Journal rankings · indicator year 2006
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Field ranking · 2006
Earth and Planetary Sciences journal rankings 2006
308 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Earth and Planetary Sciences has 308 ranked journals in 2006. The median journal has an OJR of 0.88, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2005; Q1 starts at OJR 1.44. The top three are Earth-Science Reviews, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, and Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2006. 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 2003–2005, the window the 2006 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 Sciences308 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 2005. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2003–2005, the window the 2006 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2003–2005 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 2006. | Compare |
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1Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.91Q1 | 3.87 0.49 down from 2005 | 159 | 6% | $5,120 | ||
2Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 3.88Q1 | 5.56 0.15 down from 2005 | 366 | 74% | $4,070 | ||
3Journal of Anthropological ArchaeologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.03Q1 | 1.49 0.38 down from 2005 | 75 | 2% | $3,370 | ||
4PaleoceanographyAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 3.01Q1 | 4.51 0.10 down from 2005 | 271 | 61% | — | ||
5Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 2.82Q1 | 3.88 0.36 up from 2005 | 659 | 52% | $3,530 | ||
6GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 2.79Q1 | 3.97 0.47 up from 2005 | 918 | 10% | — | ||
7Quaternary Science ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.73Q1 | 4.18 0.04 up from 2005 | 616 | 8% | $3,920 | ||
8Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.68Q1 | 4.48 0.55 up from 2005 | 1,423 | 7% | $4,670 | ||
9Atmospheric chemistry and physicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.59Q1 | 5.29 1.07 up from 2005 | 565 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
10Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 3.65 0.01 up from 2005 | 1,386 | 3% | $4,090 | ||
11GeobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 3.04 0.42 down from 2005 | 59 | 16% | $4,880 | ||
12TectonicsWiley · United States | 2.46Q1 | 3.94 1.12 up from 2005 | 239 | 59% | $4,070 | ||
13Geological Society of America BulletinGeological Society of America · United States | 2.42Q1 | 3.28 0.55 up from 2005 | 325 | 3% | — | ||
14RadiocarbonCambridge University Press · United States | 2.40Q1 | 3.46 2.26 up from 2005 | 234 | 40% | $2,487 | ||
15Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 3.23 0.56 up from 2005 | 191 | 7% | $3,720 | ||
16American Journal of ScienceYale University · United States | 2.37Q1 | 3.17 0.64 up from 2005 | 97 | 72% | — | ||
17Chemical GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.35Q1 | 2.95 0.26 down from 2005 | 690 | 7% | $3,550 | ||
18Basin ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 2.60 0.85 up from 2005 | 92 | 9% | $4,310 | ||
19Global and Planetary ChangeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.27Q1 | 2.63 1.53 down from 2005 | 290 | 8% | $3,120 | ||
20Journal of PetrologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 3.64 0.87 up from 2005 | 320 | 32% | $4,353 | ||
21BiogeosciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.23Q1 | 2.83 1.41 up from 2005 | 40 | 100% | $1,628 | ||
22Journal of the Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 2.98 0.68 up from 2005 | 293 | 17% | — | ||
23SedimentologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 2.39 0.27 up from 2005 | 211 | 6% | $4,250 | ||
24Precambrian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.12Q1 | 2.88 0.82 up from 2005 | 429 | 4% | $3,600 | ||
25Marine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.11Q1 | 2.96 0.66 up from 2005 | 345 | 9% | $3,280 | ||
26Aerosol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.08Q1 | 3.21 0.93 up from 2005 | 362 | 96% | — | ||
27Journal of Quaternary ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 3.29 0.73 up from 2005 | 206 | 21% | $4,310 | ||
28Journal of HydrometeorologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.07Q1 | 2.92 0.05 down from 2005 | 245 | 52% | — | ||
29The HoloceneSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 2.75 1.28 down from 2005 | 294 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
30Quaternary ResearchCambridge University Press · United States | 2.03Q1 | 2.52no change | 285 | 13% | $3,550 | ||
31Atmospheric EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 2.86 0.09 down from 2005 | 2,194 | 10% | $2,910 | ||
32Limnology and Oceanography MethodsWiley · United States | 2.00Q1 | 2.60 0.25 up from 2005 | 98 | 44% | $3,530 | ||
33Contributions to Mineralogy and PetrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.99Q1 | 3.08 0.84 up from 2005 | 322 | 17% | $3,990 | ||
34GeomorphologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.98Q1 | 2.23 0.13 up from 2005 | 576 | 9% | $3,400 | ||
35Progress in Physical Geography Earth and EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 2.03 0.38 up from 2005 | 95 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
36Applied GeochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 1.76 0.44 down from 2005 | 462 | 10% | $3,490 | ||
37Cambridge Archaeological JournalCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 0.95 0.04 up from 2005 | 55 | 8% | $3,550 | ||
38Marine GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 2.22 0.25 down from 2005 | 556 | 9% | $3,770 | ||
39Journal of Geophysical Research AtmospheresAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 1.91Q1 | 3.46 0.11 down from 2005 | 7,049 | 53% | $4,070 | ||
40Geochemistry Geophysics GeosystemsOAWiley · United States | 1.86Q1 | 3.14 0.13 up from 2005 | 500 | 62% | $3,000 | ||
41Tellus BOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 2.55 0.15 up from 2005 | 328 | 51% | $1,410 | ||
42EstuariesSpringer Nature · United States | 1.83Q1 | 2.22 0.39 up from 2005 | 309 | — | — | ||
43Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research PapersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 2.39 0.19 up from 2005 | 383 | 11% | $3,270 | ||
44The Journal of GeologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.82Q1 | 2.32 0.29 up from 2005 | 155 | 15% | — | ||
45Journal of Metamorphic GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 2.70 0.02 down from 2005 | 172 | 12% | $5,000 | ||
46Journal of Sedimentary ResearchSociety for Sedimentary Geology · United States | 1.80Q1 | 2.09 0.25 up from 2005 | 252 | 5% | — | ||
47The Photogrammetric RecordWiley · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 0.94 0.40 up from 2005 | 192 | 6% | $3,030 | ||
48EpisodesOAInternational Union of Geological Sciences | 1.76Q1 | 1.93 0.88 up from 2005 | 135 | 93% | — | ||
49PaleobiologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 2.41 0.41 up from 2005 | 184 | 7% | $3,550 | ||
50Continental Shelf ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.73Q1 | 2.43 0.60 up from 2005 | 395 | 10% | $3,260 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, compared.
- Geophysics112
- Atmospheric Science66
- Paleontology53
- Oceanography52
- Earth-Surface Processes10
- Geochemistry and Petrology7
- Geology7
- Space and Planetary Science1
Journals
Citations made in 2006. Corpus-wide, 71.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
112 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 2003–2005, 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: 2006. Publication window: 2003–2005. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 308
- Window papers (baseline)
- 131,590 +8.2% from indicator year 2003
- Median OJR
- 0.8763 -0.8% from indicator year 2003
- Rising journals (2025)
- 21Comparison-group list (21)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2003–2005 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.