Environmental Studies: 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Nature Sustainability	36
2	Tourism Management	32
3	Sustainable Production and Consumption	27
4	Landscape and Urban Planning	26
5	Energy Policy	24
-	Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions	24
-	Resources Policy	24
8	Business Strategy and the Environment	23
9	Environmental Impact Assessment Review	22
10	Nature Climate Change	21
11	Computers Environment and Urban Systems	20
12	Land Use Policy	18
-	Ecosystem Services	18
-	Annual Review of Resource Economics	18
15	Transportation Research Part D-Transport and Environment	17
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	17
-	Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions	17
18	One Earth	16
-	Organization & Environment	16
-	Urban Forestry & Urban Greening	16
-	Energy Research & Social Science	16
22	Habitat International	14
-	Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management	14
-	Ecological Economics	14
25	Journal of Environmental Psychology	13
26	Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal	12
27	International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management	11
-	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management	11
-	Marine Policy	11
-	Review of Environmental Economics and Policy	11
-	Climate Policy	11
32	Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space	10
-	Utilities Policy	10
34	Forest Policy and Economics	9
-	Resource and Energy Economics	9
-	Sustainability	9
-	Energy & Environment	9
-	Regional Environmental Change	9
39	Regional Science and Urban Economics	8
-	Carbon Management	8
-	Climate Risk Management	8
-	Regional Studies	8
43	Environment and Behavior	7
-	International Journal of Sustainable Transportation	7
-	Land	7
-	Urban Studies	7
-	Ecology and Society	7
-	Environmental & Resource Economics	7
-	International Environmental Agreements-Politics Law and Economics	7
-	Journal of Environmental Education	7

-	Climate and Development	7
-	Climate Services	7
-	Energy Efficiency	7
54	Global Environmental Politics	6
-	Natural Hazards Review	6
-	Science and Public Policy	6
-	Anthropocene Review	6
-	Disasters	6
-	Environmental Education Research	6
-	Environmental Policy and Governance	6
-	European Planning Studies	6
-	Open House International	6
-	Papers in Regional Science	6
-	Water Resources and Economics	6
-	Energy Journal	6
-	Environmental Politics	6
67	Environment and Planning D-Society & Space	5
-	European Urban and Regional Studies	5
-	Housing Studies	5
-	Journal of Agricultural Education & Extension	5
-	Population and Environment	5
-	Environment and Planning E-Nature and Space	5
-	Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal	5
-	Housing Theory & Society	5
-	International Regional Science Review	5
-	Journal of Housing and the Built Environment	5
-	Local Environment	5
-	Natural Resources Forum	5
-	Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture	5
80	Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science	4
-	Environment and Urbanization	4
-	Human Ecology	4
-	Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal	4
-	Journal of Environment & Development	4
-	Journal of Regional Science	4
-	Annals of Regional Science	4
-	Transnational Environmental Law	4
-	Weather Climate and Society	4
-	Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions	4
-	Environment and Development Economics	4
-	International Journal of the Commons	4
-	Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists	4
-	Marine Resource Economics	4
-	Society & Natural Resources	4
-	Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy	4
-	Disaster Prevention and Management	4
-	Environmental Values	4
98	International Journal of Urban Sciences	3
-	Australasian Journal of Environmental Management	3
-	Climate Change Economics	3
-	Coastal Management	3
-	Conservation & Society	3
-	Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space	3
-	International Journal of Housing Policy	3
-	Land Economics	3
-	Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy	3
107	Journal of Environmental Law	2
-	GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society	2
-	Human Ecology Review	2
-	Landscape Research	2
-	Review of European Comparative & International Environmental Law	2
112	Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography	1
-	Water Economics and Policy	1
-	Cultural Geographies	1
-	Environment	1
-	Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law	1
-	Urban Policy and Research	1
-	Environmental History	1
119	Environment and History	0
-	Environmental Ethics	0