Geosciences: Journal Rankings

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

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Biochar	65
2	Reviews of Geophysics	48
3	Annual Review of Marine Science	35
4	International Journal of Mining Science and Technology	32
5	Water Research	27
-	Remote Sensing of Environment	27
7	Landscape and Urban Planning	26
8	ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing	25
-	Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences	25
-	Soil Biology & Biochemistry	25
11	Earth-Science Reviews	24
12	Current Climate Change Reports	22
-	Nature Climate Change	22
14	Desalination	21
-	Nature Geoscience	21
16	npj Clean Water	20
17	Petroleum Exploration and Development	19
-	Engineering Geology	19
19	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	18
-	Geoderma	18
21	International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials	17
-	International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences	17
-	Geoscience Frontiers	17
-	Gondwana Research	17
-	Agricultural Water Management	17
-	Earth System Science Data	17
-	Soil & Tillage Research	17
28	International Soil and Water Conservation Research	16
-	Bulletin of Volcanology	16
-	Urban Climate	16
31	Geotextiles and Geomembranes	15
-	GIScience & Remote Sensing	15
-	Journal of Hydrology	15
-	Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering	15
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water	15
-	Computers and Geotechnics	15
-	Earths Future	15
38	International Journal of Coal Geology	14
-	Water Resources and Industry	14
-	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	14
-	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	14
-	Applied Clay Science	14
-	CATENA	14
-	Landslides	14
45	Geotechnique	13
-	Global Ecology and Biogeography	13
-	Applied Water Science	13
-	Ocean Engineering	13
-	Plant Phenomics	13
-	Landscape Ecology	13

-	Journal of Geographical Sciences	13
-	Acta Geotechnica	13
-	Earth and Planetary Science Letters	13
-	Biogeochemistry	13
-	Surveys in Geophysics	13
-	Minerals Engineering	13
57	Hydrology and Earth System Sciences	12
-	Water Resources Research	12
-	Weather and Climate Extremes	12
-	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	12
-	Communications Earth & Environment	12
-	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	12
-	Ocean & Coastal Management	12
-	Transportation Geotechnics	12
-	Soil	12
-	Natural Resources Research	12
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	12
-	Water Resources Management	12
-	Biology and Fertility of Soils	12
-	Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta	12
-	Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering	12
72	Acta Geophysica	11
-	Advances in Climate Change Research	11
-	Earth System Dynamics	11
-	Remote Sensing	11
-	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	11
-	Applied Soil Ecology	11
-	Environmental Research Letters	11
-	Journal of Water Process Engineering	11
-	Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering	11
81	GPS Solutions	10
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Science	10
-	Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources	10
-	Geophysical Research Letters	10
-	Drones	10
-	Applied Ocean Research	10
-	Economic Geology	10
-	Climate Risk Management	10
-	Climatic Change	10
-	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	10
-	Geothermics	10
-	Geology	10
-	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	10
-	Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics	10
-	Atmospheric Research	10
-	Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment	10
-	Geocarto International	10
-	Cold Regions Science and Technology	10
-	Marine and Petroleum Geology	10
-	Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation	10
101	Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth	9
-	Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering	9
-	Global and Planetary Change	9
-	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing	9
-	International Journal of Digital Earth	9
-	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	9
-	Geoscientific Model Development	9
-	Computers & Geosciences	9
-	Cryosphere	9
-	Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene	9
-	Environmental Modelling & Software	9
-	European Journal of Remote Sensing	9
-	Biogeosciences	9
-	Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering	9
-	Soils and Foundations	9
-	Progress in Oceanography	9
-	Limnology and Oceanography Letters	9
-	Mineralium Deposita	9
-	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters	9
-	International Journal of Sediment Research	9
-	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems	9
-	Advances in Water Resources	9
-	Environmental Toxicology	9
-	Atmospheric Environment	9
-	European Journal of Soil Biology	9
-	Rhizosphere	9
-	Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review	9
-	Science China-Earth Sciences	9
-	Natural Hazards	9
130	Geothermal Energy	8
-	ICES Journal of Marine Science	8
-	International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation	8
-	Journal of Soils and Sediments	8
-	Geomorphology	8
-	Journal of Earth Science	8
-	Journal of Geochemical Exploration	8
-	Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology	8
-	Anthropocene Review	8
-	Applied Geochemistry	8
-	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	8
-	Exposure and Health	8
-	Chemical Geology	8
-	Climate of the Past	8
-	Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment	8
-	Ore Geology Reviews	8
-	Pedosphere	8
-	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	8
-	Journal of Water and Climate Change	8
-	Precambrian Research	8
-	Land Degradation & Development	8
-	Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling	8
-	IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering	8
-	Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology	8
-	Journal of Petrology	8
-	International Journal of Geomechanics	8
-	Irrigation Science	8
-	ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information	8
-	Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment	8
-	Journal of Contaminant Hydrology	8
-	Journal of Geodesy	8
-	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	8
-	Earth Science Informatics	8
-	Anthropocene	8
-	Astrobiology	8
-	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	8
-	SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering	8
-	Oceanologia	8
-	Tectonics	8
-	Plant and Soil	8
-	Quaternary Science Reviews	8
171	Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences	7
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans	7
-	Hydrological Processes	7
-	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine	7
-	International Journal of Biometeorology	7

-	Journal of Sea Research	7
-	Journal of Structural Geology	7
-	IUCrJ	7
-	Geoheritage	7
-	Journal of Aerosol Science	7
-	Journal of Climate	7
-	Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology	7
-	Deep-Sea Research Part II-Topical Studies in Oceanography	7
-	Aeolian Research	7
-	Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration	7
-	Earthquake Spectra	7
-	Earth Surface Dynamics	7
-	Environmental Geochemistry and Health	7
-	Atmosphere	7
-	European Journal of Soil Science	7
-	AAPG Bulletin	7
-	Spatial Statistics	7
-	Water	7
-	Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management	7
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres	7
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets	7
-	Journal of Hydroinformatics	7
-	Journal of Marine Science and Engineering	7
-	Hydrological Sciences Journal-Journal des Sciences Hydrologiques	7
-	Hydrology Research	7

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