| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Nature | 15 | 3,458 | 796 | 1.2K |
| 2 | Science | 11 | 2,820 | 918 | 1.1K |
| 3 | Nature Geoscience | 16 | 2,650 | 7 | 10 |
| 4 | Nature Communications | 21 | 1,808 | 535 | 641 |
| 5 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 19 | 1,653 | 814 | 1.3K |
| 6 | PLoS ONE | 20 | 1,181 | 2.0K | 1.0K |
| 7 | Geophysical Research Letters | 32 | 1,148 | 89 | 143 |
| 8 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans | 29 | 891 | 8 | 6 |
| 9 | Frontiers in Marine Science | 30 | 854 | 4 | 5 |
| 10 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 4 | 800 | 107 | 116 |
| 11 | Marine Geology | 3 | 742 | 116 | 22 |
| 12 | Reviews of Geophysics | 3 | 673 | 14 | 26 |
| 13 | Biogeosciences | 19 | 656 | 14 | 42 |
| 14 | Nature Climate Change | 4 | 627 | 46 | 110 |
| 15 | Scientific Reports | 19 | 596 | 1.3K | 1.3K |
| 16 | Environmental Science & Technology | 10 | 572 | 347 | 491 |
| 17 | Earth System Science Data | 5 | 568 | 16 | 15 |
| 18 | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 16 | 539 | 57 | 149 |
| 19 | Limnology and Oceanography | 12 | 535 | 41 | 103 |
| 20 | Philosophical Transactions Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences | 15 | 494 | 18 | 47 |
| 21 | Climate Dynamics | 14 | 467 | 17 | 43 |
| 22 | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | 23 | 429 | 24 | 49 |
| 23 | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 1 | 414 | 160 | 88 |
| 24 | Progress in Oceanography | 13 | 397 | 4 | 18 |
| 25 | Paleoceanography | 8 | 366 | 17 | 25 |
| 26 | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 9 | 358 | 108 | 213 |
| 27 | Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | 1 | 354 | 54 | 22 |
| 28 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth | 14 | 353 | 29 | 36 |
| 29 | Science Advances | 5 | 346 | 464 | 545 |
| 30 | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | 4 | 340 | 33 | 28 |
| 31 | Diversity and Distributions | 3 | 333 | 69 | 47 |
| 32 | Ecology and Evolution | 5 | 324 | 199 | 84 |
| 33 | Chemical Geology | 4 | 323 | 146 | 116 |
| 34 | International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control | 7 | 317 | 29 | 31 |
| 35 | Marine Chemistry | 9 | 309 | 18 | 40 |
| 36 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 10 | 282 | 156 | 361 |
| 37 | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 16 | 275 | 7 | 103 |
| 38 | Marine Environmental Research | 3 | 272 | 65 | 23 |
| 39 | Earth's Future | 7 | 265 | 3 | 21 |
| 40 | Journal of Physical Oceanography | 15 | 261 | 23 | 43 |
| 40 | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | 3 | 261 | 8 | 42 |
| 42 | Tectonics | 6 | 257 | 27 | 36 |
| 43 | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2 | 248 | 163 | 170 |
| 44 | Scientific Data | 5 | 247 | 20 | 133 |
| 45 | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 3 | 246 | 75 | 106 |
| 46 | Quaternary Science Reviews | 5 | 237 | 149 | 198 |
| 47 | Geoscientific Model Development | 4 | 225 | 44 | 54 |
| 48 | Marine Policy | 4 | 221 | 51 | 30 |
| 49 | PeerJ | 5 | 218 | 205 | 88 |
| 50 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 4 | 211 | 207 | 431 |
| 50 | Journal of Structural Geology | 5 | 211 | 56 | 75 |
| 52 | Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography | 10 | 194 | 25 | 64 |
| 53 | Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry | 8 | 186 | 65 | 90 |
| 54 | Oikos | 2 | 179 | 52 | 18 |
| 55 | Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology | 9 | 166 | 2 | 4 |
| 56 | Journal of Geophysical Research | 3 | 162 | 658 | 778 |
| 56 | Journal of Applied Ecology | 1 | 162 | 278 | 183 |
| 56 | Biology Letters | 4 | 162 | 107 | 126 |
| 56 | Climate of the Past | 6 | 162 | 14 | 35 |
| 60 | Geophysical Journal International | 14 | 161 | 38 | 123 |
| 61 | Geology | 7 | 154 | 130 | 318 |
| 62 | ISME Journal | 2 | 153 | 266 | 439 |
| 63 | Limnology and Oceanography: Methods | 2 | 152 | 38 | 25 |
| 64 | Ore Geology Reviews | 4 | 151 | 69 | 55 |
| 65 | Biogeochemistry | 6 | 150 | 42 | 128 |
| 66 | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | 6 | 149 | 24 | 40 |
| 67 | Science of the Total Environment | 7 | 147 | 788 | 1.8K |
| 68 | Geoscience Data Journal | 1 | 143 | 4 | 2 |
| 69 | People and Nature | 1 | 139 | 23 | 12 |
| 70 | Molecular Ecology | 3 | 138 | 358 | 525 |
| 70 | Global Change Biology | 4 | 138 | 250 | 636 |
| 72 | Ecology | 5 | 135 | 199 | 467 |
| 72 | Geological Society Special Publication | 7 | 135 | 42 | 56 |
| 74 | Lithos | 4 | 130 | 118 | 158 |
| 75 | Ocean Science | 5 | 127 | 4 | 7 |
| 76 | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 5 | 126 | 78 | 93 |
| 77 | Marine Biology | 9 | 122 | 86 | 241 |
| 78 | Biological Reviews | 1 | 119 | 213 | 328 |
| 79 | Fish and Fisheries | 1 | 118 | 68 | 83 |
| 80 | Journal of Climate | 7 | 114 | 66 | 236 |
| 81 | Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers | 8 | 111 | 14 | 62 |
| 82 | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 1 | 108 | 255 | 170 |
| 82 | Biological Invasions | 2 | 108 | 169 | 139 |
| 84 | Journal of Animal Ecology | 4 | 107 | 99 | 222 |
| 85 | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | 3 | 100 | 252 | 358 |
| 86 | Frontiers in Microbiology | 5 | 97 | 724 | 1.4K |
| 86 | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 5 | 97 | 142 | 424 |
| 88 | New Phytologist | 2 | 93 | 615 | 903 |
| 88 | Journal of Phycology | 4 | 93 | 95 | 185 |
| 90 | Nature Reviews Earth & Environment | 1 | 91 | 28 | 75 |
| 91 | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 3 | 89 | 115 | 319 |
| 92 | Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry | 2 | 84 | 419 | 339 |
| 93 | Journal of the Royal Society Interface | 2 | 83 | 301 | 468 |
| 93 | Mineralium Deposita | 4 | 83 | 35 | 67 |
| 95 | Fisheries Research | 2 | 81 | 95 | 69 |
| 95 | Sedimentology | 5 | 81 | 36 | 172 |
| 95 | Cretaceous Research | 2 | 81 | 80 | 61 |
| 98 | Journal of Biogeography | 2 | 80 | 250 | 355 |
| 99 | Palaeontology | 2 | 79 | 27 | 28 |
| 100 | Earth-Science Reviews | 2 | 76 | 107 | 365 |
| 101 | Urban Ecosystems | 1 | 75 | 88 | 68 |
| 102 | Environmental Research Letters | 3 | 74 | 172 | 380 |
| 103 | Royal Society Open Science | 6 | 70 | 48 | 231 |
| 104 | Die Naturwissenschaften | 16 | 67 | 6 | 170 |
| 104 | Advances in Ecological Research | 1 | 67 | 18 | 35 |
| 106 | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A, Molecular & Integrative Physiology | 3 | 66 | 146 | 255 |
| 106 | Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | 2 | 66 | 46 | 69 |
| 106 | Environmental Epigenetics | 1 | 66 | 140 | 54 |
| 109 | Metallomics | 1 | 63 | 252 | 217 |
| 110 | Environmental Microbiology Reports | 1 | 62 | 117 | 110 |
| 110 | Geofluids | 1 | 62 | 207 | 29 |
| 112 | Journal of Fish Biology | 5 | 60 | 151 | 323 |
| 112 | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 2 | 60 | 237 | 342 |
| 112 | Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology | 4 | 60 | 43 | 119 |
| 112 | Coral Reefs | 2 | 60 | 97 | 168 |
| 112 | Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems | 4 | 60 | 23 | 95 |
| 117 | Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science | 4 | 59 | 87 | 302 |
| 117 | Marine Ecology | 1 | 59 | 74 | 42 |
| 119 | Precambrian Research | 1 | 58 | 267 | 264 |
| 120 | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 1 | 57 | 1.2K | 860 |
| 120 | Geomorphology | 1 | 57 | 472 | 469 |
| 122 | Journal of the Geological Society | 4 | 55 | 58 | 170 |
| 123 | BMC Evolutionary Biology | 1 | 54 | 431 | 489 |
| 123 | Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries | 2 | 54 | 22 | 88 |
| 125 | Integrative and Comparative Biology | 1 | 50 | 214 | 180 |
| 126 | Elements | 2 | 49 | 4 | 30 |
| 126 | Hydrobiologia | 4 | 49 | 299 | 601 |
| 128 | Polar Biology | 4 | 47 | 70 | 178 |
| 129 | Analytica Chimica Acta | 3 | 45 | 855 | 1.8K |
| 129 | Journal of Micropalaeontology | 3 | 45 | 6 | 17 |
| 129 | Annual Review of Environment and Resources | 1 | 45 | 33 | 124 |
| 132 | Earth Surface Processes and Landforms | 1 | 44 | 356 | 379 |
| 132 | Marine Mammal Science | 1 | 44 | 117 | 106 |
| 132 | Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography | 2 | 44 | 34 | 42 |
| 135 | Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom | 6 | 43 | 42 | 171 |
| 135 | Continental Shelf Research | 3 | 43 | 57 | 177 |
| 135 | Ocean Dynamics | 2 | 43 | 35 | 46 |
| 135 | Journal of Sea Research | 6 | 43 | 8 | 69 |
| 139 | Organic Geochemistry | 2 | 42 | 125 | 246 |
| 139 | Current Climate Change Reports | 1 | 42 | 7 | 35 |
| 141 | Aquatic Toxicology | 2 | 41 | 214 | 488 |
| 142 | Journal of Marine Systems | 1 | 40 | 108 | 133 |
| 142 | Coastal Engineering | 1 | 40 | 180 | 184 |
| 144 | IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery | 3 | 39 | 240 | 481 |
| 144 | Minerals Engineering | 1 | 39 | 244 | 259 |
| 144 | Geobiology | 1 | 39 | 69 | 119 |
| 147 | Economic Geology | 2 | 38 | 38 | 90 |
| 147 | Marine Micropaleontology | 1 | 38 | 91 | 110 |
| 147 | Journal of Marine Science and Engineering | 3 | 38 | 167 | 138 |
| 150 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1 | 37 | 1.8K | 2.6K |
| 151 | Journal of Experimental Biology | 2 | 36 | 672 | 1.2K |
| 152 | Antarctic Science | 2 | 35 | 40 | 105 |
| 152 | Near Surface Geophysics | 1 | 35 | 45 | 34 |
| 154 | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | 1 | 34 | 181 | 186 |
| 155 | Powder Technology | 1 | 32 | 1.1K | 1.3K |
| 155 | Ocean Engineering | 2 | 32 | 431 | 605 |
| 155 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | 2 | 32 | 231 | 441 |
| 155 | Cryosphere | 1 | 32 | 145 | 172 |
| 155 | International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology | 1 | 32 | 70 | 88 |
| 160 | Tectonophysics | 2 | 31 | 298 | 525 |
| 161 | Cladistics | 1 | 30 | 78 | 120 |
| 161 | Frontiers in Zoology | 1 | 30 | 77 | 121 |
| 163 | Quaternary Research | 1 | 29 | 330 | 505 |
| 163 | Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences | 1 | 29 | 176 | 244 |
| 163 | Helgoland Marine Research | 1 | 29 | 13 | 17 |
| 163 | Communications Earth & Environment | 3 | 29 | 8 | 67 |
| 167 | Annual Review of Marine Science | 1 | 28 | 22 | 82 |
| 168 | Aquaculture | 1 | 27 | 605 | 785 |
| 168 | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 3 | 27 | 57 | 200 |
| 168 | Bulletin of Volcanology | 2 | 27 | 69 | 175 |
| 171 | Sensors | 1 | 26 | 4.7K | 4.4K |
| 172 | Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research | 1 | 25 | 229 | 331 |
| 172 | Nature Food | 1 | 25 | 39 | 130 |
| 172 | Scientia Marina | 1 | 25 | 16 | 26 |
| 175 | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1 | 24 | 134 | 165 |
| 176 | Applied Energy | 1 | 23 | 1.4K | 2.5K |
| 176 | Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology | 4 | 23 | 133 | 500 |
| 176 | International Journal of Health Geographics | 1 | 23 | 111 | 266 |
| 179 | Journal of Cleaner Production | 1 | 22 | 2.8K | 4.6K |
| 179 | Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering | 2 | 22 | 295 | 613 |
| 179 | American Museum Novitates | 2 | 22 | 15 | 27 |
| 182 | Energy | 1 | 21 | 2.0K | 3.3K |
| 182 | Journal of Hydrology | 1 | 21 | 981 | 1.5K |
| 182 | Journal of Geochemical Exploration | 1 | 21 | 176 | 289 |
| 182 | Functional Ecology | 1 | 21 | 313 | 567 |
| 182 | Journal of Coastal Research | 2 | 21 | 140 | 147 |
| 182 | Ocean and Coastal Management | 1 | 21 | 167 | 346 |
| 182 | Ecology Letters | 1 | 21 | 373 | 757 |
| 189 | Developmental and Comparative Immunology | 1 | 20 | 341 | 524 |
| 189 | Journal of Petrology | 1 | 20 | 87 | 149 |
| 189 | Ecosphere | 1 | 20 | 303 | 417 |
| 192 | Waste Management | 1 | 19 | 687 | 1.5K |
| 192 | Evolutionary Applications | 1 | 19 | 140 | 327 |
| 192 | Pacific Conservation Biology | 1 | 19 | 15 | 13 |
| 192 | Frontiers in Conservation Science | 2 | 19 | 10 | 13 |
| 196 | Journal of Invertebrate Pathology | 2 | 18 | 133 | 374 |
| 196 | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 1 | 18 | 214 | 329 |
| 196 | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1 | 18 | 92 | 133 |
| 196 | Marine Biodiversity | 2 | 18 | 27 | 52 |
| 196 | Marine Geophysical Researches | 2 | 18 | 21 | 73 |
| 201 | Journal of Zoology | 1 | 17 | 391 | 588 |
| 201 | Journal of Plankton Research | 2 | 17 | 30 | 112 |
| 201 | Journal of Environmental Management | 1 | 17 | 1.6K | 3.1K |
| 204 | ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering | 1 | 16 | 1.4K | 2.3K |
| 204 | Geophysical Prospecting | 1 | 16 | 124 | 152 |
| 204 | Holocene | 2 | 16 | 145 | 440 |
| 204 | Journal of Cultural Heritage | 1 | 16 | 104 | 208 |
| 204 | Journal of Petroleum Geology | 1 | 16 | 50 | 82 |
| 204 | Experimental Methods in the Physical Sciences | 2 | 16 | 1 | 3 |
| 210 | Harmful Algae | 1 | 15 | 105 | 241 |
| 210 | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 3 | 15 | 23 | 78 |
| 210 | Oceanologia | 1 | 15 | 20 | 32 |
| 213 | Talanta | 1 | 14 | 1.7K | 2.8K |
| 213 | Applied Geochemistry | 1 | 14 | 270 | 557 |
| 213 | Terra Nova | 2 | 14 | 37 | 188 |
| 213 | Frontiers in Earth Science | 2 | 14 | 95 | 276 |
| 213 | Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography | 1 | 14 | 3 | 2 |
| 218 | Remote Sensing | 3 | 13 | 755 | 2.1K |
| 218 | Journal of Seismology | 1 | 13 | 68 | 100 |
| 220 | Proceedings of the Geologists Association | 4 | 12 | 32 | 120 |
| 220 | Journal of Molluscan Studies | 1 | 12 | 40 | 64 |
| 222 | South African Journal of Science | 1 | 11 | 51 | 29 |
| 222 | Computational Geosciences | 1 | 11 | 72 | 138 |
| 222 | Episodes | 1 | 11 | 36 | 46 |
| 225 | Remote Sensing of Environment | 1 | 10 | 415 | 921 |
| 225 | Journal of Archaeological Science | 1 | 10 | 402 | 872 |
| 225 | BioEssays | 1 | 10 | 374 | 1.0K |
| 228 | Plant Physiology | 1 | 9 | 916 | 1.6K |
| 228 | Antiquity | 1 | 9 | 247 | 396 |
| 228 | Journal of Crustacean Biology | 2 | 9 | 67 | 195 |
| 228 | Protist | 1 | 9 | 66 | 173 |
| 228 | Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | 1 | 9 | 37 | 98 |
| 228 | Chemosphere | 1 | 9 | 2.9K | 5.4K |
| 234 | Environmental Management | 1 | 8 | 315 | 891 |
| 234 | Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology | 1 | 8 | 207 | 449 |
| 234 | Journal of Oceanography | 1 | 8 | 76 | 127 |
| 234 | Geosciences (Switzerland) | 2 | 8 | 95 | 410 |
| 234 | Solid Earth | 1 | 8 | 36 | 120 |
| 234 | Systematics and Biodiversity | 1 | 8 | 45 | 128 |
| 234 | Coastal Research Library | 1 | 8 | 17 | 20 |
| 241 | Current Biology | 1 | 7 | 1.4K | 2.9K |
| 241 | Atmospheric Environment | 1 | 7 | 961 | 1.9K |
| 241 | Microchemical Journal | 1 | 7 | 860 | 1.6K |
| 241 | Geological Journal | 1 | 7 | 162 | 285 |
| 241 | Ambio | 1 | 7 | 168 | 537 |
| 246 | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | 1 | 6 | 1.5K | 2.4K |
| 246 | Ecological Indicators | 1 | 6 | 612 | 1.5K |
| 246 | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2 | 6 | 45 | 191 |
| 246 | Journal of Environmental Radioactivity | 1 | 6 | 220 | 578 |
| 246 | Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports | 1 | 6 | 268 | 317 |
| 246 | Revista Brasileira De Botanica | 1 | 6 | 22 | 104 |
| 246 | Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties | 1 | 6 | 27 | 77 |
| 253 | Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology | 1 | 5 | 121 | 313 |
| 253 | Chemistry and Ecology | 1 | 5 | 85 | 260 |
| 253 | Plankton and Benthos Research | 1 | 5 | 23 | 45 |
| 256 | Journal of Geodesy | 1 | 4 | 87 | 167 |
| 256 | Earth Sciences History | 1 | 4 | 21 | 27 |
| 258 | Energies | 1 | 3 | 3.5K | 5.9K |
| 258 | Geological Magazine | 1 | 3 | 242 | 441 |
| 258 | Aerospace Science and Technology | 1 | 3 | 301 | 659 |
| 258 | Journal of Clinical Forensic and Legal Medicine | 1 | 3 | 136 | 413 |
| 258 | Historical Biology | 2 | 3 | 54 | 248 |
| 258 | Limnology and Oceanography Letters | 1 | 3 | 19 | 90 |
| 258 | Facets | 1 | 3 | 66 | 151 |
| 258 | ACS ES&T Water | 1 | 3 | 83 | 265 |
| 266 | Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry | 1 | 2 | 841 | 1.5K |
| 266 | IET Renewable Power Generation | 1 | 2 | 231 | 620 |
| 266 | Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology | 1 | 2 | 80 | 219 |
| 266 | Journal of Iberian Geology | 1 | 2 | 2 | 16 |
| 266 | Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series | 1 | 2 | 45 | 31 |
| 266 | Coral Reefs of the World | 1 | 2 | 8 | 23 |
| 272 | IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering | 2 | 1 | 1.6K | 3.2K |
| 272 | Zootaxa | 1 | 1 | 708 | 1.1K |
| 272 | Journal of Shellfish Research | 1 | 1 | 18 | 98 |
| 272 | Annales De Paleontologie | 1 | 1 | 14 | 36 |
| 276 | Biology Bulletin | 1 | 0 | 45 | 116 |
| 276 | Journal of Geophysical Research G: Biogeosciences | 1 | 0 | 226 | 615 |
| 276 | The Paleontological Society Special Publications | 3 | 0 | 31 | 68 |
