Environmental Sciences: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Biochar	40
2	Energy & Environmental Science	37
3	Environmental Chemistry Letters	36
4	Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry	33
5	Nature Sustainability	30
6	Journal of Hazardous Materials	28
7	Resources Conservation and Recycling	26
8	Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio-Technology	25
9	Water Research	24
10	Remote Sensing of Environment	23
11	Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology	22
-	Journal of Cleaner Production	22
13	Environmental Science & Technology	21
-	Chemosphere	21
15	Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions	20
-	Environment International	20
17	Energy Policy	19
-	Nature Climate Change	19
19	Environmental Science and Pollution Research	18
-	Global Change Biology	18
-	Science of the Total Environment	18
22	Ecosystem Services	17
-	Waste Management	17
-	Environmental Pollution	17
25	Lancet Planetary Health	16
-	Journal of Environmental Sciences	16
-	Environmental Research	16
28	Environmental Technology & Innovation	15
-	Current Pollution Reports	15
-	Journal of Environmental Management	15
31	Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment	14
-	Environment Development and Sustainability	14
-	International Soil and Water Conservation Research	14
-	Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions	14
-	Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews	14
-	Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability	14
-	Ecological Indicators	14
38	One Earth	13
-	Environmental Science & Technology Letters	13
-	npj Clean Water	13
41	Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety	12
-	Environmental Health	12
-	NanoImpact	12
-	Sustainability Science	12
-	Urban Climate	12
-	Environmental Research Letters	12
-	Environmental Science & Policy	12
-	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	12
-	Water Research X	12
50	Ambio	11

-	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	11
-	Marine Pollution Bulletin	11
-	Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering	11
-	Biogeochemistry	11
-	Climatic Change	11
-	Earths Future	11
-	Ecological Economics	11
-	Environmental and Experimental Botany	11
59	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health	10
-	International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment	10
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water	10
-	Environmental Sciences Europe	10
-	Communications Earth & Environment	10
-	Journal of Industrial Ecology	10
-	Environmental Health Perspectives	10
66	Advances in Climate Change Research	9
-	Bioenergy Research	9
-	Biological Conservation	9
-	Ecological Applications	9
-	Ecological Engineering	9
-	Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering	9
-	Environmental Modelling & Software	9
-	Remote Sensing	9
-	Sustainable Environment Research	9
-	Anthropocene	9
-	Applied Catalysis A-General	9
-	Atmospheric Pollution Research	9
-	Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology	9
-	Water Resources Research	9
80	Environmental Reviews	8
-	Atmospheric Environment	8
-	Carbon Balance and Management	8
-	Ecological Processes	8
-	Environmental Development	8
-	Environmental Evidence	8
-	Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology	8
-	Geocarto International	8
-	International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation	8
-	Regional Environmental Change	8
-	Sustainability	8
-	Utilities Policy	8
-	Waste Management & Research	8
93	Food and Environmental Virology	7
-	Conservation Biology	7
-	Journal of Aerosol Science	7
-	Journal of Contaminant Hydrology	7
-	Toxics	7
-	Chinese Geographical Science	7
-	Climate Risk Management	7
-	International Journal of Sediment Research	7
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences	7
-	Journal of Soils and Sediments	7
-	Reviews on Environmental Health	7
-	Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy	7
105	Frontiers in Environmental Science	6
-	Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology	6
-	Geohealth	6
-	Atmosphere	6
-	International Journal of Phytoremediation	6
-	Journal of Great Lakes Research	6
-	Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management	6
-	Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment	6
-	Water	6
-	Water Science and Technology	6
-	Land Degradation & Development	6
-	Air Quality Atmosphere and Health	6
-	Environmental Toxicology	6
-	Biodiversity and Conservation	6
-	Human and Ecological Risk Assessment	6
-	Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology	6
-	Carbon Management	6
-	International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology	6
-	Ecotoxicology	6
-	Environmental Earth Sciences	6
-	Environmental Geochemistry and Health	6
-	Environmental Management	6
-	Environmental Monitoring and Assessment	6
128	Environmental Pollutants and Bioavailability	5
-	Marine Environmental Research	5
-	Environmental Science-Nano	5
-	Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry	5
-	Anthropocene Review	5
-	Geobiology	5
-	International Journal of Biometeorology	5
-	Climate Services	5
-	Journal of Arid Land	5
-	Ecohealth	5
-	Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene	5
-	Journal of Flood Risk Management	5
-	Journal of Hydro-Environment Research	5
-	Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition	5
-	Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change	5
-	Rangeland Ecology & Management	5
-	SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research	5
-	Water Resources and Economics	5
-	Aerobiologia	5
-	Estuaries and Coasts	5
-	Geomicrobiology Journal	5
-	International Journal of Environmental Research	5
-	Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy	5
-	Journal of Arid Environments	5
-	Journal of Environmental Quality	5
-	Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences	5
-	Environmental Engineering Research	5
-	Journal of Mountain Science	5
-	Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association	5
-	Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part A-Current Issues	5
-	Microbial Risk Analysis	5
-	Waste and Biomass Valorization	5
-	Water Air and Soil Pollution	5
-	Water Supply	5
162	Environmental Research Communications	4
-	Arctic Science	4
-	Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management	4
-	Climate Research	4
-	Journal of Coastal Conservation	4
-	Journal of Environmental Radioactivity	4
-	Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part B-Pesticides Food Contaminants and Agricultural Wastes	4
-	Journal of Radiological Protection	4
-	Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing	4
-	Environmental Microbiology Reports	4
-	Soil Science and Plant Nutrition	4
-	Wetlands	4
-	Aerosol Science and Technology	4
-	Aquatic Conservation-Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems	4

-	Aquatic Sciences	4
-	International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry	4
-	Chemistry and Ecology	4
-	International Journal of Mining Reclamation and Environment	4
-	Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics	4
-	Ecohydrology	4
-	Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part A-Toxic/Hazardous Substances & Environmental Engineering	4
-	Environmental Conservation	4
-	Journal of Hydroinformatics	4
-	Environmental Fluid Mechanics	4
-	Journal of Paleolimnology	4
-	Environmental Modeling & Assessment	4
-	Journal of Water and Health	4
-	Radiation and Environmental Biophysics	4
-	Wetlands Ecology and Management	4
191	Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy	3
-	Environmental Science-Processes & Impacts	3
-	Aerosol and Air Quality Research	3
-	African Journal of Range & Forage Science	3
-	Environmental Science-Water Research & Technology	3
-	Antarctic Science	3
-	Greenhouse Gases-Science and Technology	3
-	Coastal Management	3
-	Journal of Environmental Engineering	3
-	Environmental and Ecological Statistics	3
-	Journal of Hydrologic Engineering	3
-	Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology	3
-	Vadose Zone Journal	3
-	Water and Environment Journal	3
-	Environmental Technology	3
-	Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment	3
-	Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health	3
-	Arid Land Research and Management	3
-	Conservation Physiology	3
-	Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management	3
-	Ecosystem Health and Sustainability	3
-	Environmental Chemistry	3
-	Mountain Research and Development	3
-	Natural Resource Modeling	3
-	Ozone-Science & Engineering	3
-	River Research and Applications	3
-	Soil & Sediment Contamination	3
-	Water Environment Research	3
219	Environmetrics	2
-	GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society	2
-	Arctic	2
-	Human Dimensions of Wildlife	2
-	International Journal of Environmental Health Research	2
-	Journal of Applied Remote Sensing	2
-	Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis	2
-	Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene	2
-	Environmental Forensics	2
-	Natural Resources Forum	2
-	Physical Geography	2
-	Polish Journal of Environmental Studies	2
-	Agricultural & Environmental Letters	2
-	Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine	2
-	Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research	2
-	Bioremediation Journal	2
-	Industrial Health	2
-	Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies	2
-	Radioprotection	2
-	Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry	2
239	Applied Ecology and Environmental Research	1
-	Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management	1
-	Health Physics	1
-	Biotechnologie Agronomie Societe et Environnement	1
-	Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences	1
-	Clean-Soil Air Water	1
-	Radiation Protection Dosimetry	1
-	Revista Internacional de Contaminacion Ambiental	1
-	Grundwasser	1
-	Journal of Environmental Informatics	1
-	Polar Record	1
250	International Journal of Environment and Pollution	0
-	Environmental Engineering and Management Journal	0
-	Gefahrstoffe Reinhaltung der Luft	0
-	Global Nest Journal	0
-	International Journal of Global Warming	0
-	Journal of Coastal Research	0
-	Journal of Elementology	0
-	Journal of Environmental Science and Management	0
-	Environment	0