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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Applied Catalysis B-Environmental39.759
2 Environmental Chemistry Letters37.471
3 Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews35.237
4 MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report34.257
5 Annual Review of Public Health27.360
6 Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics26.835
7 Journal of Hazardous Materials22.842
8 Annual Review of Marine Science22.564
9 Remote Sensing of Environment21.801
10 Resources Conservation and Recycling21.528
11 Water Research21.315
12 Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions20.543
13 Chemical Engineering Journal20.155
14 Journal of Cleaner Production19.867
15 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing19.507
16 Landscape and Urban Planning18.455
17 Renewable Energy18.193
18 Global Change Biology17.959
19 Environmental Science & Technology17.802
20 Trends in Ecology & Evolution17.773
21 ISME Journal16.864
22 Desalination15.430
23 Environmental Research15.100
24 IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy15.098
25 Computers Environment and Urban Systems14.844
26 Environment Development and Sustainability14.398
27 Building and Environment13.990
28 Waste Management13.823
29 International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology13.547
30 Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability13.516
31 Agronomy for Sustainable Development13.244
32 Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews12.824
33 Ecological Monographs12.727
34 Ecology Letters12.573
35 Green Chemistry12.417
36 Process Safety and Environmental Protection12.321
37 Ecological Economics12.296
38 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment12.157
39 Accident Analysis and Prevention12.126
40 Journal of Sustainable Tourism12.099
41 Urban Forestry & Urban Greening12.080
42 Journal of Hydrology11.922
43 Methods in Ecology and Evolution11.584
44 GIScience & Remote Sensing11.431
45 Agricultural Water Management11.302
46 Postharvest Biology and Technology11.245
47 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing11.188
48 Journal of Clinical Epidemiology11.152
49 Progress in Human Geography11.063
50 Ecological Informatics11.054
51 Journal of Rural Studies10.968
52 CATENA10.810
53 International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control10.712
54 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology10.534
55 Environmental Health Perspectives10.452
56 Field Crops Research10.431
57 Industrial Crops and Products10.421
58 Global Ecology and Biogeography10.394
59 European Journal of Epidemiology10.270
60 Sustainable Development10.229
61 Hydrology and Earth System Sciences10.023
62 Ocean & Coastal Management9.999
63 Environmental Health9.947
64 Conservation Letters9.785
65 Marine Pollution Bulletin9.781
66 Journal of Transport Geography9.764
67 Economic Geography9.561
68 Indoor Air9.316
69 Journal of Health and Social Behavior9.215
70 Journal of Occupational Health Psychology9.212
71 Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews9.211
72 Molecular Ecology Resources9.167
73 Landscape Ecology9.134
74 Globalization and Health9.029
75 Ecological Applications9.023
76 Ecography8.997
77 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health8.983
78 Energy for Sustainable Development8.933
79 Ambio8.868
80 Water Resources Research8.713
81 Journal of Industrial Ecology8.620
82 Global Change Biology Bioenergy8.610
83 European Journal of Agronomy8.591
84 International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment8.566
85 Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society8.508
86 Environmental Modelling & Software8.417
87 International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health8.317
88 Social Science & Medicine8.294
89 Sustainability Science8.287
90 Rice8.265
91 Journal of Infection and Public Health8.246
92 Applied Geography8.232
93 Journal of Polymers and the Environment8.205
94 ChemSusChem8.189
95 Journal of Safety Research8.172
96 Harmful Algae8.061
97 Ecological Engineering7.956
98 Preventive Medicine7.941
99 Molecular Ecology7.929
100 Water Resources Management7.863
101 Aquaculture7.845
102 Fish & Shellfish Immunology7.808
103 Journal of Applied Ecology7.792
104 Functional Ecology7.791
105 Journal of Ecology7.776
106 Aquatic Toxicology7.747
107 Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology7.720
108 Annals of Forest Science7.704
109 Biological Conservation7.638
110 Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment7.590
111 Health & Place7.566
112 Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space7.536
113 Waste Management & Research7.522
114 Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences7.442
115 Microbial Ecology7.438
116 American Journal of Preventive Medicine7.411
117 Forest Ecology and Management7.389
118 Theoretical and Applied Genetics7.376
119 Geocarto International7.353
120 Palliative Medicine7.339
121 Advances in Water Resources7.311
122 Neobiota7.276
123 Drug Safety7.248
124 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology7.238
125 Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences7.144
126 Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries7.049
127 Forest Policy and Economics7.015
128 Regional Studies7.010
129 Preventing Chronic Disease6.966
130 Clinical Epidemiology6.943
131 Reproductive Health6.934
132 Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease6.930
133 Rice Science6.870
134 Cold Regions Science and Technology6.849
135 Basic and Applied Ecology6.813
136 Journal of Travel Medicine6.800
137 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters6.797
138 Cladistics6.792
139 Gesunde Pflanzen6.785
140 Journal of Forestry Research6.766
141 International Journal for Equity in Health6.761
142 Geo-Spatial Information Science6.758
143 Conservation Biology6.755
144 GPS Solutions6.751
145 International Journal of Geographical Information Science6.748
146 Biogeosciences6.724
147 Journal of Wood Science6.704
148 Fire Ecology6.644
149 Geoforum6.621
150 Reviews on Environmental Health6.605
151 Political Geography6.577
152 Diversity and Distributions6.530
153 Physics and Chemistry of the Earth6.510
154 Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine6.500
155 Heredity6.452
156 Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment6.441
157 Conflict and Health6.409
158 Journal of Epidemiology6.378
159 Ecology6.373
160 Journal of Terramechanics6.333
161 International Journal of Sediment Research6.331
162 Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk6.291
163 Tobacco Control6.219
164 Natural Hazards6.182
165 International Journal of Digital Earth6.159
166 International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation6.102
167 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing6.093
168 Ecological Complexity6.030
169 AIDS Patient Care and Stds6.007
170 Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment5.996
171 International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education5.991
172 Journal of Geodesy5.975
173 International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability5.967
- Journal of Invertebrate Pathology5.967
175 Environmental Toxicology5.887
176 Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health5.859
177 Journal of Evolutionary Biology5.855
178 Pest Management Science5.830
179 Energy Efficiency5.825
180 BMC Public Health5.798
181 Translational Behavioral Medicine5.787
182 Frontiers in Zoology5.785
183 Journal of Urban Health-Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine5.773
184 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology5.772
185 ICES Journal of Marine Science5.746
186 Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy5.741
187 Ecosystems5.733
188 Plant and Soil5.712
189 Journal of Economic Geography5.668
190 Disability and Health Journal5.654
191 Ecological Modelling5.650
192 International Journal of Epidemiology5.638
193 Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers5.621
- Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health5.621
195 Water Science and Technology5.564
196 International Journal of Health Geographics5.549
197 Journal of Animal Ecology5.542
198 Mammal Review5.532
199 Journal of Great Lakes Research5.480
200 Epidemiology5.475
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