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Best Economic Geology journals

51 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Economic Geology. The top 51 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 12 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Petroleum Exploration and Development 16.2 99th Q1 SCIE Yes
2 Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review 12 97th Q1 SCIE No
3 International Journal of Coal Geology 11.9 95th Q1 SCIE No
4 Petroleum Science 11.3 93rd Q1 SCIE Yes
5 Economic Geology 10.3 91st Q1 SCIE No
6 Mineralium Deposita 9.9 89th Q1 SCIE No
7 Journal of Mining Institute 9 87th Q1 ESCI Yes
8 Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources 9 85th Q1 SCIE Yes
9 Extractive Industries and Society 8 83rd Q1 SSCI No
10 Mineral Economics 7.9 79th Q1 ESCI C No
11 Journal of Geochemical Exploration 7.3 77th Q1 SCIE No
12 Ore Geology Reviews 7.1 75th Q1 SCIE Yes
13 China Geology 7.1 74th Q2 ESCI Yes
14 Earth Systems and Environment 7 72nd Q2 ESCI No
15 Geothermal Energy 6.5 70th Q2 SCIE Yes
16 Geoenergy 4 68th Q2 No
17 Petroleum Geoscience 4 66th Q2 SCIE No
18 Petroleum Reservoir Evaluation and Development 3.1 64th Q2 Yes
19 Xitong Gongcheng Lilun yu Shijian/System Engineering Theory and Practice 2.7 62nd Q2 No
20 Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 2.6 60th Q2 SCIE No
21 SEG Discovery 2.6 58th Q2 No
22 Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing 2.4 56th Q2 SCIE No
23 International Journal of Mining and Geo-Engineering 2.1 54th Q2 Yes
24 Gospodarka Surowcami Mineralnymi / Mineral Resources Management 2 52nd Q2 SCIE No
25 Geological Field Trips and Maps 1.9 50th Q2 ESCI No
26 Geoloski Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva 1.8 49th Q3 Yes
27 Tropical Geography 1.7 47th Q3 Yes
28 Geology and Exploration 1.7 45th Q3 Yes
29 Eurasian Mining 1.7 43rd Q3 ESCI No
30 Bulletin of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry 1.6 41st Q3 No
31 Geodynamics and Tectonophysics 1.6 39th Q3 ESCI Yes
32 Bulletin of the Tomsk Polytechnic University, Geo Assets Engineering 1.4 37th Q3 ESCI Yes
33 Lithology and Mineral Resources 1.4 35th Q3 SCIE No
34 Agro Bali 1.2 33rd Q3 No
35 Geology of Ore Deposits 1.2 31st Q3 SCIE No
36 Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research 1.2 29th Q3 No
37 Journal of the Geological Survey of Brazil 1.2 27th Q3 Yes
38 REM - International Engineering Journal 1.1 25th Q3 Yes
39 Mineral Resources of Ukraine 0.8 24th Q4 Yes
40 Anuario do Instituto de Geociencias 0.8 22nd Q4 Yes
41 Economic and Environmental Geology 0.8 20th Q4 ESCI No
42 Revista de la Asociacion Geologica Argentina 0.8 18th Q4 No
43 Visnyk of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Geology 0.8 16th Q4 ESCI Yes
44 Economic Geography (Switzerland) 0.7 14th Q4 No
45 Mongolian Geoscientist 0.7 12th Q4 Yes
46 Zapiski Rossiiskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva 0.7 10th Q4 No
47 Journal of Economic Geology 0.6 8th Q4 Yes
48 Petrological Journal 0.5 6th Q4 Yes
49 Rocks and Minerals 0.4 4th Q4 No
50 Mining Report 0.2 2nd Q4 No
51 Japanese Magazine of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences 0.2 0th Q4 No

Rank and percentile are within the Economic Geology Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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