Environment and Ecology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Chemical Engineering Journal	169
2	Applied Catalysis B-Environmental	144
-	Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews	144
4	Journal of Cleaner Production	143
-	Journal of Hazardous Materials	143
6	Environmental Science & Technology	120
7	Renewable Energy	119
8	Sustainability	112
9	Water Research	111
10	Environmental Research	107
11	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	106
12	MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report	103
13	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health	101
14	Sustainable Cities and Society	97
15	Resources Conservation and Recycling	90
-	Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering	90
17	Remote Sensing	86
18	Nature Sustainability	84
19	Remote Sensing of Environment	83
20	Global Change Biology	82
21	Green Chemistry	81
22	Building and Environment	76
23	Sustainable Production and Consumption	74
24	Process Safety and Environmental Protection	73
-	Journal of Hydrology	73
-	Frontiers in Public Health	73
27	Environmental Chemistry Letters	72
-	Industrial Crops and Products	72
29	ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering	71
-	Lancet Global Health	71
31	Desalination	70
32	Agronomy-Basel	68
-	Water	68
34	Journal of Water Process Engineering	67
35	BMC Public Health	64
36	Lancet Planetary Health	63
-	ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing	63
-	Lancet Public Health	63
39	Nature Ecology & Evolution	61
40	Agriculture-Basel	60
-	Marine Pollution Bulletin	60
-	Environmental Technology & Innovation	60
43	Waste Management	59
44	CATENA	58
45	Trends in Ecology & Evolution	57
46	One Earth	56
47	IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy	55
-	Landscape and Urban Planning	55
49	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing	54
-	Agricultural Water Management	54

-	ChemSusChem	54
-	Green Energy & Environment	54
-	Sustainable Development	54
54	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters	53
55	BMJ Global Health	52
-	Drones	52
-	Ecological Informatics	52
-	ISME Journal	52
59	Social Science & Medicine	51
-	Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment	51
61	Aquaculture	50
-	Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions	50
63	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	49
-	Frontiers in Marine Science	49
-	Urban Forestry & Urban Greening	49
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	49
-	Environmental Health Perspectives	49
68	Ecological Economics	48
-	Ecology Letters	48
-	Fish & Shellfish Immunology	48
-	Ocean & Coastal Management	48
-	Accident Analysis and Prevention	48
73	Environmental Science & Technology Letters	47
-	Environment Development and Sustainability	47
75	Postharvest Biology and Technology	46
-	Applied Water Science	46
77	Water Resources Research	45
78	Journal of Rural Studies	44
-	Journal of Clinical Epidemiology	44
80	Methods in Ecology and Evolution	43
-	Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments	43
-	Forests	43
83	Field Crops Research	42
-	Forest Ecology and Management	42
85	Global Ecology and Biogeography	41
-	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine	41
87	Biological Conservation	40
-	Environmental Modelling & Software	40
-	Natural Hazards	40
-	Journal of Transport Geography	40
-	Hydrology and Earth System Sciences	40
92	American Journal of Preventive Medicine	39
-	American Journal of Public Health	39
-	International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation	39
-	Journal of Infection and Public Health	39
-	International Journal of Epidemiology	39
-	Journal of Polymers and the Environment	39
98	Plant and Soil	38
-	Advanced Sustainable Systems	38
-	Ecological Engineering	38
-	Journal of Adolescent Health	38
102	Crop Journal	37
-	Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry	37
-	Water Resources Management	37
-	Computers Environment and Urban Systems	37
-	ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information	37
-	International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control	37
108	Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment	36
-	Preventive Medicine	36
-	European Journal of Agronomy	36
-	Molecular Ecology	36
-	Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution	36
-	Water Air and Soil Pollution	36
114	GIScience & Remote Sensing	35
-	Energy for Sustainable Development	35
-	Journal of Sustainable Tourism	35
-	Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific	35
-	Public Health	35
-	Journal of Applied Ecology	35
120	Molecular Ecology Resources	34
-	Aquatic Toxicology	34
-	Ecosystem Services	34
-	Applied Geography	34
-	Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease	34
-	SSM-Population Health	34
-	Journal of Global Health	34
127	npj Clean Water	33
-	One Health	33
-	Patient Education and Counseling	33
-	Sustainability Science	33
-	Functional Ecology	33
-	Ambio	33
-	Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics	33
-	Annual Review of Public Health	33
-	Digital Health	33
-	JMIR Public Health and Surveillance	33
137	American Journal of Epidemiology	32
-	Conservation Biology	32
-	Water Science and Technology	32
-	Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment	32
-	Ecology and Evolution	32
-	Environmental Earth Sciences	32
-	European Journal of Epidemiology	32
-	Journal of Ecology	32
-	International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment	32
-	International Soil and Water Conservation Research	32
-	Agronomy for Sustainable Development	32
-	Pest Management Science	32
-	Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy	32
-	Sustainable Materials and Technologies	32
-	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	32
-	Materials Today Sustainability	32
-	Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering	32
-	Journal of Safety Research	32
155	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	31
-	Geocarto International	31
-	Health & Place	31
-	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	31
-	Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability	31
-	Ecography	31
-	Ecology	31
-	Environmental Health	31
-	Journal of Industrial Ecology	31
164	Cold Regions Science and Technology	30
-	Environmental Geochemistry and Health	30
-	BMC Womens Health	30
-	Journal of Hospital Infection	30
-	Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment	30
-	Preventive Medicine Reports	30
-	Diversity-Basel	30
-	International Journal for Equity in Health	30
-	Theoretical and Applied Genetics	30
-	International Journal of Digital Earth	30
-	International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology	30
-	Regional Studies	30

176	Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy	29
-	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	29
-	Ecological Applications	29
-	Ecological Modelling	29
-	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	29
-	Tobacco Control	29
-	JMIR Serious Games	29
-	Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology	29
-	Globalization and Health	29
-	Journal of Contaminant Hydrology	29
-	Limnology and Oceanography	29
187	Biogeosciences	28
-	Advances in Water Resources	28
-	People and Nature	28
-	Annual Review of Marine Science	28
-	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	28
-	Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health disParities	28
-	GPS Solutions	28
-	Health Expectations	28
-	Journal of Water and Climate Change	28
-	Reproductive Health	28
-	Current Opinion in Insect Science	28
-	Psychiatric Services	28
-	Forest Policy and Economics	28
-	Ecosphere	28

(This list is limited to max. 200 journals; click here to see the full list)