Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology is published by Wiley-Blackwell and is in Zone 2 of Earth Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils and Isotope Analysis in Ecology, together about 47.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Oceanography. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology publishes papers dealing with records of past environments, biota and climate. Understanding of the Earth system as it was in the past requires the employment of a wide range of approaches including marine and lacustrine sedimentology and speleothems; ice sheet formation and flow; stable isotope, trace element, and organic geochemistry; paleontology and molecular paleontology; evolutionary processes; mineralization in organisms; understanding tree-ring formation; seismic stratigraphy; physical, chemical, and biological oceanography; geochemical, climate and earth system modeling, and many others. The scope of this journal is regional to global, rather than local, and includes studies of any geologic age (Precambrian to Quaternary, including modern analogs). Within this framework, papers on the following topics are to be included: chronology, stratigraphy (where relevant to correlation of paleoceanographic events), paleoreconstructions, paleoceanographic modeling, paleocirculation (deep, intermediate, and shallow), paleoclimatology (e.g., paleowinds and cryosphere history), global sediment and geochemical cycles, anoxia, sea level changes and effects, relations between biotic evolution and paleoceanography, biotic crises, paleobiology (e.g., ecology of “microfossils” used in paleoceanography), techniques and approaches in paleoceanographic inferences, and modern paleoceanographic analogs, and quantitative and integrative analysis of coupled ocean-atmosphere-biosphere processes. Paleoceanography and paleoclimatology enable us to use the past in order to gain information on possible future climatic and biotic developments: the past is the key to the future, just as much and maybe more than the present is the key to the past. AGU Publications Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Statement As an organization that serves a global community of Earth and space scientists, AGU is committed to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA). Following AGU's Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan, AGU Publications is implementing changes to foster a more equitable and inclusive scientific publishing environment. This includes proactively working to eliminate the influence of bias in peer review, improving diversity and inclusion within our editorial teams (editors, reviewers, authors) and our publishing processes and policies, and ensuring our publications content fairly and inclusively represents peop

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Earth and Planetary Sciences-Atmospheric Science

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 2, Germany 2, Chile 1 (5 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

2.97LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

3Publisher website · 2026-09-26

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

3Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

4.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

4.8Publisher website · 2026-09-26

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

4.8Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

1.36LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.04LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

59OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

537OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.06OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

16.7%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

55.23%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

134LetPub · 2026-09-13

Articles per year (publisher) 2025

140Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

755,860Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher)

58%Publisher website · 2026-09-26

Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025

58%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

64 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-26

Submission to first decision 2025

64 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to acceptance 2025

196 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication 2025

17 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

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Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

ISSN

2572-4517

Electronic ISSN

2572-4525

Latest issue on the website

Volume 41, Issue 9 (September 2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Special issues ↗Publisher website