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 Median citations
1 Environmental Chemistry Letters25
2 Applied Catalysis B-Environmental22
3 Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews18
4 Annual Review of Marine Science14
- Current Forestry Reports14
- Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics14
- Journal of Cleaner Production14
8 Water Research13
- Sustainable Cities and Society13
- Sustainable Production and Consumption13
- Annual Review of Public Health13
12 Green Energy & Environment12
- Landscape and Urban Planning12
- Remote Sensing of Environment12
15 Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions11
- Resources Conservation and Recycling11
- npj Clean Water11
- MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report11
19 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing10
- Chemical Engineering Journal10
- Desalination10
- Journal of Hazardous Materials10
23 Renewable Energy9
- Environmental Research9
- Environment Development and Sustainability9
- Global Change Biology9
- Computers Environment and Urban Systems9
- Current Pollution Reports9
- Environmental Science & Technology9
30 Accident Analysis and Prevention8
- Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment8
- ISME Journal8
- Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering8
- Ecosystem Services8
- Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability8
- Nature Sustainability8
- Waste Management8
- Building and Environment8
- Field Crops Research8
- Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews8
- Landscape Ecology8
- Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry8
43 Plant Phenomics7
- Postharvest Biology and Technology7
- Process Safety and Environmental Protection7
- Journal of Forestry Research7
- Journal of Hydrology7
- Agricultural Water Management7
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development7
- Ecological Economics7
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences7
- Microbial Ecology7
- ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering7
- IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy7
- Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews7
56 Water Resources Research6
- Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water6
- Progress in Human Geography6
- Environmental Technology & Innovation6
- Hydrology and Earth System Sciences6
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health6
- Industrial Crops and Products6
- International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control6
- International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology6
- CATENA6
- Animal Cognition6
- Ecological Informatics6
- Energy for Sustainable Development6
- Current Environmental Health Reports6
- Applied Geography6
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution6
- Urban Forestry & Urban Greening6
- Journal of Sustainable Tourism6
- One Earth6
- Sustainable Environment Research6
- International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction6
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology6
- Journal of Polymers and the Environment6
- GIScience & Remote Sensing6
- Journal of Water Process Engineering6
- Crop Journal6
- Environmental Health6
83 Journal of Transport Geography5
- Remote Sensing5
- Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences5
- Sustainability5
- Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy5
- International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability5
- International Journal of Disaster Risk Science5
- Ecological Processes5
- Annual Review of Animal Biosciences5
- Ecology Letters5
- Gesunde Pflanzen5
- Aquaculture5
- Aquatic Toxicology5
- Green Chemistry5
- Lancet Planetary Health5
- Journal of Rural Studies5
- Preventing Chronic Disease5
- Marine Pollution Bulletin5
- Ocean & Coastal Management5
- Sustainability Science5
- Environmental Health Perspectives5
- International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment5
- Journal of Occupational Health5
- JMIR Serious Games5
- Drones5
- Applied Water Science5
- GPS Solutions5
- Energy Sustainability and Society5
- Lancet Public Health5
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology5
113 Translational Behavioral Medicine4
- Water Resources and Industry4
- International Journal for Equity in Health4
- Journal of Safety Research4
- Preventive Medicine4
- Materials Today Sustainability4
- Methods in Ecology and Evolution4
- Palliative Medicine4
- SSM-Population Health4
- Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment4
- Current Opinion in Insect Science4
- Environmental Modelling & Software4
- Environmental Science & Technology Letters4
- Biogeosciences4
- Journal of Hydroinformatics4
- Biological Conservation4
- Biology Letters4
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing4
- International Journal of Digital Earth4
- BMJ Global Health4
- International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health4
- International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology4
- Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment4
- Forest Ecosystems4
- Forest Policy and Economics4
- JMIR Public Health and Surveillance4
- American Naturalist4
- Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution4
- Frontiers in Forests and Global Change4
- Ecological Applications4
- Journal of Applied Ecology4
- Cold Regions Science and Technology4
- Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control4
- Journal of Water and Climate Change4
- Global Ecology and Biogeography4
- Journal of Ecology4
- Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering4
- Globalization and Health4
- Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering4
- Environmental Earth Sciences4
- Harmful Algae4
- Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology4
- Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society4
- Water Resources and Economics4
- Water Resources Management4
- Water Science and Technology4
- Health Systems & Reform4
- Theoretical and Applied Genetics4
- Molecular Ecology4
- Nature Ecology & Evolution4
- Rice4
- Health & Place4
- LGBT Health4
- Hydrology Research4
- Journal of Industrial Ecology4
- International Journal of Epidemiology4
- European Journal of Soil Biology4
- Agriculture-Basel4
- Agronomy-Basel4
- International Soil and Water Conservation Research4
- Fish & Shellfish Immunology4
- Forest Ecology and Management4
- Ecography4
- ChemSusChem4
- Frontiers in Marine Science4
- Ecological Engineering4
- Functional Ecology4
- Fungal Ecology4
- Ecology4
- Geocarto International4
- Global Health-Science and Practice4
- Journal of Wood Science4
- Lancet Global Health4
- Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine4
187 Papers in Regional Science3
- Political Geography3
- Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space3
- Geoforum3
- Waste Management & Research3
- Water Supply3
- Wood Science and Technology3
- Molecular Breeding3
- Molecular Ecology Resources3
- Movement Ecology3
- Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries3
- Neobiota3
- Safety and Health at Work3
- Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health3
(This list is limited to max. 200 journals; click here to see the full list)
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