Stratigraphy

Aims & Scope

The journal’s mission is to publish peer-reviewed papers that use modern stratigraphic tools – biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, cyclostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, climatostratigraphy, lithostratigraphy, GSSPs and more – to explore broad ideas in earth history.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.6

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.353

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	30

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	15075

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	29

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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.

• Miocene Central Paratethys stratigraphy – current status and future directions

  Citation: 299

  Authors: Werner E., Mathias, Oleg

• The PRISM3D paleoenvironmental reconstruction

  Citation: 220

  Authors: Harry J., Marci M., Alan M., Ulrich, Daniel, Linda, Mark, Mark, Kevin, Danielle K.

• Astronomical tuning as the basis for high resolution chronostratigraphy: the intricate history of the Messinian Salinity Crisis

  Citation: 124

  Authors: Frits, Klaudia, Wout, Eric, Erwin

• Cyclostratigraphy and the Astronomical Time Scale

  Citation: 113

  Authors: Linda A., James G.

• Integrated stratigraphy of the Sarmatian (Upper Middle Miocene) in the western Central Paratethys

  Citation: 102

  Authors: Mathias, Werner E.

• Revised astrochronology for the Aim el Beida section (Atlantic Morocco): No glacio-eustatic contrpl for the onset of the Messinian Salinity Crisis

  Citation: 101

  Authors: W., S., F. J., S., E., E.

• A global hiatus in the Middle Permian tetrapod fossil record

  Citation: 72

  Authors: Spencer G.

• A high-resolution stratigraphic framework for the latest Messinian events in the Mediterranean area

  Citation: 70

  Authors: Marco, Adele, Domenico, Agata, Rocco, Elsa, Francesco, Silvia Maria, Stefano, Vinicio, Marco

• Mid-Latitude calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and biochronology across the middle to late Eocene transition

  Citation: 67

  Authors: Eliana, Claudia, Rita, Domenico, Eleonora M., Elisabetta

• New quantitative evidence of extreme warmth in the Pliocene Arctic

  Citation: 66

  Authors: Marci M.

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