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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Biochar	56
2	Reviews of Geophysics	44
3	International Journal of Mining Science and Technology	32
4	Annual Review of Marine Science	31
5	Landscape and Urban Planning	30
6	Current Climate Change Reports	29
-	Soil Biology & Biochemistry	29
-	Water Research	29
-	Remote Sensing of Environment	29
10	Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences	26
11	ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing	25
12	Earth-Science Reviews	24
-	npj Clean Water	24
14	Desalination	22
-	Nature Climate Change	22
16	Engineering Geology	21
-	Petroleum Exploration and Development	21
18	Nature Geoscience	20
19	International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials	19
-	International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences	19
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water	19
22	Computers and Geotechnics	18
-	Geoderma	18
24	Agricultural Water Management	17
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	17
-	Geoscience Frontiers	17
-	Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering	17
-	Journal of Hydrology	17
-	Soil & Tillage Research	17
30	Earths Future	16
-	Earth System Science Data	16
-	Plant Phenomics	16
-	Gondwana Research	16
-	Urban Climate	16
35	CATENA	15
-	International Soil and Water Conservation Research	15
-	Water Resources and Industry	15
-	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	15
-	Landscape Ecology	15
-	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	15
-	Geotextiles and Geomembranes	15
-	Landslides	15
43	Applied Clay Science	14
-	Acta Geotechnica	14
-	International Journal of Coal Geology	14
-	Geotechnique	14
-	Weather and Climate Extremes	14
-	Communications Earth & Environment	14
49	Biogeochemistry	13
-	Biology and Fertility of Soils	13

-	Hydrology and Earth System Sciences	13
-	Water Resources Research	13
-	Ocean & Coastal Management	13
-	Ocean Engineering	13
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	13
-	Journal of Geographical Sciences	13
-	GIScience & Remote Sensing	13
-	Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering	13
-	Minerals Engineering	13
-	Surveys in Geophysics	13
-	Journal of Water Process Engineering	13
62	Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta	12
-	Earth and Planetary Science Letters	12
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Science	12
-	Global Ecology and Biogeography	12
-	GPS Solutions	12
-	Soil	12
-	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	12
-	Natural Resources Research	12
-	Applied Water Science	12
-	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	12
-	Drones	12
-	Water Resources Management	12
-	Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering	12
75	Applied Soil Ecology	11
-	International Journal of Digital Earth	11
-	Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources	11
-	Transportation Geotechnics	11
-	Remote Sensing	11
-	Earth System Dynamics	11
-	Applied Ocean Research	11
-	Economic Geology	11
-	Advances in Climate Change Research	11
-	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	11
-	Geothermics	11
-	Marine and Petroleum Geology	11
87	Earth Science Informatics	10
-	Environmental Research Letters	10
-	Atmospheric Environment	10
-	Atmospheric Research	10
-	European Journal of Soil Biology	10
-	Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment	10
-	Cold Regions Science and Technology	10
-	Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics	10
-	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	10
-	Geophysical Research Letters	10
-	Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering	10
-	Environmental Modelling & Software	10
-	Climate Risk Management	10
-	Computers & Geosciences	10
-	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	10
-	Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation	10
103	Environmental Earth Sciences	9
-	Geocarto International	9
-	Climate Services	9
-	Advances in Water Resources	9
-	Journal of Earth Science	9
-	Geoscientific Model Development	9
-	Geothermal Energy	9
-	Mineralium Deposita	9
-	Soils and Foundations	9
-	Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment	9
-	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	9
-	Journal of Water and Climate Change	9
-	Progress in Oceanography	9
-	Limnology and Oceanography Letters	9
-	Biogeosciences	9
-	Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering	9
-	Chemical Geology	9
-	Climatic Change	9
-	Cryosphere	9
-	Earthquake Spectra	9
-	Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology	9
-	International Journal of Sediment Research	9
-	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems	9
-	Geology	9
-	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	9
-	Journal of Contaminant Hydrology	9
-	Geo-Spatial Information Science	9
-	Journal of Geodesy	9
-	Rhizosphere	9
-	Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review	9
-	Science China-Earth Sciences	9
-	Natural Hazards	9
135	Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences	8
-	Environmental Toxicology	8
-	Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America	8
-	Geoderma Regional	8
-	Crystal Growth & Design	8
-	ICES Journal of Marine Science	8
-	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing	8
-	International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation	8
-	Journal of Sea Research	8
-	IUCrJ	8
-	Journal of Geochemical Exploration	8
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth	8
-	Global and Planetary Change	8
-	Ore Geology Reviews	8
-	Water	8
-	Pedosphere	8
-	Water Resources and Economics	8
-	Precambrian Research	8
-	Land Degradation & Development	8
-	Applied Geochemistry	8
-	Environmental Geochemistry and Health	8
-	Exposure and Health	8
-	IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering	8
-	Journal of Petrology	8
-	International Journal of Geomechanics	8
-	International Journal of Mining Reclamation and Environment	8
-	ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information	8
-	Journal of Cultural Heritage	8
-	Journal of Hydroinformatics	8
-	Water Science and Technology	8
-	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	8
-	Tectonics	8
-	Quaternary Science Reviews	8
168	Anthropocene	7
-	Geobiology	7
-	Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems	7
-	Comptes Rendus Geoscience	7
-	Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology	7
-	Crystals	7
-	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	7
-	American Journal of Science	7

-	Journal of Soils and Sediments	7
-	Journal of Aerosol Science	7
-	Journal of Climate	7
-	Geomorphology	7
-	Geophysical Journal International	7
-	Geosynthetics International	7
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences	7
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans	7
-	Newsletters on Stratigraphy	7
-	Soil Use and Management	7
-	Paleobiology	7
-	Quaternary Geochronology	7
-	Earth Surface Dynamics	7
-	Anthropocene Review	7
-	Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene	7
-	Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science	7
-	Atmosphere	7
-	Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science	7
-	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	7
-	European Journal of Remote Sensing	7
-	European Journal of Soil Science	7
-	Canadian Geotechnical Journal	7
-	Climate of the Past	7
-	Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology	7
-	Advances in Space Research	7

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