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| Title | Impact Factor (2015) | Established | Publisher | Subjects | OA Fee / Article |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACS Central Science | N/A | 2015 | ACS | chemical sciences | $0-1000 |
| ACS Omega | N/A | 2016 | ACS | chemical sciences | $1500-$2000 |
| Advances in Geosciences | N/A | 2003 | Copernicus / EGU | Geology; geochemistry; geophysics; biogeosciences; geodesy; hydrology; ocean sciences; atmospheric sciences | 31 - 51 / page |
| AIP Advances | 1.444 | 2011 | American Institute of Physics | Physical sciences | $1350 |
| Algorithms for Molecular Biology | 1.439 | 2006 | BioMed Central | Molecular Biology; genomics | No charge OR Member rate OR $2145 |
| Annales Geophysicae | 1.731 | 1989 | Copernicus / EGU | Sun-Earth system; science of Space weather; Solar-Terrestrial plasma physics; Earth's atmosphere and oceans | 45 - 60 / page |
| Annals of Geophysics | .0679 | 1978 | INGV, Italy | earth sciences; seismology; geodesy; volcanology; oceanography; climatology; geomagnetism; paleomagnetism | No Charge |
| Annals of Glaciology | 1.589 | 1980/2016 | IGS/Cambridge U. Press | ice and snow (special theme issues) | 540 - 1200 |
| Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics | 5.114 | 2001 | Copernicus / EGU | gases; aerosols; clouds and precipitation; isotopes; radiation; dynamics; biosphere interactions; hydrosphere interactions | 75 - 120 / page |
| Biogeosciences | 3.700 | 2004 | Copernicus / EGU | astrobiology; exobiology; biodiversity and ecosystem function; biogeochemistry; biogeophysics; paleobiogeoscience | 75 - 120 / page |
| Biology Direct | 3.016 | 2006 | BioMed Central | biology | No charge OR Member rate OR $2145 |
| BMC Biochemistry | 1.290 | 2000 | BioMed Central | biochemistry | No charge OR Member rate OR $2145 |
| BMC Biology | 6.967 | 2003 | BioMed Central | biology; biochemistry; biomedical science; cell biology; chemical biology; ecology; genetics; neurobiology | No charge OR Member rate OR $2605 |
| BMC Ecology | 2.724 | 2001 | BioMed Central | environmental ecology; behavioral ecology; population ecology; plants; animals; microbes | No charge OR Member rate OR $2145 |
| BMC Genomics | 3.867 | 2000 | BioMed Central | genomics; genetics | No charge OR Member rate OR $2145 |
| BMC Microbiology | 2.581 | 2001 | BioMed Central | microbiology | No charge OR Member rate OR $2145 |
| Carbon Balance & Management | N/A | 2006 | Springer | global carbon cycle; climate; atmospheric carbon dioxide; terrestrial biospheres; oceanic biospheres | No charge OR Member rate OR $1230/td> |
| Carnets de Geologie - Notebooks on Geology | 0.436 | 2002 | Carnets de Geologie | paleontology, stratigraphy, and sedimentology | No charge? |
| Climate of the Past | 3.638 | 2005 | Copernicus / EGU | dynamics in ocean; atmosphere; ice; vegetation; carbon cycle; greenhouse gases; climate modelling | 75 - 120 / page |
| Collabra | N/A | 2015 | U. California Press | ecology and environmental sciences, life sciences | $875 |
| The Cryosphere | 4.906 | 2007 | Copernicus / EGU | ice sheets and glaciers; planetary ice bodies; permafrost; river, lake and sea ice; seasonal snowcover; remote sensing, numerical modelling, in-situ and laboratory studies of the cryosphere | 75 - 120 / page |
| DNA Research | 5.267 | 1994 | Oxford University Press | structure and function of genomes; gene analysis; methods and tools for DNA research; bioinformatic analysis of genomic data | $750 |
| Earth and Space Science | N/A | 2014 | AGU/Wiley | earth, planetary, space, and environmental sciences; geoengineering, space engineering, biogeochemistry | $900 - $1800 |
| Earth Perspectives | N/A | 2013 | Springer | Earth system science; Earth-human interactions; global change; sustainability | No charge OR Member rate OR $1350 |
| Earth Planets and Space | 1.871 | 1998 | Springer | geomagnetism, weronomy, space science, seismology, volcanology, geodesy, and planetary science | 360 - 900 |
| Earth Surface Dynamics | 4.589 | 2013 | Copernicus/EGU | physical, chemical, and biological processes shaping earth's surface | No charge |
| Earth System Science Data | 8.286 | 2009 | Copernicus / EGU | Earth system science datasets and commentaries | currently waived |
| Earthquake Science | N/A | 1979/1988 | Wiley | tectonics; earthquake engineering | $1830 |
| Earth's Future | 5.620 | 2013 | AGU / Wiley | global change; sustainability; earth-human interactions | $1800 |
| Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene | N/A | 2013 | BioOne | earth system science; earth-human interactions; sustainability | $650 - $1450 |
| eLife | 8.303 | 2012 | HHMI/MPG/Wellcome Trust | life sciences & biomedicine | No charge |
| Estudios Geologicos | 0.325 | 1945 | Spanish National Research Council | earth sciences (especially Spain and Latin America) | No charge |
| Frontiers in Earth Science | N/A | 2013 | Frontier Media | solid Earth, hydrosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere, biosphere | $0 - $1900 |
| Genome Biology and Evolution | 4.098 | 2009 | Oxford University Press | evolutionary biology; genomics; molecular biology | $1250 - $1800 |
| Geochemical Perspectives | 8.800 | 2012 | EAG | geochemistry | No charge |
| Geochemical Perspectives Letters | N/A | 2015 | EAG | geochemistry | No charge |
| Geochemical Transactions | 1.100 | 2006 | ACS/Chemistry Central | geochemistry; marine and aquatic chemistry; chemical oceanography; biogeochemistry; astrobiology | $1085 |
| Geodynamics & Tectonophysics | N/A | 2010 | Russian Acad. Sci. | geodynamics, paleogeodynamics, tectonics, tectonophysics | No charge |
| Geoenvironmental Disasters | N/A | 2014 | Springer | geosciences, atmospheric sciences, civil engineering, disaster management/mitigation | $980 |
| Geofisica Internacional | 0.344 | 1961 | UNAM/Mexico | geophysics | No charge? |
| Geofluids | 1.750 | 2001 | Hindawi/Wiley | chemical, physical, and biological aspects of subsurface fluids | $1500 |
| GeoResJ | N/A | 2014 | Elsevier | earth and planetary sciences | $1100 - $2200 |
| GeoHealth | N/A | 2016 | AGU/Wiley | interface between earth and environmental sciences, ecology, and agricultural and health sciences | $1800 |
| Geoscience Letters | N/A | 2013 | Springer | earth sciences; environment; planetary and space sciences | $980 |
| Geosciences | N/A | 2011 | MDPI | earth history, natural hazards, environment, geoethics | 300 CHF |
| Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems | 1.071 | 2012 | Copernicus / EGU | instrumentation and data systems in earth; ocean; atmospheric; and space sciences | No charge |
| Geoscientific Model Development | 3.549 | 2008 | Copernicus / EGU | description; development and evaluation of mathematical models of the Earth System and its components | 25 - 40 / page |
| Geothermal Energy | N/A | 2013 | Springer | energy exploration, development, and delivery; geology, geophysics, geochemistry | No charge |
| GSA Today | N/A | 1991 | Geological Society of America | Earth, planetary, space, and environmental sceinces; geoscience education | No charge |
| History of Geo- and Space Sciences | 0.263 | 2010 | Copernicus / EGU | history of earth and space sciences | No charge |
| Hydrology & Earth System Sciences | 3.99 | 1997 | Copernicus / EGU | hillslope, catchment, global, vadose zone, groundwater, urban and engineering hydrology; rivers and lakes; coasts and estuaries; hydrometeorology; ecohydrology; biogeochemical processes and water resources management | 25 - 40 / page |
| International Journal of Coal Science & Technology | N/A | 2014 | Springer | coal research, coal mining/processing, health/safety, environmental isues | No charge |
| International Journal of Geo-Engineering | N/A | 2015 | Springer | geotechnial engineering, geo-energy | No charge |
| International Journal of Speleology | 1.559 | 1964 | Union Internationale de Speleologie | karst and caves | No charge |
| IUCrJ | 3.105 | 2014 | IUCr | crystallography, structural science | $1000 |
| Journal of Applied Volcanology | N/A | 2012 | Springer | applied volcanology; societal impact and response | $1230 |
| Journal of Cave and Karst Studies | 0.857 | 1940 | National Speleological Society | karst and caves | No charge? |
| Journal of Earth System Science | 0.858 | 1978/2005 | Indian Academy of Science | solid Earth, hydrosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere, biosphere, planetary and space sciences | No charge? |
| Journal of Glaciology | 3.109 | 1947/2016 | IGS/Cambridge U. Press | ice, snow, climate, permafrost, environment | 540 - 1200 |
| Journal of Physics: Conference Series | N/A | 2004 | Institute of Physics | physics (all areas); publishes conference proceedings only | N/A |
| Journal of Tethys | N/A | 2013 | self-published | earth sciences; petroleum geology | No charge |
| mBio | 6.975 | 2010 | ASM | microbiology | $1000 - $3000 |
| Microbiology Open | N/A | 2012 | Wiley | microbiology | $1879 - $2349 |
| Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences | 2.277 | 2001 | Copernicus / EGU | all natural hazards; databases, GIS, remote sensing, early warning systems and monitoring technologies; risk assessment, mitigation and adaptation strategies; socioeconomic and management aspects; dissemination, education, outreach and teaching | 25 - 40 / page |
| New Journal of Physics | 3.570 | 1998 | Institute of Physics / DPG | physics (all areas) | $2080 |
| Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics | 1.321 | 1994 | Copernicus / EGU | nonlinear processes in all branches of Earth, planetary and solar system sciences | 17 - 40 / page |
| Ocean Science | 2.985 | 2005 | Copernicus / EGU | ocean physics and chemistry; biological oceanography; air-sea interactions; physical, chemical and biological and biochemical ocean models; coastal processes; paleooceanography | 25 - 40 / page |
| Open Biology | 4.822 | 2011 | Royal Society | cell biology; developmental biology; molecular biology; biochemistry; immunology; microbiology | $2160 |
| Open Geosciences | N/A | 2009/2015 | De Gruyter | earth sciences | 1000 |
| Palaeontologia Electronica | 1.234 | 1998 | Palaeontological Association, Paleontological Society, & Society of Vertebrate Paleontology | all aspects of paleontology and related disciplines | No charge |
| PeerJ | 2.183 | 2013 | PeerJ | life sciences and biomedicine | $99 - $299 |
| Periodico di Mineralogia | 0.600 | 1930 / 1999 | Edizioni Nuova Cultura | mineralogy; petrology; volcanology; crystallography; geochemistry | No charge |
| Petroleum Science | 0.901 | 2004 | Springer | geophysics; chemistry; engineering | $1830 |
| Physical Review X | 8.701 | 2011 | American Physical Society | physics (all areas) | $1700 + |
| PLoS Biology | 8.668 | 2003 | Public Library of Science | biology; molecular biology; ecology | $2900 |
| PLoS Genetics | 6.661 | 2005 | Public Library of Science | biological sciences; gene discovery; population genetics; genome projects; comparative genomics; functional genomics; ; evolution; gene expression; chromosome biology; epigenetics | $2250 |
| PLoS ONE | 3.057 | 2006 | Public Library of Science | science; medicine | $1350 |
| Polar Research | 1.728 | 1982 | Norwegian Polar Institute/Taylor & Francis | biology, ecology, geology, oceanography, glaciology, and meterology of polar regions | No charge OR $180/page |
| PoS - Proceedings of Science | N/A | 2005 | SISSA | astronomy; biophysics; physics; science communication; publishes conference proceedings only | No charge |
| Progress in Earth and Planetary Science | N/A | 2013 | Springer/Japan Geoscience Union | solid earth, atmosphere, hydrosphere, space and planetary science, biogeoscience | No charge |
| Research in Geophysics | N/A | 2011 | PAGEPress | geophysics, seismology, geodynamics | 200 |
| Rivista Italiana di Paleontologica e Stratigrafia | 1.130 | 1895/2016 | University of Milan | paleontology; stratigraphy | No charge |
| Royal Society Open Science | N/A | 2014 | Royal Society of London | science, engineering, mathematics | $1600 |
| Science Advances | N/A | 2015 | AAAS | science, technology, engineering | $2200 - $2700 |
| ScienceOpen Research | N/A | 2014 | ScienceOpen | all disciplines of science | $800 |
| Scientific Reports | 5.228 | 2011 | Nature Publishing Group | natural sciences; biology; chemistry; earth sciences; physics | $1495 |
| Solid Earth | 2.083 | 2010 | Copernicus/EGU | geochemistry; geodesy; geodynamics; geomorphology; geophysics; magma and rock physics; magnetism; mineral physics; palaeontology; petrology; planetary science; sedimentology; seismology; soil system science; stratigraphy; structural geology; tectonophysics; volcanology | 17 - 40 / page |
| SpringerPlus | 0.982 | 2012 | Springer | all disciplines of science | $1085 |
| TAO: Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences | 0.556 | 1990 | Chinese Geoscience Union | geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, space sciences, ocean sciences, hydrology | $15/page |
Impact Factors are from 2016 Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports. Article processing fees are as of June 2016.
Compiled by Shaun Hardy, DTM/Geophysical Laboratory Librarian, Carnegie Institution for Science
with input from Amanda Bielskas, Geology/Geosciences Librarian, Columbia University
and Linda Zellmer, Science, Government Information & Data Librarian, Western Illinois University. Updated April 2017