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 |