222 Earth and Planetary Sciences journals in ORBIT Tier 2 with at least 10 papers in 2025. ORBIT Tier 2: second quarter of Earth and Planetary Sciences by citation impact, our own ranking. Not a Scopus or Web of Science quartile.
As of 2 October 2026. From OpenAlex, Crossref and DOAJ. ORBIT Tier is our own ranking within a field, not a Scopus or Web of Science quartile.
| Journal | ISSN | Papers in 2025 | ORBIT Tier | Fee to publish | Open access | DOAJ | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | 0001-4966 | 3,321 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| The international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/International archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences | 1682-1750 | 974 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Germany |
| Journal of Archaeological Science Reports | 2352-409X | 553 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of South American Earth Sciences | 0895-9811 | 464 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Lithos | 0024-4937 | 370 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Doklady Earth Sciences | 1028-334X | 308 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Sains Malaysiana | 0126-6039 | 240 | 2 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Malaysia |
| Acta Petrologica Sinica | 1000-0569 | 234 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | China |
| Quaternary International | 1040-6182 | 229 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Antiquity | 0003-598X | 228 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Historical Biology | 0891-2963 | 201 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Switzerland |
| National Remote Sensing Bulletin | 1007-4619 | 196 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | China |
| Applied Geophysics | 1672-7975 | 185 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | China |
| Journal of Physical Oceanography | 0022-3670 | 177 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Weather and Forecasting | 0882-8156 | 172 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Elements | 1811-5209 | 170 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Journal of Ocean University of China | 1671-2463 | 170 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | China |
| Acta Oceanologica Sinica | 0253-505X | 169 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Monthly Weather Review | 0027-0644 | 163 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | 0022-4928 | 152 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Geophysical Prospecting | 0016-8025 | 144 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Cretaceous Research | 0195-6671 | 142 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology | 1558-8424 | 142 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Natural History | 0022-2933 | 141 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom | 0025-3154 | 141 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| International Journal of Conservation Science | 2067-533X | 137 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Romania |
| Mineralogical Magazine | 0026-461X | 132 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Paleontological Journal | 0031-0301 | 132 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Marine Biodiversity | 1867-1616 | 128 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Journal of Paleontology | 0022-3360 | 125 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition | 1000-9515 | 123 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Palaeoworld | 1871-174X | 119 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Water Resources | 0097-8078 | 117 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Russian Geology and Geophysics | 1068-7971 | 114 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Netherlands |
| Digital innovations in architecture, engineering and construction | 2731-7269 | 112 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology | 0739-0572 | 112 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Zoologischer Anzeiger | 0044-5231 | 111 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Journal of Quaternary Science | 0267-8179 | 110 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Radiocarbon | 0033-8222 | 109 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Oceanology | 0001-4370 | 108 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Marine Systems | 0924-7963 | 105 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Limnology and Oceanography Methods | 1541-5856 | 105 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Polar Biology | 0722-4060 | 102 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| American Antiquity | 0002-7316 | 99 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Annals of Geophysics | 0365-2556 | 99 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Italy |
| Terra Nova | 0954-4879 | 99 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Izvestiya Physics of the Solid Earth | 1069-3513 | 94 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography | 0967-0645 | 93 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Acoustical Physics | 1063-7710 | 92 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Coastal Research | 0749-0208 | 91 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Marine Ecology | 0173-9565 | 90 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation | 0869-592X | 88 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Georesursy | 1608-5043 | 86 | 2 | RUB 25,000 to publish | Yes | Yes | Russia |
| Geochemistry International | 0016-7029 | 85 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | 0272-4634 | 85 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Quaternary Research | 0033-5894 | 85 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Seismology | 1383-4649 | 83 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Geosciences Journal | 1226-4806 | 81 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | South Korea |
| Mineralogy and Petrology | 0930-0708 | 81 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Austria |
| Geodesy and Geodynamics | 1674-9847 | 79 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Netherlands |
| Archaeological Research in Asia | 2352-2267 | 76 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Quaternary | 2571-550X | 76 | 2 | ≈ ₹1,84,520 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| Interpretation | 2324-8858 | 72 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Geodynamics & Tectonophysics | 2078-502X | 67 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Russia |
| Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen | 0077-7749 | 67 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Germany |
| Zoomorphology | 0340-6725 | 67 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| International Journal of Chemical Kinetics | 0538-8066 | 66 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Cold Regions Engineering | 0887-381X | 66 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 0008-4077 | 64 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | Canada |
| GEOGRAPHY ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABILITY | 2071-9388 | 64 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Russia |
| Marine Micropaleontology | 0377-8398 | 63 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi) | 0022-135X | 60 | 2 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Japan |
| Physics of Wave Phenomena | 1541-308X | 60 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment | 1598-7132 | 59 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | South Korea |
| The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology | 2817-1713 | 57 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Botanica Marina | 0006-8055 | 56 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Palaeontologia Electronica | 1094-8074 | 56 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | United States |
| Phycologia | 0031-8884 | 56 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Survey Review | 0039-6265 | 56 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Ocean Science Journal | 1738-5261 | 54 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | South Korea |
| Advances in Archaeological Practice | 2326-3768 | 53 | 2 | ≈ ₹3,52,081 to publish | Yes | Yes | United States |
| Geological Magazine | 0016-7568 | 53 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Lethaia | 0024-1164 | 53 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Norway |
| Journal of Iberian Geology | 1698-6180 | 52 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Spain |
| Geoarchaeology | 0883-6353 | 51 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments | 1867-1594 | 51 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Paläontologische Zeitschrift | 0031-0220 | 51 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Phycological Research | 1322-0829 | 51 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Australia |
| Episodes | 0705-3797 | 50 | 2 | Fee not published | Yes | No | |
| Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology | 2813-432X | 50 | 2 | ≈ ₹2,24,883 to publish | Yes | Yes | |
| Cambridge Archaeological Journal | 0959-7743 | 49 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Palynology | 0191-6122 | 49 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Environmental Archaeology | 1461-4103 | 48 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Waterway Port Coastal and Ocean Engineering | 0733-950X | 48 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Proceedings of the Geologists Association | 0016-7878 | 48 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Invertzool | 1812-9250 | 47 | 2 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Russia |
| Evolving Earth | 2950-1172 | 46 | 2 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | |
| Open Archaeology | 2300-6560 | 45 | 2 | ≈ ₹81,624 to publish | Yes | Yes | Poland |
| Journal of Field Archaeology | 0093-4690 | 44 | 2 | Fee not published | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Geo-Marine Letters | 0276-0460 | 43 | 2 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
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