Palaeontology
Last updated ISSN 0031-0239
Palaeontology is published by Wiley in earth and planetary sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $5,000.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Palaeontology concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Geological formations and processes
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Morphological variations and asymmetry
Key facts
| Publisher | Wiley |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0031-0239, 1475-4983 |
| Subject area | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $5,000 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,040 |
| Publishing since | 1960 |
| Journal website | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1475-4 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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