New: Think Tank Rankings 2026

Environment and Ecology

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)
Rank Journal TQCC
1 Environmental Chemistry Letters56
2 Applied Catalysis B-Environmental48
3 Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews42
4 Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics37
5 Nature Sustainability36
6 MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report34
7 Annual Review of Public Health33
8 Sustainable Cities and Society30
9 Journal of Cleaner Production29
- Water Research29
- Landscape and Urban Planning29
12 Green Energy & Environment28
- Remote Sensing of Environment28
14 Annual Review of Marine Science27
- Current Forestry Reports27
- Sustainable Production and Consumption27
17 Resources Conservation and Recycling26
18 Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions25
- Chemical Engineering Journal25
- ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing25
21 Journal of Hazardous Materials24
- npj Clean Water24
23 Environmental Science & Technology23
- Global Change Biology23
25 Desalination22
- Lancet Public Health22
- Lancet Planetary Health22
- Computers Environment and Urban Systems22
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution22
30 Current Pollution Reports21
- IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy21
- Environment Development and Sustainability21
- ISME Journal21
- Nature Ecology & Evolution21
35 Renewable Energy20
- Environmental Research20
37 Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry19
- Building and Environment19
- Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews19
- Waste Management19
- One Earth19
42 Field Crops Research18
- Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water18
- Accident Analysis and Prevention18
- Process Safety and Environmental Protection18
- Annual Review of Animal Biosciences18
- Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability18
- Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment18
- Ecosystem Services18
50 ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering17
- Environmental Health Perspectives17
- Postharvest Biology and Technology17
- Agricultural Water Management17
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development17
- Journal of Hydrology17
56 Current Environmental Health Reports16
- Ecological Informatics16
- Green Chemistry16
- Progress in Human Geography16
- Journal of Sustainable Tourism16
61 Crop Journal15
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology15
- Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews15
- Environmental Health15
- Landscape Ecology15
- Water Resources and Industry15
- Plant Phenomics15
- CATENA15
- Ecological Economics15
- Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering15
- Ecology Letters15
- Energy for Sustainable Development15
- Environmental Technology & Innovation15
- International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control15
- Applied Geography15
- Urban Forestry & Urban Greening15
77 GIScience & Remote Sensing14
- Lancet Global Health14
- International Soil and Water Conservation Research14
- Industrial Crops and Products14
- International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology14
- Journal of Rural Studies14
83 International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction13
- Journal of Industrial Ecology13
- Water Resources Research13
- Environmental Science & Technology Letters13
- International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability13
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health13
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences13
- Microbial Ecology13
- Ocean & Coastal Management13
- Sustainable Environment Research13
93 Applied Water Science12
- Ecological Monographs12
- GPS Solutions12
- Energy Sustainability and Society12
- Journal of Polymers and the Environment12
- JMIR Serious Games12
- Journal of Water Process Engineering12
- International Journal of Epidemiology12
- International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment12
- Journal of Transport Geography12
- Animal Cognition12
- Global Ecology and Biogeography12
- Globalization and Health12
- Hydrology and Earth System Sciences12
- Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering12
- International Journal of Disaster Risk Science12
- Marine Pollution Bulletin12
- Sustainability Science12
111 Drones11
- Functional Ecology11
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology11
- Sustainable Development11
- Methods in Ecology and Evolution11
- Remote Sensing11
- Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences11
- Sustainability11
- Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control11
- Aquaculture11
- Aquatic Toxicology11
- Biological Conservation11
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing11
- Gesunde Pflanzen11
- Journal of Ecology11
- Journal of Forestry Research11
- International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology11
- Water Resources Management11
- Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society11
- Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation11
- Rice11
132 Conservation Biology10
- ChemSusChem10
- European Journal of Epidemiology10
- European Journal of Soil Biology10
- Fish & Shellfish Immunology10
- Ecological Engineering10
- Health & Place10
- Journal of Wood Science10
- Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine10
- International Journal for Equity in Health10
- Journal of Safety Research10
- Political Geography10
- Economic Geography10
- Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space10
- Molecular Ecology Resources10
- One Health10
- Palliative Medicine10
- Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy10
- Cold Regions Science and Technology10
- Current Opinion in Insect Science10
- BMJ Global Health10
- Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment10
- Ambio10
- Fire Ecology10
- Frontiers in Forests and Global Change10
- Ecological Applications10
- Ecological Processes10
- Harmful Algae10
- Environmental Modelling & Software10
- JMIR Public Health and Surveillance10
- Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology10
- International Journal of Digital Earth10
- International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health10
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science10
- Reviews on Environmental Health10
- Preventing Chronic Disease10
168 Conservation Letters9
- Current Epidemiology Reports9
- Advances in Water Resources9
- Agriculture-Basel9
- Agronomy-Basel9
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine9
- Forest Ecology and Management9
- Ecography9
- Frontiers in Marine Science9
- Ecology9
- Geocarto International9
- Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk9
- Journal of Terramechanics9
- International Journal of Sediment Research9
- Geoforum9
- Materials Today Sustainability9
- Movement Ecology9
- Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries9
- SSM-Population Health9
- People and Nature9
- Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment9
- Preventive Medicine9
- Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy9
- Conflict and Health9
- Basic and Applied Ecology9
- Biogeosciences9
- IET Renewable Power Generation9
- Forest Ecosystems9
- Forest Policy and Economics9
- Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution9
- Journal of Applied Ecology9
- Journal of Water and Climate Change9
- Limnology and Oceanography Letters9
(This list is limited to max. 200 journals; click here to see the full list)
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