New: Think Tank Rankings 2026

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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Environmental Chemistry Letters51.658
2 Applied Catalysis B-Environmental35.970
3 Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews34.265
4 Nature Sustainability31.825
5 Annual Review of Marine Science30.684
6 MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report30.529
7 Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics27.316
8 Annual Review of Public Health23.649
9 Sustainable Cities and Society22.880
10 Water Research22.682
11 Journal of Cleaner Production22.545
12 Sustainable Production and Consumption22.267
13 Lancet Public Health21.996
14 Remote Sensing of Environment21.547
15 Green Energy & Environment21.406
16 Landscape and Urban Planning21.079
17 Resources Conservation and Recycling21.073
18 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing20.877
19 npj Clean Water19.406
20 Lancet Planetary Health19.152
21 Global Change Biology18.952
22 Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions18.556
23 Chemical Engineering Journal18.511
24 Journal of Hazardous Materials18.471
25 Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews18.333
26 Computers Environment and Urban Systems18.318
27 Current Forestry Reports18.196
28 Environmental Science & Technology18.195
29 Environment Development and Sustainability17.732
30 Current Pollution Reports16.980
31 Lancet Global Health16.955
32 Trends in Ecology & Evolution16.826
33 Renewable Energy16.665
34 Desalination16.576
35 ISME Journal16.564
36 Nature Ecology & Evolution16.529
37 One Earth16.283
38 Environmental Research15.880
39 Annual Review of Animal Biosciences15.817
40 IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy15.720
41 Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry14.569
42 Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability14.492
43 Current Environmental Health Reports14.416
44 Building and Environment14.347
45 Agronomy for Sustainable Development14.179
46 Ecological Monographs13.587
47 Environmental Health Perspectives13.572
48 Waste Management13.520
49 Process Safety and Environmental Protection13.391
50 Ecosystem Services13.364
51 Accident Analysis and Prevention13.259
52 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment13.167
53 International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology13.137
54 Green Chemistry13.036
55 Ecological Informatics12.933
56 Field Crops Research12.851
57 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water12.787
58 Journal of Sustainable Tourism12.626
59 Environmental Technology & Innovation12.512
60 Journal of Hydrology12.468
61 Water Resources and Industry12.332
62 ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering12.272
63 Ecological Economics12.258
64 Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews12.060
65 Progress in Human Geography12.013
66 Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering11.986
67 Agricultural Water Management11.926
68 Postharvest Biology and Technology11.876
69 Landscape Ecology11.802
70 Ecology Letters11.661
71 Environmental Health11.592
72 Plant Phenomics11.501
73 Urban Forestry & Urban Greening11.436
74 CATENA11.388
75 International Soil and Water Conservation Research11.268
76 GIScience & Remote Sensing11.260
77 Journal of Rural Studies11.256
78 Economic Geography11.198
79 Microbial Ecology11.181
80 International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control11.141
81 Crop Journal11.140
82 Hydrology and Earth System Sciences11.005
83 Environmental Science & Technology Letters10.954
84 Industrial Crops and Products10.899
85 Energy for Sustainable Development10.836
86 Applied Geography10.823
87 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology10.780
88 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health10.558
89 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine10.284
90 Ocean & Coastal Management10.262
91 Journal of Forestry Research10.192
92 Preventing Chronic Disease10.139
93 Journal of Water Process Engineering10.125
94 Journal of Transport Geography10.054
95 Drones10.051
96 International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction9.996
97 Sustainable Development9.994
98 Water Resources Research9.984
99 Journal of Polymers and the Environment9.929
100 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing9.901
101 Applied Water Science9.609
102 Global Ecology and Biogeography9.581
103 Marine Pollution Bulletin9.466
104 Sustainability Science9.342
105 European Journal of Epidemiology9.338
106 International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability9.296
107 Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences9.279
108 Reviews on Environmental Health9.221
109 International Journal of Epidemiology9.170
110 Globalization and Health9.123
111 Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering9.119
- International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment9.119
113 Sustainability9.115
114 Gesunde Pflanzen9.094
115 Remote Sensing9.054
116 JMIR Serious Games9.040
117 Journal of Industrial Ecology9.036
118 Methods in Ecology and Evolution9.034
119 Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology8.857
120 Current Epidemiology Reports8.853
121 Molecular Ecology Resources8.821
122 Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences8.796
123 Journal of Clinical Epidemiology8.704
124 Journal of Evolutionary Biology8.699
125 Fire Ecology8.694
126 International Journal of Digital Earth8.681
127 Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society8.661
128 Energy Sustainability and Society8.603
- Animal Cognition8.603
130 GPS Solutions8.536
- Sustainable Environment Research8.536
132 Political Geography8.507
133 Palliative Medicine8.506
134 Water Resources Management8.470
135 BMJ Global Health8.454
136 Ambio8.376
137 Aquatic Toxicology8.296
138 Biological Conservation8.293
139 Environmental Modelling & Software8.284
140 Journal of Safety Research8.271
141 Cladistics8.243
142 International Journal of Disaster Risk Science8.191
143 International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology8.163
144 Journal of Ecology8.094
145 Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control8.080
146 Rice8.066
147 International Journal for Equity in Health8.026
148 Ecological Engineering7.985
149 International Journal of Geographical Information Science7.984
150 Functional Ecology7.976
151 Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space7.971
152 Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy7.967
153 Current Opinion in Insect Science7.940
154 JMIR Public Health and Surveillance7.912
155 Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine7.902
156 Agriculture-Basel7.899
157 International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health7.891
158 Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease7.886
159 Health & Place7.881
160 Waste Management & Research7.844
161 Agronomy-Basel7.799
162 Materials Today Sustainability7.791
163 Ecography7.762
164 Aquaculture7.749
165 ChemSusChem7.744
166 Journal of Infection and Public Health7.743
167 Journal of Global Health7.729
168 Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk7.587
169 Forest Policy and Economics7.521
170 Ecological Applications7.450
171 Journal of Occupational Health Psychology7.432
172 One Health7.421
173 Conflict and Health7.414
174 Rice Science7.395
175 Geocarto International7.380
176 Journal of Water and Climate Change7.317
177 Conservation Biology7.312
178 People and Nature7.279
179 Cold Regions Science and Technology7.275
180 Fish & Shellfish Immunology7.266
181 American Journal of Preventive Medicine7.265
182 Frontiers in Forests and Global Change7.255
183 Limnology and Oceanography Letters7.215
184 Ecological Processes7.187
185 Physics and Chemistry of the Earth7.167
186 Forest Ecology and Management7.165
187 Molecular Ecology7.142
188 Annals of Global Health7.140
189 Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy7.132
190 Journal of Geodesy7.126
191 Journal of Applied Ecology7.116
- Ecology7.116
193 Exposure and Health7.108
194 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology7.093
195 Harmful Algae7.083
196 Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment7.076
197 Geo-Spatial Information Science7.039
198 Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments7.022
199 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing6.983
200 Translational Behavioral Medicine6.972
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