Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Subfield ranking · 2011
Paleontology journal rankings 2011
66 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Paleontology has 66 ranked journals in 2011. The median journal has an OJR of 0.73, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2010; Q1 starts at OJR 1.12. The top three are Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Geobiology, and Cambridge Archaeological Journal.
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 of Earth and Planetary Sciences (8)
66 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 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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1Journal of Anthropological ArchaeologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.79Q1 | 2.37 0.04 down from 2010 | 90 | 9% | $3,370 | ||
2GeobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 5.22 1.56 up from 2010 | 127 | 18% | $4,880 | ||
3Cambridge Archaeological JournalCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.39Q1 | 2.51 0.63 up from 2010 | 69 | 12% | $3,550 | ||
4RadiocarbonCambridge University Press · United States | 2.38Q1 | 3.62 0.28 up from 2010 | 306 | 97% | $2,487 | ||
5PaleobiologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 3.07 0.14 down from 2010 | 139 | 17% | $3,550 | ||
6American AntiquityCambridge University Press · United States | 2.11Q1 | 1.75 0.26 down from 2010 | 140 | 15% | $3,550 | ||
7Journal of World PrehistorySpringer Nature · United States | 2.05Q1 | 1.96 0.22 up from 2010 | 33 | 38% | $3,290 | ||
8Journal of Systematic PalaeontologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 2.76 0.11 up from 2010 | 50 | 18% | — | ||
9AntiquityCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 0.99 0.34 up from 2010 | 499 | 18% | $3,550 | ||
10Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural HistoryAmerican Museum of Natural History · United States | 1.52Q1 | 2.66 0.73 down from 2010 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
11Zoological Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.44Q1 | 2.62 0.11 up from 2010 | 297 | 79% | $3,541 | ||
12Journal of AnatomyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 2.72 0.09 up from 2010 | 468 | 85% | $4,050 | ||
13Vegetation History and ArchaeobotanySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.32Q1 | 2.33 0.12 up from 2010 | 136 | 22% | $3,790 | ||
14PalaiosSociety for Sedimentary Geology · United States | 1.28Q1 | 2.08 0.17 up from 2010 | 254 | 9% | — | ||
15Norwegian Archaeological ReviewRoutledge · Norway | 1.15Q1 | 0.51 0.08 up from 2010 | 48 | 5% | — | ||
16PalaeontologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.15Q1 | 1.67 0.37 down from 2010 | 253 | 58% | $5,000 | ||
17Environmental ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.12Q1 | 1.07 0.49 up from 2010 | 45 | 0% | — | ||
18Annales de PaléontologieElsevier BV · France | 1.11Q2 | 1.33 0.40 up from 2010 | 45 | 7% | $2,800 | ||
19Comptes Rendus PalevolOAMuséum national d'histoire naturelle · France | 1.09Q2 | 1.50 0.18 up from 2010 | 191 | 37% | — | ||
20Journal of Vertebrate PaleontologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.08Q2 | 2.02 0.12 up from 2010 | 433 | 10% | — | ||
21StratigraphyUnited States | 1.07Q2 | 1.83 0.72 up from 2010 | 65 | 5% | — | ||
22Cretaceous ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.06Q2 | 1.45 0.39 down from 2010 | 247 | 10% | $3,560 | ||
23LethaiaOAWiley · Norway | 1.05Q2 | 1.57 0.44 down from 2010 | 165 | 18% | $3,300 | ||
24Acta Palaeontologica PolonicaOAInstitute of Paleobiology · Poland | 0.94Q2 | 1.48 0.54 down from 2010 | 225 | 100% | $23 | ||
25Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of EdinburghCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 1.32 0.24 up from 2010 | 91 | 31% | $3,550 | ||
26Journal of MorphologyWiley · United States | 0.90Q2 | 1.67 0.17 up from 2010 | 303 | 9% | $4,220 | ||
27Latin American AntiquityCambridge University Press · United States | 0.88Q2 | 0.88 0.03 up from 2010 | 100 | 25% | $3,550 | ||
28FaciesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.87Q2 | 1.31 0.47 down from 2010 | 124 | 32% | $2,490 | ||
29Proceedings of the Geologists AssociationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 1.56 0.55 down from 2010 | 122 | 7% | $3,300 | ||
30The Anatomical RecordWiley · United States | 0.87Q2 | 1.72 0.03 down from 2010 | 632 | 62% | $4,430 | ||
31Journal of Field ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 0.72 0.10 up from 2010 | 85 | 11% | — | ||
32Ichnos/Ichnos : an international journal for plant and animal tracesTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.80Q2 | 0.84 0.21 down from 2010 | 64 | 12% | — | ||
33GeobiosElsevier BV · France | 0.74Q2 | 1.07 0.06 up from 2010 | 172 | 20% | $3,030 | ||
34GeodiversitasOAMuséum national d'histoire naturelle · France | 0.73Q3 | 1.10 0.03 up from 2010 | 75 | 82% | — | ||
35Paläontologische ZeitschriftSpringer Nature · Germany | 0.71Q3 | 1.17 0.15 up from 2010 | 123 | 22% | $3,190 | ||
36Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - AbhandlungenE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 0.69Q3 | 1.02 0.11 up from 2010 | 271 | 11% | — | ||
37Journal of Mammalian EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.67Q3 | 1.27 0.65 up from 2010 | 82 | 23% | $3,790 | ||
38PalaeoworldElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.66Q3 | 0.95 0.48 down from 2010 | 98 | 5% | $3,000 | ||
39Revue de MicropaléontologieElsevier BV · France | 0.63Q3 | 1.40 0.93 up from 2010 | 40 | 0% | $2,470 | ||
40Palaeobiodiversity and PalaeoenvironmentsSpringer Nature · Germany | 0.62Q3 | 0.89 0.18 down from 2010 | 45 | 13% | $3,190 | ||
41American Museum NovitatesAmerican Museum of Natural History · United States | 0.62Q3 | 1.18 0.41 up from 2010 | 214 | 48% | — | ||
42Bulletin of GeosciencesOACzechia | 0.59Q3 | 1.22 0.13 up from 2010 | 132 | 100% | — | ||
43European Journal of ArchaeologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.59Q3 | 0.30 0.16 up from 2010 | 45 | 4% | $3,550 | ||
44Journal of PaleontologyCambridge University Press · United States | 0.57Q3 | 0.85 0.09 down from 2010 | 371 | 13% | $3,550 | ||
45Historical BiologyTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.54Q3 | 0.66 0.16 down from 2010 | 96 | 6% | — | ||
46The Paleontological Society PapersCambridge University Press · United States | 0.54Q3 | 1.13 0.32 up from 2010 | 36 | 8% | — | ||
47Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural HistoryUnited States | 0.54Q3 | 0.72 0.21 up from 2010 | 39 | 0% | — | ||
48Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en MijnbouwCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.52Q3 | 0.91 0.33 up from 2010 | 81 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
| 0.52Q3 | 0.86 0.56 up from 2010 | 30 | 0% | — | |||
49Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of PalaeontologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.52Q3 | 0.84 0.60 down from 2010 | 107 | 15% | — |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Paleontology highlighted.
- 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.
28 additional Paleontology 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
- 66
- Window papers (baseline)
- 13,788 +18.5% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 0.735 +6.8% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 | 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.