Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Field ranking · 2024
Earth and Planetary Sciences journal rankings 2024
387 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Earth and Planetary Sciences has 387 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.75, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 1.10. The top three are Cambridge Prisms Coastal Futures, Nature Geoscience, and Earth-Science Reviews.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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)
Up to Physical Sciences387 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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1Cambridge Prisms Coastal FuturesOACambridge University Press | 4.73Q1 | 8.55 6.65 down from 2023 | 42 | 100% | $3,893 | ||
2Nature GeoscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.72Q1 | 12.73 2.10 down from 2023 | 639 | 54% | $12,690 | ||
3Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.33Q1 | 10.97 1.13 down from 2023 | 835 | 48% | $5,120 | ||
4Earth system science dataOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 4.24Q1 | 13.00 1.89 down from 2023 | 822 | 100% | $1,509 | ||
5Journal of Archaeological ResearchSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 4.23Q1 | 5.83 0.87 up from 2023 | 42 | 56% | $3,190 | ||
6Geoscience FrontiersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.82Q1 | 11.82 4.29 up from 2023 | 441 | 99% | $3,000 | ||
7International Journal of Geoheritage and ParksOAElsevier BV · United States | 3.53Q1 | 6.83 0.72 up from 2023 | 114 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
8Gondwana ResearchElsevier BV · Japan | 3.37Q1 | 10.63 2.40 up from 2023 | 697 | 37% | $3,700 | ||
9Nature Reviews Earth & EnvironmentNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 33.93 6.46 up from 2023 | 349 | 44% | — | ||
10Ocean-Land-Atmosphere ResearchOAPublisher not listed | 2.74Q1 | 7.36 1.03 up from 2023 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
11Surveys in GeophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 7.98 1.71 up from 2023 | 165 | 49% | $4,290 | ||
12Global Biogeochemical CyclesWiley · United States | 2.37Q1 | 7.20 1.06 down from 2023 | 390 | 73% | $4,070 | ||
13The Seismic RecordOAUnited States | 2.30Q1 | 5.68 1.20 up from 2023 | 84 | 100% | — | ||
14SeismicaOAPublisher not listed | 2.23Q1 | 5.25 1.82 up from 2023 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
15Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 5.67 0.10 up from 2023 | 1,244 | 67% | $4,670 | ||
16Coastal EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.98Q1 | 5.13 0.06 up from 2023 | 393 | 65% | $4,250 | ||
17Science China Earth SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.97Q1 | 5.73 0.42 down from 2023 | 514 | 7% | $3,990 | ||
18Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural HeritageElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 2.95 0.65 down from 2023 | 109 | 54% | $2,810 | ||
19Journal of Geophysical Research Earth SurfaceWiley · United States | 1.84Q1 | 4.82 0.58 down from 2023 | 506 | 79% | $4,070 | ||
20Elementa Science of the AnthropoceneOABioOne · United States | 1.79Q1 | 6.51 0.37 down from 2023 | 337 | 100% | $1,450 | ||
21GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 1.75Q1 | 4.51 0.13 down from 2023 | 769 | 49% | — | ||
22Journal of Anthropological ArchaeologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.74Q1 | 2.23 0.24 down from 2023 | 208 | 68% | $3,370 | ||
23Mineralium DepositaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.74Q1 | 4.91 0.41 up from 2023 | 204 | 53% | $3,890 | ||
24Journal of Field ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 1.71 0.16 down from 2023 | 108 | 47% | — | ||
25Computers & GeosciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 5.19 0.31 down from 2023 | 486 | 31% | $4,010 | ||
26Journal of Geophysical Research Solid EarthWiley · United States | 1.68Q1 | 4.70 0.18 up from 2023 | 1,871 | 73% | $4,070 | ||
27Geoscientific model developmentOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.68Q1 | 6.23 0.13 up from 2023 | 1,089 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
28Limnology and Oceanography LettersOAWiley · United States | 1.67Q1 | 5.32 0.30 up from 2023 | 189 | 100% | $3,700 | ||
29Atmospheric chemistry and physicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.67Q1 | 6.70 1.10 down from 2023 | 2,449 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
30GeoheritageSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.65Q1 | 3.26 0.24 up from 2023 | 376 | 33% | $2,490 | ||
31Advances in Climate Change ResearchOAKeAi · China | 1.63Q1 | 5.15 0.43 down from 2023 | 306 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
32Cambridge Archaeological JournalCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 1.85 0.09 down from 2023 | 153 | 86% | $3,550 | ||
33Economic GeologyUnited States | 1.61Q1 | 4.09 0.47 up from 2023 | 276 | 27% | — | ||
34Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 5.32 0.52 up from 2023 | 1,241 | 68% | $4,090 | ||
35Geosystems and GeoenvironmentOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 4.46 0.59 up from 2023 | 194 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
36BiogeosciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.56Q1 | 4.92 0.66 down from 2023 | 912 | 100% | $1,628 | ||
37Quaternary Science AdvancesOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 3.29 0.36 down from 2023 | 119 | 100% | $1,760 | ||
38Geoscience LettersOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.54Q1 | 4.26 0.24 down from 2023 | 141 | 100% | $1,390 | ||
39Global and Planetary ChangeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.53Q1 | 4.37 0.58 down from 2023 | 660 | 33% | $3,120 | ||
40Ocean scienceOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.50Q1 | 4.01 1.46 down from 2023 | 277 | 100% | $1,412 | ||
41TectonicsWiley · United States | 1.48Q1 | 3.94 0.34 up from 2023 | 459 | 64% | $4,070 | ||
42Limnology and OceanographyWiley · United States | 1.48Q1 | 4.37 0.73 down from 2023 | 686 | 80% | $3,530 | ||
43The cryosphereOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.47Q1 | 5.71 0.99 down from 2023 | 844 | 100% | $1,574 | ||
44Progress In OceanographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 4.20 0.83 down from 2023 | 448 | 66% | $3,720 | ||
45Aeolian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.45Q1 | 4.27 0.73 up from 2023 | 118 | 47% | $3,840 | ||
46GeomorphologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.45Q1 | 3.85 0.16 down from 2023 | 876 | 56% | $3,400 | ||
47Artificial Intelligence in GeosciencesOAElsevier BV · China | 1.45Q1 | 3.85 0.16 up from 2023 | 62 | 100% | $700 | ||
48Journal of Operational OceanographyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.44Q1 | 2.67 2.14 down from 2023 | 30 | 88% | — | ||
49Journal of Metamorphic GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 3.18 0.76 down from 2023 | 132 | 63% | $5,000 | ||
50Journal of PetrologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 3.69 0.16 up from 2023 | 302 | 63% | $4,353 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, compared.
- Geophysics144
- Atmospheric Science85
- Paleontology73
- Oceanography50
- Earth-Surface Processes17
- Geology9
- Geochemistry and Petrology6
- Space and Planetary Science3
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
90 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 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 387
- Window papers (baseline)
- 225,159 -2.3% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.745 -11.0% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 21Comparison-group list (21)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.