Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Field ranking · 2003
Earth and Planetary Sciences journal rankings 2003
298 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Earth and Planetary Sciences has 298 ranked journals in 2003. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2002 to 0.88, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.47. The top three are Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Earth-Science Reviews, and American Journal of Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. 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 2000–2002, the window the 2003 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 Sciences298 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 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 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 2003. | Compare |
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1Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 4.37Q1 | 4.40 0.22 down from 2002 | 311 | 67% | $4,070 | ||
2Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.25Q1 | 4.84 1.25 up from 2002 | 110 | 6% | $5,120 | ||
3American Journal of ScienceYale University · United States | 4.01Q1 | 4.29 0.54 up from 2002 | 85 | 55% | — | ||
4PaleoceanographyAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 3.70Q1 | 4.75 0.42 up from 2002 | 195 | 62% | — | ||
5Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 3.61Q1 | 3.72 0.27 up from 2002 | 631 | 62% | $3,530 | ||
6Cambridge Archaeological JournalCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.50Q1 | 1.74 0.31 up from 2002 | 45 | 0% | $3,550 | ||
7Quaternary Science ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.44Q1 | 4.06 0.74 up from 2002 | 430 | 8% | $3,920 | ||
8Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural HistoryAmerican Museum of Natural History · United States | 3.11Q1 | 3.35 0.25 up from 2002 | 37 | 50% | — | ||
9Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 3.53 0.64 up from 2002 | 1,026 | 5% | $4,090 | ||
10Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 2.72 0.33 down from 2002 | 218 | 6% | $3,720 | ||
11Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research PapersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.81Q1 | 2.97 0.50 down from 2002 | 342 | 9% | $3,270 | ||
12Journal of Anthropological ArchaeologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.79Q1 | 1.64 0.04 up from 2002 | 49 | 3% | $3,370 | ||
13Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.76Q1 | 2.82 0.37 down from 2002 | 671 | 7% | $3,760 | ||
14SedimentologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.72Q1 | 1.92 0.49 down from 2002 | 220 | 8% | $4,250 | ||
15Chemical GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.71Q1 | 2.80 0.21 up from 2002 | 649 | 7% | $3,550 | ||
16GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 2.67Q1 | 3.77 1.48 up from 2002 | 1,223 | 11% | — | ||
17Geochemistry Geophysics GeosystemsOAWiley · United States | 2.67Q1 | 3.85 0.79 up from 2002 | 222 | 55% | $3,000 | ||
18Marine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.60Q1 | 2.89 0.48 up from 2002 | 250 | 6% | $3,280 | ||
19GSA TodayOAGeological Society of America · United States | 2.56Q1 | 1.37 4.84 down from 2002 | 110 | 10% | — | ||
20Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.55Q1 | 3.92 0.84 up from 2002 | 1,104 | 5% | $4,670 | ||
21The HoloceneSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 3.46 1.15 up from 2002 | 216 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
22Journal of PetrologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 3.35 0.52 up from 2002 | 284 | 27% | $4,353 | ||
23Journal of Atmospheric ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.50Q1 | 2.75 0.03 up from 2002 | 143 | 4% | $4,090 | ||
24American AntiquityCambridge University Press · United States | 2.48Q1 | 1.85 0.61 up from 2002 | 175 | 8% | $3,550 | ||
25Precambrian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.48Q1 | 3.32 0.91 up from 2002 | 311 | 2% | $3,600 | ||
26The Journal of GeologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.46Q1 | 2.97 0.99 up from 2002 | 150 | 7% | — | ||
27TectonicsWiley · United States | 2.44Q1 | 2.73 0.74 down from 2002 | 185 | 57% | $4,070 | ||
28Journal of HydrometeorologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.42Q1 | 3.17 0.74 up from 2002 | 123 | 30% | — | ||
29LithosElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.38Q1 | 2.74 0.35 up from 2002 | 208 | 3% | $3,350 | ||
30Contributions to Mineralogy and PetrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.37Q1 | 3.13 0.82 up from 2002 | 311 | 14% | $3,990 | ||
31Applied GeochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.31Q1 | 1.73 0.04 up from 2002 | 429 | 5% | $3,490 | ||
32Quaternary ResearchCambridge University Press · United States | 2.29Q1 | 2.71 0.29 up from 2002 | 285 | 9% | $3,550 | ||
33Journal of Metamorphic GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 2.90 0.67 up from 2002 | 165 | 12% | $5,000 | ||
34PaleobiologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 1.72 0.38 down from 2002 | 202 | 5% | $3,550 | ||
35Basin ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 2.04 0.11 down from 2002 | 95 | 11% | $4,310 | ||
36Continental Shelf ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.18Q1 | 1.60 0.12 down from 2002 | 383 | 4% | $3,260 | ||
37Tellus BOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 1.91 1.42 down from 2002 | 353 | 62% | $1,410 | ||
38Atmospheric chemistry and physicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.16Q1 | 2.90 1.90 up from 2002 | 40 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
39Global and Planetary ChangeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.11Q1 | 2.16 0.16 up from 2002 | 249 | 5% | $3,120 | ||
40Journal of the Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 2.64 0.27 up from 2002 | 285 | 8% | — | ||
41Marine GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.03Q1 | 1.98 0.42 down from 2002 | 568 | 5% | $3,770 | ||
42Journal of Physical OceanographyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.96Q1 | 2.47 0.14 up from 2002 | 659 | 45% | — | ||
43Atmospheric EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 2.48 0.54 down from 2002 | 1,726 | 3% | $2,910 | ||
44Marine MicropaleontologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.93Q1 | 2.40 0.08 up from 2002 | 123 | 5% | $2,480 | ||
45Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology PalaeoecologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 2.19 0.36 up from 2002 | 654 | 6% | $3,210 | ||
46Journal of the Atmospheric SciencesAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.90Q1 | 2.83 0.61 up from 2002 | 720 | 41% | — | ||
47Journal of Mammalian EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.90Q1 | 2.08 1.08 up from 2002 | 41 | 0% | $3,790 | ||
48Ocean ModellingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 2.48no change | 49 | 2% | $3,140 | ||
49Journal of Marine SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 1.83 0.08 up from 2002 | 289 | 9% | $3,510 | ||
50Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and EcologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 1.79 0.33 down from 2002 | 598 | 7% | $3,270 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, compared.
- Geophysics106
- Atmospheric Science68
- Paleontology53
- Oceanography47
- Earth-Surface Processes10
- Geochemistry and Petrology7
- Geology6
- Space and Planetary Science1
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
101 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 2000–2002, 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: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 298
- Window papers (baseline)
- 121,646 +40.6% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.883 +21.5% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 21Comparison-group list (21)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 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.