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 | 4.057 |
| 2 | Shiyou Kantan Yu Kaifa/Petroleum Exploration and Development | Science Press | 10000747 | 2.565 |
| 3 | China Petroleum Exploration | Petroleum Industry Press | 16727703 | 2.523 |
| 4 | Geology | Geological Society of America | 00917613, 19432682 | 2.397 |
| 5 | Engineering Geology | Elsevier | 137952 | 2.342 |
| 6 | Gondwana Research | Elsevier Inc. | 1342937X | 2.283 |
| 7 | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | Geological Society of America | 00167606, 19432674 | 2.17 |
| 8 | Geochemical Perspectives Letters | European Association of Geochemistry | 2410339X, 24103403 | 2.152 |
| 9 | Economic Geology | Society of Economic Geologists, Inc | 3610128 | 2.146 |
| 10 | Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology | Elsevier Ltd. | 8867798 | 2.125 |
| 11 | Geochronology | Copernicus GmbH | 26283735 | 2.107 |
| 12 | Acta Geotechnica | Springer Verlag | 18611125, 18611133 | 2.067 |
| 13 | Geotechnique | ICE Publishing | 17517656, 00168505 | 2.042 |
| 14 | Mineralium Deposita | Springer Verlag | 00264598, 14321866 | 2.039 |
| 15 | International Journal of Mining Science and Technology | Elsevier | 20952686 | 1.991 |
| 16 | Journal of Metamorphic Geology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 15251314, 02634929 | 1.983 |
| 17 | International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Minings Sciences | Elsevier BV | 13651609 | 1.965 |
| 18 | Landslides | Springer Verlag | 16125118, 1612510X | 1.928 |
| 19 | Geotextiles and Geomembranes | Elsevier BV | 2661144 | 1.864 |
| 20 | Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering - ASCE | American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 19435606, 10900241 | 1.861 |
| 21 | Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering | Springer-Verlag Wien | 7232632 | 1.849 |
| 22 | Computers and Geotechnics | Elsevier BV | 0266352X, 18737633 | 1.787 |
| 23 | Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 16747755 | 1.762 |
| 24 | Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 10969845, 00988847 | 1.714 |
| 25 | Quaternary Science Reviews | Elsevier Ltd. | 2773791 | 1.701 |
| 26 | Precambrian Research | Elsevier | 3019268 | 1.698 |
| 27 | Lithos | Elsevier | 244937 | 1.653 |
| 28 | International Journal of Coal Geology | Elsevier | 1665162 | 1.644 |
| 29 | AAPG Bulletin | American Association of Petroleum Geologists | 1491423 | 1.623 |
| 30 | Canadian Geotechnical Journal | National Research Council of Canada | 12086010, 00083674 | 1.607 |
| 31 | Advances in Geo-Energy Research | 22079963, 2208598X | 1.599 | |
| 32 | Earthquake Spectra | Earthquake Engineering Research Institute | 87552930 | 1.55 |
| 33 | Oil and Gas Geology | shi you yu tian ran qi di zhi bian ji bu | 2539985 | 1.529 |
| 34 | Earth Systems and Environment | Springer International Publishing AG | 25099426, 25099434 | 1.516 |
| 35 | Marine and Petroleum Geology | Elsevier BV | 02648172, 18734073 | 1.513 |
| 36 | Tianranqi Gongye/Natural Gas Industry | Natural Gas Industry Journal Agency | 10000976 | 1.465 |
| 37 | Chemical Geology | Elsevier | 92541 | 1.46 |
| 38 | Petroleum Exploration and Development | Elsevier | 18763804 | 1.435 |
| 39 | International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 03639061, 10969853 | 1.429 |
| 40 | Sedimentology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 00370746, 13653091 | 1.421 |
| 41 | Geosphere | Geological Society of America | 1553040X | 1.414 |
| 42 | Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment | Elsevier BV | 23523808 | 1.362 |
| 43 | Solid Earth | Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH | 18699510, 18699529 | 1.35 |
| 44 | Basin Research | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 0950091X, 13652117 | 1.329 |
| 45 | Geosynthetics International | ICE Publishing | 10726349, 17517613 | 1.319 |
| 46 | Terra Nova | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 13653121, 09544879 | 1.309 |
| 47 | IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 1545598X | 1.284 |
| 48 | Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering | Elsevier BV | 2677261 | 1.251 |
| 49 | Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering | Springer Netherlands | 1570761X | 1.233 |
| 50 | Transportation Geotechnics | Elsevier BV | 22143912 | 1.229 |
| 51 | Soils and Foundations | Japanese Geotechnical Society | 380806 | 1.227 |
| 52 | Journal of Structural Geology | Elsevier Ltd. | 1918141 | 1.225 |
| 53 | Geoenvironmental Disasters | SpringerOpen | 21978670 | 1.221 |
| 54 | Georisk | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17499518, 17499526 | 1.207 |
| 55 | Progress in Oceanography | Elsevier Ltd. | 796611 | 1.198 |
| 56 | Underground Space (China) | Tongji University Press | 20962754, 24679674 | 1.189 |
| 57 | Quaternary Geochronology | Elsevier | 18711014 | 1.182 |
| 58 | Indonesian Journal of Science and Technology | Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | 25278045, 25281410 | 1.176 |
| 59 | International Journal of Coal Science and Technology | Springer International Publishing AG | 21987823, 20958293 | 1.175 |
| 60 | Ore Geology Reviews | Elsevier BV | 1691368 | 1.172 |
| 61 | International Journal of Geomechanics | American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 15323641, 19435622 | 1.163 |
| 62 | SPE Journal | Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) | 1086055X | 1.144 |
| 63 | Cold Regions Science and Technology | Elsevier | 18727441, 0165232X | 1.135 |
| 64 | International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction | Elsevier Ltd. | 22124209 | 1.132 |
| 65 | Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research | Wiley-Blackwell | 16394488 | 1.127 |
| 66 | Journal of the Geological Society | Geological Society of London | 2041479X, 00167649 | 1.122 |
| 67 | Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering | Elsevier | 18755100 | 1.116 |
| 68 | Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering | Elsevier | 9204105 | 1.111 |
| 69 | Ocean Modelling | Elsevier BV | 14635003, 14635011 | 1.104 |
| 70 | GSA Today | Geological Society of America | 10525173 | 1.071 |
| 71 | International Geology Review | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 00206814, 19382839 | 1.067 |
| 72 | Structure and Infrastructure Engineering | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17448980, 15732479 | 1.053 |
| 73 | Elementa | University of California Press | 23251026 | 1.037 |
| 74 | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | Elsevier Ltd. | 18785786, 13679120 | 1.034 |
| 75 | Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment | Springer Verlag | 14359537, 14359529 | 1.02 |
| 76 | Minerals Engineering | Elsevier Ltd. | 8926875 | 1.018 |
| 77 | Boreas | Wiley-Blackwell | 03009483, 15023885 | 1.013 |
| 78 | Marine Geology | Elsevier | 253227 | 1.006 |
| 79 | Petroleum Science | China University of Petroleum Beijing | 16725107, 19958226 | 1.005 |
| 80 | Applied Clay Science | Elsevier BV | 1691317 | 0.985 |
| 81 | Quaternary Science Advances | Elsevier Ltd. | 26660334 | 0.975 |
| 82 | Geothermal Energy | Springer Science + Business Media | 21959706 | 0.971 |
| 83 | Sedimentary Geology | Elsevier | 370738 | 0.957 |
| 84 | Geotechnique Letters | ICE Publishing | 20452543 | 0.952 |
| 85 | Extractive Industries and Society | Elsevier BV | 2214790X | 0.921 |
| 86 | Geological Magazine | Cambridge University Press | 14695081, 00167568 | 0.916 |
| 87 | Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 08827508, 15477401 | 0.915 |
| 88 | Journal of Geochemical Exploration | Elsevier | 3756742 | 0.914 |
| 89 | Geothermics | Elsevier Ltd. | 3756505 | 0.912 |
| 90 | Newsletters on Stratigraphy | Schweizerbart Science Publishers | 780421 | 0.909 |
| 91 | Journal of Mining and Strata Control Engineering | Editorial Office of Journal of Mining and Strata Control Engineering | 20967187 | 0.907 |
| 92 | Meitan Xuebao/Journal of the China Coal Society | China Coal Society | 2539993 | 0.896 |
| 93 | Environmental Research Communications | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 25157620 | 0.894 |
| 94 | Swiss Journal of Geosciences | Birkhauser Verlag Basel | 16618734, 16618726 | 0.894 |
| 95 | Bulletin - Societe Geologique de France | Societe Geologique de France | 379409 | 0.879 |
| 96 | Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China | Nonferrous Metals Society of China | 10036326, 22103384 | 0.875 |
| 97 | Earth, Planets and Space | Springer International Publishing AG | 18805981, 13438832 | 0.87 |
| 98 | Petroleum Geoscience | Geological Society of London | 13540793 | 0.868 |
| 99 | Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources | Springer International Publishing AG | 23638427, 23638419 | 0.867 |
| 100 | U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods | U.S. Geological Survey | 23287047, 23287055 | 0.865 |
| 101 | SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering | Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) | 19300212, 10946470 | 0.851 |
| 102 | Anthropocene Review | SAGE Publications Inc. | 20530196, 2053020X | 0.85 |
| 103 | Civil Engineering Journal (Iran) | Salehan Institute of Higher Education | 26766957, 24763055 | 0.846 |
| 104 | Geological Society Special Publication | Geological Society of London | 3058719 | 0.844 |
| 105 | Petroleum Geology and Experiment | Editorial office of Petroleum Geology and Experiment | 23637625, 10016112 | 0.844 |
| 106 | Geology, Ecology, and Landscapes | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 24749508 | 0.836 |
| 107 | Journal of Geology | University of Chicago | 00221376, 15375269 | 0.829 |
| 108 | Volcanica | Volcanica | 26103540 | 0.829 |
| 109 | Depositional Record | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 20554877 | 0.817 |
| 110 | Journal of Sedimentary Research | SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology | 19383681, 15271404 | 0.805 |
| 111 | New Zealand Journal of Geology, and Geophysics | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 00288306, 11758791 | 0.802 |
| 112 | Journal of Earthquake Engineering | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 13632469, 1559808X | 0.799 |
| 113 | International Journal of Sediment Research | Elsevier BV | 10016279 | 0.794 |
| 114 | Geologie en Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences | Cambridge University Press | 167746 | 0.793 |
| 115 | Journal of Mining Institute | Saint-Petersburg Mining University | 25419404, 24113336 | 0.782 |
| 116 | Aeolian Research | Elsevier Ltd. | 18759637 | 0.777 |
| 117 | International Journal of Physical Modelling in Geotechnics | ICE Publishing | 20426550, 1346213X | 0.777 |
| 118 | Energy Geoscience | KeAi Communications Co. | 26667592 | 0.773 |
| 119 | Island Arc | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 10384871, 14401738 | 0.751 |
| 120 | Zhongguo Kuangye Daxue Xuebao/Journal of China University of Mining and Technology | China University of Mining and Technology | 10001964 | 0.747 |
| 121 | Journal of South American Earth Sciences | Elsevier BV | 8959811 | 0.734 |
| 122 | Geotechnical Testing Journal | American Society for Testing and Materials | 1496115 | 0.732 |
| 123 | China Geology | KeAi Communications Co. | 20965192 | 0.728 |
| 124 | Continental Shelf Research | Elsevier Ltd. | 2784343 | 0.708 |
| 125 | International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks | KeAi Communications Co. | 25774441, 2577445X | 0.708 |
| 126 | Petroleum | KeAi Communications Co. | 24055816, 24056561 | 0.708 |
| 127 | Geological Journal | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 00721050, 10991034 | 0.705 |
| 128 | Marine Georesources and Geotechnology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 1064119X, 15210618 | 0.704 |
| 129 | Rivista, Italiana di Paleontologiia e Stratigrafia | Universita degli Studi di Milano | 356883 | 0.697 |
| 130 | Journal of Petroleum Geology | Wiley-Blackwell | 17475457, 01416421 | 0.694 |
| 131 | Lithosphere | Geological Society of America | 19418264, 19474253 | 0.694 |
| 132 | Natural Gas Geoscience | Science Press | 16721926 | 0.688 |
| 133 | Yanshilixue Yu Gongcheng Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering | Academia Sinica | 10006915 | 0.684 |
| 134 | Facies | Springer Verlag | 01729179, 16124820 | 0.678 |
| 135 | Petroleum Research | KeAi Communications Co. | 20962495, 25241729 | 0.67 |
| 136 | Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society | Geological Society of London | 20414811, 00440604 | 0.67 |
| 137 | Interpretation | Society of Exploration Geophysicists | 23248858, 23248866 | 0.662 |
| 138 | South African Journal of Geology | Geological Society of South Africa | 10120750 | 0.659 |
| 139 | Geomechanics and Engineering | Techno Press | 20926219, 2005307X | 0.656 |
| 140 | Geodiversitas | Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle | 12809659, 16389395 | 0.651 |
| 141 | Eurasian Mining | Ore & Metals Publishing House | 20720823 | 0.65 |
| 142 | Latin American Journal of Sedimentology and Basin Analysis | Asociacion Argentina de Sedimentologia | 18514979, 16697316 | 0.639 |
| 143 | International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering | Maney Publishing | 19386362, 19397879 | 0.63 |
| 144 | GEUS Bulletin | GEUS - Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland | 25972162, 25972154 | 0.627 |
| 145 | Journal of Hydroinformatics | IWA Publishing | 14647141, 14651734 | 0.621 |
| 146 | Acta Sedimentologica Sinica | Science Press (China) | 10000550 | 0.611 |
| 147 | Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering | New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering | 11749857 | 0.61 |
| 148 | Geochemical Perspectives | European Association of Geochemistry | 22237755, 22242759 | 0.61 |
| 149 | Ofioliti | Pitagora Editrice | 3912612 | 0.61 |
| 150 | Yantu Lixue/Rock and Soil Mechanics | Academia Sinica | 10007598 | 0.606 |
| 151 | Applied Computing and Geosciences | Elsevier BV | 25901974 | 0.601 |
| 152 | Environmental Earth Sciences | Springer Verlag | 18666299, 18666280 | 0.599 |
| 153 | Solid Earth Sciences | Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry | 2451912X | 0.599 |
| 154 | Journal of African Earth Sciences | Elsevier Ltd. | 1464343X | 0.592 |
| 155 | Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration | Science Press | 16713664, 1993503X | 0.581 |
| 156 | International Journal of Speleology | Societa Speleologica Italiana | 1827806X, 03926672 | 0.579 |
| 157 | Journal of Mountain Science | Science Press | 19930321, 16726316 | 0.579 |
| 158 | Annales Geophysicae | European Geosciences Union | 14320576, 09927689 | 0.572 |
| 159 | Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans | Elsevier BV | 3770265 | 0.572 |
| 160 | Leading Edge | Society of Exploration Geophysicists | 1070485X | 0.572 |
| 161 | Mine Water and the Environment | Springer Verlag | 16161068, 10259112 | 0.565 |
| 162 | Meitan Kexue Jishu/Coal Science and Technology (Peking) | China Coal Society | 2532336 | 0.55 |
| 163 | Journal of Cold Regions Engineering - ASCE | American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 0887381X, 19435495 | 0.546 |
| 164 | Geo-Marine Letters | Springer Verlag | 02760460, 14321157 | 0.544 |
| 165 | Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste | American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 21535493, 21535515 | 0.54 |
| 166 | Carnets de Geologie | Association Carnets de Geologie | 16340744 | 0.538 |
| 167 | Ingegneria Sismica | Patron Editore S.r.l. | 3931420 | 0.537 |
| 168 | Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology | Springer Verlag | 21900558, 21900566 | 0.537 |
| 169 | Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments | Springer Verlag | 18671608, 18671594 | 0.534 |
| 170 | Geomechanics and Geoengineering | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17486025 | 0.532 |
| 171 | Tree-Ring Research | Tree Ring Society | 15361098 | 0.532 |
| 172 | Minerals | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 2075163X | 0.53 |
| 173 | Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Geotechnical Engineering | ICE Publishing | 13532618, 17518563 | 0.53 |
| 174 | Infrastructures | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 24123811 | 0.527 |
| 175 | International Journal of Geo-Engineering | Springer Singapore | 20929196, 21982783 | 0.526 |
| 176 | Mining Science and Technology(Russian Federation) | National University of Science and Technology MISIS | 25000632 | 0.52 |
| 177 | Natural Gas Industry B | Elsevier BV | 23528559, 23528540 | 0.516 |
| 178 | Italian Journal of Geosciences | Societa Geologica Italiana | 20381719, 20381727 | 0.515 |
| 179 | Geotechnical and Geological Engineering | Springer Netherlands | 09603182, 15731529 | 0.512 |
| 180 | Jinshu Xuebao/Acta Metallurgica Sinica | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 4121961 | 0.51 |
| 181 | Annals of Carnegie Museum | Carnegie Museum of Natural History | 974463 | 0.509 |
| 182 | GFF | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 11035897 | 0.507 |
| 183 | Georesursy | Georesursy LLC | 16085043, 16085078 | 0.503 |
| 184 | Journal of Sustainable Mining | Central Mining Institute | 23003960, 25434950 | 0.502 |
| 185 | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X | Elsevier Ltd. | 25900560 | 0.494 |
| 186 | Innovative Infrastructure Solutions | Springer International Publishing AG | 23644176, 23644184 | 0.491 |
| 187 | Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics | Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society (EEGS) | 10831363 | 0.49 |
| 188 | Mineral Economics | Springer Verlag | 21912203, 21912211 | 0.488 |
| 189 | Norwegian Journal of Geology | Geological Society of Norway | 23875852 | 0.488 |
| 190 | Zhongguo Shiyou Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)/Journal of China University of Petroleum (Edition of Natural Science) | 16735005 | 0.487 | |
| 191 | Geologica Carpathica | The Earth Science Institute of SAS | 13368052, 13350552 | 0.484 |
| 192 | Journal of Iberian Geology | Springer International Publishing AG | 16986180, 18867995 | 0.484 |
| 193 | International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17480949, 17480930 | 0.479 |
| 194 | Acta Geologica Polonica | Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee of Geological Sciences | 15709 | 0.477 |
| 195 | Geophysical Prospecting for Petroleum | Science Press | 10001441 | 0.477 |
| 196 | Mining of Mineral Deposits | Dnipro University of Technology | 24153443, 24153435 | 0.473 |
| 197 | Yantu Gongcheng Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering | Chinese Society of Civil Engineering | 10004548 | 0.472 |
| 198 | Journal of Geophysics and Engineering | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 17422140, 17422132 | 0.47 |
| 199 | Geotechnical Research | ICE Publishing | 20526156 | 0.468 |
| 200 | Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences | Tohoku University | 13456296 | 0.468 |