Journal rankings · indicator year 2007
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Subfield ranking · 2007
Paleontology journal rankings 2007
61 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Paleontology has 61 ranked journals in 2007. The median journal has an OJR of 0.65, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2006; Q1 starts at OJR 1.20. The top three are Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Radiocarbon, and Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2007. 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 2004–2006, the window the 2007 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)
61 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 2006. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2004–2006, the window the 2007 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2004–2006 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 2007. | Compare |
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1Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural HistoryAmerican Museum of Natural History · United States | 5.17Q1 | 21.29 18.63 up from 2006 | 39 | 67% | — | ||
2RadiocarbonCambridge University Press · United States | 2.78Q1 | 1.02 2.44 down from 2006 | 249 | 99% | $2,487 | ||
3Journal of Anthropological ArchaeologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.42Q1 | 1.30 0.19 down from 2006 | 84 | 3% | $3,370 | ||
4GeobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.31Q1 | 3.45 0.41 up from 2006 | 76 | 17% | $4,880 | ||
5PaleobiologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 3.13 0.72 up from 2006 | 172 | 8% | $3,550 | ||
6Zoological Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 2.83 0.31 up from 2006 | 157 | 71% | $3,541 | ||
7American AntiquityCambridge University Press · United States | 1.59Q1 | 1.50 0.46 up from 2006 | 165 | 16% | $3,550 | ||
8PalaiosSociety for Sedimentary Geology · United States | 1.50Q1 | 1.98 0.51 up from 2006 | 194 | 7% | — | ||
9LethaiaOAWiley · Norway | 1.33Q1 | 1.51 0.28 down from 2006 | 110 | 6% | $3,300 | ||
10Cambridge Archaeological JournalCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 1.13 0.18 up from 2006 | 59 | 10% | $3,550 | ||
11AntiquityCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.28Q1 | 0.69 0.20 up from 2006 | 474 | 12% | $3,550 | ||
12Vegetation History and ArchaeobotanySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.27Q1 | 1.44 0.40 up from 2006 | 153 | 29% | $3,790 | ||
12Journal of Mammalian EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.27Q1 | 1.70 0.35 up from 2006 | 58 | 5% | $3,790 | ||
14Journal of Systematic PalaeontologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.26Q1 | 2.02 0.85 up from 2006 | 62 | 15% | — | ||
15Journal of AnatomyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.22Q1 | 2.84 0.56 up from 2006 | 421 | 86% | $4,050 | ||
16Proceedings of the Prehistoric SocietyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.20Q1 | 1.21 0.57 up from 2006 | 47 | 12% | $3,550 | ||
17Comptes Rendus PalevolOAMuséum national d'histoire naturelle · France | 1.17Q2 | 1.20 0.02 down from 2006 | 256 | 33% | — | ||
18Journal of MorphologyWiley · United States | 1.08Q2 | 2.15 0.72 up from 2006 | 323 | 10% | $4,220 | ||
19Proceedings of the Geologists AssociationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 0.80 0.07 up from 2006 | 99 | 0% | $3,300 | ||
20Historical BiologyTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.96Q2 | 1.00 0.33 down from 2006 | 40 | 20% | — | ||
21PalaeontologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 1.34 0.02 up from 2006 | 236 | 56% | $5,000 | ||
22Norwegian Archaeological ReviewRoutledge · Norway | 0.82Q2 | 0.43 0.25 down from 2006 | 30 | 5% | — | ||
23Cretaceous ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 1.23 0.12 up from 2006 | 205 | 6% | $3,560 | ||
24Ancient MesoamericaCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.76Q2 | 0.62 0.12 up from 2006 | 62 | 24% | $3,550 | ||
25Journal of Field ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.75Q2 | 0.28 0.24 down from 2006 | 115 | 6% | — | ||
26Latin American AntiquityCambridge University Press · United States | 0.75Q2 | 0.77 0.17 up from 2006 | 115 | 19% | $3,550 | ||
27European Journal of ArchaeologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.74Q2 | 0.17 0.20 down from 2006 | 53 | 5% | $3,550 | ||
28Journal of Vertebrate PaleontologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.74Q2 | 1.12 0.14 down from 2006 | 348 | 5% | — | ||
29PalaeoworldElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.72Q2 | 0.88no 2006 value | 32 | 0% | $3,000 | ||
30Journal of PaleontologyCambridge University Press · United States | 0.71Q2 | 1.02 0.18 up from 2006 | 414 | 7% | $3,550 | ||
31GeobiosElsevier BV · France | 0.65Q2 | 0.75 0.02 down from 2006 | 226 | 5% | $3,030 | ||
32StratigraphyUnited States | 0.65Q3 | 0.44 0.52 down from 2006 | 40 | 6% | — | ||
33Paläontologische ZeitschriftSpringer Nature · Germany | 0.63Q3 | 1.05 0.33 up from 2006 | 81 | 8% | $3,190 | ||
34FaciesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.63Q3 | 1.06 0.06 down from 2006 | 140 | 10% | $2,490 | ||
35Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of PalaeontologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 0.41 0.22 down from 2006 | 126 | 12% | — | ||
36Paleontological ResearchJapan | 0.59Q3 | 0.60 0.42 down from 2006 | 76 | 0% | — | ||
| 0.52Q3 | 0.77 0.10 down from 2006 | 37 | 38% | — | |||
38Carnets de géologie (Notebooks on geology)OASociety for Sedimentary Geology · France | 0.51Q3 | 0.86 0.68 up from 2006 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
39Newsletters on StratigraphyGebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung · Germany | 0.51Q3 | 0.19 0.06 down from 2006 | 44 | 0% | — | ||
40Ichnos/Ichnos : an international journal for plant and animal tracesTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.47Q3 | 0.59 0.36 down from 2006 | 102 | 0% | — | ||
41Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of EdinburghCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.45Q3 | 0.55 0.32 down from 2006 | 123 | 11% | $3,550 | ||
42Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en MijnbouwCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.45Q3 | 0.78 0.42 up from 2006 | 121 | 93% | $1,725 | ||
43Revue de MicropaléontologieElsevier BV · France | 0.44Q3 | 0.61 0.28 up from 2006 | 79 | 5% | $2,470 | ||
44Environmental ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.43Q3 | 0.80 0.46 up from 2006 | 88 | 21% | — | ||
45Scottish Journal of GeologyZoological Society of London · United Kingdom | 0.43Q3 | 0.70 0.05 up from 2006 | 56 | 0% | — | ||
46The Paleontological Society PapersCambridge University Press · United States | 0.42Q3 | 0.52 0.15 up from 2006 | 35 | 14% | — | ||
47Senckenbergiana lethaeaSpringer Nature · Germany | 0.37Q4 | 0.38 0.04 up from 2006 | 63 | 8% | — | ||
48Gujizhui dongwu xuebaoPublisher not listed | 0.35Q4 | 0.72 0.61 up from 2006 | 52 | 0% | — | ||
49American Museum NovitatesAmerican Museum of Natural History · United States | 0.35Q4 | 0.51 0.08 up from 2006 | 378 | 65% | — | ||
50Annales de PaléontologieElsevier BV · France | 0.34Q4 | 0.26 0.45 down from 2006 | 68 | 0% | $2,800 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Paleontology highlighted.
- Geophysics115
- Atmospheric Science66
- Paleontology61
- Oceanography47
- Earth-Surface Processes12
- Geochemistry and Petrology8
- Geology7
- Space and Planetary Science1
Journals
Citations made in 2007. Corpus-wide, 72.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
24 additional Paleontology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2004–2006, 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: 2007. Publication window: 2004–2006. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 61
- Window papers (baseline)
- 10,925 +15.0% from indicator year 2004
- Median OJR
- 0.65 +4.9% from indicator year 2004
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2004–2006 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 | 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.