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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Water Research	115
2	Remote Sensing	88
3	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	84
4	Nature Climate Change	82
5	Ocean Engineering	78
6	Journal of Hydrology	77
7	Remote Sensing of Environment	75
-	Desalination	75
9	Journal of Water Process Engineering	74
-	ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing	74
11	Water	73
12	Soil Biology & Biochemistry	72
13	Gondwana Research	69
14	Nature Geoscience	66
15	Earth-Science Reviews	63
16	Earth System Science Data	62
-	Communications Earth & Environment	62
18	CATENA	61
-	Drones	61
20	Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering	60
-	Landscape and Urban Planning	60
22	Engineering Geology	59
23	Geophysical Research Letters	58
24	Computers and Geotechnics	57
-	Geoderma	57
26	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing	56
-	International Journal of Mining Science and Technology	56
28	Agricultural Water Management	55
29	Urban Climate	54
30	Earths Future	53
31	Crystals	52
-	Journal of Marine Science and Engineering	52
-	Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering	52
-	Soil & Tillage Research	52
-	Geoscience Frontiers	52
36	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	51
-	Water Resources Research	51
38	Environmental Research Letters	50
-	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	50
40	Ocean & Coastal Management	49
41	International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials	47
-	International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences	47
43	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	46
44	Atmosphere	45
-	Minerals Engineering	45
-	Applied Soil Ecology	45
-	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	45
48	Atmospheric Research	43
-	Applied Clay Science	43
50	Applied Water Science	42

-	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters	42
-	Water Air and Soil Pollution	42
-	Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering	42
-	International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation	42
-	Petroleum Exploration and Development	42
56	Natural Hazards	41
-	Acta Geotechnica	41
-	Hydrology and Earth System Sciences	41
-	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine	41
60	npj Clean Water	40
-	Atmospheric Environment	40
-	Water Resources Management	40
63	Crystal Growth & Design	39
-	Earth and Planetary Science Letters	39
-	Landslides	39
66	Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta	38
-	Advances in Space Research	38
-	Plant and Soil	38
69	Applied Ocean Research	37
-	Global Ecology and Biogeography	37
-	International Journal of Digital Earth	37
-	Transportation Geotechnics	37
-	Minerals	37
74	Environmental Modelling & Software	36
-	Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment	36
-	Geoscientific Model Development	36
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth	36
-	Reviews of Geophysics	36
79	Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres	35
-	Land Degradation & Development	35
81	Frontiers in Earth Science	34
-	Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics	34
-	ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information	34
-	GIScience & Remote Sensing	34
-	Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition	34
-	Science China-Earth Sciences	34
-	Environmental Geochemistry and Health	34
-	International Journal of Coal Geology	34
-	Ore Geology Reviews	34
-	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	34
-	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	34
92	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	33
-	Journal of Contaminant Hydrology	33
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets	33
-	Marine and Petroleum Geology	33
96	Environmental Earth Sciences	32
-	Earth Science Informatics	32
-	Geothermics	32
-	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	32
-	Journal of Climate	32
101	Geocarto International	31
-	Cold Regions Science and Technology	31
-	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems	31
-	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	31
-	Geotextiles and Geomembranes	31
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	31
-	Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering	31
-	GPS Solutions	31
-	Journal of Water and Climate Change	31
110	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	30
-	Biochar	30
-	Biogeosciences	30
-	Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering	30
-	Climate Dynamics	30
-	Geology	30
-	Journal of Cultural Heritage	30
-	Weather and Climate Extremes	30
-	Chemical Geology	30
-	Climatic Change	30
-	Computers & Geosciences	30
-	Geotechnique	30
-	Journal of Hydrology-Regional Studies	30
-	Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment	30
-	Plant Phenomics	30
125	Applied Geochemistry	29
-	Environmental Toxicology	29
-	Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences	29
-	International Journal of Climatology	29
-	International Journal of Geomechanics	29
-	Polyhedron	29
-	Quaternary Science Reviews	29
-	Rhizosphere	29
-	Global and Planetary Change	29
-	International Soil and Water Conservation Research	29
-	Natural Resources Research	29
-	Water Science and Technology	29
137	Geophysics	28
-	Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling	28
-	IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering	28
-	Surveys in Geophysics	28
-	Theoretical and Applied Climatology	28
-	Economic Geology	28
-	European Journal of Soil Science	28
-	Biology and Fertility of Soils	28
-	Cryosphere	28
-	Geophysical Journal International	28
-	Journal of Geochemical Exploration	28
-	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	28
-	Journal of Soils and Sediments	28
-	Pedosphere	28
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water	28
152	Canadian Geotechnical Journal	27
-	Journal of Biogeography	27
-	International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics	27
-	Limnology and Oceanography	27
-	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	27
-	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	27
-	Advances in Water Resources	27
-	Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources	27
-	Geomorphology	27
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans	27
-	Landscape Ecology	27
163	Geo-Spatial Information Science	26
-	Journal of Geographical Sciences	26
-	International Journal of Remote Sensing	26
-	Earth and Space Science	26
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences	26
-	Progress in Oceanography	26
169	JOM	25
-	Journal of African Earth Sciences	25
-	Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology	25
-	Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science	25
-	ICES Journal of Marine Science	25
174	Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems	24
-	Advances in Climate Change Research	24

-	Seismological Research Letters	24
-	Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America	24
-	Earthquake Spectra	24
-	Annual Review of Marine Science	24
-	International Journal of Biometeorology	24
181	ACS Earth and Space Chemistry	23
-	Geological Journal	23
-	Journal of Applied Crystallography	23
-	Journal of Geodesy	23
-	Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology	23
-	Water Supply	23
-	Earth System Dynamics	23
-	Climate Risk Management	23
-	CrystEngComm	23
-	Journal of Asian Earth Sciences	23
-	Journal of Earth Science	23
-	Hydrological Processes	23
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Science	23
-	Tectonophysics	23
-	Limnology and Oceanography Letters	23
196	Journal of Flood Risk Management	22
-	Journal of Petrology	22
-	Water Resources and Industry	22
-	Journal of Aerosol Science	22
-	Journal of Applied Geophysics	22

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