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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Biochar	50
2	Reviews of Geophysics	47
3	International Journal of Mining Science and Technology	34
4	Annual Review of Marine Science	30
5	Remote Sensing of Environment	28
6	Water Research	27
7	Landscape and Urban Planning	26
-	ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing	26
9	Soil Biology & Biochemistry	25
10	Earth-Science Reviews	24
11	Nature Climate Change	21
-	Desalination	21
-	Nature Geoscience	21
14	Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences	20
15	Petroleum Exploration and Development	19
-	Geoscience Frontiers	19
17	Engineering Geology	18
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	18
-	Geoderma	18
20	Current Climate Change Reports	17
-	Earth System Science Data	17
-	Soil & Tillage Research	17
-	npj Clean Water	17
-	International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences	17
-	International Soil and Water Conservation Research	17
26	Gondwana Research	16
-	Agricultural Water Management	16
28	Water Resources and Industry	15
-	Surveys in Geophysics	15
-	Geotextiles and Geomembranes	15
-	GIScience & Remote Sensing	15
-	Journal of Hydrology	15
-	International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials	15
34	Computers and Geotechnics	14
-	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	14
-	Earths Future	14
-	Bulletin of Volcanology	14
-	Urban Climate	14
-	Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering	14
-	CATENA	14
-	Applied Clay Science	14
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water	14
43	Earth and Planetary Science Letters	13
-	Weather and Climate Extremes	13
-	Minerals Engineering	13
-	Applied Soil Ecology	13
-	Ocean & Coastal Management	13
-	Global Ecology and Biogeography	13
-	Hydrology and Earth System Sciences	13
-	International Journal of Coal Geology	13

51	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	12
-	Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta	12
-	Water Resources Research	12
-	Landslides	12
-	Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering	12
-	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	12
-	Acta Geotechnica	12
-	Biogeochemistry	12
-	Biology and Fertility of Soils	12
-	Ocean Engineering	12
-	Transportation Geotechnics	12
-	Landscape Ecology	12
-	Soil	12
-	Natural Resources Research	12
-	Geotechnique	12
66	Communications Earth & Environment	11
-	Applied Water Science	11
-	Environmental Research Letters	11
-	Journal of Water Process Engineering	11
-	Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering	11
-	Journal of Geographical Sciences	11
-	Geothermics	11
-	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	11
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	11
-	Earth System Dynamics	11
-	Water Resources Management	11
-	Water Research X	11
-	Plant Phenomics	11
-	Global and Planetary Change	11
80	Climatic Change	10
-	Advances in Climate Change Research	10
-	Applied Ocean Research	10
-	Geocarto International	10
-	Geology	10
-	Cold Regions Science and Technology	10
-	Anthropocene	10
-	Environmental Modelling & Software	10
-	Atmospheric Environment	10
-	Atmospheric Research	10
-	Progress in Oceanography	10
-	Remote Sensing	10
-	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	10
-	Geophysical Research Letters	10
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth	10
-	Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering	10
96	Chemical Geology	9
-	Acta Geophysica	9
-	Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics	9
-	Environmental Toxicology	9
-	Biogeosciences	9
-	Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering	9
-	Marine and Petroleum Geology	9
-	Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation	9
-	Rhizosphere	9
-	Science China-Earth Sciences	9
-	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	9
-	Journal of Contaminant Hydrology	9
-	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters	9
-	Computers & Geosciences	9
-	Cryosphere	9
-	Advances in Water Resources	9
-	Drones	9
-	Economic Geology	9
-	Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment	9
-	Ore Geology Reviews	9
-	Pedosphere	9
-	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	9
-	Limnology and Oceanography Letters	9
-	Mineralium Deposita	9
-	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	9
-	Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources	9
-	GPS Solutions	9
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Science	9
124	Climate Risk Management	8
-	Applied Geochemistry	8
-	Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences	8
-	European Journal of Soil Biology	8
-	Tectonics	8
-	Plant and Soil	8
-	Limnology and Oceanography	8
-	Quaternary Science Reviews	8
-	Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review	8
-	Natural Hazards	8
-	ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information	8
-	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems	8
-	Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment	8
-	Geo-Spatial Information Science	8
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets	8
-	Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling	8
-	IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering	8
-	Journal of Petrology	8
-	International Journal of Geomechanics	8
-	International Journal of Sediment Research	8
-	Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology	8
-	Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment	8
-	Precambrian Research	8
-	Land Degradation & Development	8
-	Soils and Foundations	8
-	Geomorphology	8
-	Journal of Earth Science	8
-	Geoscientific Model Development	8
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences	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
-	International Journal of Digital Earth	8
-	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	8
-	Journal of Soils and Sediments	8
159	Climate of the Past	7
-	Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology	7
-	Crystal Growth & Design	7
-	Aeolian Research	7
-	Environmental Earth Sciences	7
-	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	7
-	Oceanologia	7
-	Marine Geology	7
-	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	7
-	SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering	7
-	Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems	7
-	Journal of Biogeography	7
-	Journal of Cultural Heritage	7
-	Geophysics	7
-	Journal of Geodesy	7
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres	7
-	Hydrology Research	7

-	Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology	7
-	Climate Dynamics	7
-	ACS Earth and Space Chemistry	7
-	Climate Services	7
-	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	7
-	American Journal of Science	7
-	Earthquake Spectra	7
-	Earth Surface Dynamics	7
-	Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene	7
-	Environmental Geochemistry and Health	7
-	Astrobiology	7
-	Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science	7
-	European Journal of Remote Sensing	7
-	Basin Research	7
-	Exposure and Health	7
-	Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America	7
-	Canadian Geotechnical Journal	7
-	Water Science and Technology	7
-	Water	7
-	Journal of Water and Climate Change	7
-	Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management	7
-	Marine Chemistry	7
-	IUCrJ	7
-	Geoheritage	7
-	Journal of Aerosol Science	7

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