New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Geosciences

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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)
Rank Journal TQCC
1 Biochar50
2 Reviews of Geophysics47
3 International Journal of Mining Science and Technology34
4 Annual Review of Marine Science30
5 Remote Sensing of Environment28
6 Water Research27
7 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing26
- Landscape and Urban Planning26
9 Soil Biology & Biochemistry25
10 Earth-Science Reviews24
11 Nature Geoscience21
- Desalination21
- Nature Climate Change21
14 Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences20
15 Petroleum Exploration and Development19
- Geoscience Frontiers19
17 Geoderma18
- Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change18
- Engineering Geology18
20 International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences17
- International Soil and Water Conservation Research17
- Soil & Tillage Research17
- npj Clean Water17
- Current Climate Change Reports17
- Earth System Science Data17
26 Agricultural Water Management16
- Gondwana Research16
28 Water Resources and Industry15
- International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials15
- Surveys in Geophysics15
- Geotextiles and Geomembranes15
- GIScience & Remote Sensing15
- Journal of Hydrology15
34 Applied Clay Science14
- CATENA14
- Urban Climate14
- Computers and Geotechnics14
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology14
- Earths Future14
- Bulletin of Volcanology14
- Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water14
- Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering14
43 Ocean & Coastal Management13
- Applied Soil Ecology13
- Weather and Climate Extremes13
- Global Ecology and Biogeography13
- Hydrology and Earth System Sciences13
- International Journal of Coal Geology13
- Minerals Engineering13
- Earth and Planetary Science Letters13
51 Ocean Engineering12
- Transportation Geotechnics12
- Landscape Ecology12
- Soil12
- Natural Resources Research12
- Acta Geotechnica12
- Biogeochemistry12
- Biology and Fertility of Soils12
- Water Resources Research12
- Geotechnique12
- Landslides12
- Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering12
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics12
- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta12
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing12
66 Water Research X11
- Plant Phenomics11
- Earth System Dynamics11
- Global and Planetary Change11
- Journal of Water Process Engineering11
- Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering11
- Communications Earth & Environment11
- Applied Water Science11
- Environmental Research Letters11
- Water Resources Management11
- Journal of Geographical Sciences11
- Geothermics11
- Global Biogeochemical Cycles11
- International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction11
80 Progress in Oceanography10
- Remote Sensing10
- Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences10
- Cold Regions Science and Technology10
- Anthropocene10
- Environmental Modelling & Software10
- Atmospheric Environment10
- Atmospheric Research10
- Geophysical Research Letters10
- Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth10
- Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering10
- Climatic Change10
- Advances in Climate Change Research10
- Applied Ocean Research10
- Geocarto International10
- Geology10
96 npj Climate and Atmospheric Science9
- Ore Geology Reviews9
- Pedosphere9
- Physics and Chemistry of the Earth9
- Limnology and Oceanography Letters9
- Mineralium Deposita9
- Computers & Geosciences9
- Cryosphere9
- Advances in Water Resources9
- Drones9
- Economic Geology9
- Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment9
- Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources9
- GPS Solutions9
- International Journal of Disaster Risk Science9
- Marine and Petroleum Geology9
- Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation9
- Rhizosphere9
- Science China-Earth Sciences9
- Chemical Geology9
- Acta Geophysica9
- Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics9
- Environmental Toxicology9
- Biogeosciences9
- Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering9
- Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk9
- Journal of Contaminant Hydrology9
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters9
124 Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment8
- Precambrian Research8
- Land Degradation & Development8
- Soils and Foundations8
- Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology8
- Geomorphology8
- Journal of Earth Science8
- Geoscientific Model Development8
- Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences8
- ICES Journal of Marine Science8
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing8
- International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation8
- International Journal of Digital Earth8
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science8
- Journal of Soils and Sediments8
- Tectonics8
- Plant and Soil8
- Limnology and Oceanography8
- Quaternary Science Reviews8
- Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review8
- Natural Hazards8
- Climate Risk Management8
- Applied Geochemistry8
- Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences8
- European Journal of Soil Biology8
- Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems8
- Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment8
- Geo-Spatial Information Science8
- Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets8
- Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling8
- IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering8
- Journal of Petrology8
- International Journal of Geomechanics8
- International Journal of Sediment Research8
- ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information8
159 Water7
- Journal of Water and Climate Change7
- Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management7
- Marine Chemistry7
- Climate Dynamics7
- ACS Earth and Space Chemistry7
- Climate Services7
- Advances in Atmospheric Sciences7
- American Journal of Science7
- Earthquake Spectra7
- Earth Surface Dynamics7
- Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene7
- Environmental Geochemistry and Health7
- Astrobiology7
- Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science7
- European Journal of Remote Sensing7
- Basin Research7
- Exposure and Health7
- Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America7
- Canadian Geotechnical Journal7
- Geoheritage7
- Journal of Aerosol Science7
- Journal of Climate7
- Journal of Geochemical Exploration7
- Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans7
- Journal of Hydro-Environment Research7
- Hydrological Processes7
- Journal of Marine Systems7
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine7
- Journal of Structural Geology7
- IUCrJ7
- Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications7
- SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering7
- Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems7
- Oceanologia7
- Marine Geology7
- Climate of the Past7
- Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology7
- Crystal Growth & Design7
- Aeolian Research7
- Environmental Earth Sciences7
- Atmospheric Measurement Techniques7
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