New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Geosciences

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The 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 TQCC
1 Annual Review of Marine Science28
2 Water Research27
- Remote Sensing of Environment27
4 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing26
5 Soil Biology & Biochemistry25
6 Landscape and Urban Planning24
7 Earth-Science Reviews23
8 Nature Geoscience22
9 Nature Climate Change20
- Desalination20
11 Geoscience Frontiers19
12 Petroleum Exploration and Development18
- Engineering Geology18
14 Earth System Science Data17
- Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change17
- Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences17
- Geoderma17
- International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences17
19 Gondwana Research16
- Soil & Tillage Research16
21 Geotextiles and Geomembranes15
- International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials15
- Agricultural Water Management15
- Journal of Hydrology15
25 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology14
- GIScience & Remote Sensing14
- Applied Clay Science14
- CATENA14
29 Bulletin of Volcanology13
- Ocean & Coastal Management13
- Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering13
- Hydrology and Earth System Sciences13
- Earth and Planetary Science Letters13
- Computers and Geotechnics13
- Global Ecology and Biogeography13
- Minerals Engineering13
37 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics12
- Biogeochemistry12
- Biology and Fertility of Soils12
- Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering12
- Geotechnique12
- Surveys in Geophysics12
- Global Biogeochemical Cycles12
- International Journal of Coal Geology12
- Landscape Ecology12
- Acta Geotechnica12
- Water Resources Research12
- Applied Soil Ecology12
- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta12
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing12
- Landslides12
- Natural Resources Research12
53 Advances in Climate Change Research11
- Water Resources Management11
- Environmental Research Letters11
- Geology11
- Ocean Engineering11
58 Applied Ocean Research10
- Progress in Oceanography10
- Climatic Change10
- Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering10
- Economic Geology10
- Environmental Modelling & Software10
- Geocarto International10
- Atmospheric Research10
- Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering10
- Geophysical Research Letters10
- Geothermics10
- Journal of Geographical Sciences10
- Global and Planetary Change10
- Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences10
72 Computers & Geosciences9
- Cryosphere9
- Acta Geophysica9
- Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics9
- Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering9
- Science China-Earth Sciences9
- Chemical Geology9
- Marine and Petroleum Geology9
- Advances in Water Resources9
- Pedosphere9
- Precambrian Research9
- Atmospheric Environment9
- Biogeosciences9
- Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment9
- Cold Regions Science and Technology9
- GPS Solutions9
88 Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology8
- Tectonics8
- Applied Geochemistry8
- Physics and Chemistry of the Earth8
- European Journal of Soil Biology8
- Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk8
- Soils and Foundations8
- Geoscientific Model Development8
- Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling8
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters8
- International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation8
- International Journal of Digital Earth8
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science8
- International Journal of Sediment Research8
- Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems8
- Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review8
- Journal of Contaminant Hydrology8
- Natural Hazards8
- Ore Geology Reviews8
- Advances in Atmospheric Sciences8
- Environmental Toxicology8
- Quaternary Science Reviews8
- Geomorphology8
- Geo-Spatial Information Science8
- Journal of Geodesy8
- ICES Journal of Marine Science8
- Limnology and Oceanography8
- Mineralium Deposita8
- Journal of Earth Science8
117 Aeolian Research7
- Water Science and Technology7
- Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences7
- Environmental Geochemistry and Health7
- Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science7
- Astrobiology7
- Atmospheric Measurement Techniques7
- Geophysics7
- Climate of the Past7
- Journal of Marine Systems7
- Journal of Petrology7
- Hydrological Processes7
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing7
- Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management7
- Land Degradation & Development7
- Marine Geology7
- Journal of Biogeography7
- Journal of Geochemical Exploration7
- Crystal Growth & Design7
- Environmental Earth Sciences7
- Plant and Soil7
- European Journal of Soil Science7
- Progress in Physical Geography-Earth and Environment7
- Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America7
- Canadian Geotechnical Journal7
- Sedimentology7
- Climate Dynamics7
- Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications7
- Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment7
- Oceanologia7
- Journal of Soils and Sediments7
- IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering7
- International Journal of Climatology7
- International Journal of Geomechanics7
- Journal of Water and Climate Change7
- Marine Chemistry7
- Journal of Aerosol Science7
154 Theoretical and Applied Climatology6
- Deep-Sea Research Part II-Topical Studies in Oceanography6
- Dendrochronologia6
- Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology6
- Advances in Space Research6
- Palaeontology6
- Permafrost and Periglacial Processes6
- Sedimentary Geology6
- Soil Use and Management6
- Geosphere6
- SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering6
- Geosynthetics International6
- Journal of Hydro-Environment Research6
- Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition6
- Irrigation Science6
- Marine Ecology Progress Series6
- Journal of African Earth Sciences6
- Journal of Archaeological Science6
- Journal of Cultural Heritage6
- Natural Hazards Review6
- Journal of Flood Risk Management6
- Tectonophysics6
- Ocean Science6
- Earth Surface Processes and Landforms6
- American Journal of Science6
- Geobiology6
- Quaternary International6
- Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems6
- Basin Research6
- Geoheritage6
- Boundary-Layer Meteorology6
- Geomicrobiology Journal6
- Geophysical Journal International6
- Georisk-Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards6
- Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research6
- Newsletters on Stratigraphy6
- Journal of Glaciology6
- Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems6
- Hydrological Sciences Journal-Journal des Sciences Hydrologiques6
- Journal of Sea Research6
- Journal of Structural Geology6
- Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research6
- Mathematical Geosciences6
- Journal of Asian Earth Sciences6
- Journal of Climate6
199 Vadose Zone Journal5
- Earth Planets and Space5
(This list is limited to max. 200 journals; click here to see the full list)
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