Journal rankings · indicator year 2005

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Subfield ranking · 2005

Paleontology journal rankings 2005

51 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences

Indicator year

Paleontology has 51 ranked journals in 2005. The median OJR rose 0.09 on 2004 to 0.71, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.22. The top three are Geobiology, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, and American Antiquity.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2005. 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 2002–2004, the window the 2005 score is computed on.

17% 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.

0.71+0.09 vs 2004

This subfieldAll 0.79World 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.

10%

All fields: 15%

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. 20 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences (8)

51 ranked journals

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Paleontology ranking, 2005
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 2004. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.	Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.	Share of the journal’s 2002–2004 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.
1GeobiologyWiley · United Kingdom	2.43Q1	3.46 0.75 up from 2004	37	7%	$4,880
2Journal of Anthropological ArchaeologyElsevier BV · United States	2.16Q1	1.87 0.39 down from 2004	63	6%	$3,370
3American AntiquityCambridge University Press · United States	1.88Q1	1.34 0.35 down from 2004	165	12%	$3,550
4Journal of Field ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom	1.83Q1	0.41 0.11 up from 2004	86	2%	—
5Zoological Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom	1.74Q1	2.46 0.75 up from 2004	143	91%	$3,541
6PaleobiologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom	1.66Q1	2.00 0.56 up from 2004	158	4%	$3,550
7Cambridge Archaeological JournalCambridge University Press · United Kingdom	1.53Q1	0.91 0.05 down from 2004	54	7%	$3,550
8FaciesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany	1.32Q1	1.22 0.14 up from 2004	102	3%	$2,490
9Proceedings of the Prehistoric SocietyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom	1.30Q1	0.50 0.08 up from 2004	46	22%	$3,550
10Ancient MesoamericaCambridge University Press · United Kingdom	1.25Q1	0.65 0.25 up from 2004	65	9%	$3,550
11RadiocarbonCambridge University Press · United States	1.24Q1	1.20 0.15 down from 2004	247	98%	$2,487
12AntiquityCambridge University Press · United Kingdom	1.22Q1	0.68 0.15 up from 2004	568	17%	$3,550
13Journal of Mammalian EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands	1.22Q1	2.20 0.65 up from 2004	34	3%	$3,790
14LethaiaOAWiley · Norway	1.18Q2	1.81 0.93 up from 2004	143	0%	$3,300
15PalaiosSociety for Sedimentary Geology · United States	1.17Q2	1.59 0.31 up from 2004	197	5%	—
16Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural HistoryAmerican Museum of Natural History · United States	1.07Q2	1.18 0.18 up from 2004	68	100%	—
17Paleontological ResearchJapan	1.03Q2	1.82 1.28 up from 2004	76	4%	—
18Journal of Vertebrate PaleontologyTaylor & Francis · United States	1.02Q2	1.37 0.13 up from 2004	305	4%	—
19Latin American AntiquityCambridge University Press · United States	1.01Q2	0.59 0.01 down from 2004	129	22%	$3,550
20PalaeontologyWiley · United Kingdom	1.00Q2	1.15 0.10 up from 2004	192	59%	$5,000
21Journal of AnatomyWiley · United Kingdom	0.95Q2	1.91 0.50 down from 2004	404	91%	$4,050
22Journal of MorphologyWiley · United States	0.91Q2	1.57 0.01 up from 2004	321	6%	$4,220
23The Paleontological Society PapersCambridge University Press · United States	0.90Q2	0.60 0.18 up from 2004	48	17%	—
24Vegetation History and ArchaeobotanySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany	0.81Q2	1.19 0.34 up from 2004	85	13%	$3,790
25Geologica BelgicaOAUniversity of Liège · Belgium	0.76Q2	0.39 0.73 down from 2004	37	100%	—
26Comptes Rendus PalevolOAMuséum national d'histoire naturelle · France	0.71Q2	0.90 0.25 up from 2004	220	34%	—
27Cretaceous ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom	0.71Q3	1.02 0.33 up from 2004	161	3%	$3,560
28Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en MijnbouwCambridge University Press · United Kingdom	0.69Q3	0.44 0.45 down from 2004	131	94%	$1,725
29GeobiosElsevier BV · France	0.67Q3	0.72 0.01 down from 2004	236	0%	$3,030
30Annales de PaléontologieElsevier BV · France	0.66Q3	0.82 0.14 up from 2004	43	4%	$2,800
31American Museum NovitatesAmerican Museum of Natural History · United States	0.66Q3	0.68 0.34 down from 2004	204	41%	—
32Senckenbergiana lethaeaSpringer Nature · Germany	0.64Q3	0.71 0.06 down from 2004	74	0%	—
33Bulletin of the Geological Society of DenmarkOADenmark	0.58Q3	0.80 0.49 up from 2004	47	11%	—
34Paläontologische ZeitschriftSpringer Nature · Germany	0.56Q3	0.79 0.21 up from 2004	88	3%	$3,190
35European Journal of ArchaeologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom	0.50Q3	0.14 0.24 down from 2004	86	7%	$3,550
36Environmental ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom	0.47Q3	0.42 0.08 down from 2004	94	4%	—
37Journal of PaleontologyCambridge University Press · United States	0.43Q3	0.67 0.25 up from 2004	626	6%	$3,550
38Scottish Journal of GeologyZoological Society of London · United Kingdom	0.41Q3	0.49 0.03 down from 2004	52	0%	—
39Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of EdinburghCambridge University Press · United Kingdom	0.38Q3	0.36 0.20 up from 2004	184	0%	$3,550
40Ichnos/Ichnos : an international journal for plant and animal tracesTaylor & Francis · Switzerland	0.35Q4	0.49 0.08 up from 2004	95	13%	—
41Geology TodayWiley · United Kingdom	0.33Q4	0.10 0.05 down from 2004	145	4%	$1,100
42Revue de MicropaléontologieElsevier BV · France	0.32Q4	0.50 0.18 up from 2004	63	3%	$2,470
43Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of PalaeontologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom	0.31Q4	0.42 0.10 up from 2004	87	18%	—
44Revista española de micropaleontologíaPublisher not listed	0.31Q4	0.28 0.04 up from 2004	66	0%	—
45North American ArchaeologistSAGE Publishing · United States	0.30Q4	0.34 0.23 up from 2004	43	0%	$3,650
46Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - AbhandlungenE. Schweizerbart · Germany	0.28Q4	0.28 0.06 up from 2004	192	9%	—
47Proceedings of the Geologists AssociationElsevier BV · United Kingdom	0.23Q4	0.21 0.20 down from 2004	112	0%	$3,300
48Geological CuratorPublisher not listed	0.20Q4	0.20 0.20 up from 2004	30	0%	—
49Gujizhui dongwu xuebaoPublisher not listed	0.19Q4	0.24 0.01 down from 2004	53	0%	—
50Fossil recordOAWiley · Germany	0.04Q4	0.03 0.05 down from 2004	83	100%	$1,240

Citations made in 2005. Corpus-wide, 70.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

32 additional Paleontology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2002–2004, 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: 2005. Publication window: 2002–2004. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals: 51
Window papers (baseline): 9,801 +14.4% from indicator year 2002
Median OJR: 0.708 +14.4% from indicator year 2002
Rising journals (2025): 5

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2002–2004 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.