This web page aims to provide a latest list of top Geology journals. The journals are Web of Science (SCI) indexed with high impact factor. Moreover, the listed journals are UGC CARE approved, Scopus indexed. The journals are sorted based on Scopus SJR score.
| S. No. | Journal Title | Publisher | ISSN | SJR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Remote Sensing of Environment | Elsevier Inc. | 344257 | 3.972 |
| 2 | Biogeotechnics | KeAi Communications Co. | 29499291 | 3.744 |
| 3 | International Journal of Mining Science and Technology | China University of Mining and Technology | 20952686 | 3.137 |
| 4 | Engineering Geology | Elsevier B.V. | 137952 | 2.916 |
| 5 | Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 25890417, 16747755 | 2.719 |
| 6 | International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences | Elsevier B.V. | 13651609 | 2.481 |
| 7 | Economic Geology | Society of Economic Geologists, Inc | 15540774, 03610128 | 2.326 |
| 8 | Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology | Elsevier Ltd | 8867798 | 2.269 |
| 9 | Acta Geotechnica | Springer Verlag | 18611125, 18611133 | 2.195 |
| 10 | Geology | Geological Society of America | 00917613, 19432682 | 2.131 |
| 11 | Geotechnique | ICE Publishing | 17517656, 00168505 | 2.069 |
| 12 | Mineralium Deposita | Springer | 00264598, 14321866 | 2.051 |
| 13 | Geotextiles and Geomembranes | Elsevier B.V. | 2661144 | 2.038 |
| 14 | Seismic Record | Seismological Society of America | 26944006 | 2.003 |
| 15 | Landslides | Springer Verlag | 16125118, 1612510X | 1.999 |
| 16 | Journal of Metamorphic Geology | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 15251314, 02634929 | 1.983 |
| 17 | Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering | Springer-Verlag Wien | 7232632 | 1.956 |
| 18 | Underground Space (new) | KeAi Communications Co. | 20962754, 24679674 | 1.943 |
| 19 | Computers and Geotechnics | Elsevier B.V. | 0266352X, 18737633 | 1.878 |
| 20 | Rock Mechanics Bulletin | KeAi Communications Co. | 27732304 | 1.807 |
| 21 | Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 10969845, 00988847 | 1.73 |
| 22 | Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering - ASCE | American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 19435606, 10900241 | 1.721 |
| 23 | International Journal of Coal Geology | Elsevier B.V. | 1665162 | 1.696 |
| 24 | Geochemical Perspectives Letters | European Association of Geochemistry | 2410339X, 24103403 | 1.691 |
| 25 | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | Geological Society of America | 00167606, 19432674 | 1.689 |
| 26 | Petroleum Exploration and Development | KeAi Communications Co. | 20964803, 18763804 | 1.661 |
| 27 | Advances in Geo-Energy Research | Yandy Scientific Press | 22079963, 2208598X | 1.65 |
| 28 | Gondwana Research | Elsevier Inc. | 1342937X | 1.612 |
| 29 | Transportation Geotechnics | Elsevier Ltd | 22143912 | 1.535 |
| 30 | Georisk | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17499518, 17499526 | 1.527 |
| 31 | China Petroleum Exploration | Petroleum Industry Press | 16727703 | 1.502 |
| 32 | International Journal of Coal Science and Technology | Springer International Publishing AG | 21987823, 20958293 | 1.461 |
| 33 | Precambrian Research | Elsevier B.V. | 3019268 | 1.427 |
| 34 | Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 08827508, 15477401 | 1.416 |
| 35 | Canadian Geotechnical Journal | Canadian Science Publishing | 12086010, 00083674 | 1.402 |
| 36 | Natural Gas Industry | Natural Gas Industry Journal Agency | 10000976 | 1.397 |
| 37 | Chemical Geology | Elsevier B.V. | 92541 | 1.394 |
| 38 | Earth Systems and Environment | Springer International Publishing AG | 25099426, 25099434 | 1.391 |
| 39 | Oil and Gas Geology | Science Press | 2539985 | 1.372 |
| 40 | Progress in Oceanography | Elsevier Ltd | 796611 | 1.357 |
| 41 | Elementa | University of California Press | 23251026 | 1.353 |
| 42 | Journal of Mining Institute | Saint-Petersburg Mining University | 25419404, 24113336 | 1.351 |
| 43 | Sedimentology | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 00370746, 13653091 | 1.351 |
| 44 | Quaternary Science Reviews | Elsevier Ltd | 2773791 | 1.334 |
| 45 | Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering | Elsevier B.V. | 2677261 | 1.324 |
| 46 | Shiyou Kantan Yu Kaifa/Petroleum Exploration and Development | Science Press | 10000747 | 1.311 |
| 47 | Anthropocene Review | SAGE Publications Inc. | 20530196, 2053020X | 1.29 |
| 48 | Ore Geology Reviews | Elsevier B.V. | 1691368 | 1.261 |
| 49 | IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 1545598X | 1.258 |
| 50 | Earthquake Spectra | Earthquake Engineering Research Institute | 87552930 | 1.25 |
| 51 | Gas Science and Engineering | Elsevier B.V. | 29499097, 29499089 | 1.246 |
| 52 | Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering | Springer Netherlands | 1570761X | 1.242 |
| 53 | Lithos | Elsevier B.V. | 00244937, 18726143 | 1.238 |
| 54 | Meitan Xuebao/Journal of the China Coal Society | China Coal Society | 2539993 | 1.226 |
| 55 | Petroleum Science | KeAi Communications Co. | 16725107, 19958226 | 1.219 |
| 56 | Geosphere | Geological Society of America | 1553040X | 1.216 |
| 57 | Soils and Foundations | Elsevier B.V. | 380806 | 1.207 |
| 58 | Natural Gas Industry B | KeAi Communications Co. | 23528559, 23528540 | 1.204 |
| 59 | International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction | Elsevier Ltd | 22124209 | 1.194 |
| 60 | Geothermics | Elsevier Ltd | 3756505 | 1.177 |
| 61 | International Journal of Geo-Engineering | Springer Singapore | 20929196, 21982783 | 1.172 |
| 62 | Geoenergy Science and Engineering | Elsevier B.V. | 29498910 | 1.167 |
| 63 | Basin Research | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 0950091X, 13652117 | 1.165 |
| 64 | Geochronology | Copernicus Publications | 26283697, 26283719 | 1.165 |
| 65 | Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment | Springer Verlag | 14359537, 14359529 | 1.161 |
| 66 | Extractive Industries and Society | Elsevier Ltd | 22147918, 2214790X | 1.138 |
| 67 | Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China (English Edition) | Nonferrous Metals Society of China | 10036326, 22103384 | 1.119 |
| 68 | China Geology | KeAi Communications Co. | 20965192, 25899430 | 1.111 |
| 69 | International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 03639061, 10969853 | 1.107 |
| 70 | Minerals Engineering | Elsevier Ltd | 8926875 | 1.101 |
| 71 | Journal of the Geological Society | Geological Society of London | 2041479X, 00167649 | 1.096 |
| 72 | Solid Earth | Copernicus Publications | 18699510, 18699529 | 1.08 |
| 73 | Applied Clay Science | Elsevier B.V. | 1691317 | 1.077 |
| 74 | Marine and Petroleum Geology | Elsevier B.V. | 02648172, 18734073 | 1.073 |
| 75 | International Journal of Geomechanics | American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 15323641, 19435622 | 1.059 |
| 76 | Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment | Elsevier Ltd | 23523808 | 1.056 |
| 77 | Cold Regions Science and Technology | Elsevier B.V. | 18727441, 0165232X | 1.043 |
| 78 | Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources | Springer International Publishing AG | 23638427, 23638419 | 1.027 |
| 79 | Earthquake Science | KeAi Communications Co. | 18678777, 16744519 | 1.013 |
| 80 | Journal of Structural Geology | Elsevier Ltd | 1918141 | 0.987 |
| 81 | Mining of Mineral Deposits | Dnipro University of Technology | 24153443, 24153435 | 0.986 |
| 82 | Geosynthetics International | ICE Publishing | 10726349, 17517613 | 0.966 |
| 83 | Earthquake Research Advances | KeAi Communications Co. | 27724670 | 0.951 |
| 84 | AAPG Bulletin | American Association of Petroleum Geologists | 1491423 | 0.936 |
| 85 | Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration | Institute of Engineering Mechanics (IEM) | 16713664, 1993503X | 0.934 |
| 86 | BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin | Societe Geologique de France | 17775817, 00379409 | 0.933 |
| 87 | Newsletters on Stratigraphy | Schweizerbart Science Publishers | 780421 | 0.932 |
| 88 | Sedimentary Geology | Elsevier B.V. | 370738 | 0.932 |
| 89 | Geoenvironmental Disasters | SpringerOpen | 21978670 | 0.927 |
| 90 | Boreas | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 03009483, 15023885 | 0.922 |
| 91 | Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research | Wiley-Blackwell | 16394488 | 0.916 |
| 92 | Ocean Modelling | Elsevier B.V. | 14635003, 14635011 | 0.906 |
| 93 | Volcanica | Volcanica | 26103540 | 0.905 |
| 94 | Quaternary Geochronology | Elsevier B.V. | 18711014 | 0.894 |
| 95 | Geotechnique Letters | ICE Publishing | 20452543 | 0.891 |
| 96 | GSA Today | Geological Society of America | 10525173 | 0.889 |
| 97 | Structure and Infrastructure Engineering | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17448980, 15732479 | 0.88 |
| 98 | International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks | KeAi Communications Co. | 25774441, 2577445X | 0.879 |
| 99 | Journal of Earthquake Engineering | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 13632469, 1559808X | 0.876 |
| 100 | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | Elsevier Ltd | 18785786, 13679120 | 0.873 |
| 101 | Marine Geology | Elsevier B.V. | 253227 | 0.871 |
| 102 | Yanshilixue Yu Gongcheng Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering | Academia Sinica | 10006915 | 0.857 |
| 103 | International Journal of Sediment Research | KeAi Communications Co. | 10016279 | 0.851 |
| 104 | Indonesian Journal of Science and Technology | Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | 25278045, 25281410 | 0.846 |
| 105 | Aeolian Research | Elsevier B.V. | 18759637 | 0.845 |
| 106 | Journal of Geochemical Exploration | Elsevier B.V. | 3756742 | 0.82 |
| 107 | Petroleum Geology and Experiment | Science Press | 23637625, 10016112 | 0.82 |
| 108 | Applied Computing and Geosciences | 25901974 | 0.8 | |
| 109 | Environmental Research Communications | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 25157620 | 0.797 |
| 110 | New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics | Taylor and Francis Asia Pacific | 00288306, 11758791 | 0.797 |
| 111 | Civil Engineering Journal (Iran) | Salehan Institute of Higher Education | 26766957, 24763055 | 0.791 |
| 112 | Terra Nova | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 13653121, 09544879 | 0.787 |
| 113 | Petroleum Research | KeAi Publishing Communications Ltd. | 20962495, 25241729 | 0.771 |
| 114 | Geothermal Energy | Springer Science + Business Media | 21959706 | 0.77 |
| 115 | International Geology Review | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 00206814, 19382839 | 0.768 |
| 116 | Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary | AIQUA - Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Quaternario | 22797335, 22797327 | 0.763 |
| 117 | Zhongguo Kuangye Daxue Xuebao/Journal of China University of Mining and Technology | China University of Mining and Technology | 10001964 | 0.742 |
| 118 | Yantu Lixue/Rock and Soil Mechanics | Academia Sinica | 10007598 | 0.739 |
| 119 | Natural Gas Geoscience | Science Press | 16721926 | 0.731 |
| 120 | Swiss Journal of Geosciences | Birkhauser | 16618734, 16618726 | 0.722 |
| 121 | Journal of Infrastructure Preservation and Resilience | Springer Nature | 26622521 | 0.72 |
| 122 | SPE Journal | Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) | 1086055X | 0.717 |
| 123 | Geological Magazine | Cambridge University Press | 14695081, 00167568 | 0.716 |
| 124 | Depositional Record | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 20554877 | 0.714 |
| 125 | Energy Geoscience | KeAi Communications Co. | 26667592 | 0.713 |
| 126 | Continental Shelf Research | Elsevier Ltd | 02784343, 18736955 | 0.709 |
| 127 | Carnets de Geologie | Carnets de Geologie | 17652553, 16340744 | 0.708 |
| 128 | E and G Quaternary Science Journal | Copernicus Publications | 04247116, 21999090 | 0.706 |
| 129 | Lithologic Reservoirs | China National Petroleum Corporation and PetroChina Company Limited | 16738926 | 0.704 |
| 130 | Annales Geophysicae | Copernicus Publications | 14320576, 09927689 | 0.69 |
| 131 | Environmental Earth Sciences | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 18666299, 18666280 | 0.683 |
| 132 | Petroleum | KeAi Communications Co. | 24055816, 24056561 | 0.681 |
| 133 | Mineral Economics | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 21912203, 21912211 | 0.68 |
| 134 | Marine Georesources and Geotechnology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 1064119X, 15210618 | 0.678 |
| 135 | Journal of Sedimentary Research | SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology | 19383681, 15271404 | 0.677 |
| 136 | Meitiandizhi Yu Kantan/Coal Geology and Exploration | Science China Press | 10011986 | 0.665 |
| 137 | Geodiversitas | Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle | 12809659, 16389395 | 0.664 |
| 138 | Infrastructures | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 24123811 | 0.66 |
| 139 | Quaternary Science Advances | Elsevier Ltd | 26660334 | 0.654 |
| 140 | Antarctic Science | Cambridge University Press | 09541020, 13652079 | 0.653 |
| 141 | Dizhi Xuebao/Acta Geologica Sinica | Geological Society of China | 15717 | 0.651 |
| 142 | Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | 21900558, 21900566 | 0.649 |
| 143 | Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 18671608, 18671594 | 0.648 |
| 144 | Petroleum Geoscience | Geological Society of London | 13540793 | 0.647 |
| 145 | Solid Earth Sciences | 2451912X | 0.645 | |
| 146 | Facies | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 01729179, 16124820 | 0.643 |
| 147 | Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Applied Sciences | Springer | 16588185 | 0.64 |
| 148 | China Offshore Oil and Gas | Editorial Board of China Offshore Oil and Gas | 16731506 | 0.636 |
| 149 | Mining Science and Technology (Russian Federation) | National University of Science and Technology MISIS | 25000632 | 0.634 |
| 150 | Zhongguo Shiyou Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)/Journal of China University of Petroleum (Edition of Natural Science) | University of Petroleum, China | 16735005 | 0.634 |
| 151 | Journal of South American Earth Sciences | Elsevier B.V. | 8959811 | 0.63 |
| 152 | Acta Sedimentologica Sinica | Science China Press | 10000550 | 0.627 |
| 153 | Jinshu Xuebao/Acta Metallurgica Sinica | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 4121961 | 0.626 |
| 154 | Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia | Universita degli Studi di Milano | 20394942, 00356883 | 0.621 |
| 155 | Meitan Kexue Jishu/Coal Science and Technology (Peking) | China Coal Society | 2532336 | 0.62 |
| 156 | Journal of Mountain Science | Science Press | 19930321, 16726316 | 0.615 |
| 157 | Mine Water and the Environment | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 16161068, 10259112 | 0.604 |
| 158 | Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 17556724, 10009515 | 0.601 |
| 159 | Geochemical Perspectives | European Association of Geochemistry | 22237755, 22242759 | 0.591 |
| 160 | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X | Elsevier Ltd | 25900560 | 0.587 |
| 161 | Innovative Infrastructure Solutions | Springer International Publishing AG | 23644176, 23644184 | 0.584 |
| 162 | Journal of African Earth Sciences | Elsevier Ltd | 1464343X, 18791956 | 0.584 |
| 163 | Geotechnical and Geological Engineering | Springer Netherlands | 09603182, 15731529 | 0.579 |
| 164 | Journal of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science | SinoMaps Press | 20965990, 20961650 | 0.577 |
| 165 | Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans | Elsevier B.V. | 3770265 | 0.576 |
| 166 | Yantu Gongcheng Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering | Chinese Society of Civil Engineering | 10004548 | 0.576 |
| 167 | Mining | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 26736489 | 0.564 |
| 168 | Sedimentary Geology and Tethyan Geology | 10093850 | 0.564 | |
| 169 | Geotechnics | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 26737094 | 0.562 |
| 170 | Geomechanics and Engineering | Techno-Press | 20926219, 2005307X | 0.55 |
| 171 | Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences | Cambridge University Press | 167746 | 0.549 |
| 172 | Bulletin of Geological Science and Technology | Editorial Department of Bulletin of Geological Science and Technology | 20968523 | 0.545 |
| 173 | Minerals | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 2075163X | 0.545 |
| 174 | Geophysical Prospecting for Petroleum | Science Press | 10001441 | 0.544 |
| 175 | Journal of Hydroinformatics | IWA Publishing | 14647141, 14651734 | 0.543 |
| 176 | Geology in China | Science Press | 10003657 | 0.542 |
| 177 | Geological Society Special Publication | Geological Society of London | 3058719 | 0.541 |
| 178 | Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Geotechnical Engineering | ICE Publishing | 13532618, 17518563 | 0.54 |
| 179 | Journal of Geomechanics | Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences Institute of Geomechanics | 10066616 | 0.538 |
| 180 | Earth Science Frontiers | di xue qian yuan bian ji bu | 10052321 | 0.536 |
| 181 | Geomechanics and Geoengineering | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17486025 | 0.534 |
| 182 | Journal of Cold Regions Engineering - ASCE | American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 0887381X, 19435495 | 0.529 |
| 183 | Geologica Carpathica | The Earth Science Institute of SAS | 13368052, 13350552 | 0.526 |
| 184 | Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami | World Scientific | 17937116, 17934311 | 0.52 |
| 185 | Norwegian Journal of Geology | Geological Society of Norway | 23875852 | 0.52 |
| 186 | Earthquake Engineering and Resilience | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 27705706 | 0.518 |
| 187 | Geotechnical Testing Journal | American Society for Testing and Materials | 1496115 | 0.518 |
| 188 | International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering | Maney Publishing | 19386362, 19397879 | 0.516 |
| 189 | Ofioliti | Pitagora Editrice | 3912612 | 0.515 |
| 190 | Geological Journal | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 00721050, 10991034 | 0.503 |
| 191 | South African Journal of Geology | Geological Society of South Africa | 10120750 | 0.502 |
| 192 | Journal of Geology | University of Chicago Press | 00221376, 15375269 | 0.486 |
| 193 | Shiyou Diqiu Wuli Kantan/Oil Geophysical Prospecting | Editorial office of Oil Geophysical Prospecting | 10007210 | 0.484 |
| 194 | Journal of Groundwater Science and Engineering | Groundwater Science and Engineering Limited | 23057068 | 0.481 |
| 195 | Mineral Deposits | Editorial Department of Mineral Deposits | 2587106 | 0.477 |
| 196 | Island Arc | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 10384871, 14401738 | 0.475 |
| 197 | Atlantic Geoscience | Atlantic Geoscience Society | 25642987 | 0.474 |
| 198 | Petroleum Geology and Oilfield Development in Daqing | 10003754 | 0.47 | |
| 199 | Journal of Mining and Strata Control Engineering | Editorial Office of Journal of Mining and Strata Control Engineering | 20967187 | 0.464 |
| 200 | Resource Geology | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 17513928, 13441698 | 0.464 |