Environment and Ecology: Journal Rankings

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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Chemical Engineering Journal	168
2	Journal of Hazardous Materials	150
3	Applied Catalysis B-Environmental	147
4	Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews	143
5	Journal of Cleaner Production	141
6	Renewable Energy	120
7	Environmental Science & Technology	117
8	Water Research	113
9	MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report	109
10	Environmental Research	104
11	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	102
12	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health	99
13	Resources Conservation and Recycling	90
14	Global Change Biology	82
-	Remote Sensing of Environment	82
16	Building and Environment	73
17	Green Chemistry	72
-	Process Safety and Environmental Protection	72
-	Journal of Hydrology	72
20	Environmental Chemistry Letters	71
21	Desalination	69
22	Industrial Crops and Products	68
23	ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing	65
24	BMC Public Health	64
25	Marine Pollution Bulletin	62
26	Waste Management	58
-	CATENA	58
-	Trends in Ecology & Evolution	58
29	ChemSusChem	57
30	ISME Journal	54
-	Landscape and Urban Planning	54
32	IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy	53
33	Environment Development and Sustainability	52
-	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters	52
-	Agricultural Water Management	52
-	Sustainable Development	52
37	Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions	51
-	Social Science & Medicine	51
39	Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment	50
-	Urban Forestry & Urban Greening	50
-	Ecological Informatics	50
42	Aquaculture	49
43	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing	48
-	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	48
-	Environmental Health Perspectives	48
-	Journal of Clinical Epidemiology	48
-	Ecological Economics	48
-	Methods in Ecology and Evolution	48
49	Accident Analysis and Prevention	47
50	Ecology Letters	46

-	Ocean & Coastal Management	46
52	Fish & Shellfish Immunology	45
-	Water Resources Research	45
54	Field Crops Research	44
-	Postharvest Biology and Technology	44
56	Forests	43
-	Journal of Rural Studies	43
58	American Journal of Public Health	41
59	Environmental Modelling & Software	40
-	Forest Ecology and Management	40
-	Journal of Adolescent Health	40
-	Hydrology and Earth System Sciences	40
-	Natural Hazards	40
64	Global Ecology and Biogeography	39
-	Journal of Transport Geography	39
-	Molecular Ecology	39
-	Journal of Infection and Public Health	39
-	American Journal of Preventive Medicine	39
-	Journal of Polymers and the Environment	39
70	International Journal of Epidemiology	38
-	Preventive Medicine	38
72	Biological Conservation	37
-	Computers Environment and Urban Systems	37
-	International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control	37
75	International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation	36
-	Water Air and Soil Pollution	36
-	Plant and Soil	36
-	Journal of Sustainable Tourism	36
79	Aquatic Toxicology	35
-	Ecological Engineering	35
-	Water Resources Management	35
82	Energy for Sustainable Development	34
-	Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment	34
-	Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability	34
-	Public Health	34
-	Molecular Ecology Resources	34
87	Conservation Biology	33
-	Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment	33
-	Functional Ecology	33
-	Applied Geography	33
-	Pest Management Science	33
-	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	33
-	European Journal of Agronomy	33
-	Journal of Applied Ecology	33
-	GIScience & Remote Sensing	33
-	Journal of Ecology	33
-	Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease	33
-	Patient Education and Counseling	33
99	Ecography	32
-	Sustainability Science	32
-	Environmental Earth Sciences	32
-	American Journal of Epidemiology	32
-	European Journal of Epidemiology	32
-	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	32
-	Journal of Hospital Infection	32
106	Agronomy for Sustainable Development	31
-	Ambio	31
-	Journal of Safety Research	31
-	Theoretical and Applied Genetics	31
-	Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics	31
-	Annual Review of Public Health	31
-	Diversity-Basel	31
-	Ecological Applications	31
-	Tobacco Control	31
-	Water Science and Technology	31
-	Journal of Industrial Ecology	31
117	Environmental Health	30
-	Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy	30
-	International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment	30
-	International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology	30
-	International Journal for Equity in Health	30
-	Geocarto International	30
-	Health & Place	30
-	Regional Studies	30
-	Indoor Air	30
-	Ecology	30
127	Globalization and Health	29
-	Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment	29
-	AIDS and Behavior	29
-	Environmental Geochemistry and Health	29
-	American Journal of Infection Control	29
-	Biogeosciences	29
-	Harmful Algae	29
-	Geoforum	29
-	Waste Management & Research	29
-	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	29
137	Advances in Water Resources	28
-	Cold Regions Science and Technology	28
-	Diversity and Distributions	28
-	Political Geography	28
-	BMC Womens Health	28
-	Limnology and Oceanography	28
-	International Journal of Digital Earth	28
-	Forest Policy and Economics	28
-	Psychiatric Services	28
-	Reproductive Health	28
-	Landscape Ecology	28
148	Journal of Contaminant Hydrology	27
-	Health Expectations	27
-	Quality of Life Research	27
-	Journal of Thermal Biology	27
-	Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health	27
-	Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology	27
-	Environmental Toxicology	27
-	International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health	27
-	Journal of Applied Phycology	27
-	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	27
-	GPS Solutions	27
-	Ecological Modelling	27
-	Journal of Water and Climate Change	27
161	International Journal of Remote Sensing	26
-	Annual Review of Marine Science	26
-	Conservation Letters	26
-	Drug Safety	26
-	Progress in Human Geography	26
-	IET Renewable Power Generation	26
-	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	26
-	Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology	26
-	Statistics in Medicine	26
-	Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space	26
-	Marine Environmental Research	26
172	Bulletin of the World Health Organization	25
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology	25
-	International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education	25
-	Journal of Animal Ecology	25

-	Disability and Health Journal	25
-	Public Health Nutrition	25
-	Microbial Ecology	25
-	ICES Journal of Marine Science	25
-	Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science	25
-	Clinical Epidemiology	25
-	Global Change Biology Bioenergy	25
-	Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews	25
-	Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy	25
-	Hydrological Processes	25
-	Journal of Travel Medicine	25
187	Ecological Monographs	24
-	Preventing Chronic Disease	24
-	Palliative Medicine	24
-	Risk Analysis	24
-	Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention	24
-	Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology	24
-	Evolution	24
-	Restoration Ecology	24
-	Journal of Great Lakes Research	24
196	Cancer Epidemiology	23
-	Epidemiology	23
-	American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene	23
-	Annals of Epidemiology	23
-	Crop Protection	23

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