New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Geosciences

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Biochar53.833
2 Reviews of Geophysics49.667
3 Annual Review of Marine Science29.290
4 International Journal of Mining Science and Technology22.981
5 Soil Biology & Biochemistry22.892
6 Water Research22.332
7 Remote Sensing of Environment20.799
8 Nature Climate Change20.791
9 Landscape and Urban Planning20.718
10 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing20.451
11 Current Climate Change Reports20.407
12 Earth System Science Data19.301
13 Geoscience Frontiers18.971
14 npj Clean Water18.759
15 Earth-Science Reviews18.662
16 Gondwana Research17.978
17 Petroleum Exploration and Development17.868
18 Nature Geoscience17.510
19 Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences16.340
20 Desalination16.242
21 Engineering Geology14.476
22 International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials14.366
23 Geoderma13.452
24 Soil & Tillage Research13.337
25 Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering13.307
26 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine13.106
27 International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences12.939
28 International Soil and Water Conservation Research12.883
29 Earths Future12.410
30 Urban Climate12.344
31 Computers and Geotechnics12.302
32 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change12.259
33 Journal of Hydrology12.242
34 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water12.212
35 Water Resources and Industry12.055
36 Agricultural Water Management11.523
37 Landscape Ecology11.452
38 Communications Earth & Environment11.442
39 GIScience & Remote Sensing11.240
40 CATENA11.199
41 npj Climate and Atmospheric Science10.819
42 Biogeochemistry10.793
43 Hydrology and Earth System Sciences10.655
44 Landslides10.645
45 Applied Clay Science10.637
46 Plant Phenomics10.584
47 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology10.553
48 International Journal of Coal Geology10.540
49 Ocean & Coastal Management10.392
50 Geotextiles and Geomembranes10.363
51 Surveys in Geophysics10.167
52 Journal of Water Process Engineering10.155
53 Acta Geotechnica10.112
54 Geotechnique9.963
55 Drones9.943
56 International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction9.864
57 Ocean Engineering9.778
58 Biology and Fertility of Soils9.755
59 Water Resources Research9.724
60 Applied Water Science9.721
61 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing9.558
62 Weather and Climate Extremes9.457
63 Minerals Engineering9.424
64 Global Ecology and Biogeography9.380
65 Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering9.313
66 Natural Resources Research9.071
67 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics9.068
68 Remote Sensing8.946
69 Journal of Geographical Sciences8.923
70 Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering8.758
71 Earth System Dynamics8.661
72 Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences8.639
73 Applied Soil Ecology8.610
74 Global Biogeochemical Cycles8.545
75 Water Resources Management8.491
76 Soil8.413
77 Earth and Planetary Science Letters8.397
78 International Journal of Digital Earth8.382
79 GPS Solutions8.316
80 Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta8.303
81 Geoscientific Model Development8.279
82 International Journal of Disaster Risk Science8.168
83 Transportation Geotechnics8.115
84 Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology8.083
85 Environmental Modelling & Software8.000
86 Economic Geology7.968
87 Applied Ocean Research7.953
88 Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources7.940
89 Climate Risk Management7.933
90 Computers & Geosciences7.899
91 Marine and Petroleum Geology7.858
92 Environmental Research Letters7.852
93 Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics7.793
94 International Journal of Geographical Information Science7.780
95 Geothermics7.681
96 Atmospheric Research7.673
97 Geocarto International7.599
98 IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering7.557
99 Pedosphere7.441
100 Advances in Climate Change Research7.429
101 Climatic Change7.398
102 Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation7.391
103 Geophysical Research Letters7.356
104 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology7.338
105 Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk7.312
106 Climate Services7.261
107 Journal of Water and Climate Change7.219
108 Physics and Chemistry of the Earth7.148
109 Geology7.106
110 Cold Regions Science and Technology7.099
111 Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering7.075
112 Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review7.057
113 Journal of Geodesy7.040
114 Geothermal Energy7.024
115 Science China-Earth Sciences7.013
116 Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment7.010
117 Limnology and Oceanography Letters6.986
118 Earth Science Informatics6.971
119 Atmospheric Environment6.952
120 Cryosphere6.909
121 Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems6.876
122 Geo-Spatial Information Science6.787
123 Natural Hazards6.757
124 Exposure and Health6.741
125 Biogeosciences6.736
126 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing6.730
127 Soils and Foundations6.672
128 Mineralium Deposita6.639
129 Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment6.637
130 Water6.607
131 International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation6.585
132 Rhizosphere6.502
133 European Journal of Soil Biology6.487
134 Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering6.486
135 Anthropocene6.475
136 Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology6.465
137 Advances in Atmospheric Sciences6.369
138 Journal of Geochemical Exploration6.363
139 Journal of Sea Research6.341
140 Progress in Oceanography6.301
141 Advances in Water Resources6.294
142 Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth6.278
143 Anthropocene Review6.243
144 Applied Geochemistry6.240
145 Journal of Cultural Heritage6.238
146 IUCrJ6.232
147 Astrobiology6.225
148 Journal of Earth Science6.221
149 Earthquake Spectra6.210
150 Environmental Earth Sciences6.204
151 Environmental Toxicology6.165
152 European Journal of Soil Science6.163
153 Global and Planetary Change6.111
154 Chemical Geology6.110
155 Environmental Geochemistry and Health6.078
156 Water Science and Technology6.077
157 Ore Geology Reviews6.053
158 International Journal of Sediment Research6.020
159 European Journal of Remote Sensing5.992
160 ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information5.981
161 Journal of Petrology5.969
162 Quaternary Science Reviews5.955
163 Hydrology Research5.885
164 Journal of Hydroinformatics5.880
165 Spatial Statistics5.871
166 ICES Journal of Marine Science5.849
167 Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets5.848
168 Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications5.835
169 Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling5.796
170 Progress in Physical Geography-Earth and Environment5.791
171 Land Degradation & Development5.775
172 Crystals5.764
173 Plant and Soil5.750
174 Atmospheric Measurement Techniques5.728
175 Journal of Marine Science and Engineering5.700
176 Crystal Growth & Design5.677
177 Climate of the Past5.661
178 Journal of Soils and Sediments5.656
- International Journal of Geomechanics5.656
180 Geophysics5.654
181 Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene5.532
182 Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America5.497
183 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters5.486
184 Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration5.469
185 Precambrian Research5.451
186 Geoscience Letters5.441
187 Geomicrobiology Journal5.392
188 American Journal of Science5.383
189 Mathematical Geosciences5.360
190 Geobiology5.345
191 Geomorphology5.320
192 Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres5.316
193 Atmosphere5.314
194 Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology5.300
195 Earth Surface Dynamics5.290
- Tectonics5.290
197 Soil Use and Management5.269
198 Journal of Climate5.262
199 SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering5.257
200 Journal of Flood Risk Management5.228
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