New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Environment and Ecology

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Environmental Chemistry Letters49.373
2 Applied Catalysis B-Environmental37.289
3 Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews34.617
4 Nature Sustainability31.651
5 MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report30.091
6 Annual Review of Marine Science27.946
7 Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics25.806
8 Sustainable Production and Consumption22.929
9 Water Research22.496
10 Sustainable Cities and Society22.310
11 Journal of Cleaner Production22.191
12 Lancet Public Health21.758
13 Lancet Planetary Health21.396
14 Green Energy & Environment21.246
15 Resources Conservation and Recycling21.221
16 Annual Review of Public Health20.973
17 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing20.649
18 Landscape and Urban Planning20.499
19 Remote Sensing of Environment20.478
20 Global Change Biology18.730
21 Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions18.653
22 Computers Environment and Urban Systems18.521
23 Journal of Hazardous Materials18.503
24 Environmental Science & Technology18.437
25 Chemical Engineering Journal18.093
26 npj Clean Water17.940
27 Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews17.618
28 Lancet Global Health17.076
29 Trends in Ecology & Evolution16.934
30 Current Forestry Reports16.849
31 Environment Development and Sustainability16.802
32 ISME Journal16.539
33 One Earth16.482
34 Renewable Energy16.458
35 Nature Ecology & Evolution16.315
36 Desalination16.110
37 Current Pollution Reports16.094
38 Environmental Research15.933
39 Current Environmental Health Reports15.491
40 Agronomy for Sustainable Development15.361
41 IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy14.712
42 Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability14.377
43 Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry14.157
44 Water Resources and Industry14.153
45 Annual Review of Animal Biosciences14.037
46 Building and Environment14.021
47 International Soil and Water Conservation Research13.847
48 Ecosystem Services13.678
49 International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology13.511
50 Process Safety and Environmental Protection13.398
51 Waste Management13.380
52 Ecological Monographs13.134
53 Environmental Technology & Innovation13.131
54 Environmental Health Perspectives13.005
55 Accident Analysis and Prevention12.751
56 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine12.588
57 Ecological Informatics12.468
58 Progress in Human Geography12.438
59 Journal of Sustainable Tourism12.403
60 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment12.399
61 Green Chemistry12.344
62 Field Crops Research12.297
63 Ecological Economics12.281
64 ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering12.092
65 Journal of Hydrology12.069
66 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water11.989
67 Agricultural Water Management11.739
68 Ecology Letters11.569
69 Postharvest Biology and Technology11.520
70 CATENA11.428
71 GIScience & Remote Sensing11.354
72 Environmental Health11.299
73 Landscape Ecology11.202
74 Energy for Sustainable Development11.111
75 Plant Phenomics11.045
76 Urban Forestry & Urban Greening11.025
77 Environmental Science & Technology Letters11.020
78 Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews11.011
79 Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering10.977
80 Crop Journal10.916
81 International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control10.907
82 Economic Geography10.802
83 Industrial Crops and Products10.651
84 Hydrology and Earth System Sciences10.643
85 Journal of Rural Studies10.621
86 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology10.598
87 Microbial Ecology10.592
88 European Journal of Agronomy10.416
89 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health10.380
90 Annals of Forest Science10.321
91 Applied Geography10.310
92 International Journal of Epidemiology10.228
93 Ocean & Coastal Management10.193
94 Sustainable Development10.093
95 Global Ecology and Biogeography10.008
96 Journal of Transport Geography9.982
97 Drones9.850
98 Journal of Water Process Engineering9.833
99 Journal of Polymers and the Environment9.798
100 Applied Water Science9.760
101 International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction9.718
102 Preventing Chronic Disease9.715
103 Water Resources Research9.708
104 Journal of Forestry Research9.670
105 Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering9.566
106 European Journal of Epidemiology9.412
107 Methods in Ecology and Evolution9.410
108 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing9.353
109 Marine Pollution Bulletin9.335
110 BMJ Global Health9.219
111 Gesunde Pflanzen9.208
112 Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology9.126
113 Reviews on Environmental Health9.124
114 Molecular Ecology Resources9.120
115 International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment9.077
116 JMIR Serious Games9.022
117 Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences9.002
118 Sustainable Environment Research9.000
119 Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society8.990
120 Globalization and Health8.987
121 Fire Ecology8.986
122 Sustainability Science8.968
- Remote Sensing8.968
124 Energy Sustainability and Society8.936
125 Sustainability8.894
126 Journal of Industrial Ecology8.808
127 Current Epidemiology Reports8.792
128 Water Resources Management8.757
129 Journal of Safety Research8.755
130 Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences8.587
131 International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability8.543
132 Drug Safety8.438
133 Journal of Wood Science8.390
134 Journal of Ecology8.386
135 Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space8.382
136 Political Geography8.376
137 Journal of Clinical Epidemiology8.307
138 Palliative Medicine8.279
139 Journal of Evolutionary Biology8.266
140 International Journal of Digital Earth8.204
141 Ambio8.188
142 One Health8.168
143 Rice8.159
144 International Journal of Disaster Risk Science8.154
145 International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology8.111
146 Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control8.099
147 GPS Solutions8.079
148 Ecological Applications8.074
149 International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health8.047
150 Regional Studies7.992
151 Waste Management & Research7.988
152 Geocarto International7.985
153 Ecological Engineering7.969
154 Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease7.957
155 Cladistics7.927
156 Health & Place7.913
157 Biological Conservation7.909
158 Aquatic Toxicology7.869
- Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy7.869
160 Functional Ecology7.857
161 International Journal for Equity in Health7.814
162 Ecography7.780
163 Environmental Modelling & Software7.750
164 ChemSusChem7.747
165 Materials Today Sustainability7.737
166 Current Opinion in Insect Science7.703
167 JMIR Public Health and Surveillance7.667
168 Aquaculture7.661
169 Agriculture-Basel7.617
170 International Journal of Geographical Information Science7.609
171 Animal Cognition7.591
172 Conflict and Health7.590
173 Rice Science7.530
174 Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine7.514
175 Journal of Global Health7.512
176 Journal of Infection and Public Health7.472
177 Agronomy-Basel7.443
178 Fish & Shellfish Immunology7.409
179 Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation7.372
180 Physics and Chemistry of the Earth7.361
181 Journal of Occupational Health Psychology7.310
182 Forest Policy and Economics7.295
183 Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk7.248
184 Advances in Water Resources7.246
185 Ecology7.221
186 LGBT Health7.212
187 Journal of Applied Ecology7.207
188 Limnology and Oceanography Letters7.206
189 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology7.189
190 People and Nature7.168
191 Journal of Water and Climate Change7.131
192 Conservation Biology7.108
193 Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments7.094
194 Molecular Ecology7.090
195 Frontiers in Forests and Global Change7.080
196 Forest Ecology and Management7.061
197 Conservation Letters7.046
198 SSM-Population Health7.042
199 Cold Regions Science and Technology7.041
200 Annals of Global Health7.028
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