New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Environment and Ecology

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Environmental Chemistry Letters50.188
2 Applied Catalysis B-Environmental36.190
3 Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews34.218
4 Nature Sustainability31.314
5 MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report30.180
6 Annual Review of Marine Science29.290
7 Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics26.691
8 Water Research22.332
9 Sustainable Production and Consumption22.284
10 Sustainable Cities and Society22.258
11 Journal of Cleaner Production22.240
12 Annual Review of Public Health21.937
13 Lancet Planetary Health21.926
14 Lancet Public Health21.606
15 Green Energy & Environment21.027
16 Remote Sensing of Environment20.799
17 Landscape and Urban Planning20.718
18 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing20.451
19 Resources Conservation and Recycling20.416
20 Computers Environment and Urban Systems18.762
21 npj Clean Water18.759
22 Global Change Biology18.657
23 Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions18.385
24 Journal of Hazardous Materials18.316
25 Chemical Engineering Journal18.087
26 Environmental Science & Technology18.029
27 Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews17.577
28 Current Forestry Reports17.239
29 Lancet Global Health17.058
30 Trends in Ecology & Evolution16.803
31 Current Pollution Reports16.619
32 ISME Journal16.594
33 Environment Development and Sustainability16.542
34 Renewable Energy16.406
35 Desalination16.242
36 Nature Ecology & Evolution16.235
37 One Earth16.120
38 Environmental Research15.537
39 Agronomy for Sustainable Development15.422
40 IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy15.029
41 Annual Review of Animal Biosciences14.646
42 Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry14.371
43 Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability14.283
44 Building and Environment14.004
45 Current Environmental Health Reports13.707
46 Process Safety and Environmental Protection13.419
47 Ecosystem Services13.211
48 Waste Management13.194
49 Environmental Health Perspectives13.108
50 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine13.106
51 International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology13.094
52 Ecological Monographs13.005
53 International Soil and Water Conservation Research12.883
54 Accident Analysis and Prevention12.813
55 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment12.725
56 Green Chemistry12.487
57 Field Crops Research12.428
58 Ecological Informatics12.316
59 Journal of Sustainable Tourism12.303
60 Journal of Hydrology12.242
61 Progress in Human Geography12.233
62 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water12.212
63 ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering12.139
64 Water Resources and Industry12.055
65 Ecological Economics11.927
66 Environmental Technology & Innovation11.912
67 Postharvest Biology and Technology11.561
68 Agricultural Water Management11.523
69 Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering11.467
70 Landscape Ecology11.452
71 Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews11.404
72 Ecology Letters11.392
73 GIScience & Remote Sensing11.240
74 CATENA11.199
75 Crop Journal11.126
76 Environmental Health11.113
77 Urban Forestry & Urban Greening11.086
78 Environmental Science & Technology Letters10.961
79 International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control10.899
80 Energy for Sustainable Development10.842
81 Microbial Ecology10.705
82 Industrial Crops and Products10.678
83 Hydrology and Earth System Sciences10.655
84 Economic Geography10.625
85 Plant Phenomics10.584
86 Journal of Rural Studies10.560
87 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology10.553
88 Applied Geography10.482
89 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health10.432
90 Ocean & Coastal Management10.392
91 European Journal of Agronomy10.384
92 Journal of Water Process Engineering10.155
93 Journal of Forestry Research10.000
94 Drones9.943
95 Sustainable Development9.921
96 Journal of Transport Geography9.915
97 International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction9.864
98 Journal of Polymers and the Environment9.781
99 Water Resources Research9.724
100 Applied Water Science9.721
101 Preventing Chronic Disease9.716
102 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing9.558
103 International Journal of Epidemiology9.385
104 Global Ecology and Biogeography9.380
105 Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering9.353
106 Marine Pollution Bulletin9.314
107 Methods in Ecology and Evolution9.308
108 Globalization and Health9.238
109 Molecular Ecology Resources9.072
110 European Journal of Epidemiology9.050
111 Sustainability Science9.028
112 Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences8.986
113 Current Epidemiology Reports8.971
114 International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment8.969
115 Sustainability8.955
116 Remote Sensing8.946
117 International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability8.871
118 Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology8.850
119 Reviews on Environmental Health8.839
120 Gesunde Pflanzen8.815
121 BMJ Global Health8.761
122 Fire Ecology8.725
123 Energy Sustainability and Society8.647
124 Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences8.639
125 JMIR Serious Games8.621
126 Sustainable Environment Research8.587
127 Water Resources Management8.491
128 Journal of Industrial Ecology8.436
129 International Journal of Digital Earth8.382
130 Journal of Safety Research8.371
131 GPS Solutions8.316
132 Palliative Medicine8.272
133 Political Geography8.255
134 Journal of Evolutionary Biology8.251
135 Journal of Clinical Epidemiology8.247
136 International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology8.196
137 Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society8.194
138 Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control8.186
139 Waste Management & Research8.176
140 International Journal of Disaster Risk Science8.168
141 Rice8.125
142 Journal of Ecology8.040
143 Animal Cognition8.036
144 Environmental Modelling & Software8.000
145 Biological Conservation7.986
146 Cladistics7.967
147 Ecological Applications7.956
148 Aquatic Toxicology7.949
149 Regional Studies7.937
150 Ambio7.922
151 Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space7.915
152 Drug Safety7.868
153 International Journal for Equity in Health7.865
154 Ecological Engineering7.862
155 Functional Ecology7.860
156 International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health7.845
157 Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease7.803
158 Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy7.800
159 Current Opinion in Insect Science7.791
160 International Journal of Geographical Information Science7.780
161 JMIR Public Health and Surveillance7.733
162 Ecography7.687
163 Health & Place7.685
164 Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine7.682
165 Materials Today Sustainability7.680
166 Agriculture-Basel7.677
167 Annals of Forest Science7.640
168 ChemSusChem7.600
169 Geocarto International7.599
170 Conflict and Health7.564
171 Agronomy-Basel7.556
172 Journal of Global Health7.540
173 Aquaculture7.533
174 Journal of Infection and Public Health7.527
175 Journal of Occupational Health Psychology7.522
176 Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation7.391
177 Rice Science7.385
178 LGBT Health7.374
179 Forest Policy and Economics7.369
180 One Health7.361
181 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology7.338
182 Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk7.312
183 Fish & Shellfish Immunology7.307
184 Annals of Global Health7.235
185 Journal of Water and Climate Change7.219
186 Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments7.197
187 Physics and Chemistry of the Earth7.148
188 People and Nature7.143
189 SSM-Population Health7.129
190 American Journal of Preventive Medicine7.116
191 Cold Regions Science and Technology7.099
192 Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy7.086
193 Ecological Processes7.073
194 Molecular Ecology7.066
195 Ecology7.063
196 Conservation Letters7.058
197 Conservation Biology7.048
198 Journal of Applied Ecology7.046
199 Journal of Geodesy7.040
200 Frontiers in Forests and Global Change7.029
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