Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Field ranking · 2016
Earth and Planetary Sciences journal rankings 2016
397 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Earth and Planetary Sciences has 397 ranked journals in 2016. The median journal has an OJR of 0.96, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2015; Q1 starts at OJR 1.57. The top three are Nature Geoscience, Earth-Science Reviews, and Earth system science data.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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)
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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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Nature GeoscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.61Q1 | 9.96 1.25 up from 2015 | 858 | 39% | $12,690 | ||
2Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.36Q1 | 7.78 0.61 down from 2015 | 377 | 42% | $5,120 | ||
3Earth system science dataOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 5.26Q1 | 8.91 2.86 down from 2015 | 88 | 100% | $1,509 | ||
4Bulletin of the American Meteorological SocietyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 3.65Q1 | 4.01 0.84 down from 2015 | 774 | 29% | — | ||
5Solid EarthOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.61Q1 | 6.20 2.25 up from 2015 | 215 | 100% | $1,811 | ||
6The cryosphereOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.53Q1 | 6.47 0.93 down from 2015 | 456 | 100% | $1,574 | ||
7Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 3.39Q1 | 6.07 0.06 up from 2015 | 325 | 79% | $4,070 | ||
8Journal of Applied VolcanologyOABioMed Central · Germany | 3.25Q1 | 2.63 1.63 down from 2015 | 44 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
9Gondwana ResearchElsevier BV · Japan | 3.17Q1 | 5.60 0.49 down from 2015 | 593 | 23% | $3,700 | ||
10ElementsMineralogical Society of America | 3.11Q1 | 5.18 0.72 down from 2015 | 118 | 15% | — | ||
11GSA TodayOAGeological Society of America · United States | 2.95Q1 | 3.58 0.11 up from 2015 | 53 | 32% | — | ||
12Geoscientific model developmentOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.91Q1 | 5.08 1.55 down from 2015 | 517 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
13GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 2.90Q1 | 4.76 0.06 down from 2015 | 923 | 34% | — | ||
14Atmospheric chemistry and physicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.84Q1 | 6.65 1.39 down from 2015 | 2,279 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
15Quaternary Science ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 5.07 0.68 down from 2015 | 1,001 | 47% | $3,920 | ||
16Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.80Q1 | 5.13 0.05 down from 2015 | 1,798 | 63% | $4,670 | ||
17BiogeosciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.79Q1 | 5.05 0.55 down from 2015 | 1,466 | 100% | $1,628 | ||
18Journal of Geophysical Research Earth SurfaceWiley · United States | 2.77Q1 | 4.46 0.05 down from 2015 | 439 | 73% | $4,070 | ||
19Surveys in GeophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.73Q1 | 4.71 0.22 down from 2015 | 119 | 38% | $4,290 | ||
20Progress in Physical Geography Earth and EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 3.80 0.31 up from 2015 | 133 | 30% | $3,650 | ||
21Geological Society of America BulletinGeological Society of America · United States | 2.58Q1 | 4.26 0.23 up from 2015 | 320 | 22% | — | ||
22Global and Planetary ChangeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.48Q1 | 4.23 0.17 down from 2015 | 442 | 38% | $3,120 | ||
23Journal of Operational OceanographyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 4.38 2.96 up from 2015 | 47 | 76% | — | ||
24Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 2.46Q1 | 3.83 0.28 down from 2015 | 533 | 82% | $3,530 | ||
25Contributions to Mineralogy and PetrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.43Q1 | 4.62 0.68 up from 2015 | 358 | 29% | $3,990 | ||
26Frontiers in Marine ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.40Q1 | 3.86 1.05 up from 2015 | 205 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
27GeomorphologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.39Q1 | 3.63 0.61 up from 2015 | 1,237 | 34% | $3,400 | ||
28Cambridge Archaeological JournalCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 1.50 0.41 up from 2015 | 134 | 35% | $3,550 | ||
29TectonicsWiley · United States | 2.37Q1 | 4.65 0.36 up from 2015 | 331 | 64% | $4,070 | ||
30Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 4.91 0.16 up from 2015 | 1,449 | 57% | $4,090 | ||
31Journal of Anthropological ArchaeologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.37Q1 | 2.41 0.10 down from 2015 | 158 | 40% | $3,370 | ||
32Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural HeritageElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.36Q1 | 1.56 0.35 down from 2015 | 32 | 30% | $2,810 | ||
33SedimentologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 3.54 0.09 up from 2015 | 242 | 34% | $4,250 | ||
34American Journal of ScienceYale University · United States | 2.33Q1 | 3.88 0.16 up from 2015 | 114 | 24% | — | ||
35Climate of the pastOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.32Q1 | 4.42 1.06 down from 2015 | 427 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
36Journal of Geophysical Research AtmospheresAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.29Q1 | 4.31 1.07 down from 2015 | 2,533 | 70% | $4,070 | ||
37OceanographyOAOceanography Society · United States | 2.29Q1 | 2.91 0.22 down from 2015 | 267 | 100% | $500 | ||
38Journal of PetrologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 3.97 0.22 down from 2015 | 235 | 40% | $4,353 | ||
39Journal of Geophysical Research Solid EarthWiley · United States | 2.23Q1 | 4.15 0.16 up from 2015 | 1,334 | 71% | $4,070 | ||
40Marine GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.22Q1 | 3.73no change | 483 | 40% | $3,770 | ||
41Marine ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.21Q1 | 3.88 0.03 up from 2015 | 362 | 42% | $3,280 | ||
42Journal of GlaciologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 4.27 0.01 down from 2015 | 313 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
43Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 3.91 0.49 up from 2015 | 483 | 53% | $3,720 | ||
44Journal of HydrometeorologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.20Q1 | 4.23 0.03 down from 2015 | 443 | 26% | — | ||
45Atmospheric EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 4.08 0.15 down from 2015 | 2,496 | 41% | $2,910 | ||
46Coastal EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.16Q1 | 3.07 0.18 down from 2015 | 391 | 45% | $4,250 | ||
47Ocean scienceOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.15Q1 | 3.73 0.56 down from 2015 | 202 | 100% | $1,412 | ||
48Geoscience FrontiersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.11Q1 | 3.71 0.11 up from 2015 | 233 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
49Computers & GeosciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 2.75 0.01 down from 2015 | 596 | 33% | $4,010 | ||
50LithosElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.10Q1 | 4.05 0.14 up from 2015 | 867 | 27% | $3,350 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, compared.
- Geophysics143
- Atmospheric Science90
- Paleontology70
- Oceanography55
- Geology16
- Earth-Surface Processes14
- Geochemistry and Petrology6
- Space and Planetary Science3
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
114 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 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 397
- Window papers (baseline)
- 220,606 +13.1% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.960 +0.2% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 21Comparison-group list (21)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.