Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Geophysics journal rankings 2023
145 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Geophysics has 145 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.73, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.14. The top three are Earth-Science Reviews, Geoscience Frontiers, and Gondwana Research.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
145 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.89Q1 | 12.10 1.99 down from 2022 | 857 | 50% | $5,120 | ||
2Geoscience FrontiersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.21Q1 | 7.53 1.68 down from 2022 | 474 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
3Gondwana ResearchElsevier BV · Japan | 2.51Q1 | 8.23 2.36 up from 2022 | 669 | 17% | $3,700 | ||
4Surveys in GeophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.42Q1 | 6.27 0.64 up from 2022 | 147 | 64% | $4,290 | ||
5Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.98Q1 | 5.58 0.35 down from 2022 | 1,342 | 68% | $4,670 | ||
6Science China Earth SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.96Q1 | 6.15 0.13 up from 2022 | 454 | 5% | $3,990 | ||
7The Seismic RecordOAUnited States | 1.87Q1 | 4.48 0.26 down from 2022 | 46 | 100% | — | ||
8GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 1.86Q1 | 4.64 1.19 down from 2022 | 836 | 63% | — | ||
9Computers & GeosciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 5.50 0.78 up from 2022 | 513 | 35% | $4,010 | ||
10Economic GeologyUnited States | 1.63Q1 | 3.62 0.98 down from 2022 | 336 | 43% | — | ||
11Mineralium DepositaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.61Q1 | 4.50 0.03 up from 2022 | 211 | 60% | $3,890 | ||
12Journal of PetrologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 3.53 0.77 down from 2022 | 315 | 54% | $4,353 | ||
13Journal of Geophysical Research Solid EarthWiley · United States | 1.60Q1 | 4.52 0.01 up from 2022 | 2,057 | 87% | $4,070 | ||
14TectonicsWiley · United States | 1.60Q1 | 3.60 1.20 down from 2022 | 547 | 78% | $4,070 | ||
15Geosystems and GeoenvironmentOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 3.87 4.80 down from 2022 | 138 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
16Geoscience LettersOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.52Q1 | 4.51 0.13 up from 2022 | 103 | 100% | $1,390 | ||
17Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 4.80 0.20 down from 2022 | 1,311 | 66% | $4,090 | ||
18Contributions to Mineralogy and PetrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.50Q1 | 3.93 0.28 up from 2022 | 330 | 63% | $3,990 | ||
19Earthquake research advancesOAPublisher not listed | 1.49Q1 | 3.56 1.77 up from 2022 | 77 | 100% | $800 | ||
20Geological Society of America BulletinGeological Society of America · United States | 1.46Q1 | 3.46 0.83 down from 2022 | 519 | 22% | — | ||
21Journal of Metamorphic GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 3.94 0.47 up from 2022 | 151 | 63% | $5,000 | ||
22Geochemical Perspectives LettersOAPublisher not listed | 1.45Q1 | 4.04 1.35 down from 2022 | 118 | 100% | — | ||
23Journal of Earth ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.44Q1 | 4.18 0.37 up from 2022 | 327 | 5% | $3,090 | ||
24Bulletin of VolcanologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.41Q1 | 4.19 0.19 up from 2022 | 259 | 73% | $4,090 | ||
25Solid EarthOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.38Q1 | 3.81 0.12 down from 2022 | 360 | 100% | $1,811 | ||
26Progress in Earth and Planetary ScienceOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.32Q1 | 4.44 0.56 down from 2022 | 210 | 100% | $1,870 | ||
27Basin ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 3.02 0.77 down from 2022 | 294 | 67% | $4,310 | ||
28Geochemistry Geophysics GeosystemsOAWiley · United States | 1.28Q1 | 3.63 0.35 down from 2022 | 867 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
29Artificial Intelligence in GeosciencesOAElsevier BV · China | 1.28Q1 | 3.69 0.51 up from 2022 | 48 | 100% | $700 | ||
30Geodesy and GeodynamicsOAKeAi · Netherlands | 1.27Q1 | 2.98 0.47 up from 2022 | 166 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
31Chemical GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.24Q1 | 4.01 0.13 down from 2022 | 1,174 | 45% | $3,550 | ||
32TectonophysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.21Q1 | 2.99 0.13 down from 2022 | 802 | 38% | $3,190 | ||
33Earth Planets and SpaceOASpringer Nature · Japan | 1.21Q1 | 3.45 0.18 down from 2022 | 592 | 100% | $1,640 | ||
34Precambrian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.18Q1 | 3.37 0.39 down from 2022 | 969 | 29% | $3,600 | ||
35Bulletin de la Société Géologique de FranceOAEDP Sciences · France | 1.16Q1 | 3.23 0.14 down from 2022 | 118 | 100% | $539 | ||
36GeochemistryElsevier BV · Germany | 1.14Q1 | 2.72 1.05 down from 2022 | 176 | 29% | $3,440 | ||
37Seismological Research LettersSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.14Q1 | 3.01 0.39 down from 2022 | 875 | 9% | — | ||
38Journal of the Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 2.91 0.01 up from 2022 | 277 | 53% | — | ||
39Journal of Asian Earth SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 2.82 0.20 down from 2022 | 834 | 12% | $3,330 | ||
40Journal of Asian Earth Sciences XOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 2.70 0.88 up from 2022 | 103 | 100% | $2,460 | ||
41VolcanicaOAFrance | 1.12Q2 | 2.45 0.75 down from 2022 | 72 | 100% | — | ||
42LithosElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.10Q2 | 2.74 0.50 down from 2022 | 1,274 | 29% | $3,350 | ||
43Geophysical Journal InternationalOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 2.91 0.41 down from 2022 | 1,639 | 76% | $3,416 | ||
44Geostandards and Geoanalytical ResearchWiley · France | 1.08Q2 | 3.27 0.24 down from 2022 | 148 | 60% | $4,200 | ||
45GeosciencesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.08Q2 | 2.95 0.35 down from 2022 | 1,473 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
46Journal of Structural GeologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 3.14 0.22 down from 2022 | 541 | 50% | $3,380 | ||
47Bulletin of the Seismological Society of AmericaSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.04Q2 | 2.89 0.37 down from 2022 | 632 | 16% | — | ||
48Annual Review of Earth and Planetary SciencesAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.03Q2 | 15.24 1.84 down from 2022 | 74 | 92% | — | ||
49Frontiers in Earth ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.00Q2 | 2.60 1.14 down from 2022 | 4,013 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
50Terra NovaWiley · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 2.48 0.14 down from 2022 | 166 | 58% | $3,720 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Geophysics highlighted.
- Geophysics145
- Atmospheric Science90
- Paleontology77
- Oceanography50
- Earth-Surface Processes16
- Geology9
- Geochemistry and Petrology6
- Space and Planetary Science3
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% 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 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 145
- Window papers (baseline)
- 55,115 -2.0% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.73 -5.8% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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 | 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.