Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Subfield ranking · 2013
Geophysics journal rankings 2013
135 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Geophysics has 135 ranked journals in 2013. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2012 to 0.93, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.58. The top three are Earth-Science Reviews, GSA Today, and Gondwana Research.
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 of Earth and Planetary Sciences (8)
135 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 | ||
2GSA TodayOAGeological Society of America · United States | 3.60Q1 | 4.39 0.37 up from 2012 | 59 | 25% | — | ||
3Gondwana ResearchElsevier BV · Japan | 3.30Q1 | 6.96 0.83 up from 2012 | 493 | 18% | $3,700 | ||
4Surveys in GeophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.17Q1 | 6.26 1.61 up from 2012 | 111 | 21% | $4,290 | ||
5GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 2.97Q1 | 4.85 0.04 up from 2012 | 1,018 | 29% | — | ||
5Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.97Q1 | 5.45 0.15 up from 2012 | 1,619 | 21% | $4,670 | ||
7Geological Society of America BulletinGeological Society of America · United States | 2.68Q1 | 4.54 0.20 up from 2012 | 360 | 16% | — | ||
8Journal of PetrologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 4.64 0.12 down from 2012 | 280 | 42% | $4,353 | ||
9American Journal of ScienceYale University · United States | 2.53Q1 | 4.35 0.16 up from 2012 | 115 | 67% | — | ||
10Precambrian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.46Q1 | 5.48 0.37 up from 2012 | 526 | 7% | $3,600 | ||
11Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 4.72 0.48 up from 2012 | 1,550 | 19% | $4,090 | ||
12Chemical GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.35Q1 | 3.83 0.26 up from 2012 | 886 | 16% | $3,550 | ||
13TectonicsWiley · United States | 2.34Q1 | 4.20 0.16 down from 2012 | 293 | 70% | $4,070 | ||
14Geostandards and Geoanalytical ResearchWiley · France | 2.33Q1 | 3.79 1.08 up from 2012 | 105 | 14% | $4,200 | ||
15LithosElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.15Q1 | 3.88 0.17 down from 2012 | 718 | 14% | $3,350 | ||
16Journal of Metamorphic GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 4.16 0.32 down from 2012 | 165 | 11% | $5,000 | ||
17Economic GeologyUnited States | 2.14Q1 | 2.39 0.68 down from 2012 | 310 | 8% | — | ||
18Petroleum GeoscienceZoological Society of London · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 1.71 0.56 down from 2012 | 94 | 8% | — | ||
19Journal of the Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 3.28 0.08 down from 2012 | 262 | 35% | — | ||
20Geochemistry Geophysics GeosystemsOAWiley · United States | 1.95Q1 | 3.58 0.25 down from 2012 | 754 | 71% | $3,000 | ||
21Basin ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 2.54 0.83 down from 2012 | 120 | 5% | $4,310 | ||
22Contributions to Mineralogy and PetrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.91Q1 | 3.11 0.48 down from 2012 | 345 | 16% | $3,990 | ||
23Computers & GeosciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 2.13 0.06 down from 2012 | 819 | 14% | $4,010 | ||
24Ore Geology ReviewsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.76Q1 | 3.20 0.44 up from 2012 | 205 | 13% | $3,310 | ||
25Solid EarthOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.73Q1 | 2.78 0.21 up from 2012 | 69 | 100% | $1,811 | ||
26Journal of Geophysical Research Solid EarthWiley · United States | 1.68Q1 | 2.67no 2012 value | 45 | 67% | $4,070 | ||
27Journal of Asian Earth SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 2.58 0.09 down from 2012 | 791 | 4% | $3,330 | ||
28Journal of GeodynamicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 2.65 0.22 down from 2012 | 242 | 12% | $3,470 | ||
29The Journal of GeologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.65Q1 | 2.65 0.14 down from 2012 | 124 | 2% | — | ||
30Geophysical Journal InternationalOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 3.10 0.33 down from 2012 | 1,306 | 74% | $3,416 | ||
31PreviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 1.47 0.02 up from 2012 | 122 | 83% | — | ||
32Mineralium DepositaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.59Q1 | 2.57 0.41 up from 2012 | 172 | 4% | $3,890 | ||
33GEOCHEMICAL JOURNALOAThe Geochemical Society of Japan · Japan | 1.58Q1 | 2.75 1.56 up from 2012 | 156 | 100% | — | ||
34Seismological Research LettersSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.58Q1 | 1.62 0.22 down from 2012 | 413 | 4% | — | ||
35Terra NovaWiley · United Kingdom | 1.54Q2 | 2.45 0.50 down from 2012 | 190 | 22% | $3,720 | ||
36Bulletin of VolcanologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.54Q2 | 2.78 0.43 up from 2012 | 326 | 23% | $4,090 | ||
37Geoscience FrontiersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.53Q2 | 2.65 1.39 up from 2012 | 171 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
38TectonophysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.52Q2 | 2.82 0.40 up from 2012 | 925 | 10% | $3,190 | ||
39GeochemistryElsevier BV · Germany | 1.52Q2 | 2.00 0.54 up from 2012 | 117 | 3% | $3,440 | ||
40Earth Planets and SpaceOASpringer Nature · Japan | 1.50Q2 | 3.34 0.71 down from 2012 | 405 | 97% | $1,640 | ||
41Bulletin of the Seismological Society of AmericaSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.43Q2 | 2.56 0.16 up from 2012 | 699 | 8% | — | ||
42Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.43Q2 | 2.60 0.07 down from 2012 | 579 | 16% | $3,420 | ||
43GeophysicsSociety of Exploration Geophysicists · United States | 1.39Q2 | 2.45 0.35 down from 2012 | 1,017 | 12% | — | ||
44Physics of The Earth and Planetary InteriorsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.38Q2 | 2.63 0.05 up from 2012 | 356 | 8% | $3,290 | ||
45Annual Review of Earth and Planetary SciencesAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.34Q2 | 13.02 2.00 up from 2012 | 72 | 20% | — | ||
46Journal of Structural GeologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.31Q2 | 2.36 0.24 down from 2012 | 445 | 14% | $3,380 | ||
47International Geology ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.30Q2 | 1.98 0.14 down from 2012 | 221 | 3% | — | ||
48GeosphereOAGeological Society of America · United States | 1.29Q2 | 2.83 0.78 up from 2012 | 270 | 100% | $2,750 | ||
49Geological Society London Special PublicationsGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 1.80 0.10 down from 2012 | 826 | 15% | — | ||
50Comptes Rendus GéoscienceOAAcadémie des sciences · France | 1.28Q2 | 1.92 0.10 down from 2012 | 218 | 34% | — |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Geophysics highlighted.
- 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.
34 additional Geophysics 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
- 135
- Window papers (baseline)
- 44,251 +18.3% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.93 +15.3% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
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 |
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| 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.