Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Subfield ranking · 2014
Geophysics journal rankings 2014
138 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Geophysics has 138 ranked journals in 2014. The median journal has an OJR of 0.91, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2013; Q1 starts at OJR 1.60. The top three are Earth-Science Reviews, Gondwana Research, and GSA Today.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2014. 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 2011–2013, the window the 2014 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)
138 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 2013. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2011–2013, the window the 2014 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2011–2013 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 2005 to 2014. | Compare |
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1Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.30Q1 | 9.36 0.26 up from 2013 | 266 | 23% | $5,120 | ||
2Gondwana ResearchElsevier BV · Japan | 3.47Q1 | 6.47 0.49 down from 2013 | 600 | 20% | $3,700 | ||
3GSA TodayOAGeological Society of America · United States | 3.43Q1 | 4.00 0.39 down from 2013 | 53 | 30% | — | ||
4GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 2.93Q1 | 4.98 0.12 up from 2013 | 987 | 30% | — | ||
5Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.76Q1 | 5.29 0.16 down from 2013 | 1,612 | 25% | $4,670 | ||
6Surveys in GeophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.73Q1 | 3.71 2.55 down from 2013 | 146 | 18% | $4,290 | ||
7Geological Society of America BulletinGeological Society of America · United States | 2.66Q1 | 4.60 0.06 up from 2013 | 322 | 14% | — | ||
8American Journal of ScienceYale University · United States | 2.52Q1 | 3.67 0.68 down from 2013 | 90 | 73% | — | ||
9Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.48Q1 | 4.74 0.02 up from 2013 | 1,543 | 26% | $4,090 | ||
10Journal of PetrologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 4.42 0.22 down from 2013 | 258 | 35% | $4,353 | ||
11Journal of Metamorphic GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.31Q1 | 4.32 0.16 up from 2013 | 150 | 17% | $5,000 | ||
12Chemical GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.31Q1 | 3.95 0.13 up from 2013 | 984 | 19% | $3,550 | ||
13Precambrian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.26Q1 | 5.21 0.27 down from 2013 | 566 | 10% | $3,600 | ||
14Journal of Geophysical Research Solid EarthWiley · United States | 2.20Q1 | 3.65 0.99 up from 2013 | 451 | 65% | $4,070 | ||
15LithosElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.20Q1 | 4.52 0.65 up from 2013 | 773 | 10% | $3,350 | ||
16TectonicsWiley · United States | 2.15Q1 | 3.84 0.36 down from 2013 | 279 | 59% | $4,070 | ||
17Computers & GeosciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 2.60 0.46 up from 2013 | 799 | 15% | $4,010 | ||
18Geostandards and Geoanalytical ResearchWiley · France | 1.96Q1 | 2.74 1.05 down from 2013 | 97 | 18% | $4,200 | ||
19Basin ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 2.81 0.27 up from 2013 | 104 | 13% | $4,310 | ||
20Ore Geology ReviewsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.91Q1 | 3.65 0.45 up from 2013 | 310 | 28% | $3,310 | ||
21Contributions to Mineralogy and PetrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.86Q1 | 3.64 0.52 up from 2013 | 332 | 28% | $3,990 | ||
22Geoscience FrontiersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.83Q1 | 3.28 0.63 up from 2013 | 225 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
23Geochemistry Geophysics GeosystemsOAWiley · United States | 1.83Q1 | 3.34 0.24 down from 2013 | 861 | 71% | $3,000 | ||
24Bulletin of VolcanologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.83Q1 | 3.36 0.58 up from 2013 | 338 | 11% | $4,090 | ||
25Journal of the Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 2.76 0.52 down from 2013 | 266 | 43% | — | ||
26Solid EarthOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.79Q1 | 3.45 0.67 up from 2013 | 91 | 100% | $1,811 | ||
27TectonophysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.73Q1 | 3.08 0.26 up from 2013 | 1,095 | 19% | $3,190 | ||
28Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.71Q1 | 3.22 0.62 up from 2013 | 550 | 19% | $3,420 | ||
29Journal of GeodynamicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 2.27 0.38 down from 2013 | 227 | 12% | $3,470 | ||
30The Journal of GeologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.68Q1 | 3.21 0.56 up from 2013 | 107 | 9% | — | ||
31Terra NovaWiley · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 2.80 0.35 up from 2013 | 196 | 22% | $3,720 | ||
32Bulletin of the Seismological Society of AmericaSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.67Q1 | 2.98 0.42 up from 2013 | 724 | 14% | — | ||
33Mineralium DepositaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.66Q1 | 2.87 0.30 up from 2013 | 174 | 14% | $3,890 | ||
34Journal of Asian Earth SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 2.63 0.04 up from 2013 | 971 | 6% | $3,330 | ||
35Journal of Structural GeologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 3.05 0.69 up from 2013 | 422 | 24% | $3,380 | ||
36Petroleum GeoscienceZoological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.60Q2 | 1.73 0.02 up from 2013 | 87 | 16% | — | ||
37Economic GeologyUnited States | 1.53Q2 | 2.38 0.01 down from 2013 | 343 | 18% | — | ||
38Geophysical Journal InternationalOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.50Q2 | 2.94 0.16 down from 2013 | 1,405 | 78% | $3,416 | ||
39Comptes Rendus GéoscienceOAAcadémie des sciences · France | 1.48Q2 | 2.34 0.41 up from 2013 | 186 | 43% | — | ||
40GeophysicsSociety of Exploration Geophysicists · United States | 1.38Q2 | 2.58 0.13 up from 2013 | 1,033 | 14% | — | ||
41Earth Planets and SpaceOASpringer Nature · Japan | 1.37Q2 | 1.68 1.66 down from 2013 | 458 | 100% | $1,640 | ||
42PreviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.34Q2 | 0.22 1.25 down from 2013 | 136 | 86% | — | ||
43Geophysical ProspectingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 2.61 0.60 up from 2013 | 290 | 10% | $4,150 | ||
44GeosphereOAGeological Society of America · United States | 1.30Q2 | 2.39 0.44 down from 2013 | 268 | 100% | $2,750 | ||
45Seismological Research LettersSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.30Q2 | 1.58 0.04 down from 2013 | 420 | 11% | — | ||
46Geologica ActaOACartographic and Geological Institute of Catalonia · Spain | 1.29Q2 | 2.95 0.90 up from 2013 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
47Geological MagazineCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 1.58 0.48 down from 2013 | 271 | 38% | $3,550 | ||
48Journal of Applied GeophysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.29Q2 | 2.17 0.29 up from 2013 | 476 | 7% | $3,180 | ||
49GeochemistryElsevier BV · Germany | 1.28Q2 | 1.79 0.21 down from 2013 | 127 | 15% | $3,440 | ||
50GEOCHEMICAL JOURNALOAThe Geochemical Society of Japan · Japan | 1.28Q2 | 2.20 0.56 down from 2013 | 157 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Geophysics highlighted.
- Geophysics138
- Atmospheric Science85
- Paleontology71
- Oceanography54
- Earth-Surface Processes15
- Geology14
- Geochemistry and Petrology6
- Space and Planetary Science2
Journals
Citations made in 2014. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
32 additional Geophysics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2011–2013, 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: 2014. Publication window: 2011–2013. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 138
- Window papers (baseline)
- 47,185 +18.6% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 0.91 +2.9% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2011–2013 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.