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Best Economic Geology journals

52 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Economic Geology. The top 52 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 13 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

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# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Petroleum Exploration and Development 16.2 99th Q1 SCIE – Yes
2 Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review 12 97th Q1 SCIE – No
3 International Journal of Coal Geology 11.9 95th Q1 SCIE – No
4 Petroleum Science 11.3 93th Q1 SCIE – Yes
5 Economic Geology 10.3 91th Q1 SCIE – No
6 Mineralium Deposita 9.9 89th Q1 SCIE – No
7 Journal of Mining Institute 9 87th Q1 ESCI – Yes
8 Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources 9 85th Q1 SCIE – Yes
9 Extractive Industries and Society 8 83th Q1 SSCI – No
10 Marine and Petroleum Geology 8 81th Q1 – – No
11 Mineral Economics 7.9 79th Q1 ESCI C No
12 Journal of Geochemical Exploration 7.3 77th Q1 SCIE – No
13 Ore Geology Reviews 7.1 75th Q1 SCIE – Yes
14 China Geology 7.1 74th Q2 ESCI – Yes
15 Earth Systems and Environment 7 72th Q2 ESCI – No
16 Geothermal Energy 6.5 70th Q2 SCIE – Yes
17 Geoenergy 4 68th Q2 – – No
18 Petroleum Geoscience 4 66th Q2 SCIE – No
19 Petroleum Reservoir Evaluation and Development 3.1 64th Q2 – – Yes
20 Xitong Gongcheng Lilun yu Shijian/System Engineering Theory and Practice 2.7 62th Q2 – – No
21 Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 2.6 60th Q2 SCIE – No
22 SEG Discovery 2.6 58th Q2 – – No
23 Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing 2.4 56th Q2 SCIE – No
24 International Journal of Mining and Geo-Engineering 2.1 54th Q2 – – Yes
25 Gospodarka Surowcami Mineralnymi / Mineral Resources Management 2 52th Q2 SCIE – No
26 Geological Field Trips and Maps 1.9 50th Q2 ESCI – No
27 Geoloski Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva 1.8 49th Q3 – – Yes
28 Tropical Geography 1.7 47th Q3 – – Yes
29 Geology and Exploration 1.7 45th Q3 – – Yes
30 Eurasian Mining 1.7 43th Q3 ESCI – No
31 Bulletin of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry 1.6 41th Q3 – – No
32 Geodynamics and Tectonophysics 1.6 39th Q3 ESCI – Yes
33 Bulletin of the Tomsk Polytechnic University, Geo Assets Engineering 1.4 37th Q3 ESCI – Yes
34 Lithology and Mineral Resources 1.4 35th Q3 SCIE – No
35 Agro Bali 1.2 33th Q3 – – No
36 Geology of Ore Deposits 1.2 31th Q3 SCIE – No
37 Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research 1.2 29th Q3 – – No
38 Journal of the Geological Survey of Brazil 1.2 27th Q3 – – Yes
39 REM - International Engineering Journal 1.1 25th Q3 – – Yes
40 Mineral Resources of Ukraine 0.8 24th Q4 – – Yes
41 Anuario do Instituto de Geociencias 0.8 22th Q4 – – Yes
42 Economic and Environmental Geology 0.8 20th Q4 ESCI – No
43 Revista de la Asociacion Geologica Argentina 0.8 18th Q4 – – No
44 Visnyk of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Geology 0.8 16th Q4 ESCI – Yes
45 Economic Geography (Switzerland) 0.7 14th Q4 – – No
46 Mongolian Geoscientist 0.7 12th Q4 – – Yes
47 Zapiski Rossiiskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva 0.7 10th Q4 – – No
48 Journal of Economic Geology 0.6 8th Q4 – – Yes
49 Petrological Journal 0.5 6th Q4 – – Yes
50 Rocks and Minerals 0.4 4th Q4 – – No
51 Mining Report 0.2 2th Q4 – – No
52 Japanese Magazine of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences 0.2 0th Q4 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Economic Geology 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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