Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Field ranking · 2004
Earth and Planetary Sciences journal rankings 2004
305 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Earth and Planetary Sciences has 305 ranked journals in 2004. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2003 to 0.80, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.39. The top three are Earth-Science Reviews, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, and Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. 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 2001–2003, the window the 2004 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 Sciences305 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 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 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 2004. | Compare |
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1Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.00Q1 | 5.13 0.30 up from 2003 | 127 | 5% | $5,120 | ||
2Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 3.50Q1 | 4.07 0.33 down from 2003 | 340 | 55% | $4,070 | ||
3Journal of Anthropological ArchaeologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.45Q1 | 2.26 0.62 up from 2003 | 59 | 0% | $3,370 | ||
4Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 3.10Q1 | 3.66 0.06 down from 2003 | 646 | 57% | $3,530 | ||
5GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 2.96Q1 | 3.41 0.35 down from 2003 | 953 | 13% | — | ||
6American AntiquityCambridge University Press · United States | 2.86Q1 | 1.68 0.17 down from 2003 | 176 | 11% | $3,550 | ||
7Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.77Q1 | 3.33 0.20 down from 2003 | 1,102 | 5% | $4,090 | ||
8American Journal of ScienceYale University · United States | 2.75Q1 | 2.67 1.61 down from 2003 | 94 | 75% | — | ||
9PaleoceanographyAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.61Q1 | 3.87 0.88 down from 2003 | 227 | 64% | — | ||
10Quaternary Science ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 3.75 0.31 down from 2003 | 549 | 9% | $3,920 | ||
11Quaternary ResearchCambridge University Press · United States | 2.59Q1 | 2.97 0.27 up from 2003 | 303 | 10% | $3,550 | ||
12Chemical GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.55Q1 | 3.40 0.59 up from 2003 | 650 | 4% | $3,550 | ||
132002 International Snow Science Workshop, Penticton, British ColumbiaPublisher not listed | 2.53Q1 | 0.58 0.25 up from 2003 | 88 | — | — | ||
14Journal of Metamorphic GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 3.78 0.88 up from 2003 | 172 | 9% | $5,000 | ||
15Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.51Q1 | 3.78 0.13 down from 2003 | 1,191 | 5% | $4,670 | ||
16Journal of PetrologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.48Q1 | 3.36no change | 299 | 32% | $4,353 | ||
17Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 2.79 0.07 up from 2003 | 243 | 15% | $3,720 | ||
18Atmospheric chemistry and physicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.40Q1 | 3.20 0.30 up from 2003 | 197 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
19Marine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.37Q1 | 2.60 0.29 down from 2003 | 242 | 6% | $3,280 | ||
20The HoloceneSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 3.05 0.41 down from 2003 | 229 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
21Geological Society of America BulletinGeological Society of America · United States | 2.35Q1 | 2.73 0.17 up from 2003 | 333 | 5% | — | ||
22Contributions to Mineralogy and PetrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.33Q1 | 3.14 0.02 up from 2003 | 317 | 18% | $3,990 | ||
23Journal of HydrometeorologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.30Q1 | 2.85 0.32 down from 2003 | 173 | 40% | — | ||
24The Journal of GeologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.28Q1 | 2.42 0.55 down from 2003 | 149 | 10% | — | ||
25Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.27Q1 | 2.72 0.10 down from 2003 | 679 | 5% | $3,760 | ||
26SedimentologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.27Q1 | 2.04 0.11 up from 2003 | 210 | 9% | $4,250 | ||
27Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research PapersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.24Q1 | 2.68 0.30 down from 2003 | 343 | 6% | $3,270 | ||
28Precambrian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.19Q1 | 2.66 0.66 down from 2003 | 404 | 5% | $3,600 | ||
29Applied GeochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 2.00 0.26 up from 2003 | 491 | 4% | $3,490 | ||
30TectonicsWiley · United States | 2.19Q1 | 2.88 0.15 up from 2003 | 198 | 58% | $4,070 | ||
31LithosElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.17Q1 | 2.55 0.18 down from 2003 | 226 | 2% | $3,350 | ||
32Geochemistry Geophysics GeosystemsOAWiley · United States | 2.14Q1 | 2.97 0.88 down from 2003 | 351 | 52% | $3,000 | ||
33Journal of the Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 2.82 0.19 up from 2003 | 247 | 7% | — | ||
34Global and Planetary ChangeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.05Q1 | 1.95 0.20 down from 2003 | 291 | 7% | $3,120 | ||
35GSA TodayOAGeological Society of America · United States | 2.01Q1 | 0.85 0.52 down from 2003 | 213 | 9% | — | ||
36Journal of the Atmospheric SciencesAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.96Q1 | 3.37 0.54 up from 2003 | 661 | 46% | — | ||
37Journal of Quaternary ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 2.25 0.16 down from 2003 | 204 | 13% | $4,310 | ||
38Basin ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 1.71 0.33 down from 2003 | 83 | 11% | $4,310 | ||
39Marine GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.88Q1 | 2.16 0.18 up from 2003 | 577 | 8% | $3,770 | ||
40Atmospheric EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 2.66 0.18 up from 2003 | 1,900 | 6% | $2,910 | ||
41Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Part A Solid Earth and GeodesyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 0.00 1.52 down from 2003 | 128 | — | — | ||
42Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology PalaeoecologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.80Q1 | 2.23 0.04 up from 2003 | 740 | 5% | $3,210 | ||
43GeomorphologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.80Q1 | 1.85 0.12 up from 2003 | 556 | 5% | $3,400 | ||
44Journal of Geophysical Research AtmospheresAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 1.78Q1 | 3.25 0.09 up from 2003 | 7,531 | 51% | $4,070 | ||
45Marine MicropaleontologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.78Q1 | 2.53 0.13 up from 2003 | 145 | 4% | $2,480 | ||
46Ocean ModellingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 2.51 0.04 up from 2003 | 84 | 7% | $3,140 | ||
47Tellus BOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 1.70 0.21 down from 2003 | 382 | 80% | $1,410 | ||
48Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic TechnologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.74Q1 | 2.22 0.35 up from 2003 | 461 | 38% | — | ||
49Journal of Mammalian EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.74Q1 | 1.55 0.53 down from 2003 | 34 | 0% | $3,790 | ||
50Journal of Atmospheric ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.74Q1 | 2.22 0.53 down from 2003 | 147 | 6% | $4,090 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, compared.
- Geophysics110
- Atmospheric Science67
- Paleontology53
- Oceanography50
- Earth-Surface Processes10
- Geochemistry and Petrology7
- Geology7
- Space and Planetary Science1
Journals
Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
100 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 2001–2003, 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: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 305
- Window papers (baseline)
- 119,357 +12.2% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.8018 +10.3% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 21Comparison-group list (21)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 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.