Geosciences

Geosciences is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal on geoscience, future earth and planetary science, published monthly online by MDPI. The European Federation of Geologists (EFG) is affiliated with Geosciences and its members receive a discount on the article processing charges.

• Open Access— free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
• High Visibility: indexed within Scopus, ESCI (Web of Science), GeoRef, Astrophysics Data System, and other databases.
• Journal Rank: CiteScore - Q2 (General Earth and Planetary Sciences)
• Rapid Publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 22.7 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 4.6 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the first half of 2026).
• Recognition of Reviewers: Reviewers whose reports are timely and of high quality receive an APC discount voucher for a future publication in an MDPI journal. Become a reviewer.
• Journal Cluster of Geospatial and Earth Sciences: Remote Sensing, Atmosphere, Geosciences, Climate, Quaternary, Earth, Geographies, Geomatics, Meteorology and Fossil Studies.