| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 21 | 2,093 | 97 | 112 |
| 2 | Nature | 4 | 2,037 | 6.2K | 10.1K |
| 3 | Science China Earth Sciences | 11 | 1,867 | 11 | 1 |
| 4 | Journal of Geophysical Research | 21 | 1,505 | 632 | 965 |
| 5 | Geophysical Research Letters | 23 | 1,163 | 416 | 686 |
| 6 | Geophysical Journal International | 15 | 701 | 161 | 233 |
| 7 | Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors | 15 | 618 | 34 | 53 |
| 8 | Quaternary Research | 3 | 595 | 295 | 65 |
| 9 | Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences | 17 | 439 | 3 | 10 |
| 10 | Quaternary Science Reviews | 4 | 432 | 1.2K | 712 |
| 11 | Tectonophysics | 10 | 402 | 181 | 398 |
| 12 | Lithos | 2 | 393 | 1.4K | 350 |
| 13 | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | 6 | 318 | 394 | 446 |
| 14 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth | 10 | 296 | 155 | 240 |
| 15 | Earth-Science Reviews | 3 | 292 | 217 | 678 |
| 16 | Science Bulletin | 18 | 282 | 5 | 81 |
| 17 | Gondwana Research | 3 | 278 | 436 | 316 |
| 18 | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | 6 | 276 | 162 | 191 |
| 19 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 7 | 252 | 3.6K | 42.3K |
| 20 | Geology | 4 | 245 | 805 | 1.3K |
| 21 | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 4 | 233 | 132 | 82 |
| 22 | Science Bulletin | 5 | 222 | 44 | 204 |
| 23 | Physics and Chemistry of the Earth | 3 | 210 | 7 | 4 |
| 24 | Precambrian Research | 3 | 176 | 707 | 605 |
| 25 | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | 7 | 166 | 411 | 1.1K |
| 26 | Scientific Reports | 5 | 159 | 8.7K | 21.1K |
| 27 | Journal of Human Evolution | 1 | 135 | 1.1K | 691 |
| 28 | Chemical Geology | 4 | 98 | 892 | 2.4K |
| 29 | Quaternary International | 3 | 96 | 1.2K | 1.3K |
| 30 | National Science Review | 4 | 91 | 36 | 816 |
| 31 | Cretaceous Research | 3 | 89 | 408 | 329 |
| 32 | Advanced Materials | 1 | 85 | 19.4K | 25.2K |
| 32 | Marine Geology | 2 | 85 | 981 | 1.2K |
| 34 | International Geology Review | 5 | 71 | 94 | 435 |
| 34 | Chinese Science Bulletin | 4 | 71 | 8 | 25 |
| 36 | Ore Geology Reviews | 4 | 55 | 366 | 920 |
| 37 | Chinese Journal of Geophysics | 5 | 49 | 14 | 19 |
| 38 | Reviews of Geophysics | 1 | 48 | 313 | 1.9K |
| 39 | Geological Magazine | 1 | 46 | 712 | 587 |
| 40 | Biophysical Journal | 1 | 45 | 9.6K | 8.7K |
| 41 | Nanoscale | 1 | 38 | 16.6K | 23.7K |
| 42 | International Journal of Nanomedicine | 1 | 37 | 3.5K | 6.1K |
| 43 | Tectonics | 1 | 36 | 1.7K | 2.2K |
| 44 | PLoS ONE | 2 | 32 | 49.2K | 64.5K |
| 45 | Earth Science Frontiers | 1 | 31 | 11 | 24 |
| 46 | Evolutionary Anthropology | 1 | 29 | 181 | 385 |
| 47 | BioMetals | 1 | 25 | 601 | 1.2K |
| 48 | Journal of Geomagnetism and Geoelectricity | 1 | 23 | 88 | 83 |
| 49 | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1 | 22 | 1.0K | 2.2K |
| 50 | Geological Society Special Publication | 1 | 17 | 1.9K | 3.0K |
| 51 | Petroleum Science | 1 | 16 | 220 | 502 |
| 52 | Geomicrobiology Journal | 1 | 14 | 538 | 1.3K |
| 53 | Earth, Planets and Space | 1 | 13 | 1.2K | 2.0K |
| 53 | Geological Journal | 1 | 13 | 941 | 1.2K |
| 55 | Physical Review E | 2 | 12 | 9.0K | 20.6K |
| 55 | Mineralium Deposita | 2 | 12 | 296 | 1.0K |
| 57 | Quaternary Geochronology | 1 | 11 | 535 | 1.2K |
| 58 | Frontiers in Earth Science | 2 | 10 | 508 | 3.2K |
| 59 | Journal of Applied Geophysics | 1 | 8 | 909 | 2.1K |
| 60 | Planetary and Space Science | 1 | 7 | 1.7K | 3.0K |
| 61 | American Mineralogist | 1 | 6 | 1.7K | 3.5K |
| 61 | Journal of Quaternary Science | 1 | 6 | 895 | 2.4K |
| 61 | Geosciences (Switzerland) | 1 | 6 | 1.1K | 3.7K |
| 64 | Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry | 1 | 5 | 2.8K | 6.9K |
| 64 | Solid Earth | 1 | 5 | 503 | 1.7K |
| 66 | International Journal of Mass Spectrometry | 1 | 3 | 1.3K | 3.6K |
| 66 | Mineralogy and Petrology | 1 | 3 | 352 | 1.1K |
| 68 | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1 | 2 | 4.6K | 9.3K |
| 68 | Physics of Fluids | 1 | 2 | 5.5K | 12.5K |
| 68 | Minerals (Basel, Switzerland) | 2 | 2 | 1.2K | 7.6K |
| 68 | Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics | 1 | 2 | 197 | 507 |
| 72 | Journal of Structural Geology | 1 | 0 | 1.2K | 2.8K |
| 72 | Acta Geologica Sinica | 2 | 0 | 246 | 1.6K |
| 72 | Radiation Detection Technology and Methods | 1 | 0 | 262 | 470 |
