Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Field ranking · 2008
Earth and Planetary Sciences journal rankings 2008
333 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Earth and Planetary Sciences has 333 ranked journals in 2008. The median journal has an OJR of 0.88, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2007; Q1 starts at OJR 1.45. The top three are Earth-Science Reviews, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, and Atmospheric chemistry and physics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2008. 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 2005–2007, the window the 2008 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 Sciences333 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 2007. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2005–2007 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 2008. | Compare |
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1Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.27Q1 | 7.17 2.32 up from 2007 | 151 | 10% | $5,120 | ||
2Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 4.05Q1 | 5.90 0.18 down from 2007 | 314 | 62% | $4,070 | ||
3Atmospheric chemistry and physicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.83Q1 | 7.53 0.16 up from 2007 | 944 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
4BiogeosciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.54Q1 | 5.40 1.13 up from 2007 | 157 | 100% | $1,628 | ||
5Progress in Physical Geography Earth and EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 4.29 0.88 up from 2007 | 120 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
6Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 3.08Q1 | 4.72 0.68 up from 2007 | 701 | 57% | $3,530 | ||
7PaleoceanographyAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.91Q1 | 4.55 0.54 down from 2007 | 236 | 66% | — | ||
8GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 2.86Q1 | 4.06 0.08 down from 2007 | 981 | 12% | — | ||
9Journal of PetrologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 4.31 0.22 up from 2007 | 263 | 38% | $4,353 | ||
10Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.75Q1 | 4.36 0.35 down from 2007 | 1,621 | 13% | $4,670 | ||
11Quaternary Science ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.72Q1 | 4.00 1.47 down from 2007 | 584 | 14% | $3,920 | ||
12GeobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 3.39 0.06 down from 2007 | 93 | 18% | $4,880 | ||
13Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 4.27 1.78 up from 2007 | 247 | 6% | $3,720 | ||
14Journal of Anthropological ArchaeologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.57Q1 | 1.59 0.30 up from 2007 | 88 | 3% | $3,370 | ||
15Climate of the pastOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.57Q1 | 3.92 1.52 up from 2007 | 75 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
16Aerosol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.55Q1 | 3.10 0.28 up from 2007 | 300 | 99% | — | ||
17Journal of HydrometeorologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.53Q1 | 4.35 1.31 up from 2007 | 240 | 43% | — | ||
18Chemical GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.52Q1 | 3.76 0.51 up from 2007 | 706 | 8% | $3,550 | ||
19Marine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.33Q1 | 3.04 0.33 up from 2007 | 389 | 10% | $3,280 | ||
20Contributions to Mineralogy and PetrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.30Q1 | 3.73 0.52 up from 2007 | 312 | 23% | $3,990 | ||
21Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 2.76 0.71 down from 2007 | 524 | 16% | $4,320 | ||
22Cambridge Archaeological JournalCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 1.47 0.33 up from 2007 | 54 | 4% | $3,550 | ||
23Geochemistry Geophysics GeosystemsOAWiley · United States | 2.17Q1 | 3.80 0.40 up from 2007 | 548 | 62% | $3,000 | ||
24TectonicsWiley · United States | 2.16Q1 | 3.12 0.29 up from 2007 | 240 | 57% | $4,070 | ||
25Journal of the Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 3.19 0.47 up from 2007 | 284 | 17% | — | ||
26American Journal of ScienceYale University · United States | 2.12Q1 | 2.25 0.84 down from 2007 | 111 | 68% | — | ||
27Geological Society of America BulletinGeological Society of America · United States | 2.12Q1 | 2.70 0.54 down from 2007 | 385 | 6% | — | ||
28Atmospheric EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 3.47 0.45 up from 2007 | 2,445 | 9% | $2,910 | ||
29Global and Planetary ChangeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.09Q1 | 3.23 0.34 up from 2007 | 363 | 9% | $3,120 | ||
30American AntiquityCambridge University Press · United States | 2.08Q1 | 1.86 0.35 up from 2007 | 163 | 12% | $3,550 | ||
31Journal of Geophysical Research AtmospheresAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.08Q1 | 4.13 0.38 up from 2007 | 6,943 | 53% | $4,070 | ||
32GeomorphologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.05Q1 | 2.44 0.24 up from 2007 | 843 | 8% | $3,400 | ||
33Quaternary GeochronologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.05Q1 | 3.12 1.80 up from 2007 | 117 | 5% | $3,350 | ||
34Marine GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.03Q1 | 2.83 0.42 up from 2007 | 516 | 6% | $3,770 | ||
35Basin ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 2.74 0.24 down from 2007 | 94 | 12% | $4,310 | ||
36Geological Society London MemoirsZoological Society of London · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 3.46 2.09 up from 2007 | 57 | 0% | — | ||
37Journal of the Atmospheric SciencesAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.00Q1 | 4.07 0.87 up from 2007 | 765 | 54% | — | ||
38The Journal of GeologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.00Q1 | 2.69 0.10 down from 2007 | 136 | 8% | — | ||
39Journal of Quaternary ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 3.02 0.45 down from 2007 | 214 | 23% | $4,310 | ||
40Quaternary ResearchCambridge University Press · United States | 1.98Q1 | 2.88 0.02 down from 2007 | 278 | 16% | $3,550 | ||
41Bulletin of the Seismological Society of AmericaSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.94Q1 | 2.94 0.42 up from 2007 | 588 | 3% | — | ||
42PaleobiologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 2.67 0.46 down from 2007 | 180 | 9% | $3,550 | ||
43The Photogrammetric RecordWiley · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 0.82 0.41 down from 2007 | 193 | 8% | $3,030 | ||
44The HoloceneSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 2.85 0.83 down from 2007 | 329 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
45Precambrian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.89Q1 | 2.90 0.23 down from 2007 | 446 | 11% | $3,600 | ||
46Limnology and Oceanography MethodsWiley · United States | 1.87Q1 | 2.34 0.42 down from 2007 | 150 | 54% | $3,530 | ||
47Bulletin of VolcanologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.85Q1 | 2.34 0.66 up from 2007 | 229 | 13% | $4,090 | ||
48Continental Shelf ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 2.58 0.49 up from 2007 | 488 | 9% | $3,260 | ||
49Journal of Metamorphic GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 3.52 0.15 up from 2007 | 165 | 10% | $5,000 | ||
50Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research PapersElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 2.67 0.25 up from 2007 | 372 | 10% | $3,270 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, compared.
- Geophysics124
- Atmospheric Science71
- Paleontology62
- Oceanography47
- Earth-Surface Processes12
- Geology8
- Geochemistry and Petrology7
- Space and Planetary Science2
Journals
Citations made in 2008. Corpus-wide, 71.1% 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 2005–2007, 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: 2008. Publication window: 2005–2007. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 333
- Window papers (baseline)
- 146,161 +16.1% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.882 +2.2% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 21Comparison-group list (21)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2005–2007 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.