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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Water Research	115
2	Remote Sensing	89
3	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	88
4	Nature Climate Change	81
5	Journal of Hydrology	79
6	Desalination	78
7	ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing	76
-	Water	76
9	Remote Sensing of Environment	75
10	Journal of Water Process Engineering	73
11	Soil Biology & Biochemistry	71
12	Gondwana Research	67
-	Communications Earth & Environment	67
14	Earth System Science Data	66
15	Nature Geoscience	65
16	Earth-Science Reviews	64
17	Drones	62
-	Landscape and Urban Planning	62
19	Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering	61
20	CATENA	60
21	Geoderma	59
-	Engineering Geology	59
-	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing	59
24	Computers and Geotechnics	58
25	Urban Climate	57
-	International Journal of Mining Science and Technology	57
-	Geophysical Research Letters	57
28	Earths Future	55
29	Agricultural Water Management	54
30	Water Resources Research	53
-	Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering	53
-	Geoscience Frontiers	53
-	Journal of Marine Science and Engineering	53
-	Crystals	53
35	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	52
-	Soil & Tillage Research	52
37	Environmental Research Letters	50
38	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	49
-	International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials	49
-	International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences	49
-	Ocean & Coastal Management	49
-	Ocean Engineering	49
43	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	46
-	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	46
-	Applied Soil Ecology	46
46	Applied Clay Science	45
47	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters	44
-	Atmosphere	44
-	Minerals Engineering	44
-	Natural Hazards	44

-	Petroleum Exploration and Development	44
52	npj Clean Water	43
-	Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering	43
-	Hydrology and Earth System Sciences	43
-	International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation	43
-	Atmospheric Research	43
57	Water Air and Soil Pollution	42
-	Applied Water Science	42
-	Acta Geotechnica	42
-	Water Resources Management	42
61	Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta	40
-	Earth and Planetary Science Letters	40
-	Atmospheric Environment	40
-	Minerals	40
65	Advances in Space Research	39
-	Geoscientific Model Development	39
-	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine	39
-	Crystal Growth & Design	39
-	Landslides	39
70	International Journal of Digital Earth	38
-	Transportation Geotechnics	38
-	Environmental Modelling & Software	38
73	Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition	37
-	Global Ecology and Biogeography	37
-	Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment	37
76	ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information	36
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth	36
-	Environmental Geochemistry and Health	36
79	Land Degradation & Development	35
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres	35
-	Ore Geology Reviews	35
82	GIScience & Remote Sensing	34
-	Earth Science Informatics	34
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets	34
-	International Journal of Coal Geology	34
-	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	34
-	Marine and Petroleum Geology	34
-	Frontiers in Earth Science	34
-	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	34
90	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	33
-	Plant and Soil	33
-	Environmental Earth Sciences	33
-	Science China-Earth Sciences	33
-	GPS Solutions	33
-	Plant Phenomics	33
96	Journal of Climate	32
-	Cold Regions Science and Technology	32
-	Applied Ocean Research	32
-	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	32
-	Journal of Contaminant Hydrology	32
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	32
102	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems	31
-	Geotextiles and Geomembranes	31
-	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	31
-	Climate Dynamics	31
-	Biogeosciences	31
-	Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering	31
-	Journal of Water and Climate Change	31
-	Geotechnique	31
110	International Journal of Geomechanics	30
-	Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering	30
-	IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering	30
-	Environmental Toxicology	30
-	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	30
-	Rhizosphere	30
-	Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment	30
-	Chemical Geology	30
-	Climatic Change	30
-	Water Science and Technology	30
-	Natural Resources Research	30
121	Geology	29
-	Geophysics	29
-	Journal of Geochemical Exploration	29
-	Geothermics	29
-	Journal of Hydrology-Regional Studies	29
-	Theoretical and Applied Climatology	29
-	Cryosphere	29
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water	29
-	Quaternary Science Reviews	29
-	European Journal of Soil Science	29
-	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	29
-	International Soil and Water Conservation Research	29
-	Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources	29
-	Geomorphology	29
-	Journal of Cultural Heritage	29
-	Global and Planetary Change	29
-	Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling	29
-	Pedosphere	29
-	Reviews of Geophysics	29
-	Biology and Fertility of Soils	29
141	International Journal of Climatology	28
-	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	28
-	Earth and Space Science	28
-	Landscape Ecology	28
-	Applied Geochemistry	28
-	Weather and Climate Extremes	28
-	Geocarto International	28
148	Journal of Soils and Sediments	27
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences	27
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans	27
-	Canadian Geotechnical Journal	27
-	Computers & Geosciences	27
-	Polyhedron	27
-	Geophysical Journal International	27
-	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	27
-	Advances in Water Resources	27
-	Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science	27
158	International Journal of Remote Sensing	26
-	Journal of African Earth Sciences	26
-	Geo-Spatial Information Science	26
-	Surveys in Geophysics	26
-	Biochar	26
-	Journal of Biogeography	26
-	Journal of Geographical Sciences	26
-	Progress in Oceanography	26
-	Limnology and Oceanography	26
-	Economic Geology	26
168	Advances in Climate Change Research	25
-	ICES Journal of Marine Science	25
-	Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology	25
-	International Journal of Biometeorology	25
-	Climate Risk Management	25
-	Annual Review of Marine Science	25
-	Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America	25
175	Journal of Earth Science	24

-	International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics	24
-	Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology	24
-	CrystEngComm	24
-	Water Resources and Industry	24
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Science	24
-	Journal of Applied Crystallography	24
-	Journal of Geodesy	24
-	Geological Journal	24
-	Tectonophysics	24
-	Earthquake Spectra	24
-	Earth System Dynamics	24
-	Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems	24
188	Journal of Asian Earth Sciences	23
-	Water Supply	23
-	Limnology and Oceanography Letters	23
-	Seismological Research Letters	23
-	Journal of Flood Risk Management	23
-	Hydrological Processes	23
-	Journal of Petrology	23
195	Journal of Crystal Growth	22
-	Climate Services	22
-	ACS Earth and Space Chemistry	22
-	Journal of Hydroinformatics	22
-	Soil Use and Management	22
-	Precambrian Research	22

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