Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Field ranking · 2013
Earth and Planetary Sciences journal rankings 2013
379 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Earth and Planetary Sciences has 379 ranked journals in 2013. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2012 to 0.96, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.61. The top three are Earth-Science Reviews, Geoscientific model development, and Nature Geoscience.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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 Sciences379 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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.36Q1 | 9.10 0.10 up from 2012 | 210 | 20% | $5,120 | ||
2Geoscientific model developmentOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 5.78Q1 | 10.02 0.20 down from 2012 | 193 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
3Nature GeoscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.16Q1 | 7.57 0.89 down from 2012 | 877 | 24% | $12,690 | ||
4Bulletin of the American Meteorological SocietyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 4.38Q1 | 5.10 1.12 up from 2012 | 579 | 40% | — | ||
5Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 4.22Q1 | 6.53 0.03 down from 2012 | 310 | 75% | $4,070 | ||
6The cryosphereOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.79Q1 | 7.31 0.95 up from 2012 | 237 | 100% | $1,574 | ||
7Atmospheric chemistry and physicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.71Q1 | 8.08 0.60 down from 2012 | 2,292 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
8GSA TodayOAGeological Society of America · United States | 3.60Q1 | 4.39 0.37 up from 2012 | 59 | 25% | — | ||
9ElementsMineralogical Society of America | 3.53Q1 | 6.21 1.05 up from 2012 | 119 | 8% | — | ||
10BiogeosciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.52Q1 | 5.80 0.09 down from 2012 | 877 | 100% | $1,628 | ||
11Progress in Physical Geography Earth and EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.44Q1 | 5.08 0.52 up from 2012 | 139 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
12Gondwana ResearchElsevier BV · Japan | 3.30Q1 | 6.96 0.83 up from 2012 | 493 | 18% | $3,700 | ||
13Surveys in GeophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.17Q1 | 6.26 1.61 up from 2012 | 111 | 21% | $4,290 | ||
14Quaternary Science ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.99Q1 | 5.37 0.28 up from 2012 | 848 | 25% | $3,920 | ||
15Journal of World PrehistorySpringer Nature · United States | 2.98Q1 | 2.55 0.38 up from 2012 | 30 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
16GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 2.97Q1 | 4.85 0.04 up from 2012 | 1,018 | 29% | — | ||
16Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.97Q1 | 5.45 0.15 up from 2012 | 1,619 | 21% | $4,670 | ||
18Earth system science dataOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.94Q1 | 5.45 0.12 up from 2012 | 41 | 100% | $1,509 | ||
19Aeolian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.81Q1 | 3.53 1.03 up from 2012 | 109 | 13% | $3,840 | ||
20Climate of the pastOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.77Q1 | 5.24 0.51 down from 2012 | 287 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
21GeobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 4.60 0.54 up from 2012 | 114 | 22% | $4,880 | ||
22Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural HistoryAmerican Museum of Natural History · United States | 2.70Q1 | 7.60 3.92 up from 2012 | 42 | 67% | — | ||
23Coastal Engineering JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 3.27 2.43 up from 2012 | 62 | 14% | — | ||
24Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 5.17 0.78 up from 2012 | 254 | 29% | $3,720 | ||
25Geological Society of America BulletinGeological Society of America · United States | 2.68Q1 | 4.54 0.20 up from 2012 | 360 | 16% | — | ||
26Journal of PetrologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 4.64 0.12 down from 2012 | 280 | 42% | $4,353 | ||
27PaleoceanographyAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.64Q1 | 5.08 0.73 up from 2012 | 252 | 82% | — | ||
28Journal of HydrometeorologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.60Q1 | 4.70 0.23 up from 2012 | 322 | 50% | — | ||
29GeomorphologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.59Q1 | 3.21 0.38 up from 2012 | 1,008 | 15% | $3,400 | ||
30Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 2.57Q1 | 4.21 0.09 up from 2012 | 584 | 54% | $3,530 | ||
31Global and Planetary ChangeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 4.25 0.13 down from 2012 | 390 | 18% | $3,120 | ||
32American Journal of ScienceYale University · United States | 2.53Q1 | 4.35 0.16 up from 2012 | 115 | 67% | — | ||
33Journal of Anthropological ArchaeologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.53Q1 | 2.75 0.29 down from 2012 | 107 | 19% | $3,370 | ||
34The Photogrammetric RecordWiley · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 0.95 1.01 down from 2012 | 212 | 11% | $3,030 | ||
35Precambrian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.46Q1 | 5.48 0.37 up from 2012 | 526 | 7% | $3,600 | ||
36Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.44Q1 | 5.50 1.27 up from 2012 | 653 | 27% | $4,320 | ||
37Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 4.72 0.48 up from 2012 | 1,550 | 19% | $4,090 | ||
38Journal of GlaciologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 4.38 0.54 up from 2012 | 334 | 98% | $2,600 | ||
39Chemical GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.35Q1 | 3.83 0.26 up from 2012 | 886 | 16% | $3,550 | ||
40TectonicsWiley · United States | 2.34Q1 | 4.20 0.16 down from 2012 | 293 | 70% | $4,070 | ||
41Geostandards and Geoanalytical ResearchWiley · France | 2.33Q1 | 3.79 1.08 up from 2012 | 105 | 14% | $4,200 | ||
42Journal of Geophysical Research AtmospheresAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.33Q1 | 4.37 0.30 up from 2012 | 8,708 | 66% | $4,070 | ||
43OceanographyOAOceanography Society · United States | 2.32Q1 | 2.99 0.60 up from 2012 | 290 | 100% | $500 | ||
44Permafrost and Periglacial ProcessesWiley · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 2.64 1.69 down from 2012 | 95 | 5% | $4,480 | ||
45Atmospheric EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 3.79 0.05 down from 2012 | 2,401 | 20% | $2,910 | ||
46The HoloceneSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.27Q1 | 3.83 0.14 down from 2012 | 375 | 17% | $3,650 | ||
47GeoheritageSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.27Q1 | 2.00 0.24 up from 2012 | 62 | 27% | $2,490 | ||
48Aerosol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.25Q1 | 3.59 0.36 up from 2012 | 420 | 97% | — | ||
49Marine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.21Q1 | 3.78 0.29 up from 2012 | 216 | 12% | $3,280 | ||
50Quaternary GeochronologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.19Q1 | 2.92 1.86 down from 2012 | 220 | 22% | $3,350 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, compared.
- Geophysics135
- Atmospheric Science82
- Paleontology69
- Oceanography54
- Earth-Surface Processes16
- Geology14
- Geochemistry and Petrology7
- Space and Planetary Science2
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
112 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 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 379
- Window papers (baseline)
- 195,134 +17.0% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.958 +3.5% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 21Comparison-group list (21)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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.