Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Geophysics journal rankings 2024
144 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Geophysics has 144 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.75, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 1.14. The top three are Earth-Science Reviews, Geoscience Frontiers, and Gondwana Research.
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 of Earth and Planetary Sciences (8)
144 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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1Earth-Science ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.33Q1 | 10.97 1.13 down from 2023 | 835 | 48% | $5,120 | ||
2Geoscience FrontiersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.82Q1 | 11.82 4.29 up from 2023 | 441 | 99% | $3,000 | ||
3Gondwana ResearchElsevier BV · Japan | 3.37Q1 | 10.63 2.40 up from 2023 | 697 | 37% | $3,700 | ||
4Surveys in GeophysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 7.98 1.71 up from 2023 | 165 | 49% | $4,290 | ||
5The Seismic RecordOAUnited States | 2.30Q1 | 5.68 1.20 up from 2023 | 84 | 100% | — | ||
6SeismicaOAPublisher not listed | 2.23Q1 | 5.25 1.82 up from 2023 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
7Earth and Planetary Science LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 5.67 0.10 up from 2023 | 1,244 | 67% | $4,670 | ||
8Science China Earth SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.97Q1 | 5.73 0.42 down from 2023 | 514 | 7% | $3,990 | ||
9GeologyGeological Society of America · United States | 1.75Q1 | 4.51 0.13 down from 2023 | 769 | 49% | — | ||
10Mineralium DepositaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.74Q1 | 4.91 0.41 up from 2023 | 204 | 53% | $3,890 | ||
11Computers & GeosciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 5.19 0.31 down from 2023 | 486 | 31% | $4,010 | ||
12Journal of Geophysical Research Solid EarthWiley · United States | 1.68Q1 | 4.70 0.18 up from 2023 | 1,871 | 73% | $4,070 | ||
13Economic GeologyUnited States | 1.61Q1 | 4.09 0.47 up from 2023 | 276 | 27% | — | ||
14Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 5.32 0.52 up from 2023 | 1,241 | 68% | $4,090 | ||
15Geosystems and GeoenvironmentOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 4.46 0.59 up from 2023 | 194 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
16Geoscience LettersOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.54Q1 | 4.26 0.24 down from 2023 | 141 | 100% | $1,390 | ||
17TectonicsWiley · United States | 1.48Q1 | 3.94 0.34 up from 2023 | 459 | 64% | $4,070 | ||
18Artificial Intelligence in GeosciencesOAElsevier BV · China | 1.45Q1 | 3.85 0.16 up from 2023 | 62 | 100% | $700 | ||
19Journal of Metamorphic GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 3.18 0.76 down from 2023 | 132 | 63% | $5,000 | ||
20Journal of PetrologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 3.69 0.16 up from 2023 | 302 | 63% | $4,353 | ||
21Journal of Earth ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.40Q1 | 4.33 0.15 up from 2023 | 403 | 25% | $3,090 | ||
22Progress in Earth and Planetary ScienceOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.38Q1 | 3.21 1.23 down from 2023 | 201 | 100% | $1,870 | ||
23Geochemical Perspectives LettersOAPublisher not listed | 1.37Q1 | 4.00 0.04 down from 2023 | 120 | 100% | — | ||
24Contributions to Mineralogy and PetrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.36Q1 | 3.22 0.71 down from 2023 | 322 | 74% | $3,990 | ||
25Earthquake research advancesOAPublisher not listed | 1.32Q1 | 4.36 0.80 up from 2023 | 108 | 100% | $800 | ||
26Bulletin of VolcanologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.28Q1 | 3.34 0.84 down from 2023 | 254 | 73% | $4,090 | ||
27Geochemistry Geophysics GeosystemsOAWiley · United States | 1.24Q1 | 3.46 0.18 down from 2023 | 794 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
28Solid EarthOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.24Q1 | 3.14 0.67 down from 2023 | 296 | 100% | $1,811 | ||
29Geological Society of America BulletinGeological Society of America · United States | 1.23Q1 | 2.94 0.52 down from 2023 | 599 | 17% | — | ||
30Chemical GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.22Q1 | 3.86 0.15 down from 2023 | 1,193 | 50% | $3,550 | ||
31Journal of the Geological SocietyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 1.20Q1 | 2.82 0.09 down from 2023 | 282 | 44% | — | ||
32Basin ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.19Q1 | 2.83 0.19 down from 2023 | 278 | 61% | $4,310 | ||
33Geodesy and GeodynamicsOAKeAi · Netherlands | 1.17Q1 | 2.45 0.53 down from 2023 | 190 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
34GeosphereOAGeological Society of America · United States | 1.15Q1 | 2.85 0.62 up from 2023 | 251 | 100% | $2,750 | ||
35TectonophysicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.15Q1 | 2.83 0.17 down from 2023 | 898 | 39% | $3,190 | ||
36Precambrian ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.14Q1 | 3.37 0.01 down from 2023 | 842 | 40% | $3,600 | ||
37Geophysical Journal InternationalOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 3.02 0.11 up from 2023 | 1,513 | 100% | $3,416 | ||
38Bulletin de la Société Géologique de FranceOAEDP Sciences · France | 1.12Q2 | 2.38 0.85 down from 2023 | 89 | 100% | $539 | ||
39GeophysicsSociety of Exploration Geophysicists · United States | 1.09Q2 | 3.35 0.61 up from 2023 | 1,240 | 7% | — | ||
40Annual Review of Earth and Planetary SciencesAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.05Q2 | 15.58 0.34 up from 2023 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
41Ore Geology ReviewsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.05Q2 | 3.63 0.42 up from 2023 | 1,588 | 100% | $3,310 | ||
42Seismological Research LettersSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.04Q2 | 3.14 0.12 up from 2023 | 766 | 11% | — | ||
43Earth Planets and SpaceOASpringer Nature · Japan | 1.04Q2 | 2.88 0.57 down from 2023 | 590 | 100% | $1,640 | ||
44Bulletin of the Seismological Society of AmericaSeismological Society of America · United States | 1.03Q2 | 3.06 0.17 up from 2023 | 557 | 9% | — | ||
45Journal of Asian Earth SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 2.53 0.28 down from 2023 | 906 | 15% | $3,330 | ||
46Journal of Structural GeologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 2.98 0.16 down from 2023 | 484 | 49% | $3,380 | ||
47GeochemistryElsevier BV · Germany | 0.99Q2 | 2.79 0.07 up from 2023 | 189 | 24% | $3,440 | ||
48GeosciencesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.99Q2 | 2.62 0.33 down from 2023 | 1,339 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
49Journal of GeodynamicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 2.34 0.13 up from 2023 | 88 | 32% | $3,470 | ||
50Geostandards and Geoanalytical ResearchWiley · France | 0.98Q2 | 2.82 0.45 down from 2023 | 157 | 63% | $4,200 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Geophysics highlighted.
- 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.
17 additional Geophysics 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
- 144
- Window papers (baseline)
- 54,102 -2.6% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.750 -11.4% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 9
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 | 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.