Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Journal Title

Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

PALEOCEANOGR PALEOCL

ISSN / eISSN

2572-4517 / 2572-4525

Aims and 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.

Subject Area

PALEONTOLOGY

GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

OCEANOGRAPHY

CiteScore

6.30 View Trend

CiteScore Ranking

Category	Quartile	Rank
Earth and Planetary Sciences - Paleontology	Q1	#5/111
Earth and Planetary Sciences - Oceanography	Q1	#21/136
Earth and Planetary Sciences - Atmospheric Science	Q2	#36/137

Web of Science Core Collection

Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)	Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
Indexed	-

Category (Journal Citation Reports 2023)	Quartile
GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY - SCIE	Q2
OCEANOGRAPHY - SCIE	Q1
PALEONTOLOGY - SCIE	Q1

Country/Area of Publication

UNITED STATES

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Annual Article Volume

98

Open Access

NO

Contact

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