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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01)

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