Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Geophysics journal rankings 2016
143 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Geophysics has 143 ranked journals in 2016. The median journal has an OJR of 0.90, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2015; Q1 starts at OJR 1.58. The top three are Earth-Science Reviews, Solid Earth, and Gondwana Research.
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 of Earth and Planetary Sciences (8)
143 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 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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1Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.36Q1 | 7.78 0.61 down from 2015 | 377 | 42% | $5,120 | ||
2Solid EarthOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.61Q1 | 6.20 2.25 up from 2015 | 215 | 100% | $1,811 | ||
3Gondwana ResearchElsevier BV · Japan | 3.17Q1 | 5.60 0.49 down from 2015 | 593 | 23% | $3,700 | ||
4GSA TodayOAGeological Society of America · United States | 2.95Q1 | 3.58 0.11 up from 2015 | 53 | 32% | — | ||
5GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 2.90Q1 | 4.76 0.06 down from 2015 | 923 | 34% | — | ||
6Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.80Q1 | 5.13 0.05 down from 2015 | 1,798 | 63% | $4,670 | ||
7Surveys in GeophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.73Q1 | 4.71 0.22 down from 2015 | 119 | 38% | $4,290 | ||
8Geological Society of America BulletinGeological Society of America · United States | 2.58Q1 | 4.26 0.23 up from 2015 | 320 | 22% | — | ||
9Contributions to Mineralogy and PetrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.43Q1 | 4.62 0.68 up from 2015 | 358 | 29% | $3,990 | ||
10TectonicsWiley · United States | 2.37Q1 | 4.65 0.36 up from 2015 | 331 | 64% | $4,070 | ||
11Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 4.91 0.16 up from 2015 | 1,449 | 57% | $4,090 | ||
12American Journal of ScienceYale University · United States | 2.33Q1 | 3.88 0.16 up from 2015 | 114 | 24% | — | ||
13Journal of PetrologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 3.97 0.22 down from 2015 | 235 | 40% | $4,353 | ||
14Journal of Geophysical Research Solid EarthWiley · United States | 2.23Q1 | 4.15 0.16 up from 2015 | 1,334 | 71% | $4,070 | ||
15Geoscience FrontiersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.11Q1 | 3.71 0.11 up from 2015 | 233 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
16Computers & GeosciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 2.75 0.01 down from 2015 | 596 | 33% | $4,010 | ||
17LithosElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.10Q1 | 4.05 0.14 up from 2015 | 867 | 27% | $3,350 | ||
18Chemical GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.09Q1 | 3.69 0.28 down from 2015 | 1,013 | 40% | $3,550 | ||
19Bulletin of VolcanologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.08Q1 | 3.69 0.08 up from 2015 | 310 | 33% | $4,090 | ||
20Basin ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 2.77 0.23 up from 2015 | 164 | 28% | $4,310 | ||
21GeophysicsSociety of Exploration Geophysicists · United States | 2.00Q1 | 4.12 1.24 up from 2015 | 994 | 16% | — | ||
22Geostandards and Geoanalytical ResearchWiley · France | 1.97Q1 | 3.33 0.31 up from 2015 | 108 | 24% | $4,200 | ||
23Precambrian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.94Q1 | 3.90 0.13 up from 2015 | 749 | 22% | $3,600 | ||
24Journal of the Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 3.03 0.29 up from 2015 | 258 | 41% | — | ||
25Frontiers in Earth ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.80Q1 | 3.46 0.95 up from 2015 | 127 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
26Geochemistry Geophysics GeosystemsOAWiley · United States | 1.79Q1 | 3.63 0.08 up from 2015 | 857 | 71% | $3,000 | ||
27Progress in Earth and Planetary ScienceOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.75Q1 | 3.45 0.45 up from 2015 | 73 | 100% | $1,870 | ||
28Geophysical ProspectingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 2.82 0.36 up from 2015 | 343 | 17% | $4,150 | ||
29Journal of Metamorphic GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 3.60 0.14 up from 2015 | 139 | 14% | $5,000 | ||
30Seismological Research LettersSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.69Q1 | 2.39 0.41 up from 2015 | 521 | 12% | — | ||
31Economic GeologyUnited States | 1.69Q1 | 2.51 0.02 up from 2015 | 354 | 19% | — | ||
32Journal of Structural GeologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 2.67 0.38 up from 2015 | 431 | 35% | $3,380 | ||
33Petroleum GeoscienceZoological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 1.71 0.10 up from 2015 | 80 | 14% | — | ||
34TectonophysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.62Q1 | 3.01 0.06 up from 2015 | 1,168 | 29% | $3,190 | ||
35Terra NovaWiley · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 2.30 0.52 down from 2015 | 172 | 27% | $3,720 | ||
36Journal of Asian Earth SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 2.56 0.10 down from 2015 | 1,158 | 12% | $3,330 | ||
37Geophysical Journal InternationalOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.56Q2 | 3.04 0.02 up from 2015 | 1,568 | 66% | $3,416 | ||
38Mineralium DepositaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.54Q2 | 2.44 0.18 up from 2015 | 218 | 33% | $3,890 | ||
39Bulletin of the Seismological Society of AmericaSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.52Q2 | 2.47 0.27 down from 2015 | 718 | 13% | — | ||
40Journal of GeodynamicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.48Q2 | 2.38 0.16 up from 2015 | 188 | 27% | $3,470 | ||
41Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.48Q2 | 2.87 0.44 down from 2015 | 662 | 41% | $3,420 | ||
42MineralsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.40Q2 | 2.71 0.46 up from 2015 | 118 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
43Geological JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.39Q2 | 2.18 0.15 up from 2015 | 174 | 23% | $3,540 | ||
44GeosphereOAGeological Society of America · United States | 1.38Q2 | 2.60 0.12 up from 2015 | 267 | 100% | $2,750 | ||
45Ore Geology ReviewsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.33Q2 | 2.92 0.12 down from 2015 | 706 | 18% | $3,310 | ||
46Comptes Rendus GéoscienceOAAcadémie des sciences · France | 1.29Q2 | 1.98 0.22 up from 2015 | 153 | 68% | — | ||
47International Journal of Earth SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.28Q2 | 2.13 0.06 up from 2015 | 420 | 22% | $3,890 | ||
48International Geology ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.28Q2 | 2.51 0.17 down from 2015 | 332 | 14% | — | ||
49Annual Review of Earth and Planetary SciencesAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.27Q2 | 11.52 1.37 up from 2015 | 83 | 67% | — | ||
50Geological Society London Special PublicationsGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.21Q2 | 2.00 0.08 down from 2015 | 1,058 | 24% | — |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Geophysics highlighted.
- 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.
28 additional Geophysics 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
- 143
- Window papers (baseline)
- 52,798 +19.3% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.90 -3.7% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
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 |
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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.