Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth is published by Wiley-Blackwell and is in Zone 2 of Earth Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials and Geological and Geochemical Analysis, together about 56.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Geophysics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Editorial Letter – Updated January 13, 2022 The Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth serves as the premier publication worldwide across the breadth of solid Earth geophysics. It has long distinguished itself as the venue for publication of research articles that significantly advance the science represented by the scope of the journal –using various data and techniques to study the solid Earth. As a matter of record, a large proportion of research articles published in JGR: Solid Earth have had lasting impacts in their fields. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth welcomes original, innovative work including data analysis and modeling, theoretical and numerical developments, instrumental advances, and developments of conceptual ideas, provided it falls within the scope of the journal, is robustly supported and significantly advances the current state of knowledge in solid Earth Geophysics. An important feature of Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth is the absence of a page limit (though ≤25 “publication units” is recommended); papers provide comprehensive and detailed accounts of scientific research, with little, if any, reference to supplementary material. To ensure that published papers are of high quality in science, writing, presentation, transparency, and integrity of content, they are handled by a large team of high-level, international, expert Editors spanning a large diversity in expertise, gender, and geography: currently 8 Editors including the EiC and more than 90 Associate Editors. The editorial team is furthermore working with more than 2000 reviewers who are renowned international experts in their field. We detail below the key principles that guide the strategy of the current Editorial board of the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth welcomes papers in a broad range of Earth science disciplines, including, in alphabetic order, data science and artificial intelligence with solid Earth applications, Earth imaging and probing of various types and scales (from surface to core), environmental geophysics, geochemistry, geodesy, geodynamics and plate kinematics, geomagnetism and paleomagnetism, gravimetry, hydrogeophysics, marine geology and geophysics, mass transport studies, modeling of Earth systems and processes, natural hazards related to solid Earth processes, paleoseismology, petrology and mineralogy, remote sensing, ro

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Earth and Planetary Sciences-Geophysics

Editor-in-chief École NormalePublisher website

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 13%); most named United States 2, Japan 2, Mainland China 1, United Kingdom 1, Germany 1 (8 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-03

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

3.97LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

4Publisher website · 2026-09-25

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

4Publisher website · 2026-10-03

CiteScore 2026-06

7.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

7.5Publisher website · 2026-09-25

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

7.5Publisher website · 2026-10-03

SJR 2026-06

1.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.67LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

204LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

153OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

5,437OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.72OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

12.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

54.87%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

605LetPub · 2026-09-13

Articles per year (publisher) 2025

612Publisher website · 2026-10-03

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

4,010,163Publisher website · 2026-10-03

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Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher)

30%Publisher website · 2026-09-25

Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025

30%Publisher website · 2026-10-03

Submission to first decision

27 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-25

Submission to first decision 2025

27 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-03

Submission to acceptance 2025

200 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-03

Acceptance to publication 2025

12 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-03

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Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

ISSN

2169-9313

Electronic ISSN

2169-9356

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website