Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Aims & Scope

Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology (PALO) 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.

Paleoceanographic and Paleoclimate studies 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.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.2
2024	3.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.619

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	149

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	2093

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1275

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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 Earth and Planetary Sciences, 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.

• The Miocene: The Future of the Past

  Citation: 341

  Authors: M., H. K., A. M., M., N., C. D., N. J., S. J., E., J., A. E., S., M. J., G., W. M., C. H., D., D. J., T., P. N., M. J., H., C. A. E.

• BAYSPLINE: A New Calibration for the Alkenone Paleothermometer

  Citation: 196

  Authors: Jessica E., Martin P.

• Global Extent of Early Eocene Hyperthermal Events: A New Pacific Benthic Foraminiferal Isotope Record From Shatsky Rise (ODP Site 1209)

  Citation: 171

  Authors: T., U., B., J. C.

• A Rapid, Deterministic Age‐Depth Modeling Routine for Geological Sequences With Inherent Depth Uncertainty

  Citation: 141

  Authors: B. C., S. P.

• Nonthermal Influences on Mg/Ca in Planktonic Foraminifera: A Review of Culture Studies and Application to the Last Glacial Maximum

  Citation: 135

  Authors: William R., David

• A High‐Fidelity Benthic Stable Isotope Record of Late Cretaceous–Early Eocene Climate Change and Carbon‐Cycling

  Citation: 122

  Authors: J. S. K., K., T., D., M. J., I., U., J. C.

• Endless Forams: >34,000 Modern Planktonic Foraminiferal Images for Taxonomic Training and Automated Species Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Networks

  Citation: 95

  Authors: Allison Y., Anieke, Marina C., Maryline J., Stephen, Sian, Anna, Michael J., Brett, Isabel S., Bridget S., Lyndsey, Julie, Catherine V., Ulrike, Jeroen, Kirsty M., Aurore, Tracy, Harry J., C. Giles, Nelson, Pincelli M.

• Simulating Miocene Warmth: Insights From an Opportunistic Multi‐Model Ensemble (MioMIP1)

  Citation: 94

  Authors: N. J., C. D., A. M., N., M., M., Y., A., A., E., A. S., D. K., G., K. T., C. H., X., G., D. J., A., M., C. A., A.‐C., N., Z.

• Deciphering Oxygen Isotope Records From Chinese Speleothems With an Isotope‐Enabled Climate Model

  Citation: 88

  Authors: Jun, Julien, Clay, Jesse, Judson

• Bayesian Calibration of the Mg/Ca Paleothermometer in Planktic Foraminifera

  Citation: 88

  Authors: Jessica E., Steven B., William, Lael, Kaustubh

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