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

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Annual Review of Marine Science	31
2	Water Research	24
-	Remote Sensing of Environment	24
4	ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing	22
-	Soil Biology & Biochemistry	22
6	Earth-Science Reviews	21
7	Landscape and Urban Planning	20
-	Nature Geoscience	20
9	Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences	19
10	Nature Climate Change	18
11	Desalination	17
-	Geoscience Frontiers	17
13	Engineering Geology	16
14	Agricultural Water Management	15
-	Soil & Tillage Research	15
-	Geoderma	15
-	International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences	15
18	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	14
-	Petroleum Exploration and Development	14
-	Gondwana Research	14
-	Geotextiles and Geomembranes	14
-	Earth System Science Data	14
23	GIScience & Remote Sensing	13
-	International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials	13
25	Earth and Planetary Science Letters	12
-	Applied Clay Science	12
-	CATENA	12
-	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	12
-	Hydrology and Earth System Sciences	12
-	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	12
-	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	12
-	Bulletin of Volcanology	12
-	Journal of Hydrology	12
-	Global Ecology and Biogeography	12
-	Landslides	12
36	Applied Soil Ecology	11
-	Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta	11
-	Ocean & Coastal Management	11
-	International Journal of Coal Geology	11
-	Environmental Research Letters	11
-	Biology and Fertility of Soils	11
-	Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering	11
-	Minerals Engineering	11
-	Natural Resources Research	11
45	Computers and Geotechnics	10
-	Acta Geotechnica	10
-	Atmospheric Research	10
-	Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering	10
-	Climatic Change	10
-	Geotechnique	10

-	Biogeochemistry	10
-	Geology	10
-	Water Resources Research	10
-	Surveys in Geophysics	10
55	Economic Geology	9
-	Environmental Modelling & Software	9
-	Atmospheric Environment	9
-	Biogeosciences	9
-	Geophysical Research Letters	9
-	Water Resources Management	9
-	Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering	9
-	Ocean Engineering	9
-	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing	9
-	Landscape Ecology	9
-	Cryosphere	9
-	Acta Geophysica	9
-	Advances in Climate Change Research	9
-	Applied Ocean Research	9
-	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	9
-	Global and Planetary Change	9
-	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	9
-	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	9
-	Journal of Geographical Sciences	9
74	Geothermics	8
-	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	8
-	Advances in Water Resources	8
-	Geocarto International	8
-	Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment	8
-	Pedosphere	8
-	Precambrian Research	8
-	Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering	8
-	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	8
-	Marine and Petroleum Geology	8
-	Journal of Contaminant Hydrology	8
-	Computers & Geosciences	8
-	Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering	8
-	Chemical Geology	8
-	Progress in Oceanography	8
-	Science China-Earth Sciences	8
-	Journal of Aerosol Science	8
91	Climate Dynamics	7
-	Cold Regions Science and Technology	7
-	Crystal Growth & Design	7
-	Environmental Toxicology	7
-	Geomorphology	7
-	Plant and Soil	7
-	Quaternary Science Reviews	7
-	Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment	7
-	Ore Geology Reviews	7
-	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters	7
-	International Journal of Sediment Research	7
-	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems	7
-	Journal of Biogeography	7
-	Natural Hazards	7
-	Journal of Geochemical Exploration	7
-	Geoscientific Model Development	7
-	Climate of the Past	7
-	Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology	7
-	Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics	7
-	Aeolian Research	7
-	Applied Geochemistry	7
-	Astrobiology	7
-	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	7
-	Soils and Foundations	7
-	Tectonics	7
-	GPS Solutions	7
-	ICES Journal of Marine Science	7
-	Journal of Soils and Sediments	7
-	IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering	7
-	International Journal of Geomechanics	7
-	Limnology and Oceanography	7
-	Mineralium Deposita	7
-	Journal of Climate	7
-	Journal of Earth Science	7
-	Journal of Geodesy	7
126	Geo-Spatial Information Science	6
-	Environmental Earth Sciences	6
-	European Journal of Soil Science	6
-	Geobiology	6
-	Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems	6
-	Basin Research	6
-	Geoheritage	6
-	Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America	6
-	Canadian Geotechnical Journal	6
-	Water Science and Technology	6
-	Progress in Physical Geography-Earth and Environment	6
-	Quaternary International	6
-	Sedimentology	6
-	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	6
-	Journal of Marine Systems	6
-	Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling	6
-	Journal of Petrology	6
-	Hydrological Processes	6
-	International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation	6
-	International Journal of Digital Earth	6
-	Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management	6
-	Land Degradation & Development	6
-	Marine Geology	6
-	Journal of Archaeological Science	6
-	Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review	6
-	Journal of Cultural Heritage	6
-	Environmental Geochemistry and Health	6
-	Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science	6
-	European Journal of Soil Biology	6
-	Geophysics	6
-	Permafrost and Periglacial Processes	6
-	Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology	6
-	Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems	6
-	Oceanologia	6
-	Journal of Metamorphic Geology	6
-	International Journal of Climatology	6
-	Marine Chemistry	6
163	Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research	5
-	Continental Shelf Research	5
-	AAPG Bulletin	5
-	CrystEngComm	5
-	Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration	5
-	Aerosol Science and Technology	5
-	Earth Surface Processes and Landforms	5
-	American Journal of Science	5
-	Facies	5
-	Boundary-Layer Meteorology	5
-	Geomicrobiology Journal	5
-	Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing	5
-	Geophysical Journal International	5

-	Paleobiology	5
-	Tectonophysics	5
-	Tellus Series B-Chemical and Physical Meteorology	5
-	Theoretical and Applied Climatology	5
-	Ocean Science	5
-	Journal of Hydro-Environment Research	5
-	Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition	5
-	Journal of Systematic Palaeontology	5
-	International Journal of Biometeorology	5
-	International Journal of Remote Sensing	5
-	Irrigation Science	5
-	Marine Ecology Progress Series	5
-	Journal of African Earth Sciences	5
-	Journal of Applied Crystallography	5
-	Mine Water and the Environment	5
-	Natural Hazards Review	5
-	Journal of Flood Risk Management	5
-	Navigation-Journal of the Institute of Navigation	5
-	Geosphere	5
-	Geosynthetics International	5
-	Deep-Sea Research Part II-Topical Studies in Oceanography	5
-	Dendrochronologia	5
-	Earth Planets and Space	5
-	Advances in Space Research	5
-	Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences	5

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