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Best Geochemistry and Petrology journals

164 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Geochemistry and Petrology. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 41 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 International Journal of Mining Science and Technology 24.5 99th Q1 SCIE Yes
2 Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 18.3 99th Q1 No
3 Petroleum Exploration and Development 16.2 98th Q1 SCIE Yes
4 Surveys in Geophysics 14.7 97th Q1 SCIE No
5 International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials 13.8 97th Q1 SCIE No
6 Journal of Rare Earths 13.5 96th Q1 SCIE No
7 Petroleum Science 11.3 96th Q1 SCIE Yes
8 Applied Clay Science 10.7 95th Q1 SCIE No
9 Economic Geology 10.3 94th Q1 SCIE No
10 Mineralium Deposita 9.9 94th Q1 SCIE No
11 Earth and Planetary Science Letters 9.7 93th Q1 SCIE No
12 Petroleum 9.6 92th Q1 ESCI Yes
13 Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 9.1 92th Q1 SCIE No
14 Journal of Metamorphic Geology 8.9 91th Q1 SCIE No
15 Petroleum Research 8 91th Q1 ESCI Yes
16 Journal of Geodesy 7.6 90th Q1 SCIE No
17 Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 7.5 89th Q1 SCIE No
18 Journal of Geochemical Exploration 7.3 89th Q1 SCIE No
19 China Petroleum Exploration 7.1 88th Q1 No
20 Ore Geology Reviews 7.1 88th Q1 SCIE Yes
21 China Geology 7.1 87th Q1 ESCI Yes
22 Environmental Geochemistry and Health 7 86th Q1 SCIE No
23 Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 7 86th Q1 SCIE No
24 Mining of Mineral Deposits 6.9 85th Q1 ESCI No
25 Applied Geochemistry 6.8 85th Q1 SCIE No
26 AAPG Bulletin 6.6 84th Q1 SCIE No
27 Chemical Geology 6.6 83th Q1 SCIE No
28 Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 6.5 83th Q1 SCIE No
29 Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 6.4 82th Q1 SCIE No
30 Precambrian Research 6.3 82th Q1 SCIE No
31 Geophysics 6.2 81th Q1 SCIE No
32 Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research 6.2 80th Q1 SCIE No
33 Journal of Petrology 6.2 80th Q1 SCIE No
34 Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 6 79th Q1 SCIE No
35 Bulletin of Volcanology 5.9 78th Q1 SCIE No
36 Tectonics 5.9 78th Q1 SCIE No
37 Geochemical Perspectives Letters 5.8 77th Q1 SCIE Yes
38 Geophysical Journal International 5.8 77th Q1 SCIE Yes
39 Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 5.5 76th Q1 SCIE No
40 Journal of Applied Volcanology 5.4 75th Q1 Yes
41 ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 5.3 75th Q1 SCIE No
42 American Mineralogist 5.1 74th Q2 SCIE No
43 Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 5 74th Q2 SCIE Yes
44 Egyptian Journal of Petroleum 5 73th Q2 Yes
45 Elements 5 72th Q2 SCIE No
46 Solid Earth 5 72th Q2 SCIE Yes
47 Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths 4.9 71th Q2 No
48 Organic Geochemistry 4.9 71th Q2 SCIE No
49 Marine Geology 4.8 70th Q2 SCIE No
50 Active Volcanoes of the World 4.8 69th Q2 No
51 Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 4.7 69th Q2 SCIE No
52 Acta Petrologica Sinica 4.6 68th Q2 SCIE No
53 Geochemistry 4.5 67th Q2 SCIE No
54 Lithos 4.4 67th Q2 SCIE No
55 Clays and Clay Minerals 4.3 66th Q2 SCIE No
56 Volcanica 4.1 66th Q2 ESCI Yes
57 Geochemical Transactions 4.1 65th Q2 Yes
58 Petroleum Geoscience 4 64th Q2 SCIE No
59 Pure and Applied Geophysics 4 64th Q2 SCIE No
60 Solid Earth Sciences 3.9 63th Q2 ESCI Yes
61 Marine Geophysical Research 3.8 63th Q2 SCIE No
62 Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 3.8 62th Q2 SCIE Yes
63 Applied Earth Science: Transactions of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 3.7 61th Q2 ESCI No
64 Journal of Geomechanics 3.6 61th Q2 Yes
65 Acta Sedimentologica Sinica 3.6 60th Q2 Yes
66 Clay Minerals 3.6 60th Q2 SCIE No
67 Mining Informational and Analytical Bulletin 3.5 59th Q2 No
68 Environmental Chemistry 3.5 58th Q2 SCIE No
69 Journal of Natural Gas Geoscience 3.4 58th Q2 ESCI Yes
70 Aquatic Geochemistry 3.4 57th Q2 SCIE No
71 Journal of Seismology 3.4 57th Q2 SCIE No
72 Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis 3.3 56th Q2 SCIE No
73 Chinese Journal of Geophysics 3.3 55th Q2 SCIE No
74 Journal of Mining and Environment 3.1 55th Q2 ESCI No
75 Geophysical Prospecting 3 54th Q2 SCIE No
76 Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology 3 53th Q2 SCIE No
77 Petroleum Geology and Oilfield Development in Daqing 3 53th Q2 No
78 Geochemical Perspectives 2.9 52th Q2 SCIE No
79 Mineralogical Magazine 2.9 52th Q2 SCIE No
80 Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 2.8 51th Q2 SCIE No
81 Developments in Clay Science 2.8 50th Q2 No
82 Geophysical Prospecting for Petroleum 2.8 50th Q2 No
83 Acta Geochimica 2.7 49th Q3 ESCI No
84 European Journal of Mineralogy 2.7 49th Q3 SCIE Yes
85 Mineral Deposits 2.7 48th Q3 No
86 Carbonates and Evaporites 2.5 47th Q3 SCIE No
87 Marine Origin Petroleum Geology 2.5 47th Q3 No
88 Acta Montanistica Slovaca 2.5 46th Q3 SCIE Yes
89 Mineralogia 2.4 46th Q3 Yes
90 Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy: Transactions of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 2.3 45th Q3 ESCI No
91 Geochemical Journal 2.3 44th Q3 SCIE No
92 Mineralogy and Petrology 2.3 44th Q3 SCIE No
93 Norwegian Journal of Geology 2.2 43th Q3 SCIE Yes
94 Archives of Mining Sciences 2.2 42th Q3 SCIE No
95 Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics 2.2 42th Q3 SCIE No
96 Mining Safety and Environmental Protection 2 41th Q3 Yes
97 Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Abhandlungen 2 41th Q3 SCIE No
98 Gems and Gemology 2 40th Q3 SCIE No
99 Andean Geology 2 39th Q3 SCIE Yes
100 Petroleum Chemistry 1.9 39th Q3 SCIE No

Rank and percentile are within the Geochemistry and Petrology 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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