Top 10 Earth Surface Processes Journals In The World 2026

1. Geography and Sustainability

Geography and Sustainability aims to serve as the focal point for developing, coordinating and implementing interdisciplinary research and education to promote sustainable development through an integrated geography perspective. The journal encourages wider analysis and innovative thinking about global and regional sustainability by bridging and synthesising natural and human sciences. Geography and Sustainability welcomes original, high-quality research articles, review articles, short communications, technical comments, perspective articles and editorials on the following themes: Geographical Processes: Interactions with and between water, soil, atmosphere and the biosphere more...

2. China Geology

China Geology is co-sponsored by the China Geological Survey (CGS) and the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences (CAGS). The journal is published quarterly by China Geology Editorial Office. China Geology aims to be an innovative, high-impact and authoritative academic journal for researchers across the geoscience community. It primarily publishes new research results in multidisciplinary geosciences, together with traditional topics in geology. The journal seeks to promote research from all aspects of geoscience, including basic, applied and engineering research and applications, such as mineralogy, igneous and more...

3. Journal of Arid Land

The Journal of Arid Land is an international peer-reviewed journal co-sponsored by Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Science Press. It aims to meet the needs of researchers, students and practitioners in sustainable development and eco-environmental management, focusing on the arid and semi-arid lands in Central Asia and the world at large. more...

4. Journal of Mountain Science

The Journal of Mountain Science (JMS) is devoted to mountains and their surrounding lowlands - ecoregions of particular global importance, with a particular emphasis on the important highlands/ mountains in the world, such as the Tibetan Plateau, the Himalayas, the Alps, the Andes, the Rockies and many other mountain ranges of our planet. JMS mainly publishes academic and technical papers concerning environmental changes and sustainable development in mountain areas under natural conditions or / and with the influence of human activities. more...

5. Geodesy and Geodynamics

Geodesy and Geodynamics, launched in October, 2010, is a bimonthly publication. This journal is jointly sponsored by the Institute of Seismology, China Earthquake Administration, Science Press, and six other agencies. Geodesy and Geodynamics is committed to the publication of high-quality scientific papers in English in the fields of Geodesy and Geodynamics from authors around the world. Its aim is to promote a combination of Geodesy and Geodynamics, encourage the application of Geodesy in the field of Geoscience, and facilitate scientific research activity more...

6. Solid Earth Sciences

SESCI is a peer-reviewed journal; it publishes research papers on a wide range of subjects in the Earth sciences, including Chemical geodynamics, covering the physical and chemical evolution of the Earth Petrologic processes, ranging from igneous rocks to sedimentary and metamorphic rocks Present and the past Environments Tectonic processes that affect the crust and upper mantle, ranging from structural geology, to plate tectonics Geochemical behavior of different elements and mineralization processes High pressure experiments that address chemical and/or physical properties of more...

7. Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions

The international journal Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions, is devoted to publishing the latest research achievements in processes and the patterns of the Earth surface system in cold and arid regions. Research in cold regions 1) emphasize particularly on the cold-region-characterized physical, chemical and biological processes and their interactions, and on the response of cryosphere to global change and human activities as well as their effects on environment and the acclimatizable strategies; 2) focus on the objects of glacier, snow, river, lake, sea more...

8. Arid Land Geography

The main academic contents of ALG include the new theories, technologies, methods and achievements in geography of the arid region, particularly in the fields of physical geography, human geography, regional geography, natural resource exploitation and utilization, environment evolution, disaster prevention and control meteorology and climatology in arid area. The aim of the journal is to promote academic exchange at home and aboard and to set up the forum for prospering and developing geography of arid land. more...