New: Think Tank Rankings 2026

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 2024
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 Current Climate Change Reports ca. 12.3
- Remote Sensing of Environment 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 Earths Future ca. 8.5
- International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences 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 Journal of Hydrology ca. 7.3
- Limnology and Oceanography Letters ca. 7.3
- International Journal of Coal Geology ca. 7.3
42 Weather and Climate Extremes ca. 7.2
43 Computers and Geotechnics ca. 7.1
- Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering ca. 7.1
45 Water Research X ca. 7
- Pedosphere ca. 7
47 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ca. 6.9
- Global Biogeochemical Cycles ca. 6.9
49 Biology and Fertility of Soils ca. 6.8
- GIScience & Remote Sensing ca. 6.8
51 CATENA ca. 6.6
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ca. 6.6
- Journal of Water Process Engineering ca. 6.6
54 Acta Geotechnica ca. 6.5
- Global Ecology and Biogeography ca. 6.5
56 Ocean Engineering ca. 6.3
- Water Resources Research ca. 6.3
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 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 Applied Water Science ca. 5.7
- Water Resources Management ca. 5.7
- Journal of Geographical Sciences ca. 5.7
- Geotechnique ca. 5.7
- Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources ca. 5.7
70 Journal of Hydrology-Regional Studies ca. 5.6
- IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering ca. 5.6
- Advances in Climate Change Research ca. 5.6
- Applied Soil Ecology ca. 5.6
74 Climate Risk Management ca. 5.5
- Science China-Earth Sciences ca. 5.5
- Journal of Contaminant Hydrology ca. 5.5
77 Climate Services ca. 5.4
- Geo-Spatial Information Science ca. 5.4
- GPS Solutions ca. 5.4
- Environmental Research Letters ca. 5.4
- International Journal of Digital Earth ca. 5.4
82 Georisk-Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards ca. 5.3
- International Journal of Disaster Risk Science ca. 5.3
84 Drones ca. 5.2
- Environmental Modelling & Software ca. 5.2
- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta ca. 5.2
- Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation ca. 5.2
- Climatic Change ca. 5.2
- Applied Clay Science ca. 5.2
- Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 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 Advances in Atmospheric Sciences ca. 5
- Mineralium Deposita ca. 5
- Geophysical Research Letters ca. 5
- Geotextiles and Geomembranes ca. 5
99 Cold Regions Science and Technology ca. 4.9
- Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment ca. 4.9
- Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk ca. 4.9
- Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics ca. 4.9
103 Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment ca. 4.8
- Journal of Earth Science ca. 4.8
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters ca. 4.8
- International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction ca. 4.8
- Earth and Planetary Science Letters ca. 4.8
- Plant and Soil ca. 4.8
109 Geothermal Energy ca. 4.7
- Global and Planetary Change ca. 4.7
- Landscape Ecology ca. 4.7
- Anthropocene ca. 4.7
- Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review ca. 4.7
- Journal of Geodesy ca. 4.7
115 Geology ca. 4.6
- Physics and Chemistry of the Earth ca. 4.6
- Journal of Geochemical Exploration ca. 4.6
- Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 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
- Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology ca. 4.3
- Biogeochemistry ca. 4.3
- Ore Geology Reviews ca. 4.3
- Remote Sensing ca. 4.3
- Journal of Climate 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 Computers & Geosciences ca. 4.1
- Advances in Water Resources ca. 4.1
- Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene ca. 4.1
- Mathematical Geosciences ca. 4.1
- Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface ca. 4.1
138 Zeitschrift fuer Kristallographie-Crystalline Materials ca. 4
- Land Degradation & Development ca. 4
- Climate Dynamics ca. 4
- Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth ca. 4
142 Earthquake Spectra ca. 3.9
- European Journal of Remote Sensing ca. 3.9
- Geocarto International ca. 3.9
- Geoderma Regional ca. 3.9
- Progress in Oceanography ca. 3.9
- Geoscience Letters ca. 3.9
- Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan ca. 3.9
- Elements ca. 3.9
- European Journal of Soil Biology ca. 3.9
- Rhizosphere ca. 3.9
- ICES Journal of Marine Science ca. 3.9
- Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology ca. 3.9
154 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 Geophysical Research-Atmospheres ca. 3.8
- Journal of Sea Research ca. 3.8
- Journal of Petrology ca. 3.8
160 Journal of Flood Risk Management ca. 3.7
- Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets ca. 3.7
- Journal of Water and Climate Change ca. 3.7
- Soils and Foundations ca. 3.7
- Journal of Cultural Heritage ca. 3.7
- Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences ca. 3.7
166 Chemical Geology ca. 3.6
- Crystal Growth & Design ca. 3.6
- Geophysics ca. 3.6
- International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics ca. 3.6
- Geological Society of America Bulletin ca. 3.6
- Progress in Earth and Planetary Science ca. 3.6
- Soil Use and Management ca. 3.6
- Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition ca. 3.6
174 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
- Journal of Meteorological Research ca. 3.5
- Journal of Biogeography ca. 3.5
- American Journal of Science ca. 3.5
- Vadose Zone Journal ca. 3.5
- Water Air and Soil Pollution ca. 3.5
- Photogrammetric Record ca. 3.5
- Progress in Physical Geography-Earth and Environment ca. 3.5
- IUCrJ ca. 3.5
- Limnology and Oceanography ca. 3.5
188 Desalination and Water Treatment ca. 3.4
- Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration ca. 3.4
- Anthropocene Review ca. 3.4
- Sedimentology ca. 3.4
- International Journal of Geomechanics ca. 3.4
- International Journal of Sediment Research ca. 3.4
- Irrigation Science ca. 3.4
- Journal of Metamorphic Geology ca. 3.4
196 Earth and Space Science ca. 3.3
- Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems ca. 3.3
- Water Resources and Economics ca. 3.3
- Quaternary Science Reviews ca. 3.3
- Natural Hazards Review ca. 3.3
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