Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Subfield ranking · 2002
Geophysics journal rankings 2002
104 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Geophysics has 104 ranked journals in 2002. The median OJR rose 0.10 on 2001 to 0.80, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.34. The top three are Earth-Science Reviews, American Journal of Science, and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
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 of Earth and Planetary Sciences (8)
104 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 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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1Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.59Q1 | 3.58 0.60 up from 2001 | 101 | 0% | $5,120 | ||
2American Journal of ScienceYale University · United States | 3.58Q1 | 3.74 0.13 up from 2001 | 87 | 81% | — | ||
3Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 2.89 0.30 up from 2001 | 971 | 5% | $4,090 | ||
4TectonicsWiley · United States | 2.63Q1 | 3.47 0.83 up from 2001 | 196 | 54% | $4,070 | ||
5Chemical GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.61Q1 | 2.59 0.07 up from 2001 | 586 | 6% | $3,550 | ||
6Geochemistry Geophysics GeosystemsOAWiley · United States | 2.56Q1 | 3.06 0.79 up from 2001 | 137 | 50% | $3,000 | ||
7GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 2.29Q1 | 2.29 0.28 up from 2001 | 1,195 | 4% | — | ||
8LithosElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.29Q1 | 2.39 0.28 up from 2001 | 205 | 2% | $3,350 | ||
9Basin ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 2.15 1.21 up from 2001 | 89 | 3% | $4,310 | ||
10Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.19Q1 | 3.08 0.39 up from 2001 | 998 | 4% | $4,670 | ||
11Contributions to Mineralogy and PetrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.12Q1 | 2.31 0.20 up from 2001 | 318 | 10% | $3,990 | ||
12The Journal of GeologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.91Q1 | 1.98 0.37 up from 2001 | 151 | 8% | — | ||
13Geological Society of America BulletinGeological Society of America · United States | 1.91Q1 | 1.81 0.18 up from 2001 | 475 | 2% | — | ||
14Precambrian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.90Q1 | 2.40 0.16 up from 2001 | 292 | 1% | $3,600 | ||
15Journal of the Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 2.37 0.56 up from 2001 | 336 | 10% | — | ||
16Bulletin of the Seismological Society of AmericaSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.84Q1 | 2.42 0.99 up from 2001 | 393 | 2% | — | ||
16Journal of PetrologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 2.83 0.71 up from 2001 | 347 | 30% | $4,353 | ||
18International Journal of Earth SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.76Q1 | 1.89 0.70 up from 2001 | 226 | 6% | $3,890 | ||
19Geophysical Journal InternationalOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 2.35 0.69 up from 2001 | 792 | 72% | $3,416 | ||
20American MineralogistMineralogical Society of America · United States | 1.51Q1 | 1.79 0.15 up from 2001 | 616 | 2% | $100 | ||
21Bulletin of VolcanologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.48Q1 | 1.34 0.06 down from 2001 | 173 | 2% | $4,090 | ||
22Petroleum GeoscienceZoological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 0.73 0.26 down from 2001 | 131 | 3% | — | ||
23Pure and Applied GeophysicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.39Q1 | 1.48 0.59 up from 2001 | 323 | 1% | $3,790 | ||
24Journal of Metamorphic GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.39Q1 | 2.24 0.44 up from 2001 | 149 | 14% | $5,000 | ||
25TectonophysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.37Q1 | 1.71 0.34 up from 2001 | 818 | 3% | $3,190 | ||
26Seismological Research LettersSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.34Q1 | 0.97 0.42 up from 2001 | 325 | 0% | — | ||
27Journal of Structural GeologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.33Q2 | 1.97 0.42 up from 2001 | 424 | 2% | $3,380 | ||
28Geostandards and Geoanalytical ResearchWiley · France | 1.25Q2 | 1.30 0.01 up from 2001 | 95 | 3% | $4,200 | ||
29Geological MagazineCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 1.44 0.23 up from 2001 | 143 | 11% | $3,550 | ||
30Mineralium DepositaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.18Q2 | 1.31 0.33 up from 2001 | 172 | 15% | $3,890 | ||
31Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.13Q2 | 1.42 0.49 up from 2001 | 453 | 4% | $3,420 | ||
32Terra NovaWiley · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 0.99 0.11 up from 2001 | 176 | 15% | $3,720 | ||
33Computers & GeosciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 0.81 0.04 up from 2001 | 357 | 1% | $4,010 | ||
34Physics and Chemistry of MineralsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.07Q2 | 1.24 0.13 down from 2001 | 226 | 9% | $3,490 | ||
35Geological Society London Special PublicationsGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.05Q2 | 1.20 0.40 up from 2001 | 882 | 6% | — | ||
36Geophysical ProspectingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 1.16 0.45 up from 2001 | 169 | 3% | $4,150 | ||
37GeophysicsSociety of Exploration Geophysicists · United States | 0.98Q2 | 1.19 0.05 up from 2001 | 590 | 10% | — | ||
38Annual Review of Earth and Planetary SciencesAnnual Reviews · United States | 0.95Q2 | 3.74 0.37 down from 2001 | 57 | 20% | — | ||
39Physics of The Earth and Planetary InteriorsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.94Q2 | 1.85 0.48 up from 2001 | 381 | 4% | $3,290 | ||
40Australian Journal of Earth SciencesTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.92Q2 | 1.18 0.06 down from 2001 | 246 | 9% | — | ||
41European Journal of MineralogyOAElsevier BV · Germany | 0.92Q2 | 0.96 0.07 up from 2001 | 373 | 7% | $1,024 | ||
42International Geology ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.91Q2 | 1.06 0.31 up from 2001 | 193 | 4% | — | ||
43Journal of Asian Earth SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 0.95 0.03 up from 2001 | 186 | 2% | $3,330 | ||
44Journal of SeismologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.90Q2 | 0.95 0.41 up from 2001 | 161 | 3% | $3,290 | ||
45Canadian Journal of Earth SciencesNRC Research Press · Canada | 0.88Q2 | 1.37 0.29 up from 2001 | 368 | 0% | — | ||
46Studia Geophysica et GeodaeticaSpringer Science+Business Media · Czechia | 0.87Q2 | 1.33 0.68 up from 2001 | 107 | 2% | $2,890 | ||
47Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic SciencesOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 0.85Q2 | 1.32 0.64 up from 2001 | 145 | 100% | $2,090 | ||
48Marine Geophysical ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.85Q2 | 0.91 0.29 up from 2001 | 55 | 3% | $3,590 | ||
49Journal of Applied GeophysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.84Q2 | 0.86 0.13 up from 2001 | 178 | 4% | $3,180 | ||
50South African Journal of GeologyGeological Society of South Africa · South Africa | 0.83Q2 | 0.63 0.11 up from 2001 | 85 | 4% | — |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Geophysics highlighted.
- 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.
36 additional Geophysics 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
- 104
- Window papers (baseline)
- 25,899 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.800 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
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 | 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.