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Geosciences

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The Journal Impact Factor, or JIF, denotes the average number of citations a paper of a given journal accrues within a two-year timespan, as calculated by Clarivate Analytics' database Web of Science; note that the journal coverage here at OOIR might deviate slightly from Web of Science's. The JIFs that used to have more than one decimal point are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)
Rank Journal Impact Factor 2025
1 Reviews of Geophysics ca. 38.5
2 Nature Climate Change ca. 26.9
3 Annual Review of Marine Science ca. 22.5
4 Nature Geoscience ca. 20.6
5 International Journal of Mining Science and Technology ca. 15.9
6 Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences ca. 15.6
7 Biochar ca. 15.1
8 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine ca. 13.7
9 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ca. 12.9
10 Water Research ca. 12.8
11 Geoscience Frontiers ca. 12.7
12 Remote Sensing of Environment ca. 12.3
- Current Climate Change Reports ca. 12.3
14 Soil Biology & Biochemistry ca. 12.2
15 Landscape and Urban Planning ca. 11.4
16 Earth-Science Reviews ca. 11.3
17 npj Clean Water ca. 11
18 Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering ca. 10.8
19 Engineering Geology ca. 10.3
20 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change ca. 10.1
21 Desalination ca. 9.9
22 npj Climate and Atmospheric Science ca. 9.6
23 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ca. 9.4
24 Communications Earth & Environment ca. 9.3
25 Gondwana Research ca. 8.9
26 International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials ca. 8.8
27 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water ca. 8.7
- Water Resources and Industry ca. 8.7
29 International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences ca. 8.5
- Earths Future ca. 8.5
31 Soil & Tillage Research ca. 8.4
32 International Soil and Water Conservation Research ca. 8.3
33 Plant Phenomics ca. 8.2
- International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation ca. 8.2
35 Geoderma ca. 7.9
36 Agricultural Water Management ca. 7.8
37 Urban Climate ca. 7.5
38 Landslides ca. 7.4
39 Limnology and Oceanography Letters ca. 7.3
- Journal of Hydrology ca. 7.3
- International Journal of Coal Geology ca. 7.3
42 Weather and Climate Extremes ca. 7.2
43 Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering ca. 7.1
- Computers and Geotechnics ca. 7.1
45 Water Research X ca. 7
- Pedosphere ca. 7
47 Global Biogeochemical Cycles ca. 6.9
- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ca. 6.9
49 Biology and Fertility of Soils ca. 6.8
- GIScience & Remote Sensing ca. 6.8
51 Journal of Water Process Engineering ca. 6.6
- CATENA ca. 6.6
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ca. 6.6
54 Global Ecology and Biogeography ca. 6.5
- Acta Geotechnica ca. 6.5
56 Ocean Engineering ca. 6.3
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing ca. 6.3
- Water Resources Research ca. 6.3
59 Transportation Geotechnics ca. 6.2
- Surveys in Geophysics ca. 6.2
61 Minerals Engineering ca. 6
- Natural Resources Research ca. 6
63 Ocean & Coastal Management ca. 5.9
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science ca. 5.9
65 Water Resources Management ca. 5.7
- Applied Water Science ca. 5.7
- Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources ca. 5.7
- Journal of Geographical Sciences ca. 5.7
- Geotechnique ca. 5.7
70 IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering ca. 5.6
- Journal of Hydrology-Regional Studies ca. 5.6
- Applied Soil Ecology ca. 5.6
- Advances in Climate Change Research ca. 5.6
74 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology ca. 5.5
- Science China-Earth Sciences ca. 5.5
- Climate Risk Management ca. 5.5
77 GPS Solutions ca. 5.4
- Geo-Spatial Information Science ca. 5.4
- Climate Services ca. 5.4
- International Journal of Digital Earth ca. 5.4
- Environmental Research Letters ca. 5.4
82 International Journal of Disaster Risk Science ca. 5.3
- Georisk-Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards ca. 5.3
84 Environmental Modelling & Software ca. 5.2
- Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation ca. 5.2
- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta ca. 5.2
- Drones ca. 5.2
- Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering ca. 5.2
- Applied Clay Science ca. 5.2
- Climatic Change ca. 5.2
91 Economic Geology ca. 5.1
- Applied Ocean Research ca. 5.1
- Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering ca. 5.1
- Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences ca. 5.1
95 Mineralium Deposita ca. 5
- Advances in Atmospheric Sciences ca. 5
- Geophysical Research Letters ca. 5
- Geotextiles and Geomembranes ca. 5
99 Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk ca. 4.9
- Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment ca. 4.9
- Cold Regions Science and Technology ca. 4.9
- Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics ca. 4.9
103 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters ca. 4.8
- International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction ca. 4.8
- Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment ca. 4.8
- Journal of Earth Science ca. 4.8
- Plant and Soil ca. 4.8
- Earth and Planetary Science Letters ca. 4.8
109 Landscape Ecology ca. 4.7
- Geothermal Energy ca. 4.7
- Global and Planetary Change ca. 4.7
- Journal of Geodesy ca. 4.7
- Anthropocene ca. 4.7
- Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review ca. 4.7
115 Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ca. 4.6
- Journal of Geochemical Exploration ca. 4.6
- Physics and Chemistry of the Earth ca. 4.6
- Geology ca. 4.6
- Geothermics ca. 4.6
120 Atmospheric Research ca. 4.5
- Natural Hazards ca. 4.5
122 Environmental Geochemistry and Health ca. 4.3
- European Journal of Soil Science ca. 4.3
- Canadian Geotechnical Journal ca. 4.3
- Journal of Climate ca. 4.3
- Biogeochemistry ca. 4.3
- Remote Sensing ca. 4.3
- Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology ca. 4.3
- Ore Geology Reviews ca. 4.3
130 Permafrost and Periglacial Processes ca. 4.2
- Earth Science Informatics ca. 4.2
- Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering ca. 4.2
133 Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface ca. 4.1
- Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene ca. 4.1
- Mathematical Geosciences ca. 4.1
- Computers & Geosciences ca. 4.1
- Advances in Water Resources ca. 4.1
138 Land Degradation & Development ca. 4
- Zeitschrift fuer Kristallographie-Crystalline Materials ca. 4
- Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth ca. 4
- Climate Dynamics ca. 4
142 Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan ca. 3.9
- Geoscience Letters ca. 3.9
- Earthquake Spectra ca. 3.9
- Progress in Oceanography ca. 3.9
- European Journal of Remote Sensing ca. 3.9
- Geocarto International ca. 3.9
- Geoderma Regional ca. 3.9
- ICES Journal of Marine Science ca. 3.9
- Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology ca. 3.9
- Elements ca. 3.9
- European Journal of Soil Biology ca. 3.9
- Rhizosphere ca. 3.9
154 Journal of Sea Research ca. 3.8
- Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres ca. 3.8
- Atmospheric Environment ca. 3.8
- Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications ca. 3.8
- Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment ca. 3.8
- Journal of Petrology ca. 3.8
160 Journal of Water and Climate Change ca. 3.7
- Journal of Flood Risk Management ca. 3.7
- Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets ca. 3.7
- Journal of Cultural Heritage ca. 3.7
- Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences ca. 3.7
- Soils and Foundations ca. 3.7
166 International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics ca. 3.6
- Geophysics ca. 3.6
- Chemical Geology ca. 3.6
- Crystal Growth & Design ca. 3.6
- Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition ca. 3.6
- Progress in Earth and Planetary Science ca. 3.6
- Geological Society of America Bulletin ca. 3.6
- Soil Use and Management ca. 3.6
174 Journal of Meteorological Research ca. 3.5
- Journal of Biogeography ca. 3.5
- Applied Geochemistry ca. 3.5
- Environmental Science-Water Research & Technology ca. 3.5
- Exposure and Health ca. 3.5
- Tectonics ca. 3.5
- Water ca. 3.5
- IUCrJ ca. 3.5
- Limnology and Oceanography ca. 3.5
- Photogrammetric Record ca. 3.5
- Progress in Physical Geography-Earth and Environment ca. 3.5
- Vadose Zone Journal ca. 3.5
- Water Air and Soil Pollution ca. 3.5
- American Journal of Science ca. 3.5
188 International Journal of Geomechanics ca. 3.4
- International Journal of Sediment Research ca. 3.4
- Irrigation Science ca. 3.4
- Anthropocene Review ca. 3.4
- Sedimentology ca. 3.4
- Desalination and Water Treatment ca. 3.4
- Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration ca. 3.4
- Journal of Metamorphic Geology ca. 3.4
196 Journal of Soils and Sediments ca. 3.3
- Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences ca. 3.3
- Water Resources and Economics ca. 3.3
- Quaternary Science Reviews ca. 3.3
- Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems ca. 3.3
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