New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Environment and Ecology

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. 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 H4-Index
1 Chemical Engineering Journal170
2 Journal of Hazardous Materials146
3 Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews144
4 Applied Catalysis B-Environmental143
5 Journal of Cleaner Production142
6 Environmental Science & Technology121
- Renewable Energy121
8 Sustainability120
9 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing111
- Water Research111
11 Environmental Research110
12 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health101
13 MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report95
- Sustainable Cities and Society95
15 Green Chemistry91
16 Remote Sensing88
- Resources Conservation and Recycling88
18 Nature Sustainability85
- Global Change Biology85
- Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering85
21 Remote Sensing of Environment79
22 Building and Environment78
- Environmental Chemistry Letters78
24 Frontiers in Public Health76
- Sustainable Production and Consumption76
26 Lancet Global Health74
- ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering74
- Process Safety and Environmental Protection74
- Desalination74
30 Water73
- Journal of Hydrology73
32 Journal of Water Process Engineering71
33 Agronomy-Basel70
34 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing69
35 Industrial Crops and Products68
36 BMC Public Health67
- Agriculture-Basel67
38 Lancet Public Health65
- Nature Ecology & Evolution65
40 Lancet Planetary Health64
41 Waste Management62
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing62
43 CATENA59
- Marine Pollution Bulletin59
45 Landscape and Urban Planning58
46 Trends in Ecology & Evolution57
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters57
48 One Earth56
- Sustainable Development56
- Environmental Technology & Innovation56
- IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy56
- Drones56
53 ISME Journal55
- Green Energy & Environment55
55 Agricultural Water Management54
- Ecological Informatics54
57 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment53
58 Aquaculture51
- ChemSusChem51
- Social Science & Medicine51
61 Environmental Health Perspectives49
- Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions49
- Environmental Science & Technology Letters49
64 BMJ Global Health48
- Urban Forestry & Urban Greening48
- International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction48
- Postharvest Biology and Technology48
- Fish & Shellfish Immunology48
- Frontiers in Marine Science48
- Ecological Economics48
71 Ocean & Coastal Management47
- Water Resources Research47
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology47
- Applied Water Science47
- Field Crops Research47
- Ecology Letters47
77 Journal of Rural Studies46
- Forests46
- Accident Analysis and Prevention46
- Environment Development and Sustainability46
81 Natural Hazards44
82 Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments43
- Hydrology and Earth System Sciences43
- Journal of Clinical Epidemiology43
85 Forest Ecology and Management42
86 Biological Conservation41
- Journal of Polymers and the Environment41
- Plant and Soil41
89 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine40
- Journal of Transport Geography40
- Methods in Ecology and Evolution40
92 Crop Journal39
- Global Ecology and Biogeography39
- Digital Health39
- Water Air and Soil Pollution39
- International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation39
- European Journal of Agronomy39
98 Computers Environment and Urban Systems38
- Water Resources Management38
- Ecological Engineering38
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine38
- American Journal of Public Health38
- npj Clean Water38
104 Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment37
- Journal of Global Health37
- Molecular Ecology37
- Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution37
- Annual Review of Public Health37
- International Journal of Epidemiology37
110 Advanced Sustainable Systems36
- Applied Geography36
- International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control36
- ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information36
- Patient Education and Counseling36
- Energy for Sustainable Development36
- Environmental Modelling & Software36
117 Agronomy for Sustainable Development35
- Journal of Sustainable Tourism35
- Aquatic Toxicology35
- Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy35
- Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific35
- Journal of Infection and Public Health35
- Molecular Ecology Resources35
- Ecosystem Services35
- European Journal of Epidemiology35
126 BMC Womens Health34
- Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease34
- Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry34
- International Journal of Digital Earth34
- Ecology34
- Journal of Ecology34
- Sustainability Science34
- Preventive Medicine34
- GIScience & Remote Sensing34
135 Ambio33
- JMIR Public Health and Surveillance33
- Journal of Adolescent Health33
- Pest Management Science33
- Environmental Health33
- Diversity-Basel33
- International Journal for Equity in Health33
- Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability33
- Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences33
- Environmental Earth Sciences33
- Environmental Geochemistry and Health33
- Functional Ecology33
- Geocarto International33
148 Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy32
- Conservation Biology32
- International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology32
- Public Health32
- Materials Today Sustainability32
- American Journal of Epidemiology32
- Plant Phenomics32
- Health & Place32
- Ecology and Evolution32
157 Water Science and Technology31
- Cold Regions Science and Technology31
- Annual Review of Marine Science31
- Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control31
- Journal of Applied Ecology31
- Journal of Industrial Ecology31
- Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment31
- Physics and Chemistry of the Earth31
- Sustainable Materials and Technologies31
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences31
- Ecosphere31
- International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment31
- Regional Studies31
- One Health31
- People and Nature31
- Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk31
173 International Journal of Geographical Information Science30
- Theoretical and Applied Genetics30
- Journal of Contaminant Hydrology30
- Globalization and Health30
- Frontiers in Forests and Global Change30
- Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering30
- Journal of Safety Research30
- Tobacco Control30
- Current Environmental Health Reports30
- Waste Management & Research30
- JMIR Serious Games30
- Journal of Water and Climate Change30
- Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology30
- Health Expectations30
- Ecological Applications30
- Ecological Modelling30
189 Biogeosciences29
- Psychiatric Services29
- IET Renewable Power Generation29
- Forest Policy and Economics29
- Ecography29
- Journal of Hospital Infection29
- International Soil and Water Conservation Research29
- Political Geography29
- GPS Solutions29
198 Journal of Thermal Biology28
- International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health28
- Reproductive Health28
(This list is limited to max. 200 journals; click here to see the full list)
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