Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Geophysics journal rankings 2017
147 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Geophysics has 147 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2016 to 0.84, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.49. The top three are Earth-Science Reviews, Gondwana Research, and Geochemical Perspectives Letters.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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)
147 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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.59Q1 | 8.98 1.21 up from 2016 | 417 | 36% | $5,120 | ||
2Gondwana ResearchElsevier BV · Japan | 3.08Q1 | 5.45 0.15 down from 2016 | 556 | 20% | $3,700 | ||
3Geochemical Perspectives LettersOAPublisher not listed | 2.99Q1 | 5.48 0.68 down from 2016 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
4Surveys in GeophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.90Q1 | 4.31 0.39 down from 2016 | 118 | 52% | $4,290 | ||
5GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 2.85Q1 | 5.29 0.53 up from 2016 | 925 | 42% | — | ||
6GSA TodayOAGeological Society of America · United States | 2.71Q1 | 3.94 0.36 up from 2016 | 54 | 38% | — | ||
7Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.65Q1 | 5.18 0.05 up from 2016 | 1,841 | 62% | $4,670 | ||
8Contributions to Mineralogy and PetrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.63Q1 | 5.29 0.67 up from 2016 | 356 | 38% | $3,990 | ||
9Geological Society of America BulletinGeological Society of America · United States | 2.43Q1 | 4.31 0.05 up from 2016 | 324 | 25% | — | ||
10TectonicsWiley · United States | 2.40Q1 | 4.16 0.49 down from 2016 | 373 | 65% | $4,070 | ||
11Geoscience FrontiersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.38Q1 | 3.21 0.50 down from 2016 | 265 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
12Journal of PetrologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 4.60 0.62 up from 2016 | 239 | 39% | $4,353 | ||
13American Journal of ScienceYale University · United States | 2.30Q1 | 4.19 0.31 up from 2016 | 110 | 7% | — | ||
14Basin ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 2.97 0.20 up from 2016 | 185 | 38% | $4,310 | ||
15Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.27Q1 | 4.83 0.08 down from 2016 | 1,439 | 55% | $4,090 | ||
16Solid EarthOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.26Q1 | 3.60 2.60 down from 2016 | 300 | 100% | $1,811 | ||
17LithosElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.17Q1 | 4.09 0.05 up from 2016 | 1,008 | 28% | $3,350 | ||
18Journal of Geophysical Research Solid EarthWiley · United States | 2.11Q1 | 4.02 0.13 down from 2016 | 1,409 | 61% | $4,070 | ||
19Geostandards and Geoanalytical ResearchWiley · France | 2.07Q1 | 3.32 0.01 down from 2016 | 119 | 32% | $4,200 | ||
20Journal of Metamorphic GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 4.28 0.68 up from 2016 | 159 | 23% | $5,000 | ||
21Chemical GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 3.76 0.07 up from 2016 | 1,088 | 42% | $3,550 | ||
22GeosphereOAGeological Society of America · United States | 1.89Q1 | 3.43 0.84 up from 2016 | 273 | 100% | $2,750 | ||
23Computers & GeosciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 2.90 0.16 up from 2016 | 600 | 43% | $4,010 | ||
24Journal of the Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 2.93 0.10 down from 2016 | 234 | 40% | — | ||
25Frontiers in Earth ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.79Q1 | 3.73 0.26 up from 2016 | 226 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
26Progress in Earth and Planetary ScienceOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.78Q1 | 3.28 0.17 down from 2016 | 110 | 100% | $1,870 | ||
27GeophysicsSociety of Exploration Geophysicists · United States | 1.76Q1 | 3.81 0.31 down from 2016 | 1,097 | 16% | — | ||
28Geochemistry Geophysics GeosystemsOAWiley · United States | 1.76Q1 | 3.38 0.24 down from 2016 | 813 | 66% | $3,000 | ||
29Bulletin of VolcanologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.75Q1 | 3.44 0.25 down from 2016 | 287 | 29% | $4,090 | ||
30Precambrian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.69Q1 | 4.40 0.50 up from 2016 | 781 | 23% | $3,600 | ||
31Mineralium DepositaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.68Q1 | 2.57 0.13 up from 2016 | 240 | 23% | $3,890 | ||
32Seismological Research LettersSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.60Q1 | 2.59 0.20 up from 2016 | 532 | 10% | — | ||
33Ore Geology ReviewsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.58Q1 | 3.23 0.31 up from 2016 | 888 | 15% | $3,310 | ||
34Economic GeologyUnited States | 1.58Q1 | 2.61 0.10 up from 2016 | 331 | 11% | — | ||
35TectonophysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.53Q1 | 2.91 0.10 down from 2016 | 1,221 | 31% | $3,190 | ||
36Journal of Structural GeologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 2.88 0.21 up from 2016 | 459 | 42% | $3,380 | ||
37Journal of Asian Earth SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 2.67 0.10 up from 2016 | 1,071 | 14% | $3,330 | ||
38Bulletin of the Seismological Society of AmericaSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.44Q2 | 2.65 0.18 up from 2016 | 699 | 15% | — | ||
39Terra NovaWiley · United Kingdom | 1.43Q2 | 2.43 0.14 up from 2016 | 157 | 25% | $3,720 | ||
40International Geology ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.42Q2 | 2.66 0.14 up from 2016 | 378 | 18% | — | ||
41Geophysical Journal InternationalOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.41Q2 | 2.98 0.07 down from 2016 | 1,575 | 47% | $3,416 | ||
42Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.35Q2 | 2.73 0.15 down from 2016 | 724 | 45% | $3,420 | ||
43Journal of GeodynamicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.34Q2 | 2.77 0.39 up from 2016 | 201 | 16% | $3,470 | ||
44Annual Review of Earth and Planetary SciencesAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.33Q2 | 13.40 1.88 up from 2016 | 80 | 68% | — | ||
45MineralsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.32Q2 | 2.51 0.20 down from 2016 | 225 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
46Geophysical ProspectingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 2.03 0.79 down from 2016 | 368 | 11% | $4,150 | ||
47Geological Society London Special PublicationsGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 2.02 0.02 up from 2016 | 1,015 | 30% | — | ||
48International Journal of Earth SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.24Q2 | 1.94 0.20 down from 2016 | 425 | 21% | $3,890 | ||
49Comptes Rendus GéoscienceOAAcadémie des sciences · France | 1.20Q2 | 2.21 0.22 up from 2016 | 149 | 50% | — | ||
50Geological MagazineCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 1.91 0.09 up from 2016 | 287 | 32% | $3,550 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Geophysics highlighted.
- Geophysics147
- Atmospheric Science89
- Paleontology73
- Oceanography55
- Geology15
- Earth-Surface Processes14
- Geochemistry and Petrology8
- Space and Planetary Science4
Journals
Citations made in 2017. 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.
23 additional Geophysics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 147
- Window papers (baseline)
- 54,046 +14.5% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.84 -7.7% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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.