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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Environmental Chemistry Letters46.569
2 Applied Catalysis B-Environmental38.031
3 Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews34.417
4 Annual Review of Public Health34.008
5 MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report33.403
6 Nature Sustainability30.158
7 Annual Review of Marine Science27.739
8 Lancet Public Health26.219
9 Resources Conservation and Recycling22.342
10 Sustainable Production and Consumption22.097
11 Sustainable Cities and Society21.986
12 Lancet Planetary Health21.595
13 Journal of Cleaner Production21.590
14 Remote Sensing of Environment21.362
15 Water Research21.154
16 Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics20.935
17 Journal of Hazardous Materials20.505
18 Green Energy & Environment20.498
19 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing20.463
20 Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions19.661
21 Landscape and Urban Planning19.534
22 Chemical Engineering Journal19.191
23 Environmental Science & Technology18.275
24 Global Change Biology18.250
25 Trends in Ecology & Evolution17.697
26 Renewable Energy17.441
27 Current Environmental Health Reports17.061
28 Environment Development and Sustainability16.906
29 npj Clean Water16.773
30 Desalination16.269
31 Computers Environment and Urban Systems16.268
32 ISME Journal15.981
33 Environmental Research15.895
34 Current Forestry Reports15.862
35 Annual Review of Animal Biosciences15.832
36 Lancet Global Health15.641
37 One Earth15.562
38 Nature Ecology & Evolution15.361
39 IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy15.324
40 Agronomy for Sustainable Development15.026
41 Current Pollution Reports14.957
42 Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews14.855
43 Green Chemistry14.802
44 Building and Environment14.241
45 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine14.210
46 International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology14.035
47 Waste Management13.950
48 Ecosystem Services13.831
49 Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability13.515
50 Process Safety and Environmental Protection13.174
51 Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry13.113
52 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment12.914
53 Progress in Human Geography12.822
54 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing12.596
55 Environmental Health Perspectives12.524
56 Ecological Economics12.473
57 Agricultural Water Management12.384
58 International Soil and Water Conservation Research12.354
59 Environmental Technology & Innovation12.340
60 Journal of Sustainable Tourism12.328
61 Ecology Letters12.287
62 Accident Analysis and Prevention12.232
63 Field Crops Research12.217
64 ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering12.068
65 Environmental Science & Technology Letters12.031
66 Water Resources and Industry11.932
67 Economic Geography11.833
68 Ecological Monographs11.804
69 GIScience & Remote Sensing11.656
70 Postharvest Biology and Technology11.594
71 Ecological Informatics11.517
72 Environmental Health11.456
73 Journal of Hydrology11.386
74 Crop Journal11.210
75 Journal of Rural Studies11.090
76 International Journal of Epidemiology11.062
77 CATENA10.991
78 Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews10.969
79 Applied Water Science10.920
80 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology10.852
81 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water10.849
82 Urban Forestry & Urban Greening10.829
83 International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control10.669
84 Global Ecology and Biogeography10.525
85 Sustainable Environment Research10.484
86 Plant Phenomics10.432
87 Industrial Crops and Products10.390
88 Sustainable Development10.313
89 Hydrology and Earth System Sciences10.188
90 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health10.187
91 Landscape Ecology10.182
92 European Journal of Epidemiology10.102
93 Journal of Transport Geography10.008
94 Energy for Sustainable Development9.994
95 Methods in Ecology and Evolution9.971
96 European Journal of Agronomy9.854
97 Globalization and Health9.623
98 Journal of Polymers and the Environment9.611
99 Ocean & Coastal Management9.555
100 Applied Geography9.494
101 Marine Pollution Bulletin9.458
102 Microbial Ecology9.446
103 Current Epidemiology Reports9.412
104 Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering9.405
105 BMJ Global Health9.372
106 Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering9.364
107 Energy Sustainability and Society9.332
108 Journal of Water Process Engineering9.306
109 Water Resources Research9.304
110 Annals of Forest Science9.292
111 Sustainability Science9.217
112 Journal of Forestry Research9.215
113 International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment9.211
114 Drones9.076
115 JMIR Serious Games9.070
116 Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology9.049
117 International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction9.014
118 Water Resources Management8.982
119 Gesunde Pflanzen8.868
120 Remote Sensing8.796
121 Molecular Ecology Resources8.776
122 Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control8.661
123 Ambio8.617
124 Ecological Engineering8.594
125 Sustainability8.556
126 Journal of Industrial Ecology8.543
127 Aquaculture8.475
- Journal of Occupational Health Psychology8.475
129 Reviews on Environmental Health8.461
130 Social Science & Medicine8.458
131 Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences8.407
132 International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health8.372
133 Journal of Safety Research8.346
134 Exposure and Health8.279
135 Journal of Clinical Epidemiology8.264
136 Palliative Medicine8.256
137 Rice Science8.253
138 Fire Ecology8.252
139 Ecological Applications8.192
140 Rice8.191
141 Journal of Wood Science8.185
142 Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences8.151
143 Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space8.141
144 Journal of Ecology8.135
145 Current Opinion in Insect Science8.088
146 Conservation Letters8.064
147 International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology8.005
148 Functional Ecology7.994
149 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters7.927
150 International Journal of Geographical Information Science7.900
151 Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society7.891
152 International Journal of Disaster Risk Science7.884
153 ChemSusChem7.835
154 Geocarto International7.828
155 Waste Management & Research7.819
156 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing7.795
157 Preventing Chronic Disease7.778
158 Health & Place7.752
159 Drug Safety7.745
160 Environmental Modelling & Software7.680
161 Aquatic Toxicology7.671
162 Fish & Shellfish Immunology7.667
163 Political Geography7.649
164 Ecography7.600
165 Biological Conservation7.593
166 Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk7.586
167 GPS Solutions7.528
168 Regional Studies7.520
169 Indoor Air7.490
170 Forest Ecosystems7.449
171 Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease7.404
172 Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine7.395
173 Harmful Algae7.372
174 Forest Ecology and Management7.371
175 Molecular Ecology7.355
176 International Journal of Digital Earth7.334
177 Journal of Evolutionary Biology7.330
178 Journal of Infection and Public Health7.328
179 Limnology and Oceanography Letters7.305
180 Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy7.296
181 LGBT Health7.276
182 Cladistics7.249
183 Ecological Processes7.244
184 International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability7.231
185 Journal of Applied Ecology7.219
186 Conflict and Health7.199
187 Agriculture-Basel7.187
188 Heredity7.183
189 Preventive Medicine7.162
190 Agronomy-Basel7.159
191 Forest Policy and Economics7.155
192 International Journal for Equity in Health7.111
193 Theoretical and Applied Genetics7.102
194 JMIR Public Health and Surveillance7.077
195 American Journal of Preventive Medicine7.064
196 Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment7.050
197 Conservation Biology7.046
198 Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation7.034
199 People and Nature7.025
200 Cold Regions Science and Technology7.021
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