Geosciences: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Biochar	63
2	Reviews of Geophysics	54
3	International Journal of Mining Science and Technology	32
4	Water Research	29
5	Landscape and Urban Planning	28
6	Soil Biology & Biochemistry	27
-	Remote Sensing of Environment	27
8	Current Climate Change Reports	26
-	Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences	26
10	ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing	25
11	Earth-Science Reviews	24
-	Annual Review of Marine Science	24
13	npj Clean Water	23
14	Nature Climate Change	22
15	Petroleum Exploration and Development	21
-	Nature Geoscience	21
-	Desalination	21
18	Engineering Geology	20
19	International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials	18
-	International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences	18
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	18
22	Computers and Geotechnics	17
-	Earth System Science Data	17
-	International Soil and Water Conservation Research	17
-	Geoscience Frontiers	17
-	Agricultural Water Management	17
-	Geoderma	17
-	Soil & Tillage Research	17
-	Urban Climate	17
-	Gondwana Research	17
31	Earths Future	16
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water	16
-	Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering	16
-	Water Resources and Industry	16
-	Journal of Hydrology	16
36	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	15
-	CATENA	15
-	International Journal of Coal Geology	15
-	Landscape Ecology	15
-	Landslides	15
-	Geotextiles and Geomembranes	15
42	Plant Phenomics	14
-	Geotechnique	14
-	Acta Geotechnica	14
-	Applied Clay Science	14
-	Biogeochemistry	14
-	GIScience & Remote Sensing	14
48	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	13
-	Ocean & Coastal Management	13
-	Ocean Engineering	13

-	Communications Earth & Environment	13
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	13
-	Water Resources Research	13
-	Weather and Climate Extremes	13
-	Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering	13
-	Minerals Engineering	13
-	Surveys in Geophysics	13
-	Journal of Geographical Sciences	13
59	Earth and Planetary Science Letters	12
-	Applied Water Science	12
-	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	12
-	Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta	12
-	Hydrology and Earth System Sciences	12
-	Water Resources Management	12
-	Natural Resources Research	12
-	Transportation Geotechnics	12
-	Global Ecology and Biogeography	12
-	Biology and Fertility of Soils	12
-	Journal of Water Process Engineering	12
70	Applied Ocean Research	11
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Science	11
-	Remote Sensing	11
-	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	11
-	Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources	11
-	GPS Solutions	11
-	Drones	11
-	Earth System Dynamics	11
-	Applied Soil Ecology	11
-	Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation	11
-	Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering	11
-	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	11
82	Cold Regions Science and Technology	10
-	Advances in Climate Change Research	10
-	Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics	10
-	Environmental Research Letters	10
-	Geocarto International	10
-	International Journal of Digital Earth	10
-	Soil	10
-	Geophysical Research Letters	10
-	Geothermal Energy	10
-	Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering	10
-	Cryosphere	10
-	Economic Geology	10
-	Environmental Modelling & Software	10
-	Atmospheric Research	10
-	Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment	10
-	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	10
-	Marine and Petroleum Geology	10
-	Geology	10
-	Geothermics	10
101	Earth Science Informatics	9
-	Environmental Toxicology	9
-	European Journal of Soil Biology	9
-	Biogeosciences	9
-	Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering	9
-	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	9
-	Journal of Water and Climate Change	9
-	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	9
-	Progress in Oceanography	9
-	Limnology and Oceanography Letters	9
-	Mineralium Deposita	9
-	Soils and Foundations	9
-	Journal of Earth Science	9
-	Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment	9
-	Geoscientific Model Development	9
-	Climate Risk Management	9
-	Climatic Change	9
-	Computers & Geosciences	9
-	Advances in Water Resources	9
-	Earthquake Spectra	9
-	Atmospheric Environment	9
-	IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering	9
-	Rhizosphere	9
-	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems	9
-	Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review	9
-	Science China-Earth Sciences	9
-	Natural Hazards	9
-	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	9
-	Journal of Geodesy	9
130	Climate Services	8
-	Crystal Growth & Design	8
-	Anthropocene Review	8
-	Applied Geochemistry	8
-	Environmental Earth Sciences	8
-	Pedosphere	8
-	ICES Journal of Marine Science	8
-	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing	8
-	International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation	8
-	Precambrian Research	8
-	Land Degradation & Development	8
-	Journal of Soils and Sediments	8
-	IUCrJ	8
-	Journal of Geochemical Exploration	8
-	Ore Geology Reviews	8
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth	8
-	Global and Planetary Change	8
-	Water	8
-	Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology	8
-	Environmental Geochemistry and Health	8
-	Exposure and Health	8
-	Chemical Geology	8
-	Hydrology Research	8
-	Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling	8
-	Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology	8
-	Journal of Petrology	8
-	International Journal of Geomechanics	8
-	International Journal of Sediment Research	8
-	Quaternary Science Reviews	8
-	ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information	8
-	Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment	8
-	Journal of Contaminant Hydrology	8
-	Journal of Cultural Heritage	8
-	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	8
-	Geo-Spatial Information Science	8
-	Oceanologia	8
-	Tectonics	8
-	Journal of Hydroinformatics	8
168	Climate Dynamics	7
-	Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences	7
-	Atmosphere	7
-	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	7
-	Geobiology	7
-	Canadian Geotechnical Journal	7
-	Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems	7
-	Geoderma Regional	7

-	Journal of Sea Research	7
-	Water Resources and Economics	7
-	Water Science and Technology	7
-	Journal of Aerosol Science	7
-	Journal of Climate	7
-	Geomorphology	7
-	Geophysical Journal International	7
-	Soil Use and Management	7
-	Spatial Statistics	7
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences	7
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans	7
-	Climate of the Past	7
-	Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology	7
-	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	7
-	Deep-Sea Research Part II-Topical Studies in Oceanography	7
-	American Journal of Science	7
-	Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration	7
-	Anthropocene	7
-	Earth Surface Dynamics	7
-	Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene	7
-	Astrobiology	7
-	European Journal of Remote Sensing	7
-	European Journal of Soil Science	7
-	Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America	7
-	Permafrost and Periglacial Processes	7

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