New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Environment and Ecology

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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 Chemical Engineering Journal156
2 Applied Catalysis B-Environmental144
3 Journal of Cleaner Production141
4 Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews138
5 Sustainability129
6 Journal of Hazardous Materials126
7 Environmental Science & Technology121
8 Water Research116
9 Environmental Research109
10 Renewable Energy108
11 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health100
12 Sustainable Cities and Society93
13 Nature Sustainability90
14 Remote Sensing89
15 Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering88
16 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing87
17 Global Change Biology86
- MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report86
19 Resources Conservation and Recycling83
20 Frontiers in Public Health80
21 Journal of Hydrology79
22 Process Safety and Environmental Protection78
- Green Chemistry78
24 Desalination77
25 Building and Environment76
- Journal of Water Process Engineering76
27 Remote Sensing of Environment75
- Environmental Chemistry Letters75
29 Water74
- ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing74
- ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering74
32 Lancet Global Health72
- Agriculture-Basel72
- Agronomy-Basel72
35 Industrial Crops and Products71
36 BMC Public Health70
- Sustainable Production and Consumption70
38 Nature Ecology & Evolution68
39 Lancet Public Health65
40 Sustainable Development61
- Landscape and Urban Planning61
- Drones61
43 CATENA59
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution59
- Ecological Informatics59
- Lancet Planetary Health59
47 ISME Journal58
- Green Energy & Environment58
- Marine Pollution Bulletin58
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing58
51 Waste Management57
- One Earth57
- Environmental Technology & Innovation57
54 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment56
- IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy56
56 Agricultural Water Management55
57 Water Resources Research52
- Field Crops Research52
59 International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction51
60 Ocean & Coastal Management50
- Frontiers in Marine Science50
62 Urban Forestry & Urban Greening49
- Environmental Health Perspectives49
- Accident Analysis and Prevention49
- Ecological Economics49
66 ChemSusChem48
- Postharvest Biology and Technology48
68 Journal of Rural Studies47
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology47
- Ecology Letters47
- Environmental Science & Technology Letters47
72 Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments46
73 Forests45
- BMJ Global Health45
- Aquaculture45
76 Social Science & Medicine44
- Journal of Clinical Epidemiology44
- Fish & Shellfish Immunology44
79 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters43
80 Applied Geography42
- Journal of Polymers and the Environment42
- Hydrology and Earth System Sciences42
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine42
- Biological Conservation42
- Water Air and Soil Pollution42
- Natural Hazards42
- Journal of Transport Geography42
- International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation42
89 Applied Water Science41
- Water Resources Management41
- npj Clean Water41
- Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions41
- European Journal of Agronomy41
- Forest Ecology and Management41
95 Computers Environment and Urban Systems40
- Crop Journal40
97 Journal of Global Health39
- Digital Health39
- Energy for Sustainable Development39
- Journal of Infection and Public Health39
101 Agronomy for Sustainable Development38
- Methods in Ecology and Evolution38
- International Journal of Digital Earth38
- International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control38
- International Journal for Equity in Health38
- Environmental Modelling & Software38
107 Plant and Soil37
- Patient Education and Counseling37
- Global Ecology and Biogeography37
- Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry37
- Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy37
- Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific37
113 One Health36
- BMC Womens Health36
- JMIR Public Health and Surveillance36
- Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution36
- Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment36
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine36
- American Journal of Public Health36
- Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy36
- Aquatic Toxicology36
- Molecular Ecology36
123 Materials Today Sustainability35
- Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences35
- Ecology35
- ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information35
- Ecosystem Services35
- Environmental Geochemistry and Health35
- Journal of Ecology35
- European Journal of Epidemiology35
131 Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability34
- Molecular Ecology Resources34
- Journal of Sustainable Tourism34
- Ecological Engineering34
- Public Health34
- Physics and Chemistry of the Earth34
- Ecology and Evolution34
- GIScience & Remote Sensing34
- International Journal of Epidemiology34
140 Advanced Sustainable Systems33
- Ambio33
- Sustainability Science33
- Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering33
- Journal of Contaminant Hydrology33
- Diversity-Basel33
- Conservation Biology33
- Sustainable Materials and Technologies33
- Waste Management & Research33
- Pest Management Science33
- Functional Ecology33
- Environmental Earth Sciences33
- Environment Development and Sustainability33
153 Plant Phenomics32
- Preventive Medicine32
- People and Nature32
- International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology32
- Journal of Adolescent Health32
- Journal of Applied Ecology32
- Environmental Health32
- Fishes32
- Journal of Safety Research32
- Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk32
- GPS Solutions32
- Health & Place32
- International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment32
166 Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease31
- Journal of Industrial Ecology31
- Biogeosciences31
- Cold Regions Science and Technology31
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences31
- Journal of Water and Climate Change31
- Fire-Switzerland31
173 Annual Review of Public Health30
- Water Science and Technology30
- IET Renewable Power Generation30
- Journal of Hydrology-Regional Studies30
- Ecography30
- Frontiers in Forests and Global Change30
- American Journal of Epidemiology30
- Political Geography30
- Regional Studies30
- Current Pollution Reports30
- Microbial Ecology30
- Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment30
- International Soil and Water Conservation Research30
- Geocarto International30
- Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology30
- Ecological Applications30
189 Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics29
- Marine Environmental Research29
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science29
- Ecosphere29
- Environmental Toxicology29
- Forest Policy and Economics29
- International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health29
- Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control29
- Ecological Modelling29
- JMIR Serious Games29
- Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews29
- Health Expectations29
(This list is limited to max. 200 journals; click here to see the full list)
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