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Highest-impact journals for Earth Science

The top Earth Science journals Scimago Q1-Q2 only, ranked by cites/paper, drawn from an 88,000-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the free Journal Finder.

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  1. 1
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    26.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  2. 2
    Environmental Chemistry Letters
    24.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  3. 3
    Nature Sustainability
    18.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  4. 4
    Reviews of Geophysics
    14.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  5. 5
    Nature Microbiology
    13.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  6. 6
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
    13.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  7. 7
    Renewable energy focus
    11.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of Science
  8. 8
    Microbiome
    11.5 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  9. 9
    Sustainable Cities and Society
    11.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  10. 10
    Nature Climate Change
    10.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  11. 11
    Journal of Cleaner Production
    10.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  12. 12
    Nature Geoscience
    10.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  13. 13
    Science Advances
    10.4 cites/paper · Q1 · American Association for the Advancement of Science
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  14. 14
    Nature Food
    10.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  15. 15
    Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
    10.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  16. 16
    Water Research
    10.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  17. 17
    Sustainable Production and Consumption
    10.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  18. 18
    Energy Strategy Reviews
    10.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  19. 19
    Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry
    10.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  20. 20
    Soil Biology and Biochemistry
    10.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  21. 21
    Petroleum Exploration and Development
    9.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  22. 22
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    9.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  23. 23
    FEMS Microbiology Reviews
    9.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University Press
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  24. 24
    The Science of The Total Environment
    9.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusPubMed
  25. 25
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
    9.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  26. 26
    Earth system science data
    8.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Copernicus Publications
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  27. 27
    Remote Sensing of Environment
    8.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  28. 28
    Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
    8.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  29. 29
    Desalination
    8.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  30. 30
    The Lancet Planetary Health
    8.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  31. 31
    Environmental Science & Technology
    8.6 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  32. 32
    Environment International
    8.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  33. 33
    Earth-Science Reviews
    8.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  34. 34
    Journal of Hazardous Materials
    8.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  35. 35
    Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
    8.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  36. 36
    Landscape and Urban Planning
    8.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  37. 37
    Resources Conservation and Recycling
    8.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  38. 38
    ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
    8.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  39. 39
    Chemosphere
    8.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    ScopusPubMed
  40. 40
    Global Change Biology
    8.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed

“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.

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