New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Geosciences

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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Annual Review of Marine Science23.510
2 Remote Sensing of Environment21.927
3 Earth System Science Data21.630
4 Water Research21.372
5 Nature Climate Change21.071
6 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing20.045
7 Soil Biology & Biochemistry19.746
8 Earth-Science Reviews18.663
9 Landscape and Urban Planning18.590
10 Nature Geoscience17.253
11 Geoscience Frontiers17.223
12 Gondwana Research16.429
13 Desalination15.630
14 Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences14.543
15 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change14.460
16 Engineering Geology13.749
17 Petroleum Exploration and Development13.719
18 Geoderma12.986
19 Soil & Tillage Research12.612
20 International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences12.362
21 International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials12.309
22 Journal of Hydrology12.189
23 GIScience & Remote Sensing11.616
24 Agricultural Water Management11.559
25 Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering11.503
26 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing11.366
27 CATENA10.972
28 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology10.666
29 Bulletin of Volcanology10.603
30 Global Ecology and Biogeography10.507
31 Geotextiles and Geomembranes10.425
32 Ocean & Coastal Management10.244
33 Computers and Geotechnics10.228
34 Minerals Engineering10.221
35 Applied Clay Science10.077
36 Hydrology and Earth System Sciences9.953
37 Surveys in Geophysics9.871
38 Landslides9.702
39 Applied Soil Ecology9.379
40 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics9.361
41 Natural Resources Research9.291
42 Acta Geotechnica9.277
43 International Journal of Coal Geology9.190
44 Geotechnique9.140
45 Earth and Planetary Science Letters9.092
46 Biology and Fertility of Soils9.052
47 Landscape Ecology9.010
48 Environmental Research Letters8.976
49 Water Resources Research8.874
50 Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering8.873
51 Ocean Engineering8.840
52 Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta8.828
53 Biogeochemistry8.820
54 Journal of Geographical Sciences8.660
55 Global Biogeochemical Cycles8.632
56 Environmental Modelling & Software8.553
57 Computers & Geosciences8.485
58 Pedosphere8.341
59 Climatic Change8.169
60 Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering8.035
61 Water Resources Management8.023
62 Advances in Climate Change Research7.993
63 Applied Ocean Research7.964
64 Atmospheric Research7.754
65 Science China-Earth Sciences7.698
66 Geoscientific Model Development7.634
67 Geophysical Research Letters7.613
68 Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences7.533
69 Geology7.491
70 Geocarto International7.482
71 Economic Geology7.475
72 Geothermics7.460
73 Advances in Water Resources7.397
74 Global and Planetary Change7.393
75 Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering7.163
76 Advances in Atmospheric Sciences7.127
77 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology7.090
78 Cold Regions Science and Technology7.059
79 Atmospheric Environment7.054
80 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters6.982
81 International Journal of Geographical Information Science6.966
82 Cryosphere6.937
83 Geo-Spatial Information Science6.903
84 Progress in Oceanography6.901
85 Marine and Petroleum Geology6.899
86 Physics and Chemistry of the Earth6.872
87 GPS Solutions6.832
88 IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering6.743
89 Acta Geophysica6.726
90 Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics6.709
91 Soils and Foundations6.677
92 Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk6.663
93 Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems6.637
94 Biogeosciences6.617
95 Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering6.592
96 Applied Geochemistry6.564
97 Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment6.541
98 Astrobiology6.486
99 Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review6.434
100 Chemical Geology6.349
101 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing6.310
102 International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation6.294
103 Mineralium Deposita6.249
104 Ore Geology Reviews6.223
105 Journal of Geochemical Exploration6.194
106 International Journal of Sediment Research6.135
107 International Journal of Digital Earth6.120
108 Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment6.050
109 Journal of Aerosol Science6.043
110 Natural Hazards6.018
111 Environmental Toxicology5.954
112 Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology5.857
113 Journal of Earth Science5.820
114 Land Degradation & Development5.792
115 Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling5.780
116 Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences5.769
117 Plant and Soil5.715
118 Quaternary Science Reviews5.670
119 European Journal of Soil Science5.662
120 Journal of Geodesy5.658
121 Precambrian Research5.657
122 Soil Use and Management5.644
123 Climate of the Past5.635
124 ICES Journal of Marine Science5.623
125 Progress in Physical Geography-Earth and Environment5.601
126 Atmospheric Measurement Techniques5.586
127 Water Science and Technology5.583
128 Geomorphology5.564
129 Journal of Water and Climate Change5.546
130 International Journal of Geomechanics5.518
131 European Journal of Soil Biology5.514
132 Journal of Soils and Sediments5.461
133 Crystal Growth & Design5.433
134 Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications5.428
135 Aeolian Research5.399
136 International Journal of Climatology5.360
137 Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America5.316
138 Environmental Geochemistry and Health5.311
139 Journal of Cultural Heritage5.294
140 Environmental Earth Sciences5.289
141 Canadian Geotechnical Journal5.285
142 Climate Dynamics5.279
143 Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management5.213
144 Geophysics5.205
145 Oceanologia5.177
146 Limnology and Oceanography5.169
147 Journal of Hydro-Environment Research5.168
148 Mathematical Geosciences5.150
149 Journal of Petrology5.084
150 Ocean Science5.074
151 Tectonics5.029
152 Geomicrobiology Journal5.012
153 Journal of Biogeography4.978
154 Journal of Climate4.939
155 Advances in Space Research4.928
156 Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science4.903
157 Hydrological Sciences Journal-Journal des Sciences Hydrologiques4.852
158 Journal of Structural Geology4.850
159 Hydrological Processes4.834
160 Irrigation Science4.789
161 Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition4.765
162 Geophysical Journal International4.747
163 Journal of Marine Systems4.726
164 Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration4.725
165 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society4.709
166 Journal of Archaeological Science4.695
167 Journal of Flood Risk Management4.673
168 Deep-Sea Research Part II-Topical Studies in Oceanography4.669
169 Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society4.645
170 Marine Geology4.644
171 Geosynthetics International4.622
172 Water Air and Soil Pollution4.615
173 Geosphere4.611
174 Theoretical and Applied Climatology4.605
175 Tectonophysics4.567
176 International Journal of Biometeorology4.513
177 Journal of Metamorphic Geology4.498
178 AAPG Bulletin4.497
179 Journal of Sea Research4.495
180 Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems4.476
181 Navigation-Journal of the Institute of Navigation4.463
182 Basin Research4.459
183 Georisk-Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards4.446
184 Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology4.441
185 Earth Planets and Space4.404
186 Marine Chemistry4.388
187 Boundary-Layer Meteorology4.387
188 Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research4.383
189 Journal of Applied Crystallography4.363
190 Natural Hazards Review4.362
191 Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association4.355
192 Geoheritage4.352
193 International Journal of Mining Reclamation and Environment4.335
194 Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research4.324
195 Sedimentary Geology4.308
196 Lithosphere4.306
197 Polyhedron4.305
198 International Journal of Remote Sensing4.304
199 International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics4.295
200 Earth Science Informatics4.282
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