New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Environment and Ecology

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The Journal Impact Factor, or JIF, denotes the average number of citations a paper of a given journal accrues within a two-year timespan, as calculated by Clarivate Analytics' database Web of Science; note that the journal coverage here at OOIR might deviate slightly from Web of Science's. The JIFs that used to have more than one decimal point are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)
Rank Journal Impact Factor 2024
1 Nature Sustainability ca. 27.1
2 Lancet Public Health ca. 25.2
3 Lancet Planetary Health ca. 21.6
4 Applied Catalysis B-Environmental ca. 21.1
5 Annual Review of Public Health ca. 20.7
6 Environmental Chemistry Letters ca. 20.4
7 Annual Review of Marine Science ca. 18.9
8 Lancet Global Health ca. 18
9 Trends in Ecology & Evolution ca. 17.3
- MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ca. 17.3
11 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine ca. 16.4
12 Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews ca. 16.3
13 Nature Ecology & Evolution ca. 14.5
14 Chemical Engineering Journal ca. 13.2
15 Water Research ca. 12.4
16 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ca. 12.2
17 Sustainable Cities and Society ca. 12
- Global Change Biology ca. 12
19 npj Clean Water ca. 11.4
- Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics ca. 11.4
- Remote Sensing of Environment ca. 11.4
22 Environmental Science & Technology ca. 11.3
- Journal of Hazardous Materials ca. 11.3
24 Resources Conservation and Recycling ca. 10.9
25 Journal of Cleaner Production ca. 10
- IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy ca. 10
- ISME Journal ca. 10
28 Desalination ca. 9.8
- Environmental Health Perspectives ca. 9.8
30 American Journal of Public Health ca. 9.6
- Sustainable Production and Consumption ca. 9.6
- Dialogues in Human Geography ca. 9.6
33 Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry ca. 9.4
34 Landscape and Urban Planning ca. 9.2
- Green Chemistry ca. 9.2
- Sustainable Materials and Technologies ca. 9.2
37 Renewable Energy ca. 9.1
- Current Environmental Health Reports ca. 9.1
- Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions ca. 9.1
40 Economic Geography ca. 8.9
41 Environmental Science & Technology Letters ca. 8.8
42 Annual Review of Animal Biosciences ca. 8.7
43 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ca. 8.6
- International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation ca. 8.6
45 Computers Environment and Urban Systems ca. 8.3
46 Sustainable Development ca. 8.2
- Water Research X ca. 8.2
48 Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific ca. 8.1
- Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews ca. 8.1
- Current Pollution Reports ca. 8.1
51 Ecology Letters ca. 7.9
- Materials Today Sustainability ca. 7.9
53 Journal of Sustainable Tourism ca. 7.8
- Process Safety and Environmental Protection ca. 7.8
55 International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology ca. 7.7
- Environmental Research ca. 7.7
57 Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment ca. 7.6
- Building and Environment ca. 7.6
59 Water Resources and Industry ca. 7.5
- Ecological Monographs ca. 7.5
61 Ecological Informatics ca. 7.3
- International Soil and Water Conservation Research ca. 7.3
- ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering ca. 7.3
64 Current Forestry Reports ca. 7.2
65 Waste Management ca. 7.1
- Environmental Technology & Innovation ca. 7.1
67 Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments ca. 7
68 GIScience & Remote Sensing ca. 6.9
69 Postharvest Biology and Technology ca. 6.8
70 Journal of Water Process Engineering ca. 6.7
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development ca. 6.7
- Urban Forestry & Urban Greening ca. 6.7
73 ChemSusChem ca. 6.6
- Ecosystem Services ca. 6.6
75 Agricultural Water Management ca. 6.5
76 Plant Phenomics ca. 6.4
- Journal of Travel Medicine ca. 6.4
- Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering ca. 6.4
- Field Crops Research ca. 6.4
- Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment ca. 6.4
81 Ecological Economics ca. 6.3
- Journal of Hydrology ca. 6.3
- Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability ca. 6.3
- Journal of Transport Geography ca. 6.3
85 Industrial Crops and Products ca. 6.2
- Accident Analysis and Prevention ca. 6.2
- Methods in Ecology and Evolution ca. 6.2
- Cladistics ca. 6.2
89 BMJ Global Health ca. 6.1
- Rice Science ca. 6.1
- Advanced Sustainable Systems ca. 6.1
- Progress in Human Geography ca. 6.1
93 Global Ecology and Biogeography ca. 6
94 Conservation Letters ca. 5.9
- International Journal of Epidemiology ca. 5.9
- European Journal of Epidemiology ca. 5.9
- Environmental Health ca. 5.9
98 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water ca. 5.8
- Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy ca. 5.8
100 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ca. 5.7
- CATENA ca. 5.7
- Journal of Rural Studies ca. 5.7
- Bulletin of the World Health Organization ca. 5.7
- Applied Water Science ca. 5.7
105 International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology ca. 5.6
- Journal of Ecology ca. 5.6
107 Conservation Biology ca. 5.5
- Molecular Ecology Resources ca. 5.5
- European Journal of Agronomy ca. 5.5
- Geo-Spatial Information Science ca. 5.5
111 International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment ca. 5.4
- Journal of Industrial Ecology ca. 5.4
- Ocean & Coastal Management ca. 5.4
- Applied Geography ca. 5.4
115 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing ca. 5.3
- Sustainability Science ca. 5.3
117 International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control ca. 5.2
- Journal of Clinical Epidemiology ca. 5.2
119 Functional Ecology ca. 5.1
- Energy Sustainability and Society ca. 5.1
- Ambio ca. 5.1
- Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews ca. 5.1
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science ca. 5.1
124 Rice ca. 5
- Social Science & Medicine ca. 5
- Water Resources Research ca. 5
- Journal of Hydrology-Regional Studies ca. 5
- Fire Ecology ca. 5
- Journal of Polymers and the Environment ca. 5
- Limnology and Oceanography Letters ca. 5
131 Political Geography ca. 4.9
- Energy for Sustainable Development ca. 4.9
- People and Nature ca. 4.9
- Marine Pollution Bulletin ca. 4.9
- International Journal of Digital Earth ca. 4.9
136 Sustainable Environment Research ca. 4.8
- Journal of Applied Ecology ca. 4.8
- Current Opinion in Insect Science ca. 4.8
- Drones ca. 4.8
- American Journal of Epidemiology ca. 4.8
141 Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society ca. 4.7
- Water Resources Management ca. 4.7
- Tobacco Control ca. 4.7
- Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology ca. 4.7
- Ecography ca. 4.7
- Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease ca. 4.7
- Zoological Research ca. 4.7
148 Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk ca. 4.6
- Journal of Forestry Research ca. 4.6
- Exposure and Health ca. 4.6
- Environmental Modelling & Software ca. 4.6
- Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries ca. 4.6
153 Harmful Algae ca. 4.5
- One Health ca. 4.5
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine ca. 4.5
- International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction ca. 4.5
- Journal of Adolescent Health ca. 4.5
- Globalization and Health ca. 4.5
- Reviews on Environmental Health ca. 4.5
160 Biological Conservation ca. 4.4
- Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control ca. 4.4
- Journal of Contaminant Hydrology ca. 4.4
- International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health ca. 4.4
- Epidemiology ca. 4.4
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters ca. 4.4
- Journal of Safety Research ca. 4.4
167 Ecological Applications ca. 4.3
- Indoor Air ca. 4.3
- Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health ca. 4.3
- Waste Management & Research ca. 4.3
- Geographical Analysis ca. 4.3
- Ecology ca. 4.3
- Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation ca. 4.3
- Aquatic Toxicology ca. 4.3
- Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology ca. 4.3
- Journal of Global Health ca. 4.3
177 Regional Studies ca. 4.2
- Diversity and Distributions ca. 4.2
- Journal of Sustainable Cement-Based Materials ca. 4.2
- Theoretical and Applied Genetics ca. 4.2
- Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment ca. 4.2
- Environment Development and Sustainability ca. 4.2
- Advances in Water Resources ca. 4.2
184 Ecological Engineering ca. 4.1
- Health & Place ca. 4.1
- Journal of Urban Health-Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine ca. 4.1
- Plant and Soil ca. 4.1
- JMIR Serious Games ca. 4.1
- Remote Sensing ca. 4.1
- International Journal for Equity in Health ca. 4.1
- Global Change Biology Bioenergy ca. 4.1
- Physics and Chemistry of the Earth ca. 4.1
- Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences ca. 4.1
194 International Journal of Disaster Risk Science ca. 4
- Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space ca. 4
- Microbial Ecology ca. 4
- Energy Efficiency ca. 4
- Neuroepidemiology ca. 4
- Journal of Infection and Public Health ca. 4
- Journal of Geodesy ca. 4
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