Environment and Ecology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(The Journal Impact Factor, or JIF, denotes the average number of citations a paper of a given journal accrues within a two-year timespan, as calculated by Clarivate Analytics' database Web of Science; note that the journal coverage here at OOIR might deviate slightly from Web of Science's. The JIFs that used to have more than one decimal point are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)

Rank	Journal	Impact Factor 2024
1	Nature Sustainability	ca. 27.1
2	Lancet Public Health	ca. 25.2
3	Lancet Planetary Health	ca. 21.6
4	Applied Catalysis B-Environmental	ca. 21.1
5	Annual Review of Public Health	ca. 20.7
6	Environmental Chemistry Letters	ca. 20.4
7	Annual Review of Marine Science	ca. 18.9
8	Lancet Global Health	ca. 18
9	Trends in Ecology & Evolution	ca. 17.3
-	MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report	ca. 17.3
11	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine	ca. 16.4
12	Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews	ca. 16.3
13	Nature Ecology & Evolution	ca. 14.5
14	Chemical Engineering Journal	ca. 13.2
15	Water Research	ca. 12.4
16	ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing	ca. 12.2
17	Sustainable Cities and Society	ca. 12
-	Global Change Biology	ca. 12
19	Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics	ca. 11.4
-	npj Clean Water	ca. 11.4
-	Remote Sensing of Environment	ca. 11.4
22	Environmental Science & Technology	ca. 11.3
-	Journal of Hazardous Materials	ca. 11.3
24	Resources Conservation and Recycling	ca. 10.9
25	Journal of Cleaner Production	ca. 10
-	ISME Journal	ca. 10
-	IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy	ca. 10
28	Environmental Health Perspectives	ca. 9.8
-	Desalination	ca. 9.8
30	Dialogues in Human Geography	ca. 9.6
-	American Journal of Public Health	ca. 9.6
-	Sustainable Production and Consumption	ca. 9.6
33	Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry	ca. 9.4
34	Landscape and Urban Planning	ca. 9.2
-	Green Chemistry	ca. 9.2
-	Sustainable Materials and Technologies	ca. 9.2
37	Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions	ca. 9.1
-	Renewable Energy	ca. 9.1
-	Current Environmental Health Reports	ca. 9.1
40	Economic Geography	ca. 8.9
41	Environmental Science & Technology Letters	ca. 8.8
42	Annual Review of Animal Biosciences	ca. 8.7
43	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	ca. 8.6
-	International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation	ca. 8.6
45	Computers Environment and Urban Systems	ca. 8.3
46	Sustainable Development	ca. 8.2
-	Water Research X	ca. 8.2
48	Current Pollution Reports	ca. 8.1
-	Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific	ca. 8.1
-	Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews	ca. 8.1

51	Ecology Letters	ca. 7.9
-	Materials Today Sustainability	ca. 7.9
53	Journal of Sustainable Tourism	ca. 7.8
-	Process Safety and Environmental Protection	ca. 7.8
55	Environmental Research	ca. 7.7
-	International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology	ca. 7.7
57	Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment	ca. 7.6
-	Building and Environment	ca. 7.6
59	Water Resources and Industry	ca. 7.5
-	Ecological Monographs	ca. 7.5
61	Ecological Informatics	ca. 7.3
-	International Soil and Water Conservation Research	ca. 7.3
-	ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering	ca. 7.3
64	Current Forestry Reports	ca. 7.2
65	Waste Management	ca. 7.1
-	Environmental Technology & Innovation	ca. 7.1
67	Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments	ca. 7
68	GIScience & Remote Sensing	ca. 6.9
69	Postharvest Biology and Technology	ca. 6.8
70	Urban Forestry & Urban Greening	ca. 6.7
-	Agronomy for Sustainable Development	ca. 6.7
-	Journal of Water Process Engineering	ca. 6.7
73	ChemSusChem	ca. 6.6
-	Ecosystem Services	ca. 6.6
75	Agricultural Water Management	ca. 6.5
76	Journal of Travel Medicine	ca. 6.4
-	Plant Phenomics	ca. 6.4
-	Field Crops Research	ca. 6.4
-	Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment	ca. 6.4
-	Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering	ca. 6.4
81	Ecological Economics	ca. 6.3
-	Journal of Hydrology	ca. 6.3
-	Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability	ca. 6.3
-	Journal of Transport Geography	ca. 6.3
85	Cladistics	ca. 6.2
-	Industrial Crops and Products	ca. 6.2
-	Accident Analysis and Prevention	ca. 6.2
-	Methods in Ecology and Evolution	ca. 6.2
89	Progress in Human Geography	ca. 6.1
-	BMJ Global Health	ca. 6.1
-	Advanced Sustainable Systems	ca. 6.1
-	Rice Science	ca. 6.1
93	Global Ecology and Biogeography	ca. 6
94	Environmental Health	ca. 5.9
-	International Journal of Epidemiology	ca. 5.9
-	Conservation Letters	ca. 5.9
-	European Journal of Epidemiology	ca. 5.9
98	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water	ca. 5.8
-	Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy	ca. 5.8
100	Applied Water Science	ca. 5.7
-	CATENA	ca. 5.7
-	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	ca. 5.7
-	Journal of Rural Studies	ca. 5.7
-	Bulletin of the World Health Organization	ca. 5.7
105	International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology	ca. 5.6
-	Journal of Ecology	ca. 5.6
107	Geo-Spatial Information Science	ca. 5.5
-	Conservation Biology	ca. 5.5
-	Molecular Ecology Resources	ca. 5.5
-	European Journal of Agronomy	ca. 5.5
111	Applied Geography	ca. 5.4
-	International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment	ca. 5.4
-	Ocean & Coastal Management	ca. 5.4
-	Journal of Industrial Ecology	ca. 5.4
115	Sustainability Science	ca. 5.3
-	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing	ca. 5.3
117	Journal of Clinical Epidemiology	ca. 5.2
-	International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control	ca. 5.2
119	Functional Ecology	ca. 5.1
-	Energy Sustainability and Society	ca. 5.1
-	Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews	ca. 5.1
-	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	ca. 5.1
-	Ambio	ca. 5.1
124	Social Science & Medicine	ca. 5
-	Rice	ca. 5
-	Journal of Hydrology-Regional Studies	ca. 5
-	Water Resources Research	ca. 5
-	Limnology and Oceanography Letters	ca. 5
-	Journal of Polymers and the Environment	ca. 5
-	Fire Ecology	ca. 5
131	Marine Pollution Bulletin	ca. 4.9
-	International Journal of Digital Earth	ca. 4.9
-	Political Geography	ca. 4.9
-	People and Nature	ca. 4.9
-	Energy for Sustainable Development	ca. 4.9
136	Sustainable Environment Research	ca. 4.8
-	Journal of Applied Ecology	ca. 4.8
-	Current Opinion in Insect Science	ca. 4.8
-	Drones	ca. 4.8
-	American Journal of Epidemiology	ca. 4.8
141	Zoological Research	ca. 4.7
-	Tobacco Control	ca. 4.7
-	Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society	ca. 4.7
-	Water Resources Management	ca. 4.7
-	Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology	ca. 4.7
-	Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease	ca. 4.7
-	Ecography	ca. 4.7
148	Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries	ca. 4.6
-	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	ca. 4.6
-	Exposure and Health	ca. 4.6
-	Journal of Forestry Research	ca. 4.6
-	Environmental Modelling & Software	ca. 4.6
153	Reviews on Environmental Health	ca. 4.5
-	One Health	ca. 4.5
-	American Journal of Preventive Medicine	ca. 4.5
-	Harmful Algae	ca. 4.5
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	ca. 4.5
-	Journal of Adolescent Health	ca. 4.5
-	Globalization and Health	ca. 4.5
160	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters	ca. 4.4
-	Journal of Safety Research	ca. 4.4
-	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	ca. 4.4
-	Biological Conservation	ca. 4.4
-	Journal of Contaminant Hydrology	ca. 4.4
-	International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health	ca. 4.4
-	Epidemiology	ca. 4.4
167	Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health	ca. 4.3
-	Indoor Air	ca. 4.3
-	Ecological Applications	ca. 4.3
-	Waste Management & Research	ca. 4.3
-	Geographical Analysis	ca. 4.3
-	Journal of Global Health	ca. 4.3
-	Aquatic Toxicology	ca. 4.3
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology	ca. 4.3
-	Ecology	ca. 4.3

-	Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation	ca. 4.3
177	Advances in Water Resources	ca. 4.2
-	Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment	ca. 4.2
-	Environment Development and Sustainability	ca. 4.2
-	Diversity and Distributions	ca. 4.2
-	Regional Studies	ca. 4.2
-	Journal of Sustainable Cement-Based Materials	ca. 4.2
-	Theoretical and Applied Genetics	ca. 4.2
184	Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences	ca. 4.1
-	JMIR Serious Games	ca. 4.1
-	Health & Place	ca. 4.1
-	Journal of Urban Health-Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine	ca. 4.1
-	Ecological Engineering	ca. 4.1
-	Plant and Soil	ca. 4.1
-	Remote Sensing	ca. 4.1
-	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	ca. 4.1
-	International Journal for Equity in Health	ca. 4.1
-	Global Change Biology Bioenergy	ca. 4.1
194	Journal of Geodesy	ca. 4
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Science	ca. 4
-	Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space	ca. 4
-	Journal of Infection and Public Health	ca. 4
-	Microbial Ecology	ca. 4
-	Energy Efficiency	ca. 4
-	Neuroepidemiology	ca. 4

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