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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Environmental Chemistry Letters40.410
2 Applied Catalysis B-Environmental39.780
3 Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews35.690
4 MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report33.470
5 Annual Review of Public Health32.351
6 Nature Sustainability31.753
7 Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics28.368
8 Lancet Public Health24.635
9 Lancet Planetary Health24.599
10 Remote Sensing of Environment22.996
11 Annual Review of Marine Science22.685
12 Sustainable Cities and Society21.689
13 Resources Conservation and Recycling21.562
14 Sustainable Production and Consumption21.290
15 Water Research21.213
16 Journal of Cleaner Production20.735
17 Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions20.420
18 Journal of Hazardous Materials20.349
19 Chemical Engineering Journal20.179
20 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing19.917
21 Landscape and Urban Planning19.584
22 Green Energy & Environment19.330
23 Renewable Energy18.402
24 Trends in Ecology & Evolution18.348
25 Environmental Science & Technology17.915
26 Global Change Biology17.799
27 Desalination16.469
28 Current Environmental Health Reports16.220
29 ISME Journal15.824
30 Environmental Research15.789
31 Computers Environment and Urban Systems15.584
32 IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy15.330
33 Current Forestry Reports15.306
34 One Earth14.967
35 Annual Review of Animal Biosciences14.885
36 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine14.691
37 Lancet Global Health14.239
38 Environment Development and Sustainability14.188
39 Building and Environment14.140
40 Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews14.069
41 International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology13.814
42 Ecosystem Services13.768
43 npj Clean Water13.698
44 Agronomy for Sustainable Development13.644
45 Nature Ecology & Evolution13.628
46 Water Resources and Industry13.543
47 International Soil and Water Conservation Research13.528
48 Environmental Technology & Innovation13.518
49 Green Chemistry13.495
50 Waste Management13.411
51 Ecological Monographs12.914
52 Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry12.768
53 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment12.747
54 Ecology Letters12.735
55 Process Safety and Environmental Protection12.655
56 Current Pollution Reports12.628
57 Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability12.488
58 Journal of Hydrology12.370
59 Environmental Science & Technology Letters12.332
60 Ecological Economics12.227
61 Urban Forestry & Urban Greening12.167
62 Accident Analysis and Prevention12.143
63 Ecological Informatics12.087
64 ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering12.074
65 Postharvest Biology and Technology12.026
66 Journal of Sustainable Tourism11.984
67 Agricultural Water Management11.918
68 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing11.659
69 Progress in Human Geography11.573
70 GIScience & Remote Sensing11.503
71 Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering11.408
72 Journal of Rural Studies11.386
73 Environmental Health Perspectives11.137
74 CATENA11.096
75 Industrial Crops and Products11.085
76 Field Crops Research11.075
77 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology10.938
78 Economic Geography10.922
79 Crop Journal10.896
80 Methods in Ecology and Evolution10.784
81 International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control10.652
82 Sustainable Development10.526
83 BMJ Global Health10.426
84 Environmental Health10.362
85 Applied Water Science10.361
86 Ocean & Coastal Management10.340
87 Global Ecology and Biogeography10.336
88 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water10.139
89 Journal of Transport Geography10.078
90 Hydrology and Earth System Sciences9.917
91 Marine Pollution Bulletin9.811
92 Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews9.639
93 Energy for Sustainable Development9.617
94 Sustainable Environment Research9.592
95 Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering9.424
96 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health9.417
97 European Journal of Epidemiology9.325
98 Globalization and Health9.185
99 Landscape Ecology9.032
100 Water Resources Research9.006
101 Plant Phenomics8.997
102 Molecular Ecology Resources8.974
103 Applied Geography8.968
104 International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment8.933
105 Ecological Applications8.811
106 JMIR Serious Games8.808
107 Ambio8.788
108 Journal of Water Process Engineering8.754
109 Ecography8.734
110 European Journal of Agronomy8.654
111 Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society8.573
112 Ecological Engineering8.561
113 Social Science & Medicine8.547
114 Journal of Infection and Public Health8.512
115 International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction8.472
116 Journal of Polymers and the Environment8.457
117 Conservation Letters8.439
118 Sustainability Science8.434
119 Journal of Clinical Epidemiology8.405
120 Aquaculture8.358
121 Current Opinion in Insect Science8.348
122 Energy Sustainability and Society8.345
123 Fish & Shellfish Immunology8.338
124 Environmental Modelling & Software8.289
125 Remote Sensing8.285
126 Water Research X8.254
127 Indoor Air8.227
128 Water Resources Management8.092
129 Journal of Occupational Health Psychology8.090
130 Rice8.075
131 Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology8.047
132 Biological Conservation8.036
133 Drones8.032
134 Current Epidemiology Reports8.011
135 Microbial Ecology7.986
136 Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control7.977
137 ChemSusChem7.968
138 Preventive Medicine7.959
139 Journal of Safety Research7.885
140 Sustainability7.862
141 Annals of Forest Science7.833
142 Exposure and Health7.807
143 International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health7.776
144 Journal of Industrial Ecology7.749
145 Forest Ecology and Management7.744
146 Geocarto International7.734
147 Journal of Applied Ecology7.715
148 Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space7.714
149 Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences7.682
150 Gesunde Pflanzen7.676
151 Functional Ecology7.667
152 International Journal of Disaster Risk Science7.666
153 Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences7.662
154 International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology7.629
155 Palliative Medicine7.619
156 Harmful Algae7.597
157 Aquatic Toxicology7.590
158 Journal of Ecology7.584
159 Reviews on Environmental Health7.559
160 Journal of Health and Social Behavior7.554
161 SSM-Population Health7.492
162 Rice Science7.480
163 Journal of Forestry Research7.460
164 Molecular Ecology7.431
165 Fire Ecology7.417
166 Cold Regions Science and Technology7.399
167 Health & Place7.389
168 One Health7.338
169 Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments7.334
170 Journal of Wood Science7.318
171 International Journal of Geographical Information Science7.292
172 Cladistics7.274
173 Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease7.250
174 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters7.245
175 Waste Management & Research7.237
176 Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment7.233
177 Limnology and Oceanography Letters7.207
178 Drug Safety7.188
179 Advances in Water Resources7.166
180 American Journal of Preventive Medicine7.154
181 Basic and Applied Ecology7.124
182 Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk7.117
183 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology7.105
184 Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation7.075
185 Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine7.058
186 Global Change Biology Bioenergy7.049
- GPS Solutions7.049
188 Forest Policy and Economics7.013
189 LGBT Health6.990
190 International Journal for Equity in Health6.986
191 Physics and Chemistry of the Earth6.943
192 Conflict and Health6.876
193 JMIR Public Health and Surveillance6.867
194 Forest Ecosystems6.828
195 Regional Studies6.821
196 Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment6.783
197 People and Nature6.782
198 Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy6.735
199 Theoretical and Applied Genetics6.726
200 Ecological Processes6.713
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