Geosciences: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Water Research	115
2	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	90
3	Remote Sensing	89
4	Nature Climate Change	84
5	Ocean Engineering	81
6	Desalination	79
-	Remote Sensing of Environment	79
-	Journal of Hydrology	79
9	Water	78
10	ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing	74
-	Journal of Water Process Engineering	74
12	Soil Biology & Biochemistry	72
13	Communications Earth & Environment	70
14	Earth System Science Data	67
15	Nature Geoscience	66
-	Gondwana Research	66
17	Earth-Science Reviews	64
18	Landscape and Urban Planning	63
-	Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering	63
20	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing	62
-	Drones	62
22	CATENA	61
23	Engineering Geology	60
24	Geoderma	59
25	Urban Climate	58
-	Computers and Geotechnics	58
27	Geophysical Research Letters	57
28	Agricultural Water Management	56
-	Earths Future	56
30	International Journal of Mining Science and Technology	55
31	Geoscience Frontiers	54
-	Journal of Marine Science and Engineering	54
33	Water Resources Research	53
-	Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering	53
-	Soil & Tillage Research	53
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	53
37	Crystals	52
38	Ocean & Coastal Management	50
-	International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials	50
-	International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences	50
-	Environmental Research Letters	50
42	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	48
43	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	47
-	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	47
45	Petroleum Exploration and Development	45
-	Atmosphere	45
-	Minerals Engineering	45
-	Natural Hazards	45
-	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters	45
-	Applied Soil Ecology	45

51	Hydrology and Earth System Sciences	44
-	Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering	44
-	npj Clean Water	44
-	Applied Clay Science	44
55	International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation	43
-	Water Air and Soil Pollution	43
-	Atmospheric Research	43
58	Water Resources Management	42
-	Applied Water Science	42
60	Minerals	41
-	Acta Geotechnica	41
-	Earth and Planetary Science Letters	41
-	Atmospheric Environment	41
64	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine	40
-	Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta	40
66	International Journal of Digital Earth	39
-	Advances in Space Research	39
-	Landslides	39
-	Crystal Growth & Design	39
70	Transportation Geotechnics	38
-	Geoscientific Model Development	38
-	Environmental Modelling & Software	38
-	Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment	38
74	Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth	37
-	Applied Ocean Research	37
-	Plant and Soil	37
77	Reviews of Geophysics	36
-	Global Ecology and Biogeography	36
-	Environmental Geochemistry and Health	36
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres	36
-	Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition	36
-	ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information	36
83	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	35
-	Land Degradation & Development	35
-	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	35
-	Ore Geology Reviews	35
-	Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics	35
-	Earth Science Informatics	35
89	Plant Phenomics	34
-	International Journal of Coal Geology	34
-	Marine and Petroleum Geology	34
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets	34
-	GIScience & Remote Sensing	34
-	Frontiers in Earth Science	34
95	GPS Solutions	33
-	Science China-Earth Sciences	33
-	Environmental Earth Sciences	33
98	Journal of Water and Climate Change	32
-	Journal of Climate	32
-	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	32
-	Computers & Geosciences	32
-	Biogeosciences	32
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	32
-	Geotextiles and Geomembranes	32
-	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	32
-	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems	32
-	Journal of Contaminant Hydrology	32
108	Geotechnique	31
-	Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering	31
-	Chemical Geology	31
-	IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering	31
-	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	31
-	Climate Dynamics	31
-	Cold Regions Science and Technology	31
115	Water Science and Technology	30
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water	30
-	Pedosphere	30
-	Natural Resources Research	30
-	Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment	30
-	Journal of Geochemical Exploration	30
-	Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering	30
-	Global and Planetary Change	30
-	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	30
-	International Soil and Water Conservation Research	30
-	Climatic Change	30
-	Cryosphere	30
-	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	30
-	Rhizosphere	30
-	Theoretical and Applied Climatology	30
-	Geothermics	30
-	International Journal of Geomechanics	30
-	Environmental Toxicology	30
-	Biology and Fertility of Soils	30
134	Journal of Hydrology-Regional Studies	29
-	Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources	29
-	Geomorphology	29
-	Applied Geochemistry	29
-	Weather and Climate Extremes	29
-	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	29
-	Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling	29
-	Geology	29
-	Geophysics	29
143	Landscape Ecology	28
-	Geophysical Journal International	28
-	Earth and Space Science	28
-	European Journal of Soil Science	28
-	Quaternary Science Reviews	28
-	International Journal of Climatology	28
-	Journal of Cultural Heritage	28
150	Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences	27
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans	27
-	Journal of Soils and Sediments	27
-	Economic Geology	27
-	Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science	27
-	Polyhedron	27
-	Limnology and Oceanography	27
-	Geo-Spatial Information Science	27
-	Geocarto International	27
-	Annual Review of Marine Science	27
160	Progress in Oceanography	26
-	ICES Journal of Marine Science	26
-	Canadian Geotechnical Journal	26
-	Climate Risk Management	26
-	Advances in Climate Change Research	26
-	Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences	26
-	Surveys in Geophysics	26
-	Journal of Geographical Sciences	26
-	International Journal of Remote Sensing	26
-	JOM	26
-	Journal of Biogeography	26
-	Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America	26
-	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	26
-	Advances in Water Resources	26
174	CrystEngComm	25
-	Earthquake Spectra	25

-	Earth System Dynamics	25
-	Water Resources and Industry	25
-	Journal of Geodesy	25
-	International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics	25
-	Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology	25
-	Journal of African Earth Sciences	25
-	Geological Journal	25
-	Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems	25
184	Journal of Earth Science	24
-	Hydrological Processes	24
-	International Journal of Biometeorology	24
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Science	24
-	Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology	24
-	Journal of Applied Crystallography	24
190	Limnology and Oceanography Letters	23
-	Soil Use and Management	23
-	Tectonophysics	23
-	Environmental Science-Water Research & Technology	23
-	Water Supply	23
-	Seismological Research Letters	23
196	Water Environment Research	22
-	Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society	22
-	Soil	22
-	Soils and Foundations	22
-	Journal of Aerosol Science	22

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