Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Paleontology journal rankings 2015
71 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Paleontology has 71 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR rose 0.07 on 2014 to 0.90, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.25. The top three are Newsletters on Stratigraphy, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, and Geobiology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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)
71 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1Newsletters on StratigraphyGebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung · Germany | 3.08Q1 | 2.58 2.66 down from 2014 | 40 | 12% | — | ||
2Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural HistoryAmerican Museum of Natural History · United States | 3.06Q1 | 4.30 2.46 down from 2014 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
3GeobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.39Q1 | 4.18 0.21 up from 2014 | 118 | 16% | $4,880 | ||
4Journal of Anthropological ArchaeologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.17Q1 | 2.51 0.20 down from 2014 | 136 | 21% | $3,370 | ||
5Journal of Field ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 1.57 0.22 down from 2014 | 80 | 29% | — | ||
6American AntiquityCambridge University Press · United States | 2.03Q1 | 2.30 0.86 up from 2014 | 177 | 13% | $3,550 | ||
7Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural HistoryUnited States | 1.96Q1 | 2.15 1.06 down from 2014 | 35 | 6% | — | ||
8PaleobiologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 3.08 0.72 up from 2014 | 148 | 30% | $3,550 | ||
9Cambridge Archaeological JournalCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 1.09 0.12 down from 2014 | 93 | 35% | $3,550 | ||
10Journal of Iberian GeologySpringer International Publishing · Spain | 1.70Q1 | 2.35 0.27 up from 2014 | 60 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
11Journal of Systematic PalaeontologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 2.49 0.82 down from 2014 | 145 | 22% | — | ||
12RadiocarbonCambridge University Press · United States | 1.48Q1 | 2.79 0.92 up from 2014 | 687 | 28% | $2,487 | ||
13PalaeontologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 2.86 0.54 up from 2014 | 222 | 64% | $5,000 | ||
14European Journal of ArchaeologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 1.07 0.51 down from 2014 | 90 | 26% | $3,550 | ||
15Journal of AnatomyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 2.75 0.18 up from 2014 | 363 | 93% | $4,050 | ||
16AntiquityCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.31Q1 | 1.04 0.01 down from 2014 | 488 | 25% | $3,550 | ||
17Zoological Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 1.90 1.29 down from 2014 | 370 | 76% | $3,541 | ||
18Vegetation History and ArchaeobotanySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.25Q1 | 1.85 0.80 down from 2014 | 159 | 37% | $3,790 | ||
19Journal of Mammalian EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.19Q2 | 2.10 0.43 up from 2014 | 97 | 16% | $3,790 | ||
20PalaiosSociety for Sedimentary Geology · United States | 1.16Q2 | 1.92 0.06 up from 2014 | 211 | 25% | — | ||
21Cretaceous ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 2.31 0.06 up from 2014 | 379 | 23% | $3,560 | ||
22The Paleontological Society PapersCambridge University Press · United States | 1.11Q2 | 1.39 0.10 up from 2014 | 41 | 18% | — | ||
23Journal of Vertebrate PaleontologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.11Q2 | 2.36 0.16 up from 2014 | 402 | 27% | — | ||
24Latin American AntiquityCambridge University Press · United States | 1.10Q2 | 1.10 0.29 down from 2014 | 101 | 20% | $3,550 | ||
25Comptes Rendus PalevolOAMuséum national d'histoire naturelle · France | 1.08Q2 | 1.41 0.19 up from 2014 | 172 | 26% | — | ||
26LethaiaOAWiley · Norway | 1.04Q2 | 1.74 0.29 up from 2014 | 145 | 17% | $3,300 | ||
27Proceedings of the Geologists AssociationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 2.18 0.80 up from 2014 | 167 | 16% | $3,300 | ||
28Journal of MorphologyWiley · United States | 1.02Q2 | 1.70 0.02 down from 2014 | 358 | 21% | $4,220 | ||
29Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of PalaeontologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 1.82 0.36 up from 2014 | 136 | 6% | — | ||
30FaciesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.00Q2 | 1.77 0.26 up from 2014 | 138 | 20% | $2,490 | ||
31Fossil recordOAWiley · Germany | 0.99Q2 | 2.06 1.40 up from 2014 | 53 | 100% | $1,240 | ||
32Historical BiologyTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.99Q2 | 1.69 0.15 up from 2014 | 229 | 13% | — | ||
33Palaeontologia ElectronicaOAUnited States | 0.95Q2 | 1.17 0.86 down from 2014 | 131 | 100% | — | ||
34Journal of PaleontologyCambridge University Press · United States | 0.94Q2 | 1.71 0.40 up from 2014 | 306 | 30% | $3,550 | ||
35Environmental ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.94Q2 | 1.36 0.09 down from 2014 | 81 | 15% | — | ||
36Bulletin of GeosciencesOACzechia | 0.90Q2 | 1.55 0.03 down from 2014 | 143 | 95% | — | ||
37Acta Palaeontologica PolonicaOAInstitute of Paleobiology · Poland | 0.90Q3 | 1.61no change | 224 | 100% | $23 | ||
38Palaeobiodiversity and PalaeoenvironmentsSpringer Nature · Germany | 0.89Q3 | 1.70 0.19 down from 2014 | 108 | 25% | $3,190 | ||
39The Anatomical RecordWiley · United States | 0.89Q3 | 1.63 0.28 down from 2014 | 663 | 67% | $4,430 | ||
40Ancient MesoamericaCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.87Q3 | 1.15 0.23 up from 2014 | 92 | 16% | $3,550 | ||
41Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en MijnbouwCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.85Q3 | 1.38 0.03 up from 2014 | 112 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
42Norwegian Archaeological ReviewRoutledge · Norway | 0.84Q3 | 0.83 0.13 up from 2014 | 79 | 18% | — | ||
43Swiss Journal of PalaeontologyOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 0.83Q3 | 1.60 0.79 up from 2014 | 32 | 39% | $1,340 | ||
44California ArchaeologyManey Publishing | 0.82Q3 | 0.94 0.55 up from 2014 | 56 | 14% | — | ||
45GeobiosElsevier BV · France | 0.78Q3 | 1.23 0.13 down from 2014 | 122 | 17% | $3,030 | ||
46GeodiversitasOAMuséum national d'histoire naturelle · France | 0.74Q3 | 1.33 0.27 up from 2014 | 92 | 82% | — | ||
47Ichnos/Ichnos : an international journal for plant and animal tracesTaylor & Francis · Switzerland | 0.74Q3 | 1.06 0.01 up from 2014 | 76 | 4% | — | ||
48Annales de PaléontologieElsevier BV · France | 0.72Q3 | 1.06 0.23 down from 2014 | 69 | 29% | $2,800 | ||
49Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of EdinburghCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.69Q3 | 0.77 0.24 down from 2014 | 108 | 73% | $3,550 | ||
50Paläontologische ZeitschriftSpringer Nature · Germany | 0.66Q3 | 1.31 0.07 down from 2014 | 123 | 38% | $3,190 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Paleontology highlighted.
- Geophysics142
- Atmospheric Science87
- Paleontology71
- Oceanography57
- Earth-Surface Processes14
- Geology14
- Geochemistry and Petrology6
- Space and Planetary Science2
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
25 additional Paleontology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 71
- Window papers (baseline)
- 16,591 +13.6% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.90 +13.2% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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.