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Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Elsevier B.V. · Netherlands

ISSN0034-6667eISSN1879-0615

SJR Q2✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.58

H-Indexi

129

SNIPi

0.809

Total Worksi

5,345

Total Citationsi

145,014

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.25

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology is an international journal for articles in all fields of palaeobotany and palynology. It publishes research on marine and terrestrial palynomorphs and macro remains of higher land plants, with applications in coal and petroleum geology, forensics, and archaeology.

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General Information

Country / RegionNetherlands

Primary Language—

1st Year Published—

FrequencyMonthly (Except Jan., Mar., Aug. & Nov.), <Sept. 1993->

StatusActive

Total Publications5,345

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

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Submission Info

Publishing ModelHybrid

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

⚡ Hybrid journal — subscription model available.

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Elsevier B.V.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0034-6667 / 1879-0615

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

N/A

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

113

1.3k

2019

132

1.6k

2020

145

1.3k

2021

153

2022

136

660

2023

142

416

2024

149

224

2025

148

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsQ2

PaleontologyQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

PaleontologyPlant Sciences

Scopus Categories

PaleontologyEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Plant Diversity and EvolutionGeology and Paleoclimatology ResearchPaleontology and Stratigraphy of FossilsPlant and Fungal Species DescriptionsFern and Epiphyte Biology

Frequently asked questions about Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Is Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology?

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.25.

Is Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.