Recently, the Citescore for 2016 has been released. In the Earth and Planetary Sciences category, the journal Nature Geoscience topped the Citescore list, followed by Earth-Science Reviews.
Here is the definition of CiteScore from Elsevier and how it is computed:
“CiteScore is a simple way of measuring the citation impact of serial titles such as journals. Serial titles are defined as titles which publish on a regular basis (i.e. one or more volumes per year). CiteScore calculates the average number of citations received in a calendar year by all items published in that journal in the preceding three years. The calendar year to which a serial title’s issues are assigned is determined by their cover dates, and not the dates that the serial issues were made available online.”
The method of calculation for CiteScore 2015 is illustrated below.
Here’s the list of the top 100 Earth and Planetary Sciences Journals based on CiteScore.
| Rank | Source title | CiteScore 2016 | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Nature Geoscience | 8.08 | 99th percentile |
| #2 | Earth-Science Reviews | 7.82 | 99th percentile |
| #3 | Earth System Science Data | 7.28 | 98th percentile |
| #4 | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 5.29 | 97th percentile |
| #5 | Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | 4.99 | 97th percentile |
| #6 | Radiocarbon | 4.53 | 96th percentile |
| #7 | Geophysical Research Letters | 4.35 | 96th percentile |
| #8 | Earth System Dynamics | 4.15 | 95th percentile |
| #9 | American Journal of Science | 3.97 | 94th percentile |
| #10 | GPS Solutions | 3.94 | 94th percentile |
| #11 | Geoscientific Model Development | 3.89 | 93rd percentile |
| #12 | Geoscience Frontiers | 3.63 | 93rd percentile |
| #13 | Remote Sensing | 3.56 | 92nd percentile |
| #14 | Geobiology | 3.51 | 92nd percentile |
| #15 | Carbon Balance and Management | 3.22 | 91st percentile |
| #16 | Progress in Physical Geography | 2.81 | 90th percentile |
| #17 | GIScience and Remote Sensing | 2.76 | 90th percentile |
| #18 | Natural Hazards and Earth System Science | 2.67 | 89th percentile |
| #19 | Episodes | 2.58 | 89th percentile |
| #20 | Transactions in GIS | 2.53 | 88th percentile |
| #21 | IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine | 2.52 | 87th percentile |
| #22 | International Journal of Digital Earth | 2.46 | 87th percentile |
| #23 | Quaternary Research | 2.28 | 86th percentile |
| #24 | Geofluids | 2.23 | 86th percentile |
| #25 | Cold Regions Science and Technology | 2.18 | 85th percentile |
| #26 | International Journal of Image and Data Fusion | 2.08 | 84th percentile |
| #26 | Mathematical Geosciences | 2.08 | 84th percentile |
| #28 | Science China Earth Sciences | 2.04 | 83rd percentile |
| #29 | International Journal of Remote Sensing | 2.00 | 83rd percentile |
| #30 | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 1.97 | 82nd percentile |
| #30 | Moravian Geographical Reports | 1.97 | 82nd percentile |
| #32 | Earth Interactions | 1.95 | 81st percentile |
| #33 | Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis | 1.89 | 80th percentile |
| #34 | Frontiers in Earth Science | 1.86 | 80th percentile |
| #35 | Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Science | 1.81 | 79th percentile |
| #36 | Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing | 1.67 | 78th percentile |
| #36 | Geosciences (Switzerland) | 1.67 | 78th percentile |
| #38 | Radio Science | 1.65 | 77th percentile |
| #39 | Polar Geography | 1.63 | 77th percentile |
| #40 | Chemistry and Ecology | 1.59 | 76th percentile |
| #41 | Comptes Rendus – Geoscience | 1.58 | 76th percentile |
| #42 | Disasters | 1.54 | 75th percentile |
| #43 | World Archaeology | 1.51 | 74th percentile |
| #44 | Chinese Geographical Science | 1.49 | 74th percentile |
| #45 | Italian Journal of Geosciences | 1.48 | 73rd percentile |
| #46 | Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences | 1.47 | 73rd percentile |
| #47 | Polar Science | 1.43 | 72nd percentile |
| #48 | Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences | 1.37 | 71st percentile |
| #48 | Southern African Geographical Journal | 1.37 | 71st percentile |
| #50 | Australian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1.32 | 70th percentile |
| #50 | GEM – International Journal on Geomathematics | 1.32 | 70th percentile |
| #52 | Geologos | 1.31 | 69th percentile |
| #52 | GeoResJ | 1.31 | 69th percentile |
| #54 | Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk | 1.27 | 68th percentile |
| #55 | Frontiers of Earth Science | 1.26 | 67th percentile |
| #55 | International Journal of Navigation and Observation | 1.26 | 67th percentile |
| #55 | Journal of Applied Remote Sensing | 1.26 | 67th percentile |
| #58 | Earth Science Informatics | 1.25 | 65th percentile |
| #59 | Acta Geographica Sinica | 1.24 | 65th percentile |
| #59 | Bulletin of Geosciences | 1.24 | 65th percentile |
| #61 | Geografisk Tidsskrift | 1.21 | 64th percentile |
| #62 | Annals of GIS | 1.19 | 63rd percentile |
| #63 | Acta Palaeobotanica | 1.17 | 63rd percentile |
| #64 | Journal of Earth Science | 1.15 | 62nd percentile |
| #65 | Journal of Geosciences | 1.12 | 61st percentile |
| #66 | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1.06 | 61st percentile |
| #67 | Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences | 1.04 | 60th percentile |
| #68 | Geosciences Journal | 1.03 | 60th percentile |
| #69 | Erdkunde | 1.02 | 59th percentile |
| #70 | Arabian Journal of Geosciences | 1.00 | 58th percentile |
| #70 | Geoscience Canada | 1.00 | 58th percentile |
| #72 | Shuikexue Jinzhan/Advances in Water Science | 0.99 | 57th percentile |
| #73 | Die Erde | 0.95 | 57th percentile |
| #74 | Acta Geographica Slovenica | 0.93 | 56th percentile |
| #75 | South African Journal of Science | 0.90 | 55th percentile |
| #76 | Diqiu Kexue – Zhongguo Dizhi Daxue Xuebao/Earth Science – Journal of China University of Geosciences | 0.87 | 55th percentile |
| #76 | Open Geosciences | 0.87 | 55th percentile |
| #78 | Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | 0.84 | 54th percentile |
| #79 | Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Geowissenschaften | 0.82 | 53rd percentile |
| #80 | Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica | 0.80 | 52nd percentile |
| #80 | ATTI Della Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei Rendiconti Lincei Scienze Fisiche E Naturali | 0.80 | 52nd percentile |
| #82 | Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences | 0.77 | 51st percentile |
| #82 | Physical Geography | 0.77 | 51st percentile |
| #84 | Brazilian Journal of Geology | 0.71 | 50th percentile |
| #85 | Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Geographica | 0.70 | 50th percentile |
| #86 | New Zealand Geographer | 0.66 | 49th percentile |
| #87 | Eos | 0.64 | 48th percentile |
| #88 | Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana | 0.62 | 47th percentile |
| #88 | Czech Polar Reports | 0.62 | 47th percentile |
| #88 | Geographia Polonica | 0.62 | 47th percentile |
| #91 | Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift | 0.61 | 46th percentile |
| #92 | Environmental Geosciences | 0.60 | 45th percentile |
| #93 | Doklady Earth Sciences | 0.59 | 44th percentile |
| #93 | Polar Record | 0.59 | 44th percentile |
| #95 | Geodetski List | 0.47 | 43rd percentile |
| #95 | Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth | 0.47 | 43rd percentile |
| #95 | Przeglad Geograficzny | 0.47 | 43rd percentile |
| #98 | Earth Sciences Research Journal | 0.46 | 42nd percentile |
| #98 | Hungarian Geographical Bulletin | 0.46 | 42nd percentile |
| #100 | Geodetski Vestnik | 0.45 | 40th percentile |
| #100 | Journal of Geoscience Education | 0.45 | 40th percentile |