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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Water Research	108
2	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	106
3	Remote Sensing	84
4	Remote Sensing of Environment	83
5	Nature Climate Change	82
6	Journal of Hydrology	73
7	Soil Biology & Biochemistry	72
-	Desalination	72
9	Ocean Engineering	69
-	Water	69
-	Journal of Water Process Engineering	69
12	Gondwana Research	66
13	ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing	65
14	Earth System Science Data	64
15	Nature Geoscience	63
16	Earth-Science Reviews	60
17	CATENA	59
-	Geoderma	59
19	Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering	58
-	Geophysical Research Letters	58
21	Engineering Geology	57
22	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing	56
-	Landscape and Urban Planning	56
24	Communications Earth & Environment	55
-	Environmental Research Letters	55
-	International Journal of Mining Science and Technology	55
27	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters	54
-	Urban Climate	54
29	Geoscience Frontiers	53
-	Drones	53
31	Computers and Geotechnics	52
-	Agricultural Water Management	52
33	Earths Future	51
-	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	51
35	Ocean & Coastal Management	49
36	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	48
-	Journal of Marine Science and Engineering	48
-	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	48
-	Applied Soil Ecology	48
40	Crystals	47
-	Applied Water Science	47
-	Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering	47
43	Atmosphere	46
-	International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials	46
-	Minerals Engineering	46
46	Water Resources Research	45
-	Soil & Tillage Research	45
48	International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences	44
-	Atmospheric Research	44
50	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	42

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

-	Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences	24
-	Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society	24
-	Tectonophysics	24
-	ACS Earth and Space Chemistry	24
-	Astrobiology	24
-	Lithosphere	24
-	Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology	24
183	Geo-Spatial Information Science	23
-	International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics	23
-	Earth Planets and Space	23
-	Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems	23
-	Limnology and Oceanography Letters	23
-	Soils and Foundations	23
-	Water Research X	23
-	Precambrian Research	23
-	Journal of Applied Geophysics	23
-	Journal of Asian Earth Sciences	23
-	Journal of Earth Science	23
-	International Journal of Biometeorology	23
-	European Journal of Soil Science	23
-	Exposure and Health	23
-	Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America	23
198	Journal of Applied Crystallography	22
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface	22
-	Hydrological Sciences Journal-Journal des Sciences Hydrologiques	22

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