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 | 4.266 |
| 2 | Biogeotechnics | KeAi Communications Co. | 29499291 | 3.105 |
| 3 | International Journal of Mining Science and Technology | China University of Mining and Technology | 20952686 | 3.052 |
| 4 | Engineering Geology | Elsevier B.V. | 137952 | 2.913 |
| 5 | Petroleum Exploration and Development | KeAi Communications Co. | 20964803, 18763804 | 2.681 |
| 6 | Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 25890417, 16747755 | 2.542 |
| 7 | Economic Geology | Society of Economic Geologists, Inc | 15540774, 03610128 | 2.258 |
| 8 | Mineralium Deposita | Springer | 00264598, 14321866 | 2.206 |
| 9 | Geology | Geological Society of America | 00917613, 19432682 | 2.168 |
| 10 | Underground Space (new) | KeAi Communications Co. | 20962754, 24679674 | 2.095 |
| 11 | Geotechnique | ICE Publishing | 17517656, 00168505 | 2.054 |
| 12 | International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences | Elsevier B.V. | 13651609 | 2.048 |
| 13 | Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology | Elsevier Ltd | 8867798 | 2.041 |
| 14 | Journal of Metamorphic Geology | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 15251314, 02634929 | 2.035 |
| 15 | Shiyou Kantan Yu Kaifa/Petroleum Exploration and Development | 10000747 | 2.027 | |
| 16 | Acta Geotechnica | Springer Verlag | 18611125, 18611133 | 2.025 |
| 17 | Computers and Geotechnics | Elsevier B.V. | 0266352X, 18737633 | 1.957 |
| 18 | Seismic Record | Seismological Society of America | 26944006 | 1.931 |
| 19 | Oil and Gas Geology | Science Press | 2539985 | 1.926 |
| 20 | International Journal of Coal Geology | Elsevier B.V. | 1665162 | 1.815 |
| 21 | Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering | Springer | 07232632, 1434453X | 1.803 |
| 22 | International Journal of Coal Science and Technology | Springer International Publishing AG | 21987823, 20958293 | 1.791 |
| 23 | Landslides | Springer Verlag | 16125118, 1612510X | 1.778 |
| 24 | Geotextiles and Geomembranes | Elsevier B.V. | 2661144 | 1.759 |
| 25 | Extractive Industries and Society | Elsevier Ltd | 22147918, 2214790X | 1.676 |
| 26 | Geochemical Perspectives Letters | European Association of Geochemistry | 2410339X, 24103403 | 1.676 |
| 27 | Rock Mechanics Bulletin | KeAi Communications Co. | 27732304 | 1.665 |
| 28 | Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 10969845, 00988847 | 1.622 |
| 29 | Gondwana Research | Elsevier Inc. | 1342937X | 1.598 |
| 30 | Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering - ASCE | American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 19435606, 10900241 | 1.553 |
| 31 | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | Geological Society of America | 00167606, 19432674 | 1.539 |
| 32 | Advances in Geo-Energy Research | Yandy Scientific Press | 22079963, 2208598X | 1.529 |
| 33 | Natural Gas Industry | Science Press | 10000976 | 1.518 |
| 34 | Elementa | University of California Press | 23251026 | 1.489 |
| 35 | Transportation Geotechnics | Elsevier Ltd | 22143912 | 1.447 |
| 36 | Chemical Geology | Elsevier B.V. | 92541 | 1.405 |
| 37 | China Petroleum Exploration | Petroleum Industry Press | 16727703 | 1.383 |
| 38 | Quaternary Science Reviews | Elsevier Ltd | 2773791 | 1.36 |
| 39 | Ore Geology Reviews | Elsevier B.V. | 1691368 | 1.298 |
| 40 | IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15580571, 1545598X | 1.296 |
| 41 | Gas Science and Engineering | Elsevier B.V. | 29499097, 29499089 | 1.295 |
| 42 | Canadian Geotechnical Journal | Canadian Science Publishing | 12086010, 00083674 | 1.282 |
| 43 | Progress in Oceanography | Elsevier Ltd | 796611 | 1.281 |
| 44 | Indonesian Journal of Science and Technology | Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | 25278045, 25281410 | 1.28 |
| 45 | Natural Gas Industry B | KeAi Communications Co. | 23528559, 23528540 | 1.269 |
| 46 | Precambrian Research | Elsevier B.V. | 3019268 | 1.265 |
| 47 | Anthropocene Review | SAGE Publications Inc. | 20530196, 2053020X | 1.262 |
| 48 | Petroleum Science | KeAi Communications Co. | 16725107, 19958226 | 1.259 |
| 49 | Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering | Elsevier B.V. | 2677261 | 1.258 |
| 50 | Earthquake Spectra | Earthquake Engineering Research Institute | 87552930 | 1.254 |
| 51 | Meitan Xuebao/Journal of the China Coal Society | China Coal Society | 2539993 | 1.248 |
| 52 | International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction | Elsevier Ltd | 22124209 | 1.243 |
| 53 | Quaternary Geochronology | Elsevier B.V. | 18711014 | 1.241 |
| 54 | Georisk | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17499518, 17499526 | 1.236 |
| 55 | International Journal of Geo-Engineering | Springer Singapore | 20929196, 21982783 | 1.23 |
| 56 | Journal of Mining Institute | Saint-Petersburg Mining University | 25419404, 24113336 | 1.222 |
| 57 | Sedimentology | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 00370746, 13653091 | 1.158 |
| 58 | Soils and Foundations | Elsevier B.V. | 380806 | 1.152 |
| 59 | Geochronology | Copernicus Publications | 26283697, 26283719 | 1.136 |
| 60 | Geosphere | Geological Society of America | 1553040X | 1.122 |
| 61 | Basin Research | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 0950091X, 13652117 | 1.121 |
| 62 | Geohazard Mechanics | KeAi Communications Co. | 29497418 | 1.105 |
| 63 | Geothermics | Elsevier Ltd | 3756505 | 1.102 |
| 64 | Lithos | Elsevier B.V. | 00244937, 18726143 | 1.099 |
| 65 | Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment | Springer Verlag | 14359537, 14359529 | 1.084 |
| 66 | Journal of the Geological Society | Geological Society of London | 2041479X, 00167649 | 1.084 |
| 67 | Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources | Springer International Publishing AG | 23638427, 23638419 | 1.078 |
| 68 | Cold Regions Science and Technology | Elsevier B.V. | 18727441, 0165232X | 1.077 |
| 69 | Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment | Elsevier Ltd | 23523808 | 1.075 |
| 70 | Journal of Geochemical Exploration | Elsevier B.V. | 3756742 | 1.072 |
| 71 | Mineral Economics | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 21912203, 21912211 | 1.068 |
| 72 | Marine and Petroleum Geology | Elsevier Ltd | 02648172, 18734073 | 1.067 |
| 73 | Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 08827508, 15477401 | 1.063 |
| 74 | Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China (English Edition) | Nonferrous Metals Society of China | 10036326, 22103384 | 1.059 |
| 75 | Journal of Structural Geology | Elsevier Ltd | 1918141 | 1.054 |
| 76 | Geoenergy Science and Engineering | Elsevier B.V. | 29498910 | 1.051 |
| 77 | Lithologic Reservoirs | Science Press | 16738926 | 1.041 |
| 78 | Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 1751908X, 16394488 | 1.038 |
| 79 | Geosynthetics International | ICE Publishing | 10726349, 17517613 | 1.032 |
| 80 | Aeolian Research | Elsevier B.V. | 18759637 | 1.031 |
| 81 | Volcanica | Volcanica | 26103540 | 1.031 |
| 82 | Minerals Engineering | Elsevier Ltd | 8926875 | 1.019 |
| 83 | Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | 1570761X, 15731456 | 1.01 |
| 84 | Geothermal Energy | Springer Science + Business Media | 21959706 | 1.008 |
| 85 | International Journal of Geomechanics | American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 15323641, 19435622 | 1.001 |
| 86 | International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 03639061, 10969853 | 0.995 |
| 87 | Petroleum Geology and Experiment | Science Press | 23637625, 10016112 | 0.981 |
| 88 | Earthquake Research Advances | KeAi Communications Co. | 27724670 | 0.974 |
| 89 | Applied Clay Science | Elsevier B.V. | 1691317 | 0.972 |
| 90 | Geoenvironmental Disasters | SpringerOpen | 21978670 | 0.972 |
| 91 | Energy Geoscience | KeAi Communications Co. | 26667592 | 0.962 |
| 92 | Solid Earth | Copernicus Publications | 18699510, 18699529 | 0.953 |
| 93 | Sedimentary Geology | Elsevier B.V. | 370738 | 0.948 |
| 94 | Geology, Ecology, and Landscapes | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 24749508 | 0.933 |
| 95 | Earth Systems and Environment | Springer International Publishing AG | 25099426, 25099434 | 0.931 |
| 96 | Natural Gas Geoscience | Science Press | 16721926 | 0.919 |
| 97 | Petroleum | KeAi Communications Co. | 24055816, 24056561 | 0.919 |
| 98 | International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks | KeAi Communications Co. | 25774441, 2577445X | 0.915 |
| 99 | Terra Nova | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 13653121, 09544879 | 0.904 |
| 100 | China Geology | KeAi Communications Co. | 20965192, 25899430 | 0.902 |
| 101 | Ocean Modelling | Elsevier Ltd | 14635003, 14635011 | 0.898 |
| 102 | International Journal of Sediment Research | KeAi Communications Co. | 10016279 | 0.887 |
| 103 | Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration | Institute of Engineering Mechanics (IEM) | 16713664, 1993503X | 0.881 |
| 104 | AAPG Bulletin | American Association of Petroleum Geologists | 1491423 | 0.877 |
| 105 | Meitiandizhi Yu Kantan/Coal Geology and Exploration | Science China Press | 10011986 | 0.877 |
| 106 | Boreas | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 03009483, 15023885 | 0.868 |
| 107 | Depositional Record | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 20554877 | 0.865 |
| 108 | Earth, Planets and Space | Springer International Publishing AG | 18805981, 13438832 | 0.862 |
| 109 | Structure and Infrastructure Engineering | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17448980, 15732479 | 0.828 |
| 110 | BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin | Societe Geologique de France | 17775817, 00379409 | 0.822 |
| 111 | Marine Geology | Elsevier B.V. | 253227 | 0.812 |
| 112 | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | Elsevier Ltd | 18785786, 13679120 | 0.809 |
| 113 | Meitan Kexue Jishu/Coal Science and Technology (Peking) | China Coal Society | 2532336 | 0.804 |
| 114 | Civil Engineering Journal (Iran) | Salehan Institute of Higher Education | 26766957, 24763055 | 0.803 |
| 115 | Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering | Science Press | 10006915 | 0.802 |
| 116 | Journal of Earthquake Engineering | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 13632469, 1559808X | 0.789 |
| 117 | Mining Science and Technology (Russian Federation) | National University of Science and Technology MISIS | 25000632 | 0.782 |
| 118 | Earthquake Science | KeAi Communications Co. | 18678777, 16744519 | 0.781 |
| 119 | Zhongguo Kuangye Daxue Xuebao/Journal of China University of Mining and Technology | China University of Mining and Technology | 10001964 | 0.771 |
| 120 | Geological Magazine | Cambridge University Press | 14695081, 00167568 | 0.766 |
| 121 | China Offshore Oil and Gas | Editorial Board of China Offshore Oil and Gas | 16731506 | 0.764 |
| 122 | Applied Computing and Geosciences | 25901974 | 0.761 | |
| 123 | Mining of Mineral Deposits | Dnipro University of Technology | 24153443, 24153435 | 0.755 |
| 124 | Quaternary Science Advances | Elsevier Ltd | 26660334 | 0.755 |
| 125 | Continental Shelf Research | Elsevier Ltd | 02784343, 18736955 | 0.752 |
| 126 | Zhongguo Shiyou Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)/Journal of China University of Petroleum (Edition of Natural Science) | University of Petroleum, China | 16735005 | 0.75 |
| 127 | Yantu Lixue/Rock and Soil Mechanics | 10007598 | 0.745 | |
| 128 | International Geology Review | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 00206814, 19382839 | 0.717 |
| 129 | Environmental Research Communications | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 25157620 | 0.71 |
| 130 | Geotechnique Letters | ICE Publishing | 20452543 | 0.708 |
| 131 | New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics | Taylor and Francis Asia Pacific | 00288306, 11758791 | 0.703 |
| 132 | Applied Earth Science: Transactions of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy | SAGE Publications Ltd | 25726846, 25726838 | 0.701 |
| 133 | GSA Today | Geological Society of America | 10525173 | 0.698 |
| 134 | Environmental Earth Sciences | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 18666299, 18666280 | 0.696 |
| 135 | Sedimentary Geology and Tethyan Geology | 10093850 | 0.695 | |
| 136 | Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 21900558, 21900566 | 0.691 |
| 137 | Antarctic Science | Cambridge University Press | 09541020, 13652079 | 0.687 |
| 138 | Dizhi Xuebao/Acta Geologica Sinica | Geological Society of China | 15717 | 0.686 |
| 139 | Newsletters on Stratigraphy | Schweizerbart Science Publishers | 00780421, 23636122 | 0.686 |
| 140 | International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17480949, 17480930 | 0.683 |
| 141 | Petroleum Reservoir Evaluation and Development | Editorial Board of Petroleum Reservoir Evaluation and Development | 20951426 | 0.675 |
| 142 | Infrastructures | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 24123811 | 0.671 |
| 143 | Swiss Journal of Geosciences | Birkhauser | 16618734, 16618726 | 0.664 |
| 144 | Earth Science Frontiers | Science Frontiers editorial department | 10052321 | 0.659 |
| 145 | Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia | Universita degli Studi di Milano | 20394942, 00356883 | 0.635 |
| 146 | Geodiversitas | Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle | 12809659, 16389395 | 0.631 |
| 147 | Journal of Infrastructure Preservation and Resilience | Springer Nature | 26622521 | 0.631 |
| 148 | Journal of Petroleum Geology | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 17475457, 01416421 | 0.628 |
| 149 | Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Applied Sciences | Springer Nature | 16588185 | 0.626 |
| 150 | Geological Society Special Publication | Geological Society of London | 3058719 | 0.625 |
| 151 | Petroleum Geology and Oilfield Development in Daqing | 10003754 | 0.62 | |
| 152 | Solid Earth Sciences | 2451912X | 0.62 | |
| 153 | Journal of Sedimentary Research | SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology | 19383681, 15271404 | 0.612 |
| 154 | Mining | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 26736489 | 0.609 |
| 155 | Acta Sedimentologica Sinica | Science China Press | 10000550 | 0.606 |
| 156 | Journal of Mountain Science | Science Press | 19930321, 16726316 | 0.606 |
| 157 | SPE Journal | Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) | 1086055X | 0.606 |
| 158 | Journal of Hydroinformatics | IWA Publishing | 14647141, 14651734 | 0.605 |
| 159 | Journal of Mining and Strata Control Engineering | China Coal Society | 20967187 | 0.6 |
| 160 | Petroleum Research | KeAi Publishing Communications Ltd. | 20962495, 25241729 | 0.6 |
| 161 | Journal of African Earth Sciences | Elsevier Ltd | 1464343X, 18791956 | 0.599 |
| 162 | Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 17556724, 10009515 | 0.593 |
| 163 | Yantu Gongcheng Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering | Chinese Society of Civil Engineering | 10004548 | 0.591 |
| 164 | Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans | Elsevier B.V. | 3770265 | 0.59 |
| 165 | Marine Origin Petroleum Geology | 16729854 | 0.59 | |
| 166 | Geophysical Prospecting for Petroleum | Science Press | 10001441 | 0.585 |
| 167 | Jinshu Xuebao/Acta Metallurgica Sinica | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 4121961 | 0.582 |
| 168 | Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami | World Scientific | 17937116, 17934311 | 0.582 |
| 169 | Journal of Geology | University of Chicago Press | 00221376, 15375269 | 0.581 |
| 170 | Minerals | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 2075163X | 0.581 |
| 171 | Geotechnical and Geological Engineering | Springer Netherlands | 09603182, 15731529 | 0.579 |
| 172 | Journal of Geomechanics | Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences Institute of Geomechanics | 10066616 | 0.578 |
| 173 | Geology Today | Wiley-Blackwell | 02666979, 13652451 | 0.576 |
| 174 | Marine Georesources and Geotechnology | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 1064119X, 15210618 | 0.573 |
| 175 | Journal of South American Earth Sciences | Elsevier B.V. | 8959811 | 0.57 |
| 176 | Annales Geophysicae | Copernicus Publications | 14320576, 09927689 | 0.568 |
| 177 | Geology in China | Science Press | 10003657 | 0.558 |
| 178 | Mineralogia | De Gruyter Open Ltd | 18998526, 18998291 | 0.556 |
| 179 | Mine Water and the Environment | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 16161068, 10259112 | 0.552 |
| 180 | Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems | Copernicus Publications | 21930864, 21930856 | 0.551 |
| 181 | Shiyou Diqiu Wuli Kantan/Oil Geophysical Prospecting | 10007210 | 0.541 | |
| 182 | Northwestern Geology | Xi'an Center of China Geological Survey | 10096248 | 0.54 |
| 183 | Mineral Deposits | Editorial Department of Mineral Deposits | 2587106 | 0.537 |
| 184 | Geotechnical Testing Journal | ASTM International | 1496115 | 0.536 |
| 185 | Jilin Daxue Xuebao (Diqiu Kexue Ban)/Journal of Jilin University (Earth Science Edition) | Editorial Board of Jilin University | 16715888 | 0.533 |
| 186 | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X | Elsevier Ltd | 25900560 | 0.532 |
| 187 | Journal of Mining Science and Technology | 20962193 | 0.532 | |
| 188 | Earthquake Engineering and Resilience | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 27705706 | 0.531 |
| 189 | Geotechnics | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) | 26737094 | 0.524 |
| 190 | Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Geotechnical Engineering | ICE Publishing | 13532618, 17518563 | 0.524 |
| 191 | Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste | American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 21535493, 21535515 | 0.52 |
| 192 | Innovative Infrastructure Solutions | Springer International Publishing AG | 23644176, 23644184 | 0.519 |
| 193 | Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 18671608, 18671594 | 0.519 |
| 194 | Research in Cold and Arid Regions | KeAi Communications Co. | 29497302, 20971583 | 0.515 |
| 195 | Journal of Cold Regions Engineering - ASCE | American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 0887381X, 19435495 | 0.514 |
| 196 | Bulletin of Geological Science and Technology | 20968523 | 0.513 | |
| 197 | Geological Journal | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 00721050, 10991034 | 0.512 |
| 198 | Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland | Geological Society of Finland | 03675211, 17994632 | 0.511 |
| 199 | Italian Journal of Geosciences | Societa Geologica Italiana | 20381719, 20381727 | 0.511 |
| 200 | Environmental Geotechnics | ICE Publishing | 2051803X | 0.51 |
| 201 | Facies | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 01729179, 16124820 | 0.51 |
| 202 | SEG Discovery | Geoscienceworld | 26940655, 26940663 | 0.509 |
| 203 | International Journal of Civil Engineering | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 17350522, 23833874 | 0.508 |
| 204 | Mining Technology: Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy | SAGE Publications Ltd | 25726668, 25726676 | 0.5 |
| 205 | Journal of Groundwater Science and Engineering | Groundwater Science and Engineering Limited | 23057068 | 0.496 |
| 206 | South African Journal of Geology | Geological Society of South Africa | 19968590, 10120750 | 0.482 |
| 207 | GEUS Bulletin | GEUS - Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland | 25972162, 25972154 | 0.479 |
| 208 | Derbyana | Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais/SIMA/SP | 27641465 | 0.478 |
| 209 | E and G Quaternary Science Journal | Copernicus Publications | 04247116, 21999090 | 0.476 |
| 210 | Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration | Springer International Publishing AG | 25243462, 25243470 | 0.474 |