Journal profile · PALEONTOLOGY
Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India
ISSN 0552-9360 · eISSN 2753-7269 · The Palaeontological Society of India · INDIA
Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India: CAS Zone 4 · Earth Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.86; fully open access; APC about USD 1,200; 63 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India is published by The Palaeontological Society of India and is in Zone 4 of Earth Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, together about 30.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Paleontology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India (JPI) is an impact factor journal and is being published since 1956 by the Palaeontological Society of India (PSI). JPI is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal which publishes high-quality articles pertaining to all aspects of Palaeontology (systematics, phylogeny, palaeoecology, palaeobiogeography, biostratigraphy, evolutionary biology, taphonomy, etc.), Anthropology, Archaeology. Manuscripts dealing with all fossil organism groups as well as ichnofossils are welcome. Articles are freely accessible online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons License.The journal operated under a subscription-based publishing model until 2022. Beginning April 2022, the journal transitioned to an Open Access model under Creative Commons License, ensuring all published content is freely available to readers worldwide without a subscription.The Palaeontological Society of India is a corporate member of the International Palaeontological Association (IPA) and a member of the Federation of Indian Geosciences Associations (FIGA). The Society is instrumental in the organization of scientific meetings, conferences, and field workshops on topics of contemporary issues in geology and palaeontology. Its main activities are the publication of the Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India, Field Guide Books, Catalogues, Monographs, Atlas, Special Publications, and other Miscellaneous Publications.Submit your manuscript today at https://peerreview.sagepub.com/jpi.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PALEONTOLOGY
Editor-in-chief Mukund Sharma IIASTPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 3%); most named India 28, United States 4, Mainland China 1, United Kingdom 1 (34 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Evolution and Paleontology StudiesEarth and Planetary Sciences11.5%
- Geology and Paleoclimatology ResearchEarth and Planetary Sciences10.2%
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of FossilsEarth and Planetary Sciences8.8%
- Geochemistry and Geologic MappingComputer Science7.7%
- Paleontology and Evolutionary BiologyEarth and Planetary Sciences7.6%
- Geological formations and processesEarth and Planetary Sciences6.1%
- Marine and environmental studiesEarth and Planetary Sciences6%
- Geological and Geophysical StudiesEarth and Planetary Sciences5.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Earth Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Earth Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Paleontology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Earth Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Earth Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Paleontology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Earth Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Earth Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Paleontology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 0.86LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 0.9Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 0.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.26LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.53LetPub ·
- h-index
- 9LetPub ·
- h-index
- 31OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 204OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.66OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 33.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 42LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,281 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 6 | 6 | 2 |
| 2025 | 63 | 63 | 33 |
| 2024 | 21 | 21 | 24 |
| 2023 | 25 | 25 | 50 |
| 2022 | 33 | 11 | 111 |
| 2021 | 39 | 17 | 96 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 7 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 1,200 / INR 20,000 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 1,200 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | INR 20,000 / USD 1,200 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 300–500 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 5
- Reference style
- Harvard
Article types accepted16, with length limits
- announcements of conference or meetingThe Journal accepts papers such as original articles, reviews articles, memorial lecture’s review papers, commentaries, reports, obituaries, book reviews, expre…Length not stated
- book reviewJournal of the Palaeontological Society of India publishes wide-ranging original research results, reviews and opinions aimed at increasing our understanding ab…main text ≤ 1,500 words
- book reviewsThe Journal accepts papers such as original articles, reviews articles, memorial lecture’s review papers, commentaries, reports, obituaries, book reviews, expre…Length not stated
- commentariesThe Journal accepts papers such as original articles, reviews articles, memorial lecture’s review papers, commentaries, reports, obituaries, book reviews, expre…Length not stated
- commentaryJournal of the Palaeontological Society of India publishes wide-ranging original research results, reviews and opinions aimed at increasing our understanding ab…main text ≤ 1,500 words
- express publicationThe Journal accepts papers such as original articles, reviews articles, memorial lecture’s review papers, commentaries, reports, obituaries, book reviews, expre…Length not stated
- memorial lecture’s review papersThe Journal accepts papers such as original articles, reviews articles, memorial lecture’s review papers, commentaries, reports, obituaries, book reviews, expre…Length not stated
- obituariesThe Journal accepts papers such as original articles, reviews articles, memorial lecture’s review papers, commentaries, reports, obituaries, book reviews, expre…Length not stated
- opinionJournal of the Palaeontological Society of India publishes wide-ranging original research results, reviews and opinions aimed at increasing our understanding ab…Length not stated
- original articleJournal of the Palaeontological Society of India publishes wide-ranging original research results, reviews and opinions aimed at increasing our understanding ab…main text ≤ 5,000 words
- original articlesThe Journal accepts papers such as original articles, reviews articles, memorial lecture’s review papers, commentaries, reports, obituaries, book reviews, expre…Length not stated
- original researchJournal of the Palaeontological Society of India publishes wide-ranging original research results, reviews and opinions aimed at increasing our understanding ab…Length not stated
- reportsThe Journal accepts papers such as original articles, reviews articles, memorial lecture’s review papers, commentaries, reports, obituaries, book reviews, expre…Length not stated
- reviewJournal of the Palaeontological Society of India publishes wide-ranging original research results, reviews and opinions aimed at increasing our understanding ab…main text ≤ 5,000 words
- review articleJournal of the Palaeontological Society of India publishes wide-ranging original research results, reviews and opinions aimed at increasing our understanding ab…Length not stated
- review articlesThe Journal accepts papers such as original articles, reviews articles, memorial lecture’s review papers, commentaries, reports, obituaries, book reviews, expre…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Double anonymized peer review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejected without peer r…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal does not accept submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should n…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- The Palaeontological Society of India
- Country or region
- INDIA
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0552-9360
- Electronic ISSN
- 2753-7269
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India
What CAS zone is Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India is in Zone 4 of Earth Sciences, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Paleontology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Earth Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 0.86; CiteScore 1.3, h-index 31.
What are the manuscript requirements of Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 300–500 words; Keywords: ≥ 5; Reference style: Harvard. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India based?
Of the 34 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 3%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are India (28), United States (4) and Mainland China (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 1,200.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .