Earth and Planetary Science Letters: impact and ranking
Earth and Planetary Science Letters has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.41 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,209 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 399. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.41 #2,209 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 399 #205 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.6M #173 of 18,122
- Works
- 22k 74.8 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Earth and Planetary Science Letters?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Earth and Planetary Science Letters: 4.41, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Earth and Planetary Science Letters #2,209 of 18,122 journals, in the top 12%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Earth and Planetary Science Letters?
OpenAlex gives Earth and Planetary Science Letters an h-index of 399: 399 of its papers have each been cited at least 399 times. That ranks #205 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Earth and Planetary Science Letters publish?
OpenAlex records 21,937 works in Earth and Planetary Science Letters from 1800 to 2026, cited 1,640,559 times in all, 74.8 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #173 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Earth and Planetary Science Letters
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- Netherlands
- ISSN-L
- 0012-821X
- In OpenAlex
- 1800 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Earth and Planetary Science Letters as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,670.
- OpenAlex record
- S119230507
Journals ranked near Earth and Planetary Science Letters
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Earth and Planetary Science Letters on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,181 | The Journal of Chemical Physics | 4.45 | 710 |
| 2,185 | Administrative Science Quarterly | 4.44 | 476 |
| 2,207 | Journal of Marketing Research | 4.41 | 405 |
| 2,215 | Journal of Neurochemistry | 4.41 | 349 |
| 2,236 | Chemical Communications | 4.38 | 404 |
| 2,243 | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | 4.37 | 471 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.