New: Think Tank Rankings 2026

Environmental Studies

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 Nature Sustainability36
2 Tourism Management32
3 Landscape and Urban Planning29
4 Sustainable Production and Consumption27
- Resources Policy27
6 Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions25
7 Environmental Impact Assessment Review24
8 Energy Policy22
- Nature Climate Change22
- Computers Environment and Urban Systems22
11 Annual Review of Resource Economics20
12 One Earth19
- Transportation Research Part D-Transport and Environment19
14 Ecosystem Services18
- Business Strategy and the Environment18
- Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change18
17 Energy Research & Social Science17
- Land Use Policy17
- Organization & Environment17
20 Habitat International16
- Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal16
22 Urban Forestry & Urban Greening15
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management15
- Ecological Economics15
25 Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions14
26 Journal of Environmental Psychology13
27 Sustainability11
- Marine Policy11
- Climate Policy11
30 Energy & Environment10
- Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space10
- Utilities Policy10
33 Forest Policy and Economics9
- Resource and Energy Economics9
- Climate Risk Management9
- International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management9
- Journal of Environmental Economics and Management9
- Climate Services9
39 Environmental & Resource Economics8
- Natural Resources Forum8
- Papers in Regional Science8
- Regional Environmental Change8
- Anthropocene Review8
- Ecology and Society8
- Energy Efficiency8
- Land8
- Water Resources and Economics8
48 Environmental Education Research7
- Journal of Housing and the Built Environment7
- Science and Public Policy7
- Urban Studies7
- Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture7
- Natural Hazards Review7
- Regional Science and Urban Economics7
- Climate and Development7
56 Environmental Policy and Governance6
- Environment and Behavior6
- Environment and Planning D-Society & Space6
- Environment and Urbanization6
- Global Environmental Politics6
- International Environmental Agreements-Politics Law and Economics6
- International Journal of the Commons6
- Journal of Environmental Education6
- Open House International6
- Disasters6
- Energy Journal6
- Environmental Politics6
- International Journal of Sustainable Transportation6
- Population and Environment6
70 Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science5
- European Urban and Regional Studies5
- Housing Studies5
- Human Ecology5
- International Regional Science Review5
- Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists5
- Local Environment5
- Review of Environmental Economics and Policy5
- Annals of Regional Science5
- Australasian Journal of Environmental Management5
- Carbon Management5
- Weather Climate and Society5
- Conservation & Society5
- European Planning Studies5
- Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal5
- Housing Theory & Society5
- Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal5
- Journal of Agricultural Education & Extension5
- Journal of Environment & Development5
89 Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions4
- Transnational Environmental Law4
- Environmental Values4
- Environment and Development Economics4
- Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space4
- Environment and Planning E-Nature and Space4
- International Journal of Urban Sciences4
- Journal of Regional Science4
- Society & Natural Resources4
- Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy4
99 International Journal of Housing Policy3
- Land Economics3
- Landscape Research3
- Marine Resource Economics3
- Climate Change Economics3
- Coastal Management3
- Review of European Comparative & International Environmental Law3
- Disaster Prevention and Management3
107 Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law2
- GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society2
- Journal of Environmental Law2
- Urban Policy and Research2
111 Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography1
- Water Economics and Policy1
- Cultural Geographies1
- Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy1
115 Environment0
- Environment and History0
- Environmental Ethics0
- Environmental History0
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