Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Field ranking · 2011
Earth and Planetary Sciences journal rankings 2011
360 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Earth and Planetary Sciences has 360 ranked journals in 2011. The median journal has an OJR of 0.91, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2010; Q1 starts at OJR 1.55. The top three are Earth-Science Reviews, Nature Geoscience, and Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2011. 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 2008–2010, the window the 2011 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 Sciences360 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 2010. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2008–2010, the window the 2011 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2008–2010 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 2002 to 2011. | Compare |
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1Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.95Q1 | 7.45 0.12 down from 2010 | 154 | 14% | $5,120 | ||
2Nature GeoscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.09Q1 | 8.16 1.82 up from 2010 | 871 | 17% | $12,690 | ||
3Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 4.46Q1 | 7.49 0.16 down from 2010 | 321 | 65% | $4,070 | ||
4Atmospheric chemistry and physicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.94Q1 | 9.32 0.91 up from 2010 | 1,861 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
5Geoscientific model developmentOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.81Q1 | 6.17 3.17 up from 2010 | 63 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
6BiogeosciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.61Q1 | 6.10 0.51 up from 2010 | 607 | 100% | $1,628 | ||
7Surveys in GeophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.36Q1 | 3.88 0.47 down from 2010 | 72 | 54% | $4,290 | ||
8Quaternary Science ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 5.33 0.24 down from 2010 | 790 | 18% | $3,920 | ||
9The cryosphereOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.31Q1 | 5.49 0.72 up from 2010 | 86 | 100% | $1,574 | ||
10Climate of the pastOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.11Q1 | 5.87 1.80 up from 2010 | 147 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
11GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 3.10Q1 | 4.58 0.08 up from 2010 | 889 | 17% | — | ||
12Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 2.88Q1 | 4.56 0.46 up from 2010 | 746 | 62% | $3,530 | ||
13Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.81Q1 | 4.91 0.22 up from 2010 | 1,595 | 12% | $4,670 | ||
14Journal of Anthropological ArchaeologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.79Q1 | 2.37 0.04 down from 2010 | 90 | 9% | $3,370 | ||
15Gondwana ResearchElsevier BV · Japan | 2.79Q1 | 5.98 0.93 up from 2010 | 333 | 7% | $3,700 | ||
16ElementsMineralogical Society of America | 2.74Q1 | 3.44 0.14 down from 2010 | 114 | 3% | — | ||
17Progress in Physical Geography Earth and EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 4.23 0.88 up from 2010 | 131 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
18American Journal of ScienceYale University · United States | 2.65Q1 | 3.37 0.05 up from 2010 | 133 | 69% | — | ||
19GeobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 5.22 1.56 up from 2010 | 127 | 18% | $4,880 | ||
20Atmospheric EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.62Q1 | 4.23 0.22 up from 2010 | 2,079 | 11% | $2,910 | ||
21Geological Society of America BulletinGeological Society of America · United States | 2.61Q1 | 4.01 0.51 up from 2010 | 345 | 4% | — | ||
22PaleoceanographyAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.61Q1 | 4.55 0.27 down from 2010 | 252 | 67% | — | ||
23Journal of PetrologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 4.39 0.22 up from 2010 | 262 | 34% | $4,353 | ||
24Chemical GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.53Q1 | 3.65 0.03 up from 2010 | 828 | 13% | $3,550 | ||
25OceanographyOAOceanography Society · United States | 2.48Q1 | 3.39 0.86 up from 2010 | 258 | 100% | $500 | ||
26Global and Planetary ChangeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.47Q1 | 3.41 0.21 down from 2010 | 321 | 18% | $3,120 | ||
27Journal of the Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 3.70 0.01 down from 2010 | 285 | 27% | — | ||
28Aeolian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.41Q1 | 2.68 1.58 up from 2010 | 37 | 14% | $3,840 | ||
29GeomorphologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.41Q1 | 3.07 0.25 up from 2010 | 940 | 15% | $3,400 | ||
30Cambridge Archaeological JournalCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.39Q1 | 2.51 0.63 up from 2010 | 69 | 12% | $3,550 | ||
31Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 4.06 0.02 down from 2010 | 299 | 27% | $3,720 | ||
32RadiocarbonCambridge University Press · United States | 2.38Q1 | 3.62 0.28 up from 2010 | 306 | 97% | $2,487 | ||
33Aerosol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.36Q1 | 3.36 0.32 up from 2010 | 355 | 98% | — | ||
34The Photogrammetric RecordWiley · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 1.78 1.13 up from 2010 | 214 | 7% | $3,030 | ||
35Permafrost and Periglacial ProcessesWiley · United Kingdom | 2.27Q1 | 4.03 1.42 up from 2010 | 97 | 8% | $4,480 | ||
36Marine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.27Q1 | 3.49 0.40 up from 2010 | 267 | 14% | $3,280 | ||
37Journal of Sedimentary ResearchSociety for Sedimentary Geology · United States | 2.27Q1 | 2.94 0.24 up from 2010 | 192 | 2% | — | ||
38Quaternary GeochronologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.25Q1 | 3.63 0.52 up from 2010 | 175 | 0% | $3,350 | ||
39PaleobiologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 3.07 0.14 down from 2010 | 139 | 17% | $3,550 | ||
40TectonicsWiley · United States | 2.15Q1 | 3.47 0.09 up from 2010 | 272 | 68% | $4,070 | ||
41Geochemistry Geophysics GeosystemsOAWiley · United States | 2.12Q1 | 3.90 0.26 down from 2010 | 707 | 65% | $3,000 | ||
42Journal of Quaternary ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 3.60 0.55 up from 2010 | 249 | 19% | $4,310 | ||
43American AntiquityCambridge University Press · United States | 2.11Q1 | 1.75 0.26 down from 2010 | 140 | 15% | $3,550 | ||
44Precambrian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.09Q1 | 4.18 0.72 up from 2010 | 407 | 6% | $3,600 | ||
45Journal of Geophysical Research AtmospheresAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.06Q1 | 4.23 0.12 up from 2010 | 8,295 | 56% | $4,070 | ||
46Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 3.72 0.37 up from 2010 | 1,602 | 17% | $4,090 | ||
47Journal of World PrehistorySpringer Nature · United States | 2.05Q1 | 1.96 0.22 up from 2010 | 33 | 38% | $3,290 | ||
48Quaternary ResearchCambridge University Press · United States | 2.05Q1 | 2.76 0.31 down from 2010 | 310 | 12% | $3,550 | ||
49Computers & GeosciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 2.03 0.03 down from 2010 | 581 | 8% | $4,010 | ||
50Marine GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.02Q1 | 2.79 0.34 down from 2010 | 471 | 10% | $3,770 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, compared.
- Geophysics132
- Atmospheric Science80
- Paleontology66
- Oceanography50
- Earth-Surface Processes14
- Geochemistry and Petrology9
- Geology8
- Space and Planetary Science1
Journals
Citations made in 2011. Corpus-wide, 75.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
113 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 2008–2010, 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: 2011. Publication window: 2008–2010. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 360
- Window papers (baseline)
- 176,714 +20.9% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 0.91 +3.2% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 21Comparison-group list (21)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2008–2010 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.