Abstract: Poor illumination poses great challenges to the imaging of small-scale faults and pores.Subsurface attenuation leads to amplitude loss and phase distortion of seismic waves,and ignoring such attenuation during imaging will blur migration amplitudes.The Q-compensated least-squares reverse time migration (QLSRTM) can improve the imaging of these small-scale structures,but it requires a huge amount of iterations and computational cost.To improve the imaging effect of these small-scale structures,this study proposed a geological-target-oriented joint QLSRTM (J-QLSRTM) that fully utilizes diffracted waves.In this method,a new objective function and gradient formula was constructed.Moreover,the Q-compensated wavefield propagation operators,Q-compensated adjoint operators,and Q-attenuated demigration operators were derived for both primary and diffracted waves based on the inversion and adjoint theories.The numerical examples verified that the proposed J-QLSRTM is superior to the conventional QLSRTM and the acoustic J-LSRTM.