New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Geosciences

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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01)
Rank Journal TQCC
1 Biochar65
2 Reviews of Geophysics48
3 Annual Review of Marine Science35
4 International Journal of Mining Science and Technology32
5 Remote Sensing of Environment27
- Water Research27
7 Landscape and Urban Planning26
8 Soil Biology & Biochemistry25
- ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing25
- Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences25
11 Earth-Science Reviews24
12 Current Climate Change Reports22
- Nature Climate Change22
14 Nature Geoscience21
- Desalination21
16 npj Clean Water20
17 Engineering Geology19
- Petroleum Exploration and Development19
19 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change18
- Geoderma18
21 Gondwana Research17
- Agricultural Water Management17
- Earth System Science Data17
- International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials17
- International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences17
- Geoscience Frontiers17
- Soil & Tillage Research17
28 International Soil and Water Conservation Research16
- Bulletin of Volcanology16
- Urban Climate16
31 Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering15
- Geotextiles and Geomembranes15
- GIScience & Remote Sensing15
- Journal of Hydrology15
- Earths Future15
- Computers and Geotechnics15
- Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water15
38 Water Resources and Industry14
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing14
- Applied Clay Science14
- CATENA14
- International Journal of Coal Geology14
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology14
- Landslides14
45 Journal of Geographical Sciences13
- Acta Geotechnica13
- Earth and Planetary Science Letters13
- Biogeochemistry13
- Plant Phenomics13
- Landscape Ecology13
- Ocean Engineering13
- Geotechnique13
- Global Ecology and Biogeography13
- Applied Water Science13
- Minerals Engineering13
- Surveys in Geophysics13
57 Water Resources Research12
- Weather and Climate Extremes12
- International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction12
- Biology and Fertility of Soils12
- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta12
- Soil12
- Natural Resources Research12
- npj Climate and Atmospheric Science12
- Ocean & Coastal Management12
- Transportation Geotechnics12
- Water Resources Management12
- Hydrology and Earth System Sciences12
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics12
- Communications Earth & Environment12
- Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering12
72 Global Biogeochemical Cycles11
- Applied Soil Ecology11
- Environmental Research Letters11
- Remote Sensing11
- Advances in Climate Change Research11
- Earth System Dynamics11
- Acta Geophysica11
- Journal of Water Process Engineering11
- Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering11
81 Geology10
- Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk10
- Geothermics10
- Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics10
- Atmospheric Research10
- Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment10
- Geocarto International10
- Cold Regions Science and Technology10
- Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences10
- International Journal of Disaster Risk Science10
- Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources10
- Geophysical Research Letters10
- GPS Solutions10
- Drones10
- Applied Ocean Research10
- Economic Geology10
- Climate Risk Management10
- Climatic Change10
- Marine and Petroleum Geology10
- Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation10
101 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters9
- International Journal of Sediment Research9
- Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems9
- Advances in Water Resources9
- Environmental Toxicology9
- Atmospheric Environment9
- European Journal of Soil Biology9
- Progress in Oceanography9
- Limnology and Oceanography Letters9
- Mineralium Deposita9
- Soils and Foundations9
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing9
- International Journal of Digital Earth9
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science9
- Geoscientific Model Development9
- Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth9
- Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering9
- Global and Planetary Change9
- Cryosphere9
- Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene9
- Environmental Modelling & Software9
- European Journal of Remote Sensing9
- Biogeosciences9
- Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering9
- Computers & Geosciences9
- Rhizosphere9
- Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review9
- Science China-Earth Sciences9
- Natural Hazards9
130 Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling8
- IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering8
- Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology8
- Journal of Petrology8
- International Journal of Geomechanics8
- Irrigation Science8
- ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information8
- Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment8
- Journal of Contaminant Hydrology8
- Journal of Geodesy8
- Advances in Atmospheric Sciences8
- Earth Science Informatics8
- Anthropocene8
- Astrobiology8
- Physics and Chemistry of the Earth8
- Journal of Water and Climate Change8
- Precambrian Research8
- Land Degradation & Development8
- Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment8
- Ore Geology Reviews8
- Pedosphere8
- International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation8
- Journal of Soils and Sediments8
- Geomorphology8
- Journal of Earth Science8
- Journal of Geochemical Exploration8
- Geothermal Energy8
- ICES Journal of Marine Science8
- Anthropocene Review8
- Applied Geochemistry8
- Atmospheric Measurement Techniques8
- Exposure and Health8
- Chemical Geology8
- Climate of the Past8
- Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology8
- Plant and Soil8
- Quaternary Science Reviews8
- Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications8
- SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering8
- Oceanologia8
- Tectonics8
171 International Journal of Climatology7
- Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition7
- Journal of Biogeography7
- Journal of Cultural Heritage7
- Geophysics7
- Geo-Spatial Information Science7
- Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres7
- Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets7
- Journal of Hydroinformatics7
- Journal of Marine Science and Engineering7
- Hydrological Sciences Journal-Journal des Sciences Hydrologiques7
- Hydrology Research7
- Crystal Growth & Design7
- American Journal of Science7
- Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences7
- Environmental Earth Sciences7
- Geobiology7
- Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America7
- Canadian Geotechnical Journal7
- Climate Dynamics7
- Climate Services7
- Comptes Rendus Geoscience7
- Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management7
- Spatial Statistics7
- Water7
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine7
- Water Science and Technology7
- International Journal of Biometeorology7
- Journal of Sea Research7
- Journal of Structural Geology7
(This list is limited to max. 200 journals; click here to see the full list)
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