from 2001 | 366 | 75% | $1,410 | ||
13TectonicsWiley · United States | 2.63Q1 | 3.47 0.83 up from 2001 | 196 | 54% | $4,070 | ||
14Chemical GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.61Q1 | 2.59 0.07 up from 2001 | 586 | 6% | $3,550 | ||
15Quaternary Science ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.56Q1 | 3.32 0.11 up from 2001 | 393 | 5% | $3,920 | ||
16Geochemistry Geophysics GeosystemsOAWiley · United States | 2.56Q1 | 3.06 0.79 up from 2001 | 137 | 50% | $3,000 | ||
17Marine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 2.41 0.29 up from 2001 | 284 | 3% | $3,280 | ||
18SedimentologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.48Q1 | 2.42 0.80 up from 2001 | 220 | 11% | $4,250 | ||
19Journal of Atmospheric ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.47Q1 | 2.72 0.09 down from 2001 | 157 | 2% | $4,090 | ||
20Journal of HydrometeorologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.30Q1 | 2.43 0.21 up from 2001 | 74 | 38% | — | ||
21GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 2.29Q1 | 2.29 0.28 up from 2001 | 1,195 | 4% | — | ||
22LithosElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.29Q1 | 2.39 0.28 up from 2001 | 205 | 2% | $3,350 | ||
23Atmospheric EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 3.02 0.65 up from 2001 | 1,572 | 5% | $2,910 | ||
24GeomorphologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.27Q1 | 2.42 0.55 up from 2001 | 327 | 5% | $3,400 | ||
25Basin ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 2.15 1.21 up from 2001 | 89 | 3% | $4,310 | ||
26Marine GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.20Q1 | 2.40 0.36 up from 2001 | 483 | 2% | $3,770 | ||
27Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.19Q1 | 3.08 0.39 up from 2001 | 998 | 4% | $4,670 | ||
28Journal of Anthropological ArchaeologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.16Q1 | 1.59 0.47 up from 2001 | 49 | 0% | $3,370 | ||
29Contributions to Mineralogy and PetrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.12Q1 | 2.31 0.20 up from 2001 | 318 | 10% | $3,990 | ||
30PaleobiologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 2.10 0.37 down from 2001 | 202 | 9% | $3,550 | ||
31Applied GeochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 1.69 0.26 up from 2001 | 319 | 4% | $3,490 | ||
32Quaternary ResearchCambridge University Press · United States | 2.06Q1 | 2.42 0.05 down from 2001 | 257 | 14% | $3,550 | ||
33The Journal of GeologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.91Q1 | 1.98 0.37 up from 2001 | 151 | 8% | — | ||
34Geological Society of America BulletinGeological Society of America · United States | 1.91Q1 | 1.81 0.18 up from 2001 | 475 | 2% | — | ||
35ATMOSPHERE-OCEANTaylor & Francis · Canada | 1.91Q1 | 2.28 0.35 up from 2001 | 71 | 100% | — | ||
36Precambrian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.90Q1 | 2.40 0.16 up from 2001 | 292 | 1% | $3,600 | ||
37Cambridge Archaeological JournalCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 1.43 0.87 up from 2001 | 67 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
38Aerosol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.88Q1 | 1.65 0.31 up from 2001 | 319 | 88% | — | ||
39Journal of the Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 2.37 0.56 up from 2001 | 336 | 10% | — | ||
40Journal of Marine ResearchYale University · United States | 1.85Q1 | 1.99 0.43 up from 2001 | 113 | 11% | — | ||
41Bulletin of the Seismological Society of AmericaSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.84Q1 | 2.42 0.99 up from 2001 | 393 | 2% | — | ||
41Journal of PetrologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 2.83 0.71 up from 2001 | 347 | 30% | $4,353 | ||
43The HoloceneSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 2.32 0.01 up from 2001 | 216 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
44Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and EcologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.83Q1 | 2.13 0.60 up from 2001 | 572 | 2% | $3,270 | ||
45Ocean ModellingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 2.48 1.48 up from 2001 | 31 | 3% | $3,140 | ||
46Journal of Geophysical Research AtmospheresAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 1.76Q1 | 2.93 0.01 up from 2001 | 6,747 | 47% | $4,070 | ||
47International Journal of Earth SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.76Q1 | 1.89 0.70 up from 2001 | 226 | 6% | $3,890 | ||
48Journal of Physical OceanographyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.75Q1 | 2.32 0.10 down from 2001 | 627 | 38% | — | ||
49Marine MicropaleontologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.72Q1 | 2.32 0.95 up from 2001 | 122 | 0% | $2,480 | ||
50Continental Shelf ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.71Q1 | 1.72 0.19 up from 2001 | 301 | 5% | $3,260 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, compared.
- Geophysics104
- Atmospheric Science63
- Paleontology54
- Oceanography47
- Earth-Surface Processes10
- Geochemistry and Petrology7
- Geology5
- Space and Planetary Science1
Journals
Citations made in 2002. Corpus-wide, 69.2% 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 1999–2001, 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: 2002. Publication window: 1999–2001. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 291
- Window papers (baseline)
- 113,390 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.8021 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 21Comparison-group list (21)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1999–2001 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.