Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Subfield ranking · 2002
Paleontology journal rankings 2002
54 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Paleontology has 54 ranked journals in 2002. The median journal has an OJR of 0.62, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2001; Q1 starts at OJR 1.00. The top three are Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Journal of Archaeological Research, and Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
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)
54 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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1Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural HistoryAmerican Museum of Natural History · United States | 3.56Q1 | 3.10 0.84 down from 2001 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
2Journal of Archaeological ResearchSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 3.37Q1 | 1.57 0.33 up from 2001 | 32 | 13% | $3,190 | ||
3Journal of Anthropological ArchaeologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.16Q1 | 1.59 0.47 up from 2001 | 49 | 0% | $3,370 | ||
4PaleobiologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 2.10 0.37 down from 2001 | 202 | 9% | $3,550 | ||
5Cambridge Archaeological JournalCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 1.43 0.87 up from 2001 | 67 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
6American AntiquityCambridge University Press · United States | 1.55Q1 | 1.24 0.22 up from 2001 | 194 | 10% | $3,550 | ||
7AntiquityCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 0.53 0.07 down from 2001 | 549 | 13% | $3,550 | ||
8Journal of Field ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 0.29 0.31 down from 2001 | 206 | 0% | — | ||
9PalaiosSociety for Sedimentary Geology · United States | 1.34Q1 | 0.91 0.49 down from 2001 | 312 | 3% | — | ||
10Journal of Mammalian EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.06Q1 | 1.00 0.54 down from 2001 | 47 | 0% | $3,790 | ||
11Journal of Vertebrate PaleontologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.03Q1 | 1.04 0.28 down from 2001 | 265 | 1% | — | ||
12Latin American AntiquityCambridge University Press · United States | 1.02Q1 | 0.49 0.01 up from 2001 | 170 | 7% | $3,550 | ||
13RadiocarbonCambridge University Press · United States | 1.00Q1 | 0.91 0.06 down from 2001 | 249 | 97% | $2,487 | ||
14FaciesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.00Q1 | 0.66 0.17 down from 2001 | 80 | 18% | $2,490 | ||
15Proceedings of the Prehistoric SocietyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 0.58 0.21 up from 2001 | 54 | 29% | $3,550 | ||
16European Journal of ArchaeologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 0.44 0.20 up from 2001 | 178 | 7% | $3,550 | ||
17LethaiaOAWiley · Norway | 0.93Q2 | 0.70 0.22 down from 2001 | 112 | 3% | $3,300 | ||
18Journal of AnatomyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 1.56 0.05 down from 2001 | 383 | 21% | $4,050 | ||
19PalaeontologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 0.82 0.06 down from 2001 | 162 | 50% | $5,000 | ||
20Zoological Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.75Q2 | 0.83 0.17 up from 2001 | 300 | 83% | $3,541 | ||
| 0.72Q2 | 0.52 0.09 down from 2001 | 58 | 18% | — | |||
22Norwegian Archaeological ReviewRoutledge · Norway | 0.72Q2 | 0.24 0.22 down from 2001 | 36 | 0% | — | ||
23Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en MijnbouwCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.70Q2 | 0.57 0.23 up from 2001 | 141 | 94% | $1,725 | ||
24Acta Palaeontologica PolonicaOAInstitute of Paleobiology · Poland | 0.68Q2 | 0.65 0.59 down from 2001 | 51 | 100% | $23 | ||
25Vegetation History and ArchaeobotanySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.66Q2 | 0.81 0.15 up from 2001 | 69 | 5% | $3,790 | ||
26Journal of MorphologyWiley · United States | 0.65Q2 | 1.26 0.54 up from 2001 | 336 | 6% | $4,220 | ||
27Cretaceous ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.63Q2 | 0.67 0.26 down from 2001 | 147 | 0% | $3,560 | ||
28GeodiversitasOAMuséum national d'histoire naturelle · France | 0.61Q3 | 0.46 0.15 down from 2001 | 33 | 0% | — | ||
29Ancient MesoamericaCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.59Q3 | 0.34 0.13 up from 2001 | 67 | 16% | $3,550 | ||
30GeobiosElsevier BV · France | 0.57Q3 | 0.46 0.14 down from 2001 | 208 | 3% | $3,030 | ||
31Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - AbhandlungenE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 0.55Q3 | 0.54 0.18 up from 2001 | 197 | 0% | — | ||
32Journal of PaleontologyCambridge University Press · United States | 0.53Q3 | 0.66 0.04 down from 2001 | 604 | 4% | $3,550 | ||
33Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of EdinburghCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.53Q3 | 0.37 0.08 up from 2001 | 108 | 5% | $3,550 | ||
34Proceedings of the Geologists AssociationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.51Q3 | 0.52 0.05 down from 2001 | 114 | 0% | $3,300 | ||
35American Museum NovitatesAmerican Museum of Natural History · United States | 0.43Q3 | 0.59 0.29 up from 2001 | 184 | 55% | — | ||
36Paläontologische ZeitschriftSpringer Nature · Germany | 0.43Q3 | 0.40 0.02 up from 2001 | 96 | 3% | $3,190 | ||
37Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 0.41Q3 | 0.43 0.15 down from 2001 | 41 | 0% | — | ||
38Scottish Journal of GeologyZoological Society of London · United Kingdom | 0.39Q3 | 0.50 0.14 up from 2001 | 53 | 0% | — | ||
39Annales de PaléontologieElsevier BV · France | 0.37Q3 | 0.32 0.10 up from 2001 | 43 | 0% | $2,800 | ||
40Historical BiologyTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.36Q3 | 0.25 0.09 down from 2001 | 58 | 20% | — | ||
41Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of PalaeontologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.31Q3 | 0.37 0.03 down from 2001 | 72 | 6% | — | ||
42Ichnos/Ichnos : an international journal for plant and animal tracesTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.31Q4 | 0.26 0.09 down from 2001 | 52 | 32% | — | ||
43Geologica BelgicaOAUniversity of Liège · Belgium | 0.30Q4 | 0.29 0.11 down from 2001 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
44Revista española de micropaleontologíaPublisher not listed | 0.29Q4 | 0.38 0.30 up from 2001 | 30 | 0% | — | ||
45The Paleontological Society PapersCambridge University Press · United States | 0.25Q4 | 0.37 0.26 up from 2001 | 53 | 11% | — | ||
46Paleontological ResearchJapan | 0.25Q4 | 0.37 0.16 down from 2001 | 80 | 100% | — | ||
47Revue de MicropaléontologieElsevier BV · France | 0.23Q4 | 0.32 0.13 up from 2001 | 65 | 11% | $2,470 | ||
48Geological CuratorPublisher not listed | 0.15Q4 | 0.04 0.01 up from 2001 | 38 | 0% | — | ||
49Fossil recordOAWiley · Germany | 0.15Q4 | 0.15 0.56 down from 2001 | 77 | 100% | $1,240 | ||
50Senckenbergiana lethaeaSpringer Nature · Germany | 0.14Q4 | 0.12 0.10 down from 2001 | 105 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Paleontology 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.
21 additional Paleontology 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
- 54
- Window papers (baseline)
- 8,570 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.619 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 | 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.