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Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Annual Review of Marine Science22.564
2 Earth System Science Data22.025
3 Remote Sensing of Environment21.801
4 Water Research21.315
5 Nature Climate Change20.884
6 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing19.507
7 Soil Biology & Biochemistry19.339
8 Earth-Science Reviews18.751
9 Landscape and Urban Planning18.455
10 Geoscience Frontiers17.073
11 Nature Geoscience16.993
12 Gondwana Research16.130
13 Desalination15.430
14 Petroleum Exploration and Development14.724
15 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change13.835
16 Engineering Geology13.722
17 Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences13.712
18 Geoderma12.772
19 International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences12.672
20 Soil & Tillage Research12.031
21 Journal of Hydrology11.922
22 International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials11.887
23 GIScience & Remote Sensing11.431
24 Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering11.386
25 Agricultural Water Management11.302
26 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing11.188
27 CATENA10.810
28 Geotextiles and Geomembranes10.715
29 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology10.534
30 Global Ecology and Biogeography10.394
31 Bulletin of Volcanology10.310
32 Hydrology and Earth System Sciences10.023
33 Minerals Engineering10.021
34 Applied Clay Science10.012
35 Ocean & Coastal Management9.999
36 Computers and Geotechnics9.987
37 Surveys in Geophysics9.475
38 Environmental Research Letters9.414
39 Landslides9.413
40 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics9.360
41 Natural Resources Research9.277
42 Acta Geotechnica9.251
43 Biology and Fertility of Soils9.190
44 Applied Soil Ecology9.163
45 Landscape Ecology9.134
46 Earth and Planetary Science Letters9.033
47 Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering9.018
48 Geotechnique8.936
49 International Journal of Coal Geology8.935
50 Global Biogeochemical Cycles8.804
51 Water Resources Research8.713
52 Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta8.698
53 Biogeochemistry8.690
54 Ocean Engineering8.578
55 Environmental Modelling & Software8.417
56 Pedosphere8.405
57 Advances in Climate Change Research8.359
58 Computers & Geosciences8.353
59 Journal of Geographical Sciences8.342
60 Climatic Change8.097
61 Water Resources Management7.863
62 Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering7.837
63 Applied Ocean Research7.805
64 Atmospheric Research7.729
65 Science China-Earth Sciences7.727
66 Geoscientific Model Development7.682
67 Geophysical Research Letters7.569
68 Geothermics7.551
69 Geology7.488
70 Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences7.442
71 Geocarto International7.353
72 Economic Geology7.332
73 Advances in Water Resources7.311
74 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology7.238
75 Advances in Atmospheric Sciences7.169
76 Global and Planetary Change7.152
77 Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering7.077
78 Atmospheric Environment6.991
79 Marine and Petroleum Geology6.903
80 Acta Geophysica6.902
81 Cryosphere6.896
82 Cold Regions Science and Technology6.849
83 Progress in Oceanography6.848
84 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters6.797
85 Geo-Spatial Information Science6.758
86 GPS Solutions6.751
87 International Journal of Geographical Information Science6.748
88 Biogeosciences6.724
89 Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems6.663
90 Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering6.599
91 Soils and Foundations6.577
92 Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics6.563
93 Physics and Chemistry of the Earth6.510
- Astrobiology6.510
95 Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment6.441
96 IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering6.361
97 Applied Geochemistry6.348
98 International Journal of Sediment Research6.331
99 Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk6.291
100 Chemical Geology6.236
101 Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review6.208
102 Natural Hazards6.182
103 International Journal of Digital Earth6.159
104 International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation6.102
- Ore Geology Reviews6.102
106 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing6.093
107 Mineralium Deposita6.022
108 Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment5.996
109 Journal of Geochemical Exploration5.987
110 Journal of Geodesy5.975
111 Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling5.970
112 Environmental Toxicology5.887
113 Journal of Aerosol Science5.880
114 Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology5.816
115 Journal of Earth Science5.748
116 ICES Journal of Marine Science5.746
117 Atmospheric Measurement Techniques5.732
118 Land Degradation & Development5.718
119 Plant and Soil5.712
120 Quaternary Science Reviews5.691
121 Precambrian Research5.669
122 Climate of the Past5.634
123 Progress in Physical Geography-Earth and Environment5.599
124 European Journal of Soil Science5.581
125 Journal of Soils and Sediments5.580
126 Water Science and Technology5.564
127 Soil Use and Management5.537
128 International Journal of Climatology5.536
129 International Journal of Geomechanics5.513
130 Geomorphology5.506
131 Crystal Growth & Design5.471
132 Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences5.451
133 Journal of Water and Climate Change5.405
134 Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications5.403
135 Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America5.394
136 Environmental Geochemistry and Health5.335
137 Climate Dynamics5.305
138 Canadian Geotechnical Journal5.277
139 European Journal of Soil Biology5.257
140 Limnology and Oceanography5.255
141 Mathematical Geosciences5.238
142 Environmental Earth Sciences5.193
143 Ocean Science5.177
144 Aeolian Research5.155
145 Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management5.117
146 Geophysics5.116
147 Journal of Climate5.094
148 Journal of Cultural Heritage5.063
149 Hydrological Sciences Journal-Journal des Sciences Hydrologiques5.050
150 Geomicrobiology Journal5.043
151 Oceanologia5.022
152 Tectonics5.016
153 Journal of Biogeography4.985
154 Journal of Petrology4.981
155 Journal of Hydro-Environment Research4.979
156 Journal of Marine Systems4.924
157 Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science4.896
158 Hydrological Processes4.891
159 Geosynthetics International4.838
160 Journal of Structural Geology4.821
161 Advances in Space Research4.804
162 Journal of Archaeological Science4.780
163 Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition4.770
164 Sedimentology4.708
165 Irrigation Science4.701
166 Geophysical Journal International4.647
167 Marine Geology4.640
168 Journal of Flood Risk Management4.620
169 Water Air and Soil Pollution4.600
170 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society4.587
171 Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society4.582
172 Theoretical and Applied Climatology4.559
173 Dendrochronologia4.494
- Journal of Metamorphic Geology4.494
175 Geosphere4.464
176 Deep-Sea Research Part II-Topical Studies in Oceanography4.438
177 Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems4.430
178 Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology4.426
179 Tectonophysics4.422
180 Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration4.420
181 International Journal of Biometeorology4.391
182 International Journal of Remote Sensing4.387
183 Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research4.386
184 Marine Chemistry4.353
185 Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association4.350
186 Boundary-Layer Meteorology4.341
187 Geoheritage4.332
188 Georisk-Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards4.328
189 Permafrost and Periglacial Processes4.302
190 Basin Research4.286
191 AAPG Bulletin4.274
192 Journal of African Earth Sciences4.273
193 Polyhedron4.248
- Journal of Asian Earth Sciences4.248
195 Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research4.247
196 Sedimentary Geology4.223
197 Journal of Sea Research4.214
198 International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics4.191
199 Lithosphere4.186
200 Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems4.176
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