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Best Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology journals

235 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 61 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 Indonesian Journal of Science and Technology 18.6 99th Q1 No
3 Biogeotechnics 18.1 98th Q1 ESCI Yes
4 Petroleum Exploration and Development 16.2 98th Q1 SCIE Yes
5 Underground Space (new) 15.8 98th Q1 SCIE Yes
6 International Journal of Coal Science and Technology 15.3 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
7 Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering 14.3 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
8 Engineering Geology 14 96th Q1 SCIE No
9 Geotechnique 14 96th Q1 SCIE No
10 Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology 13.4 96th Q1 SCIE No
11 Gas Science and Engineering 13.2 95th Q1 SCIE No
12 International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences 13 95th Q1 SCIE No
13 Landslides 12.5 94th Q1 SCIE No
14 Geoenergy Science and Engineering 12.1 94th Q1 SCIE No
15 Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review 12 94th Q1 SCIE No
16 Acta Geotechnica 11.8 93th Q1 SCIE No
17 Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering 11.6 93th Q1 SCIE No
18 Petroleum Science 11.3 92th Q1 SCIE Yes
19 Georisk 11.1 92th Q1 SCIE No
20 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 11.1 92th Q1 SCIE No
21 Natural Gas Industry B 11 91th Q1 ESCI Yes
22 Computers and Geotechnics 10.9 91th Q1 SCIE No
23 Rock Mechanics Bulletin 10.9 90th Q1 ESCI Yes
24 Advances in Geo-Energy Research 10.6 90th Q1 ESCI No
25 Shiyou Kantan Yu Kaifa/Petroleum Exploration and Development 10.1 89th Q1 Yes
26 Geotextiles and Geomembranes 9.8 89th Q1 SCIE No
27 Petroleum 9.6 89th Q1 ESCI Yes
28 Minerals Engineering 9.6 88th Q1 SCIE No
29 International Journal of Geo-Engineering 9.5 88th Q1 ESCI Yes
30 Transportation Geotechnics 9.3 87th Q1 SCIE No
31 Elementa 9.2 87th Q1 SCIE Yes
32 International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 9.1 87th Q1 SCIE A No
33 Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources 9 86th Q1 SCIE Yes
34 Journal of Mining Institute 9 86th Q1 ESCI Yes
35 Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering 8.8 85th Q1 SCIE No
36 Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 8.8 85th Q1 SCIE No
37 Structure and Infrastructure Engineering 8.7 85th Q1 SCIE No
38 Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China (English Edition) 8.5 84th Q1 SCIE No
39 Natural Gas Industry 8.2 84th Q1 Yes
40 Geothermics 8.2 83th Q1 SCIE No
41 Cold Regions Science and Technology 8 83th Q1 SCIE No
42 Meitan Xuebao/Journal of the China Coal Society 7.9 82th Q1 Yes
43 Earthquake Spectra 7.7 82th Q1 SCIE No
44 Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering - ASCE 7.7 82th Q1 SCIE No
45 Journal of Earthquake Engineering 7.5 81th Q1 SCIE No
46 Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology 7.4 81th Q1 SCIE Yes
47 Civil Engineering Journal (Iran) 7.3 80th Q1 ESCI No
48 Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment 7.2 80th Q1 SCIE No
49 Geoenvironmental Disasters 7.2 80th Q1 ESCI Yes
50 China Geology 7.1 79th Q1 ESCI Yes
51 China Petroleum Exploration 7.1 79th Q1 No
52 Geohazard Mechanics 6.9 78th Q1 Yes
53 Geosynthetics International 6.9 78th Q1 SCIE No
54 Mining of Mineral Deposits 6.9 78th Q1 ESCI No
55 Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment 6.6 77th Q1 SCIE No
56 Geothermal Energy 6.5 77th Q1 SCIE Yes
57 Soils and Foundations 6.5 76th Q1 SCIE Yes
58 Environmental Geotechnics 6.4 76th Q1 SCIE No
59 International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment 6.1 76th Q1 SCIE No
60 International Journal of Geomechanics 6.1 75th Q1 SCIE No
61 International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics 5.9 75th Q1 SCIE No
62 Infrastructures 5.7 74th Q2 ESCI Yes
63 Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Geotechnical Engineering 5.7 74th Q2 SCIE No
64 Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration 5.6 73th Q2 SCIE No
65 Journal of Infrastructure Preservation and Resilience 5.6 73th Q2 ESCI Yes
66 International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization 5.5 73th Q2 SCIE No
67 Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering 5.4 72th Q2 No
68 Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste 5.4 72th Q2 ESCI No
69 Meitiandizhi Yu Kantan/Coal Geology and Exploration 5.3 71th Q2 Yes
70 SPE Journal 5.3 71th Q2 SCIE No
71 Zhongguo Kuangye Daxue Xuebao/Journal of China University of Mining and Technology 5.3 71th Q2 No
72 Lithologic Reservoirs 5.2 70th Q2 No
73 Ocean Modelling 5.2 70th Q2 SCIE No
74 Journal of Hydroinformatics 5 69th Q2 SCIE Yes
75 Earthquake Science 4.9 69th Q2 ESCI Yes
76 Minerals 4.9 69th Q2 SCIE Yes
77 Geotechnical Research 4.8 68th Q2 ESCI Yes
78 Marine Georesources and Geotechnology 4.8 68th Q2 SCIE No
79 Mine Water and the Environment 4.8 67th Q2 SCIE No
80 Innovative Infrastructure Solutions 4.7 67th Q2 ESCI No
81 World Journal of Engineering 4.7 67th Q2 ESCI No
82 Geomechanics and Geoengineering 4.7 66th Q2 ESCI No
83 Iranian Journal of Science and Technology - Transactions of Civil Engineering 4.6 66th Q2 No
84 Jinshu Xuebao/Acta Metallurgica Sinica 4.5 65th Q2 SCIE No
85 Meitan Kexue Jishu/Coal Science and Technology (Peking) 4.5 65th Q2 Yes
86 Mining Science and Technology (Russian Federation) 4.4 64th Q2 Yes
87 Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Ground Improvement 4.4 64th Q2 ESCI No
88 Geotechnical and Geological Engineering 4.3 63th Q2 ESCI No
89 Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami 4.3 63th Q2 SCIE No
90 Journal of Mining and Strata Control Engineering 4.2 63th Q2 No
91 Yantu Lixue/Rock and Soil Mechanics 4.2 62th Q2 ESCI Yes
92 Geomechanics and Engineering 4.1 62th Q2 SCIE No
93 International Journal of Civil Engineering 4 62th Q2 SCIE No
94 Solid Earth Sciences 3.9 61th Q2 ESCI Yes
95 China Offshore Oil and Gas 3.8 61th Q2 No
96 Geotechnics 3.8 60th Q2 ESCI Yes
97 Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series D 3.8 60th Q2 No
98 Applied Earth Science: Transactions of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 3.7 59th Q2 ESCI No
99 Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration 3.7 59th Q2 SCIE No
100 Periodica Polytechnica Civil Engineering 3.7 59th Q2 SCIE No

Rank and percentile are within the Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering 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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