Landslides

Aims & Scope

Landslides are gravitational mass movements of rock, debris or earth.

They may occur in conjunction with other major natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Expanding urbanization and changing land-use practices have increased the incidence of landslide disasters.

Landslides as catastrophic events include human injury, loss of life and economic devastation and are studied as part of the fields of earth, water and engineering sciences.

The aim of the journal Landslides is to be the common platform for the publication of integrated research on landslide processes, hazards, risk analysis, mitigation, and the protection of our cultural heritage and the environment.

The journal publishes research papers, news of recent landslide events and information on the activities of the International Consortium on Landslides. - Landslide dynamics, mechanisms and processes - Landslide risk evaluation: hazard assessment, hazard mapping, and vulnerability assessment - Geological, Geotechnical, Hydrological and Geophysical modeling - Effects of meteorological, hydrological and global climatic change factors - Monitoring including remote sensing and other non-invasive systems - New technology, expert and intelligent systems - Application of GIS techniques - Rock slides, rock falls, debris flows, earth flows, and lateral spreads - Large-scale landslides, lahars and pyroclastic flows in volcanic zones - Marine and reservoir related landslides - Landslide related tsunamis and seiches - Landslide disasters in urban areas and along critical infrastructure - Landslides and natural resources - Land development and land-use practices - Landslide remedial measures / prevention works - Temporal and spatial prediction of landslides - Early warning and evacuation - Global landslide database

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	7
2024	5.80

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.999

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	1436

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	124

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	4744

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Earth and Planetary Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• The Varnes classification of landslide types, an update

  Citation: 2584

  Authors: Oldrich, Serge, Luciano

• The rainfall intensity–duration control of shallow landslides and debris flows: an update

  Citation: 1187

  Authors: Fausto, Silvia, Mauro, Colin P.

• Spatial prediction models for shallow landslide hazards: a comparative assessment of the efficacy of support vector machines, artificial neural networks, kernel logistic regression, and logistic model tree

  Citation: 1016

  Authors: Dieu, Tran Anh, Harald, Biswajeet, Inge

• Landslide hazard mapping at Selangor, Malaysia using frequency ratio and logistic regression models

  Citation: 861

  Authors: Saro, Biswajeet

• Landslide hazards triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan, China

  Citation: 740

  Authors: Yueping, Fawu, Ping

• Landslide susceptibility mapping using random forest, boosted regression tree, classification and regression tree, and general linear models and comparison of their performance at Wadi Tayyah Basin, Asir Region, Saudi Arabia

  Citation: 638

  Authors: Ahmed Mohamed, Hamid Reza, Zohre Sadat, Mohamed M.

• Landslide susceptibility mapping using GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis, support vector machines, and logistic regression

  Citation: 593

  Authors: Taskin, Emrehan Kutlug, Ismail

• Three (nearly) complete inventories of landslides triggered by the May 12, 2008 Wenchuan Mw 7.9 earthquake of China and their spatial distribution statistical analysis

  Citation: 523

  Authors: Chong, Xiwei, Xin, Fuchu

• A review of the recent literature on rainfall thresholds for landslide occurrence

  Citation: 512

  Authors: Samuele, Luca, Stefano Luigi

• Global landslide and avalanche hotspots

  Citation: 478

  Authors: Farrokh, Oddvar, Pascal, Christian, Christian

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