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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Reviews of Geophysics	46
2	Current Climate Change Reports	40
3	Biochar	35
4	International Journal of Mining Science and Technology	29
5	Annual Review of Marine Science	27
6	Remote Sensing of Environment	26
7	Water Research	24
8	ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing	23
-	Soil Biology & Biochemistry	23
10	Earth-Science Reviews	21
-	Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences	21
12	Landscape and Urban Planning	20
13	Desalination	19
14	Engineering Geology	17
-	Geoscience Frontiers	17
16	Agricultural Water Management	16
17	International Soil and Water Conservation Research	15
-	Soil & Tillage Research	15
-	Geotextiles and Geomembranes	15
-	Earth System Science Data	15
-	Geoderma	15
22	Water Research X	14
-	GIScience & Remote Sensing	14
-	Water Resources and Industry	14
-	Petroleum Exploration and Development	14
26	Hydrology and Earth System Sciences	13
-	Applied Clay Science	13
-	npj Clean Water	13
-	Journal of Hydrology	13
-	CATENA	13
-	Urban Climate	13
-	Global Ecology and Biogeography	13
-	International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials	13
-	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	13
35	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	12
-	International Journal of Coal Geology	12
-	Earth and Planetary Science Letters	12
-	Earth System Dynamics	12
-	Applied Soil Ecology	12
-	Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta	12
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water	12
-	Landslides	12
-	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	12
-	Earths Future	12
-	Natural Resources Research	12
-	Biology and Fertility of Soils	12
-	Bulletin of Volcanology	12
48	Computers and Geotechnics	11
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	11
-	Minerals Engineering	11

-	Ocean & Coastal Management	11
-	Weather and Climate Extremes	11
-	Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering	11
-	Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering	11
-	Applied Water Science	11
-	Atmospheric Research	11
-	Biogeochemistry	11
-	Geology	11
59	Transportation Geotechnics	10
-	Soil	10
-	Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering	10
-	Surveys in Geophysics	10
-	Journal of Water Process Engineering	10
-	Economic Geology	10
-	Anthropocene	10
-	Geotechnique	10
-	Geophysical Research Letters	10
-	Water Resources Research	10
-	Global and Planetary Change	10
-	Climatic Change	10
-	Communications Earth & Environment	10
-	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	10
-	Advances in Climate Change Research	10
-	Applied Ocean Research	10
75	Water Resources Management	9
-	Plant Phenomics	9
-	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing	9
-	Acta Geophysica	9
-	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	9
-	Landscape Ecology	9
-	Marine and Petroleum Geology	9
-	Journal of Geographical Sciences	9
-	Biogeosciences	9
-	Ocean Engineering	9
-	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	9
-	Progress in Oceanography	9
-	Remote Sensing	9
-	Rhizosphere	9
-	Geothermics	9
-	Climate Risk Management	9
-	Computers & Geosciences	9
-	Cryosphere	9
-	Journal of Contaminant Hydrology	9
-	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	9
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth	9
-	Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering	9
-	Chemical Geology	9
98	Precambrian Research	8
-	Quaternary Science Reviews	8
-	Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation	8
-	Soils and Foundations	8
-	Tectonics	8
-	Geoscientific Model Development	8
-	Cold Regions Science and Technology	8
-	Advances in Water Resources	8
-	Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics	8
-	Limnology and Oceanography Letters	8
-	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems	8
-	Journal of Climate	8
-	Natural Hazards	8
-	Geocarto International	8
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets	8
-	Geomorphology	8
-	Pedosphere	8
-	Science China-Earth Sciences	8
-	Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate	8
-	Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology	8
-	Aeolian Research	8
-	Limnology and Oceanography	8
-	International Journal of Sediment Research	8
-	ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information	8
-	Journal of Aerosol Science	8
-	Applied Geochemistry	8
-	Astrobiology	8
-	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	8
126	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	7
-	Sedimentology	7
-	Journal of Petrology	7
-	Hydrological Processes	7
-	ACS Earth and Space Chemistry	7
-	ICES Journal of Marine Science	7
-	Crystal Growth & Design	7
-	Drones	7
-	International Journal of Geomechanics	7
-	Earth Surface Dynamics	7
-	Marine Geology	7
-	IUCrJ	7
-	Environmental Toxicology	7
-	Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review	7
-	Journal of Geodesy	7
-	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	7
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres	7
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface	7
-	Ore Geology Reviews	7
-	Journal of Marine Systems	7
-	Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment	7
-	Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology	7
-	Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology	7
-	Plant and Soil	7
-	Climate Dynamics	7
-	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters	7
-	IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering	7
-	Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology	7
-	Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management	7
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Science	7
-	Earthquake Spectra	7
-	Marine Chemistry	7
-	Journal of Archaeological Science	7
-	European Journal of Remote Sensing	7
-	Journal of Biogeography	7
-	Journal of Earth Science	7
-	Journal of Geochemical Exploration	7
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences	7
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans	7
-	Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources	7
-	Geophysics	7
167	Water	6
-	Water Resources and Economics	6
-	Water Science and Technology	6
-	Permafrost and Periglacial Processes	6
-	Progress in Earth and Planetary Science	6
-	Progress in Physical Geography-Earth and Environment	6
-	Quaternary International	6
-	Soil Use and Management	6
-	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	6

-	Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology	6
-	Climate Services	6
-	Continental Shelf Research	6
-	Journal of Structural Geology	6
-	International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation	6
-	Earth Planets and Space	6
-	International Journal of Remote Sensing	6
-	Marine Ecology Progress Series	6
-	Natural Hazards Review	6
-	Geobiology	6
-	Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems	6
-	Journal of Glaciology	6
-	Boreas	6
-	Oceanologia	6
-	Geoheritage	6
-	Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America	6
-	Canadian Geotechnical Journal	6
-	Geophysical Journal International	6
-	Swiss Journal of Geosciences	6
-	Tectonophysics	6
-	Theoretical and Applied Climatology	6
-	Geo-Spatial Information Science	6
-	Hydrological Sciences Journal-Journal des Sciences Hydrologiques	6
-	Hydrology Research	6
-	Journal of Systematic Palaeontology	6

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