Journal rankings · indicator year 2003

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Subfield ranking · 2003

Paleontology journal rankings 2003

53 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences

Indicator year

Paleontology has 53 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.63, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 0.98. The top three are Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, and Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

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.

18% of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Median OJR

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.

0.63+0.01 vs 2002

This subfieldAll 0.75World 1.00

Open-access journals

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.

11%

All fields: 13%

Median listed APC

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.

$3,550

Median positive listed APC: $3,550 among 31 journals. 22 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences (8)

53 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

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Paleontology ranking, 2003
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. OJR	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.
1Cambridge Archaeological JournalCambridge University Press · United Kingdom	3.50Q1	1.74 0.31 up from 2002	45	0%	$3,550
2Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural HistoryAmerican Museum of Natural History · United States	3.11Q1	3.35 0.25 up from 2002	37	50%	—
3Journal of Anthropological ArchaeologyElsevier BV · United States	2.79Q1	1.64 0.04 up from 2002	49	3%	$3,370
4American AntiquityCambridge University Press · United States	2.48Q1	1.85 0.61 up from 2002	175	8%	$3,550
5PaleobiologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom	2.22Q1	1.72 0.38 down from 2002	202	5%	$3,550
6Journal of Mammalian EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands	1.90Q1	2.08 1.08 up from 2002	41	0%	$3,790
7Ancient MesoamericaCambridge University Press · United Kingdom	1.38Q1	0.78 0.43 up from 2002	69	4%	$3,550
8AntiquityCambridge University Press · United Kingdom	1.15Q1	0.39 0.14 down from 2002	705	19%	$3,550
9PalaeontologyWiley · United Kingdom	1.13Q1	1.23 0.41 up from 2002	169	54%	$5,000
10Proceedings of the Prehistoric SocietyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom	1.09Q1	0.63 0.05 up from 2002	47	35%	$3,550
11Latin American AntiquityCambridge University Press · United States	1.03Q1	0.72 0.23 up from 2002	154	10%	$3,550
12PalaiosSociety for Sedimentary Geology · United States	1.01Q1	1.18 0.27 up from 2002	319	2%	—
13Zoological Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom	1.00Q1	1.12 0.29 up from 2002	254	82%	$3,541
14RadiocarbonCambridge University Press · United States	0.98Q1	0.93 0.02 up from 2002	271	100%	$2,487
15Journal of AnatomyWiley · United Kingdom	0.94Q2	1.84 0.27 up from 2002	428	35%	$4,050
16Cretaceous ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom	0.93Q2	1.13 0.46 up from 2002	144	7%	$3,560
17Journal of Vertebrate PaleontologyTaylor & Francis · United States	0.92Q2	1.21 0.16 up from 2002	257	4%	—
18FaciesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany	0.92Q2	0.97 0.31 up from 2002	86	5%	$2,490
19LethaiaOAWiley · Norway	0.91Q2	0.85 0.15 up from 2002	142	5%	$3,300
20Journal of Field ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom	0.89Q2	0.18 0.11 down from 2002	168	—	—
21Vegetation History and ArchaeobotanySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany	0.73Q2	0.64 0.18 down from 2002	76	9%	$3,790
22Journal of MorphologyWiley · United States	0.70Q2	1.22 0.04 down from 2002	284	6%	$4,220
23The Paleontological Society PapersCambridge University Press · United States	0.69Q2	0.69 0.31 up from 2002	53	11%	—
24Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of EdinburghCambridge University Press · United Kingdom	0.68Q2	0.49 0.13 up from 2002	124	7%	$3,550
25Acta Palaeontologica PolonicaOAInstitute of Paleobiology · Poland	0.68Q2	0.74 0.09 up from 2002	45	100%	$23
26Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en MijnbouwCambridge University Press · United Kingdom	0.66Q2	0.48 0.09 down from 2002	148	100%	$1,725
27Bulletin of the Geological Society of DenmarkOADenmark	0.63Q2	0.45 0.07 down from 2002	42	21%	—
28European Journal of ArchaeologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom	0.54Q3	0.25 0.19 down from 2002	164	10%	$3,550
29Paleontological ResearchJapan	0.52Q3	0.55 0.18 up from 2002	80	92%	—
30Paläontologische ZeitschriftSpringer Nature · Germany	0.51Q3	0.50 0.10 up from 2002	96	0%	$3,190
31American Museum NovitatesAmerican Museum of Natural History · United States	0.50Q3	0.93 0.34 up from 2002	220	57%	—
32Historical BiologyTaylor & Francis · Switzerland	0.50Q3	0.77 0.52 up from 2002	51	0%	—
33GeobiosElsevier BV · France	0.50Q3	0.61 0.16 up from 2002	218	5%	$3,030
34Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of PalaeontologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom	0.46Q3	0.56 0.20 up from 2002	84	13%	—
35Journal of PaleontologyCambridge University Press · United States	0.45Q3	0.63 0.03 down from 2002	729	7%	$3,550
36Senckenbergiana lethaeaSpringer Nature · Germany	0.45Q3	0.42 0.30 up from 2002	125	5%	—
37Environmental ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom	0.44Q3	0.40 0.38 up from 2002	64	0%	—
38Comptes Rendus PalevolOAMuséum national d'histoire naturelle · France	0.42Q3	0.32no 2002 value	76	50%	—	—
39Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - AbhandlungenE. Schweizerbart · Germany	0.42Q3	0.33 0.21 down from 2002	185	0%	—
40Proceedings of the Geologists AssociationElsevier BV · United Kingdom	0.41Q3	0.31 0.21 down from 2002	122	5%	$3,300
41Geologica BelgicaOAUniversity of Liège · Belgium	0.38Q4	0.23 0.06 down from 2002	49	100%	—
42Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom	0.35Q4	0.38 0.04 down from 2002	37	0%	—
43Scottish Journal of GeologyZoological Society of London · United Kingdom	0.32Q4	0.46 0.04 down from 2002	49	0%	—
44Annales de PaléontologieElsevier BV · France	0.30Q4	0.44 0.12 up from 2002	37	0%	$2,800
45Revista española de micropaleontologíaPublisher not listed	0.28Q4	0.34 0.03 down from 2002	35	0%	—
46North American ArchaeologistSAGE Publishing · United States	0.23Q4	0.10 0.05 up from 2002	49	14%	$3,650
47Ichnos/Ichnos : an international journal for plant and animal tracesTaylor & Francis · Switzerland	0.22Q4	0.31 0.05 up from 2002	59	4%	—
48Fossil recordOAWiley · Germany	0.22Q4	0.16 0.01 up from 2002	90	100%	$1,240
49Gujizhui dongwu xuebaoPublisher not listed	0.21Q4	0.14 0.02 down from 2002	38	0%	—
50Revue de MicropaléontologieElsevier BV · France	0.21Q4	0.23 0.09 down from 2002	55	0%	$2,470

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.

25 additional Paleontology 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals: 53
Window papers (baseline): 9,199 +30.4% from indicator year 2000
Median OJR: 0.63 -16.3% from indicator year 2000
Rising journals (2025): 5

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.

Category by indicator year
Measure	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.