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Best Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) journals

197 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all). The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 50 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Nature Geoscience 27.3 99th Q1 SCIE No
2 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine 27 99th Q1 SCIE No
3 Earth-Science Reviews 20.8 98th Q1 SCIE No
4 Earth System Science Data 19.2 98th Q1 SCIE Yes
5 Geoscience Frontiers 19.1 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
6 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 16.7 97th Q1 SCIE No
7 GIScience and Remote Sensing 11.9 96th Q1 SCIE Yes
8 Communications Earth and Environment 11.3 96th Q1 SCIE Yes
9 Earth System Dynamics 11.3 95th Q1 SCIE Yes
10 Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment 11 95th Q1 No
11 Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Science 10.5 94th Q1 SCIE Yes
12 Science China Earth Sciences 9.7 94th Q1 SCIE No
13 Remote Sensing 9.4 93th Q1 SCIE Yes
14 Geoscientific Model Development 8.8 93th Q1 SCIE Yes
15 GPS Solutions 8.6 92th Q1 SCIE No
16 Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 8.2 92th Q1 SCIE Yes
17 Annals of GIS 8.2 91th Q1 ESCI Yes
18 Geophysical Research Letters 8.1 91th Q1 SCIE Yes
19 Cold Regions Science and Technology 8 90th Q1 SCIE No
20 Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 8 90th Q1 SCIE Yes
21 Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk 7.9 89th Q1 SCIE Yes
22 Advances in Biology and Earth Sciences 7.8 89th Q1 No
23 AGU Advances 7.8 88th Q1 SCIE Yes
24 Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica 7.8 88th Q1 No
25 Mathematical Geosciences 7.6 87th Q1 SCIE No
26 Progress in Physical Geography 7.6 87th Q1 SCIE No
27 International Journal of Digital Earth 7.4 86th Q1 SCIE Yes
28 Frontiers in Remote Sensing 6.9 86th Q1 ESCI Yes
29 Journal of Earth Science 6.8 85th Q1 SCIE No
30 Journal of Taibah University for Science 6.8 85th Q1 SCIE Yes
31 Geobiology 6.7 84th Q1 SCIE No
32 Carbon Balance and Management 6.6 84th Q1 SCIE Yes
33 Science of Remote Sensing 6.5 83th Q1 ESCI Yes
34 Chinese Geographical Science 6.1 83th Q1 SCIE No
35 Earth Science Informatics 6.1 82th Q1 SCIE No
36 Disasters 6 82th Q1 SSCI A No
37 Geoscience Data Journal 6 81th Q1 SCIE Yes
38 Arctic Science 5.9 81th Q1 SCIE Yes
39 Geoscience Letters 5.7 80th Q1 SCIE Yes
40 American Journal of Science 5.6 80th Q1 SCIE No
41 Advances in Space Research 5.6 79th Q1 SCIE No
42 Rendiconti Lincei 5.2 79th Q1 SCIE No
43 Earth and Space Science 5.1 78th Q1 SCIE Yes
44 International Journal of Remote Sensing 5 78th Q1 SCIE No
45 Vietnam Journal of Earth Sciences 5 77th Q1 ESCI No
46 Frontiers in Earth Science 4.9 77th Q1 SCIE Yes
47 Advances in Water Science 4.8 76th Q1 Yes
48 Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 4.8 76th Q1 SCIE Yes
49 AAPP Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti, Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali 4.7 75th Q1 ESCI Yes
50 Diqiu Kexue - Zhongguo Dizhi Daxue Xuebao/Earth Science - Journal of China University of Geosciences 4.7 75th Q1 No
51 Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 4.6 74th Q2 SCIE Yes
52 Chemistry and Ecology 4.6 74th Q2 SCIE No
53 Comptes Rendus - Geoscience 4.4 73th Q2 SCIE Yes
54 Geosciences (Switzerland) 4.4 73th Q2 ESCI Yes
55 Quaternary Research (United States) 4.2 72th Q2 SCIE No
56 Discover Applied Sciences 4.1 72th Q2 ESCI Yes
57 International Journal of Earth Sciences 4.1 71th Q2 SCIE No
58 Transactions in GIS 4.1 71th Q2 SSCI No
59 BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin 3.9 70th Q2 SCIE Yes
60 Geofluids 3.9 70th Q2 SCIE Yes
61 International Journal of Image and Data Fusion 3.9 69th Q2 ESCI No
62 IEEE Journal on Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation 3.8 69th Q2 ESCI Yes
63 All Earth 3.8 68th Q2 SCIE Yes
64 Polar Geography 3.8 68th Q2 ESCI No
65 Cehui Xuebao/Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica 3.8 67th Q2 No
66 Frontiers of Earth Science 3.8 67th Q2 SCIE No
67 Journal of Geoscience Education 3.8 67th Q2 No
68 South African Geographical Journal 3.7 66th Q2 SSCI No
69 Earth Energy Science 3.7 65th Q2 Yes
70 Radiocarbon 3.6 65th Q2 SCIE No
71 Moravian Geographical Reports 3.6 64th Q2 Yes
72 Physical Geography 3.6 64th Q2 SCIE No
73 Polar Science 3.5 63th Q2 SCIE No
74 Journal of Earth System Science 3.4 63th Q2 SCIE No
75 Journal of Hohai University (Natural Sciences) 3.4 62th Q2 No
76 Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis 3.3 62th Q2 SCIE No
77 Earth Interactions 3.3 61th Q2 SCIE No
78 Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift 3.3 61th Q2 SSCI No
79 Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 3.2 60th Q2 SCIE No
80 South African Journal of Science 3.2 60th Q2 SCIE Yes
81 Episodes 3.2 59th Q2 SCIE No
82 Hungarian Geographical Bulletin 3.2 59th Q2 ESCI Yes
83 Polar Record 3.2 58th Q2 SCIE No
84 Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 3.1 58th Q2 SCIE No
85 Radio Science 3.1 58th Q2 SCIE No
86 Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 3.1 57th Q2 SCIE No
87 Nordia Geographical Publications 3 56th Q2 Yes
88 Journal of Earth Sciences and Environment 2.9 56th Q2 No
89 Acta Geographica Slovenica 2.9 55th Q2 SCIE Yes
90 World Archaeology 2.9 55th Q2 AHCI No
91 Geografisk Tidsskrift - Danish Journal of Geography 2.9 54th Q2 SSCI No
92 GEM - International Journal on Geomathematics 2.8 54th Q2 ESCI No
93 Rudarsko Geolosko Naftni Zbornik 2.8 53th Q2 ESCI Yes
94 Bulletin of Geosciences 2.7 53th Q2 SCIE No
95 Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Geowissenschaften 2.7 52th Q2 SCIE No
96 Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences 2.6 52th Q2 ESCI Yes
97 Italian Journal of Geosciences 2.6 51th Q2 SCIE No
98 Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews 2.6 51th Q2 No
99 Open Geosciences 2.6 50th Q2 SCIE Yes
100 Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 2.5 50th Q2 SCIE No

Rank and percentile are within the Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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