Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Geophysics journal rankings 2003
106 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Geophysics has 106 ranked journals in 2003. The median OJR rose 0.09 on 2002 to 0.89, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.36. The top three are Earth-Science Reviews, American Journal of Science, and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
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 of Earth and Planetary Sciences (8)
106 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 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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1Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.25Q1 | 4.84 1.25 up from 2002 | 110 | 6% | $5,120 | ||
2American Journal of ScienceYale University · United States | 4.01Q1 | 4.29 0.54 up from 2002 | 85 | 55% | — | ||
3Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 3.53 0.64 up from 2002 | 1,026 | 5% | $4,090 | ||
4Chemical GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.71Q1 | 2.80 0.21 up from 2002 | 649 | 7% | $3,550 | ||
5GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 2.67Q1 | 3.77 1.48 up from 2002 | 1,223 | 11% | — | ||
6Geochemistry Geophysics GeosystemsOAWiley · United States | 2.67Q1 | 3.85 0.79 up from 2002 | 222 | 55% | $3,000 | ||
7GSA TodayOAGeological Society of America · United States | 2.56Q1 | 1.37 4.84 down from 2002 | 110 | 10% | — | ||
8Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.55Q1 | 3.92 0.84 up from 2002 | 1,104 | 5% | $4,670 | ||
9Journal of PetrologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 3.35 0.52 up from 2002 | 284 | 27% | $4,353 | ||
10Precambrian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.48Q1 | 3.32 0.91 up from 2002 | 311 | 2% | $3,600 | ||
11The Journal of GeologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.46Q1 | 2.97 0.99 up from 2002 | 150 | 7% | — | ||
12TectonicsWiley · United States | 2.44Q1 | 2.73 0.74 down from 2002 | 185 | 57% | $4,070 | ||
13LithosElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.38Q1 | 2.74 0.35 up from 2002 | 208 | 3% | $3,350 | ||
14Contributions to Mineralogy and PetrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.37Q1 | 3.13 0.82 up from 2002 | 311 | 14% | $3,990 | ||
15Journal of Metamorphic GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 2.90 0.67 up from 2002 | 165 | 12% | $5,000 | ||
16Basin ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 2.04 0.11 down from 2002 | 95 | 11% | $4,310 | ||
17Journal of the Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 2.64 0.27 up from 2002 | 285 | 8% | — | ||
18Geological Society of America BulletinGeological Society of America · United States | 1.81Q1 | 2.56 0.75 up from 2002 | 470 | 1% | — | ||
19Bulletin of VolcanologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.57Q1 | 1.70 0.36 up from 2002 | 179 | 7% | $4,090 | ||
20Geostandards and Geoanalytical ResearchWiley · France | 1.51Q1 | 1.75 0.45 up from 2002 | 98 | 5% | $4,200 | ||
21Terra NovaWiley · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 1.78 0.78 up from 2002 | 191 | 17% | $3,720 | ||
22Geological MagazineCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 1.60 0.16 up from 2002 | 143 | 7% | $3,550 | ||
23TectonophysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.48Q1 | 1.68 0.03 down from 2002 | 801 | 3% | $3,190 | ||
24Journal of Structural GeologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 1.99 0.01 up from 2002 | 450 | 7% | $3,380 | ||
25International Journal of Earth SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.41Q1 | 1.63 0.26 down from 2002 | 246 | 7% | $3,890 | ||
26Bulletin of the Seismological Society of AmericaSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.39Q1 | 1.80 0.62 down from 2002 | 495 | 4% | — | ||
27Mineralium DepositaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.36Q1 | 1.77 0.46 up from 2002 | 193 | 15% | $3,890 | ||
28Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.35Q2 | 1.88 0.46 up from 2002 | 477 | 4% | $3,420 | ||
29American MineralogistMineralogical Society of America · United States | 1.31Q2 | 1.66 0.14 down from 2002 | 619 | 4% | $100 | ||
| 1.30Q2 | 0.30no 2002 value | 134 | — | — | — | ||
31Physics and Chemistry of MineralsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.28Q2 | 1.55 0.32 up from 2002 | 230 | 8% | $3,490 | ||
32Marine Geophysical ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.21Q2 | 0.68 0.22 down from 2002 | 86 | 32% | $3,590 | ||
33South African Journal of GeologyGeological Society of South Africa · South Africa | 1.21Q2 | 1.24 0.61 up from 2002 | 85 | 0% | — | ||
34Ore Geology ReviewsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.19Q2 | 1.25 0.09 up from 2002 | 69 | 2% | $3,310 | ||
35Geophysical Journal InternationalOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 1.81 0.53 down from 2002 | 842 | 70% | $3,416 | ||
36Computers & GeosciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 0.94 0.13 up from 2002 | 393 | 4% | $4,010 | ||
37Australian Journal of Earth SciencesTaylor & Francis · Australia | 1.12Q2 | 1.60 0.43 up from 2002 | 226 | 11% | — | ||
38Surveys in GeophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.11Q2 | 1.19 0.82 up from 2002 | 75 | 19% | $4,290 | ||
39Geological Society London Special PublicationsGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 0.76 0.45 down from 2002 | 837 | 5% | — | ||
40Physics of The Earth and Planetary InteriorsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.10Q2 | 2.11 0.26 up from 2002 | 356 | 2% | $3,290 | ||
41Pure and Applied GeophysicsBirkhäuser · Switzerland | 1.09Q2 | 0.74 0.75 down from 2002 | 380 | 4% | $3,790 | ||
42Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Part A Solid Earth and GeodesyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 1.52 0.73 up from 2002 | 255 | — | — | ||
43Canadian Journal of Earth SciencesNRC Research Press · Canada | 1.06Q2 | 1.07 0.30 down from 2002 | 359 | 1% | — | ||
44GeophysicsSociety of Exploration Geophysicists · United States | 1.04Q2 | 1.51 0.33 up from 2002 | 587 | 5% | — | ||
45Journal of Applied GeophysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.03Q2 | 1.11 0.26 up from 2002 | 195 | 4% | $3,180 | ||
46Island ArcWiley · Australia | 1.00Q2 | 0.73 0.09 up from 2002 | 176 | 8% | $3,240 | ||
47Journal of GeodynamicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 0.94 0.01 down from 2002 | 222 | 5% | $3,470 | ||
48Journal of Asian Earth SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 0.88 0.07 down from 2002 | 233 | 2% | $3,330 | ||
49Petroleum GeoscienceZoological Society of London · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 0.71 0.02 down from 2002 | 126 | 3% | — | ||
50Journal of SeismologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.97Q2 | 0.89 0.07 down from 2002 | 153 | 4% | $3,290 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Geophysics highlighted.
- 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.
35 additional Geophysics 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
- 106
- Window papers (baseline)
- 27,552 +24.1% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.89 +27.5% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
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 | 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.