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Best Earth-Surface Processes journals

183 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Earth-Surface Processes. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 46 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 Reviews Earth and Environment 98.9 99th Q1 SCIE No
2 Carbon Research 19.2 99th Q1 No
3 International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 14.6 98th Q1 SCIE Yes
4 Soil and Tillage Research 13.6 98th Q1 SCIE No
5 Agricultural Water Management 12.5 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
6 Catena 11.4 97th Q1 SCIE No
7 Geography and Sustainability 11.3 96th Q1 ESCI Yes
8 HydroResearch 9.8 95th Q1 Yes
9 Geographical Analysis 9.7 95th Q1 SSCI No
10 Earthquake Research Advances 9.2 94th Q1 ESCI Yes
11 Soil Security 8.8 94th Q1 Yes
12 Biogeochemistry 8 93th Q1 SCIE No
13 Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 7.9 93th Q1 SSCI No
14 Cryosphere 7.7 92th Q1 SCIE Yes
15 Journal of Land Use Science 7.3 92th Q1 SCIE Yes
16 Annals of the American Association of Geographers 7.3 91th Q1 SSCI No
17 China Geology 7.1 91th Q1 ESCI Yes
18 Antipode 7 90th Q1 SSCI No
19 Soil Systems 6.9 89th Q1 ESCI Yes
20 Geography Compass 6.8 89th Q1 SSCI No
21 Biogeosciences 6.7 88th Q1 SCIE Yes
22 Canadian Geographies/Geographies Canadiennes 6.6 88th Q1 SSCI No
23 Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 6.6 87th Q1 SCIE No
24 Geodesy and Geodynamics 6.5 87th Q1 ESCI Yes
25 Journal of Soils and Sediments 6.5 86th Q1 SCIE No
26 Aeolian Research 6.4 86th Q1 SCIE No
27 Geographical Journal 6.1 85th Q1 SSCI No
28 International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment 6.1 85th Q1 SCIE No
29 Geomorphology 6.1 84th Q1 SCIE No
30 Hydrology 6 83th Q1 ESCI Yes
31 Journal of Arid Land 5.9 83th Q1 SCIE No
32 Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 5.8 82th Q1 SCIE No
33 Journal of Glaciology 5.7 82th Q1 SCIE Yes
34 Applied and Environmental Soil Science 5.6 81th Q1 ESCI Yes
35 Journal of the American Water Resources Association 5.6 81th Q1 SCIE No
36 Earth Surface Dynamics 5.4 80th Q1 SCIE Yes
37 Environmental Earth Sciences 5.4 80th Q1 SCIE No
38 Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X 5.4 79th Q1 ESCI Yes
39 Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 5.3 79th Q1 SCIE No
40 Quaternary Science Advances 5.3 78th Q1 ESCI Yes
41 Geographical Research 5.2 77th Q1 SSCI No
42 Journal of Arid Environments 5.2 77th Q1 SCIE No
43 Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 5.1 76th Q1 SCIE No
44 Tectonophysics 5.1 76th Q1 SCIE No
45 Solid Earth 5 75th Q1 SCIE Yes
46 Quaternary International 4.9 75th Q1 SCIE No
47 Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 4.8 74th Q2 SCIE No
48 Journal of African Earth Sciences 4.6 74th Q2 SCIE No
49 Spatial Cognition and Computation 4.6 73th Q2 SSCI No
50 Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 4.5 73th Q2 SSCI No
51 Geographical Review 4.5 72th Q2 SSCI No
52 Journal of Mountain Science 4.5 72th Q2 SCIE No
53 Quaternary Research (United States) 4.2 71th Q2 SCIE No
54 Ecohydrology 4.2 70th Q2 SCIE No
55 Wuhan Daxue Xuebao (Xinxi Kexue Ban)/Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University 4.1 70th Q2 No
56 Anatolia 4 69th Q2 ESCI B No
57 Solid Earth Sciences 3.9 69th Q2 ESCI Yes
58 Soil Research 3.9 68th Q2 SCIE No
59 Journal of Geodynamics 3.8 68th Q2 SCIE No
60 African Geographical Review 3.8 67th Q2 ESCI No
61 KN - Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information 3.8 67th Q2 No
62 Quaternary 3.7 66th Q2 ESCI Yes
63 Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie 3.7 66th Q2 SCIE No
64 Environmental Research Communications 3.6 65th Q2 SCIE Yes
65 Research in Cold and Arid Regions 3.6 64th Q2 ESCI Yes
66 Professional Geographer 3.5 64th Q2 SSCI No
67 Australian Geographer 3.5 63th Q2 SSCI No
68 Journal of Palaeogeography 3.5 63th Q2 SCIE Yes
69 Holocene 3.5 62th Q2 SCIE No
70 Quaternary Sciences 3.4 62th Q2 No
71 Arid Land Geography 3.4 61th Q2 No
72 Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary 3.3 61th Q2 Yes
73 Annals of Glaciology 3.3 60th Q2 SCIE Yes
74 Journal of Paleolimnology 3.2 60th Q2 SCIE No
75 Geomatics and Environmental Engineering 3.1 59th Q2 ESCI Yes
76 Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 3.1 58th Q2 SCIE Yes
77 Journal of Geography 3.1 58th Q2 SSCI No
78 Journal of Palaeogeography (Chinese Edition) 3 57th Q2 No
79 Journal of South American Earth Sciences 3 57th Q2 SCIE No
80 Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology 3 56th Q2 Yes
81 Geographica Pannonica 2.9 56th Q2 ESCI Yes
82 Geomatica 2.9 55th Q2 Yes
83 Kompleksnoe Ispolzovanie Mineralnogo Syra 2.9 55th Q2 ESCI No
84 Progress in Landslide Research and Technology 2.9 54th Q2 No
85 Eurasian Soil Science 2.8 54th Q2 SCIE No
86 Discover Environment 2.8 53th Q2 ESCI Yes
87 Geology Today 2.7 52th Q2 No
88 Scottish Geographical Journal 2.6 52th Q2 SSCI No
89 Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology 2.6 51th Q2 Yes
90 Journal of Engineering and Technological Sciences 2.4 51th Q2 ESCI No
91 Geographica Helvetica 2.3 50th Q2 Yes
92 Journal of Arid Land Resources and Environment 2.3 50th Q2 No
93 Geographia Technica 2.1 49th Q3 ESCI No
94 Russian Geology and Geophysics 2.1 49th Q3 SCIE No
95 Geografie-Sbornik CGS 2 48th Q3 SSCI No
96 British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 1.9 48th Q3 AHCI, SSCI No
97 Cartographic Journal 1.9 47th Q3 SSCI No
98 International Journal of Speleology 1.9 47th Q3 SCIE Yes
99 Geography 1.8 46th Q3 SSCI No
100 Acta Carsologica 1.8 45th Q3 SCIE Yes

Rank and percentile are within the Earth-Surface Processes 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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