Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

Aims & Scope

Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments is a peer-reviewed international journal for the publication of high-quality multidisciplinary studies in the fields of palaeobiodiversity, palaeoenvironments and palaeobiogeography.

Key criteria for the acceptance of manuscripts are a global scope or implications of problems on a global scale significant not only for a single discipline, a focus on the diversity of fossil organisms and the causes and processes of change in Earth’s history.

The topics covered include: Systematic studies of all fossil animal / plant groups with a special focus on palaeoenvironmental investigations, palaeoecosystems and climate changes in Earth’s history, environment-organism interaction, comparison of modern and ancient sedimentary environments, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.3
2024	1.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.648

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	40

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	8874

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	286

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Sedimentary and palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, Northwest China

  Citation: 118

  Authors: Weihua, Jens, Zhenhua, Pujun, Matthias

• ‘CLAMP Online’: a new web-based palaeoclimate tool and its application to the terrestrial Paleogene and Neogene of North America

  Citation: 118

  Authors: Jian, Robert A., Teresa E. V., Cheng-Sen

• Mesozoic and Cenozoic squamates of Europe

  Citation: 102

  Authors: Jean-Claude

• Triassic and Jurassic palaeoclimate development in the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, Northwest China—a review and additional lithological data

  Citation: 78

  Authors: A. Rahman, Yuewu, Ge, Dieter, Volker, Jie, Mark

• Float, explode or sink: postmortem fate of lung-breathing marine vertebrates

  Citation: 73

  Authors: Achim G., Roman, Daniel, Mark, Christian, Michael W., Peter, Andreas

• Mammals from the Late Jurassic Qigu Formation in the Southern Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, Northwest China

  Citation: 54

  Authors: Thomas, Alexander O., Hans-Ulrich

• The Upper Triassic to Middle Jurassic strata and floras of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, Northwest China

  Citation: 54

  Authors: Ge, Yuyan, Volker, Abdul R.

• Floral diversity during Plio-Pleistocene Siwalik sedimentation (Kimin Formation) in Arunachal Pradesh, India, and its palaeoclimatic significance

  Citation: 54

  Authors: Mahasin Ali, Ruby, Subir, Robert A., T. E. V.

• Re-evaluating Moodie’s Opisthotonic-Posture Hypothesis in Fossil Vertebrates Part I: Reptiles—the taphonomy of the bipedal dinosaurs Compsognathus longipes and Juravenator starki from the Solnhofen Archipelago (Jurassic, Germany)

  Citation: 51

  Authors: Achim G., Michael

• Two-phase extinction of “Southern Hemispheric” birds in the Cenozoic of Europe and the origin of the Neotropic avifauna

  Citation: 48

  Authors: Gerald

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