Paleontology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Journal of Systematic Palaeontology	6
-	Paleobiology	6
-	Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology	6
4	Papers in Palaeontology	5
-	Vegetation History and Archaeobotany	5
-	Cretaceous Research	5
-	Palaeontology	5
-	Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology	5
9	Alcheringa	4
-	Ichnos-An International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces	4
-	Lethaia	4
-	Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments	4
-	Palaeoworld	4
-	Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology	4
-	Facies	4
-	Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology	4
-	Marine Micropaleontology	4
-	Palaios	4
-	Swiss Journal of Palaeontology	4
20	Geobios	3
-	Palynology	3
-	Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation	3
-	Bulletin of Geosciences	3
-	Geodiversitas	3
-	Historical Biology	3
-	International Journal of Paleopathology	3
-	Proceedings of the Geologists Association	3
28	Carnets de Geologie	2
-	Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh	2
-	GFF	2
-	Journal of Foraminiferal Research	2
-	Palaeontologia Electronica	2
-	Paleontological Journal	2
-	Acta Palaeontologica Polonica	2
-	Ameghiniana	2
-	Journal of Paleontology	2
-	Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaontologie-Abhandlungen	2
-	PalZ	2
39	Annales de Paleontologie	1
-	Micropaleontology	1
-	Paleontological Research	1
-	Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia	1