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Journals for “Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils”
Suggested journals
Topic match is relative to the best match in this search (100% = best). Fees are shown only where DOAJ records them.
| # | Journal | Topic match | ITS Journal Score | Global rank | Papers 2021–2025 | Open access | Fee (APC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Newsletters on Stratigraphy Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung · Germany | 100% | 63.8 | #10,519 | 96 | 33% | Not recorded |
| 2 | Micropaleontology Micropaleontology Press · United States | 85% | 58.1 | #14,114 | 158 | 4% | Not recorded |
| 3 | Lethaia Wiley · Norway · DOAJ | 78% | 65.4 | #9,551 | 193 | 86% | Not recorded |
| 4 | Palaios Society for Sedimentary Geology · United States | 73% | 66.1 | #9,143 | 171 | 16% | Not recorded |
| 5 | Journal of Paleontology Cambridge University Press · United States | 73% | 65.3 | #9,638 | 531 | 66% | Not recorded |
| 6 | Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen E. Schweizerbart · Germany | 61% | 59.8 | #13,075 | 344 | 9% | Not recorded |
| 7 | The Journal of Foraminiferal Research Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research · United States | 58% | 62.0 | #11,630 | 193 | 50% | Not recorded |
| 8 | Facies Springer Science+Business Media · Germany | 56% | 60.1 | #12,854 | 103 | 56% | Not recorded |
| 9 | Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 52% | 65.5 | #9,477 | 185 | 44% | Not recorded |
| 10 | Journal of Micropalaeontology Copernicus Publications · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 56% | 56.8 | #14,933 | 88 | 100% | 780 EUR |
| 11 | Acta Geologica Polonica De Gruyter · Poland | 55% | 51.6 | #18,366 | 152 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 12 | Paläontologische Zeitschrift Springer Nature · Germany | 45% | 61.9 | #11,684 | 227 | 61% | Not recorded |
| 13 | GFF Taylor & Francis · Sweden | 51% | 46.8 | #22,021 | 70 | 71% | Not recorded |
| 14 | Ichnos/Ichnos : an international journal for plant and animal traces Taylor & Francis · Switzerland | 44% | 59.3 | #13,336 | 107 | 19% | Not recorded |
| 15 | Geobios Elsevier BV · France | 39% | 66.4 | #8,954 | 235 | 34% | Not recorded |
| 16 | Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae/Rocznik Polskiego Towarzystwa Geologicznego Geological Society of Poland · Poland | 51% | 41.7 | #26,524 | 97 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 17 | Proceedings of the Geologists Association Elsevier BV · United Kingdom | 35% | 63.8 | #10,496 | 277 | 30% | Not recorded |
| 18 | Bulletin of Geosciences Czechia | 39% | 55.8 | #15,522 | 108 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 19 | Sedimentary Geology Elsevier BV · The Netherlands | 27% | 76.6 | #3,472 | 664 | 31% | Not recorded |
| 20 | Palaeoworld Elsevier BV · The Netherlands | 34% | 60.9 | #12,384 | 436 | 16% | Not recorded |
| 21 | Earth-Science Reviews Elsevier BV · The Netherlands | 17% | 90.9 | #194 | 1,462 | 45% | Not recorded |
| 22 | Geobiology Wiley · United Kingdom | 28% | 71.2 | #6,121 | 276 | 63% | Not recorded |
| 23 | Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Cambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 34% | 58.4 | #13,954 | 131 | 64% | Not recorded |
| 24 | Ameghiniana Asociación Paleontológica Argentina · Argentina | 34% | 56.1 | #15,388 | 148 | 22% | Not recorded |
| 25 | Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology Elsevier BV · The Netherlands | 22% | 78.5 | #2,685 | 2,515 | 28% | Not recorded |
| 26 | Carnets de géologie (Notebooks on geology) Society for Sedimentary Geology · France · DOAJ | 37% | 50.2 | #19,347 | 98 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 27 | Geological Society London Special Publications Geological Society of London · United Kingdom | 21% | 79.0 | #2,500 | 972 | 35% | Not recorded |
| 28 | Geology Geological Society of America · United States | 19% | 82.6 | #1,331 | 1,193 | 54% | Not recorded |
| 29 | Cretaceous Research Elsevier BV · United Kingdom | 25% | 70.8 | #6,342 | 1,117 | 25% | Not recorded |
| 30 | Paleobiology Cambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 23% | 73.6 | #4,815 | 255 | 93% | Not recorded |
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