Journal rankings · indicator year 2010
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Subfield ranking · 2010
Geophysics journal rankings 2010
132 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Geophysics has 132 ranked journals in 2010. The median journal has an OJR of 0.81, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2009; Q1 starts at OJR 1.36. The top three are Earth-Science Reviews, Surveys in Geophysics, and Geology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2010. 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 2007–2009, the window the 2010 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)
132 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 2009. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2007–2009, the window the 2010 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2007–2009 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 2001 to 2010. | Compare |
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1Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.08Q1 | 7.57 0.91 down from 2009 | 141 | 13% | $5,120 | ||
2Surveys in GeophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.29Q1 | 4.36 0.65 up from 2009 | 73 | 35% | $4,290 | ||
3GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 3.16Q1 | 4.50 0.18 down from 2009 | 891 | 20% | — | ||
4Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.66Q1 | 4.69 0.14 up from 2009 | 1,603 | 15% | $4,670 | ||
5Journal of the Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 3.71 0.45 up from 2009 | 268 | 24% | — | ||
6Journal of PetrologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 4.18 0.07 down from 2009 | 254 | 31% | $4,353 | ||
7Chemical GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.44Q1 | 3.62 0.48 up from 2009 | 844 | 11% | $3,550 | ||
8Geological Society of America BulletinGeological Society of America · United States | 2.43Q1 | 3.50 0.20 up from 2009 | 326 | 7% | — | ||
9Geochemistry Geophysics GeosystemsOAWiley · United States | 2.34Q1 | 4.16 0.66 up from 2009 | 662 | 62% | $3,000 | ||
10TectonicsWiley · United States | 2.30Q1 | 3.38 0.87 down from 2009 | 260 | 62% | $4,070 | ||
11Gondwana ResearchElsevier BV · Japan | 2.26Q1 | 5.05 0.74 up from 2009 | 305 | 7% | $3,700 | ||
12Precambrian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.19Q1 | 3.46 0.08 down from 2009 | 436 | 6% | $3,600 | ||
13Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 3.35 0.06 down from 2009 | 1,539 | 9% | $4,090 | ||
14Journal of Metamorphic GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 3.75 0.23 down from 2009 | 169 | 16% | $5,000 | ||
15American Journal of ScienceYale University · United States | 1.98Q1 | 3.32 0.81 up from 2009 | 117 | 73% | — | ||
16Computers & GeosciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 2.06 0.50 up from 2009 | 509 | 15% | $4,010 | ||
17Contributions to Mineralogy and PetrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.89Q1 | 2.99 0.36 down from 2009 | 308 | 23% | $3,990 | ||
18Basin ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 2.05 0.32 down from 2009 | 144 | 17% | $4,310 | ||
19Petroleum GeoscienceZoological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 1.72 0.49 up from 2009 | 85 | 5% | — | ||
20Bulletin of the Seismological Society of AmericaSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.84Q1 | 2.49 0.13 down from 2009 | 671 | 5% | — | ||
21Terra NovaWiley · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 2.60 0.21 up from 2009 | 197 | 10% | $3,720 | ||
22LithosElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 2.65 0.56 down from 2009 | 634 | 11% | $3,350 | ||
23The Journal of GeologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.68Q1 | 1.79 0.25 down from 2009 | 163 | 7% | — | ||
24GeosphereOAGeological Society of America · United States | 1.67Q1 | 1.98 0.14 down from 2009 | 138 | 69% | $2,750 | ||
25Geostandards and Geoanalytical ResearchWiley · France | 1.64Q1 | 2.93 0.65 up from 2009 | 116 | 10% | $4,200 | ||
26Geophysical Journal InternationalOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 2.99 0.12 up from 2009 | 1,195 | 72% | $3,416 | ||
27Bulletin of VolcanologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.54Q1 | 1.96 0.35 down from 2009 | 220 | 17% | $4,090 | ||
28Journal of Applied GeophysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.52Q1 | 1.96 0.79 up from 2009 | 199 | 10% | $3,180 | ||
29TectonophysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.51Q1 | 2.50 0.41 up from 2009 | 972 | 10% | $3,190 | ||
30Seismological Research LettersSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.47Q1 | 1.35 0.35 up from 2009 | 371 | 2% | — | ||
31GeophysicsSociety of Exploration Geophysicists · United States | 1.43Q1 | 2.57 0.08 up from 2009 | 837 | 13% | — | ||
32Journal of Asian Earth SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 2.00 0.33 up from 2009 | 334 | 5% | $3,330 | ||
33Economic GeologyUnited States | 1.36Q1 | 2.16 0.98 up from 2009 | 292 | 10% | — | ||
34Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.34Q2 | 2.22 0.15 up from 2009 | 833 | 10% | $3,420 | ||
35Geologica ActaOACartographic and Geological Institute of Catalonia · Spain | 1.33Q2 | 1.93 0.49 down from 2009 | 83 | 100% | — | ||
36Physics of The Earth and Planetary InteriorsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.31Q2 | 2.70 0.16 up from 2009 | 463 | 18% | $3,290 | ||
37Geological MagazineCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.31Q2 | 1.66 0.24 down from 2009 | 231 | 26% | $3,550 | ||
38International Journal of Earth SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.26Q2 | 1.94 0.33 up from 2009 | 341 | 32% | $3,890 | ||
39Swiss Journal of GeosciencesOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.24Q2 | 1.92 0.39 up from 2009 | 138 | 98% | $1,490 | ||
40GeochemistryElsevier BV · Germany | 1.24Q2 | 1.65 0.06 up from 2009 | 67 | 16% | $3,440 | ||
41Comptes Rendus GéoscienceOAAcadémie des sciences · France | 1.22Q2 | 1.93 0.54 up from 2009 | 298 | 35% | — | ||
42Annual Review of Earth and Planetary SciencesAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.18Q2 | 9.45 1.15 down from 2009 | 63 | 17% | — | ||
43Journal of South American Earth SciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.18Q2 | 1.61 0.20 up from 2009 | 223 | 29% | $2,940 | ||
44Journal of Environmental and Engineering GeophysicsUnited States | 1.17Q2 | 1.48 0.60 up from 2009 | 73 | 4% | — | ||
45Ore Geology ReviewsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.15Q2 | 2.01 0.41 up from 2009 | 155 | 38% | $3,310 | ||
46Geophysical ProspectingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 1.98 0.11 up from 2009 | 253 | 8% | $4,150 | ||
47Geological Society London Special PublicationsGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 1.50 0.37 up from 2009 | 1,123 | 5% | — | ||
48Journal of GeodynamicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 1.75 0.20 up from 2009 | 165 | 5% | $3,470 | ||
49Australian Journal of Earth SciencesTaylor & Francis · Australia | 1.11Q2 | 1.62 0.18 up from 2009 | 231 | 12% | — | ||
50Geological JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 1.30 0.16 up from 2009 | 105 | 27% | $3,540 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Geophysics highlighted.
- Geophysics132
- Atmospheric Science79
- Paleontology64
- Oceanography46
- Earth-Surface Processes13
- Geochemistry and Petrology8
- Geology7
- Space and Planetary Science2
Journals
Citations made in 2010. Corpus-wide, 73.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
35 additional Geophysics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2007–2009, 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: 2010. Publication window: 2007–2009. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 132
- Window papers (baseline)
- 37,411 +12.9% from indicator year 2007
- Median OJR
- 0.81 -2.1% from indicator year 2007
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2007–2009 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 | 96 | 100 | 104 | 106 | 110 | 110 | 112 | 115 | 124 | 125 | 132 | 132 | 137 | 135 | 138 | 142 | 143 | 147 | 143 | 147 | 144 | 144 | 143 | 145 | 144 | 144 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 22,195 | 24,527 | 25,899 | 27,552 | 29,389 | 30,972 | 32,060 | 33,149 | 34,149 | 36,589 | 37,411 | 39,777 | 41,391 | 44,251 | 47,185 | 51,168 | 52,798 | 54,046 | 54,830 | 55,678 | 56,225 | 55,555 | 55,836 | 55,115 | 54,102 | 52,558 | |
| Median OJR | 0.696 | 0.698 | 0.800 | 0.89 | 0.815 | 0.803 | 0.853 | 0.824 | 0.76 | 0.8290 | 0.81 | 0.882 | 0.8469 | 0.93 | 0.91 | 0.879 | 0.90 | 0.84 | 0.8292 | 0.79 | 0.77 | 0.8472 | 0.72 | 0.73 | 0.750 | 0.749 |
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.