Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Field ranking · 2019
Earth and Planetary Sciences journal rankings 2019
407 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Earth and Planetary Sciences has 407 ranked journals in 2019. The median journal has an OJR of 0.85, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2018; Q1 starts at OJR 1.42. The top three are Earth system science data, Earth-Science Reviews, and Nature Geoscience.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Earth system science dataOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 5.64Q1 | 12.43 0.79 down from 2018 | 230 | 100% | $1,509 | ||
2Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.46Q1 | 10.50 1.25 up from 2018 | 573 | 43% | $5,120 | ||
3Nature GeoscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.38Q1 | 11.26 0.96 down from 2018 | 660 | 55% | $12,690 | ||
4Journal of Archaeological ResearchSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 4.57Q1 | 5.39 2.87 up from 2018 | 34 | 36% | $3,190 | ||
5GSA TodayOAGeological Society of America · United States | 3.91Q1 | 6.24 1.06 up from 2018 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
6Journal of World PrehistorySpringer Nature · United States | 3.87Q1 | 5.00 1.14 up from 2018 | 33 | 58% | $3,290 | ||
7Cambridge Archaeological JournalCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.70Q1 | 3.45 1.23 up from 2018 | 142 | 29% | $3,550 | ||
8Geoscientific model developmentOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.11Q1 | 7.71 0.44 up from 2018 | 690 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
9Bulletin of the American Meteorological SocietyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 3.04Q1 | 4.58 0.46 up from 2018 | 835 | 68% | — | ||
10Surveys in GeophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.00Q1 | 6.02 0.59 up from 2018 | 143 | 62% | $4,290 | ||
11Limnology and Oceanography LettersOAWiley · United States | 2.94Q1 | 6.69 1.80 up from 2018 | 77 | 100% | $3,700 | ||
12Gondwana ResearchElsevier BV · Japan | 2.82Q1 | 5.80 0.41 up from 2018 | 529 | 21% | $3,700 | ||
13Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 2.76Q1 | 5.27 1.10 down from 2018 | 316 | 73% | $4,070 | ||
14Coastal EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.61Q1 | 4.97 0.84 up from 2018 | 396 | 56% | $4,250 | ||
15Journal of Anthropological ArchaeologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.58Q1 | 2.71 0.08 down from 2018 | 177 | 36% | $3,370 | ||
16Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.49Q1 | 5.80 0.22 up from 2018 | 1,731 | 60% | $4,670 | ||
17GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 2.45Q1 | 4.96 0.12 down from 2018 | 898 | 51% | — | ||
18European Journal of ArchaeologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 2.08 0.72 up from 2018 | 99 | 36% | $3,550 | ||
19Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural HeritageElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.38Q1 | 3.07 0.74 up from 2018 | 53 | 20% | $2,810 | ||
20Atmospheric chemistry and physicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.34Q1 | 7.23 0.37 down from 2018 | 2,681 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
21Geochemical Perspectives LettersOAPublisher not listed | 2.29Q1 | 5.00 0.25 up from 2018 | 92 | 100% | — | ||
22TectonicsWiley · United States | 2.27Q1 | 4.78 0.16 up from 2018 | 505 | 58% | $4,070 | ||
23Journal of Geophysical Research Earth SurfaceWiley · United States | 2.27Q1 | 4.38 0.80 down from 2018 | 413 | 67% | $4,070 | ||
24Global and Planetary ChangeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.26Q1 | 4.78 0.15 down from 2018 | 499 | 38% | $3,120 | ||
25Elementa Science of the AnthropoceneOABioOne · United States | 2.25Q1 | 5.64 1.18 up from 2018 | 226 | 100% | $1,450 | ||
26The cryosphereOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.15Q1 | 6.26 0.03 down from 2018 | 602 | 100% | $1,574 | ||
27Basin ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 4.06 0.93 up from 2018 | 147 | 36% | $4,310 | ||
28Proceedings of the Prehistoric SocietyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 3.33 2.20 up from 2018 | 48 | 67% | $3,550 | ||
29GeomorphologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.10Q1 | 4.03 0.19 down from 2018 | 1,129 | 33% | $3,400 | ||
30GeobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 4.31 0.69 down from 2018 | 137 | 37% | $4,880 | ||
31Journal of PetrologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 4.09 0.16 up from 2018 | 268 | 44% | $4,353 | ||
32Journal of Geophysical Research Solid EarthWiley · United States | 2.05Q1 | 4.53 0.12 up from 2018 | 1,638 | 53% | $4,070 | ||
33Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 4.37 0.50 up from 2018 | 388 | 42% | $3,720 | ||
34BiogeosciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.03Q1 | 4.49 0.42 down from 2018 | 1,194 | 100% | $1,628 | ||
35GeosphereOAGeological Society of America · United States | 2.02Q1 | 4.08 0.75 up from 2018 | 316 | 100% | $2,750 | ||
36OceanographyOAOceanography Society · United States | 2.01Q1 | 3.31 0.23 up from 2018 | 263 | 100% | $500 | ||
37Frontiers in Marine ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.00Q1 | 4.81 0.66 up from 2018 | 1,207 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
38Geoscience FrontiersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.98Q1 | 4.34 1.16 up from 2018 | 360 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
39Climate of the pastOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.97Q1 | 5.04 0.07 up from 2018 | 352 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
40Virtual Archaeology ReviewOATechnical University of Valencia · Spain | 1.95Q1 | 2.20 0.45 up from 2018 | 71 | 100% | — | ||
41Geological Society of America BulletinGeological Society of America · United States | 1.95Q1 | 3.66 0.16 down from 2018 | 326 | 24% | — | ||
42Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 1.94Q1 | 3.97 0.69 down from 2018 | 657 | 83% | $3,530 | ||
43Quaternary Science ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 4.63 0.66 down from 2018 | 1,088 | 52% | $3,920 | ||
44Journal of the Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 3.46 0.23 down from 2018 | 235 | 41% | — | ||
45Journal of Metamorphic GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 4.04 0.56 down from 2018 | 169 | 23% | $5,000 | ||
46Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 4.92 0.15 up from 2018 | 1,462 | 57% | $4,090 | ||
47Journal of Applied VolcanologyOABioMed Central · Germany | 1.84Q1 | 4.21 1.67 up from 2018 | 40 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
48Journal of HydrometeorologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.83Q1 | 4.76 0.35 up from 2018 | 431 | 73% | — | ||
49Advances in Climate Change ResearchOAKeAi · China | 1.82Q1 | 4.12 0.88 up from 2018 | 122 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
50SedimentologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 3.50 0.13 up from 2018 | 292 | 41% | $4,250 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, compared.
- Geophysics147
- Atmospheric Science87
- Paleontology77
- Oceanography56
- Earth-Surface Processes17
- Geology10
- Geochemistry and Petrology9
- Space and Planetary Science4
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
105 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 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 407
- Window papers (baseline)
- 228,538 +3.6% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.85 -11.1% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 21Comparison-group list (21)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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.