New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)
Rank Journal TQCC
1 Nature Sustainability35
2 Tourism Management32
3 Sustainable Production and Consumption27
4 Landscape and Urban Planning26
5 Energy Policy24
6 Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions23
- Resources Policy23
- Business Strategy and the Environment23
9 Nature Climate Change21
- Environmental Impact Assessment Review21
11 Computers Environment and Urban Systems20
12 Ecosystem Services19
13 Annual Review of Resource Economics18
- Transportation Research Part D-Transport and Environment18
- Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change18
16 Energy Research & Social Science17
- Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions17
- Land Use Policy17
19 One Earth16
- Urban Forestry & Urban Greening16
21 Organization & Environment15
22 Habitat International14
- Journal of Environmental Psychology14
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management14
- Ecological Economics14
26 Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal12
27 Climate Policy11
- Journal of Environmental Economics and Management11
- Marine Policy11
30 Utilities Policy10
- Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space10
- Forest Policy and Economics10
- International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management10
- Review of Environmental Economics and Policy10
35 Regional Environmental Change9
- Resource and Energy Economics9
- Sustainability9
38 Regional Studies8
- Regional Science and Urban Economics8
- Carbon Management8
- Climate Risk Management8
- Energy & Environment8
43 Journal of Environmental Education7
- Climate and Development7
- Climate Services7
- Energy Efficiency7
- International Journal of Sustainable Transportation7
- Land7
- Urban Studies7
- Environmental Education Research7
- Environmental & Resource Economics7
- Environment and Behavior7
53 European Planning Studies6
- International Environmental Agreements-Politics Law and Economics6
- Local Environment6
- Papers in Regional Science6
- Water Resources and Economics6
- Energy Journal6
- Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture6
- Environmental Politics6
- European Urban and Regional Studies6
- Global Environmental Politics6
- Natural Hazards Review6
- Science and Public Policy6
- Anthropocene Review6
- Disasters6
- Ecology and Society6
- Environmental Policy and Governance6
- Environment and Planning D-Society & Space6
70 Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal5
- International Regional Science Review5
- Journal of Housing and the Built Environment5
- Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy5
- Environment and Planning E-Nature and Space5
- Housing Studies5
- Journal of Agricultural Education & Extension5
- Journal of Regional Science5
- Population and Environment5
79 Housing Theory & Society4
- International Journal of the Commons4
- Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists4
- Marine Resource Economics4
- Natural Resources Forum4
- Open House International4
- Society & Natural Resources4
- Disaster Prevention and Management4
- Environmental Values4
- Environment and Development Economics4
- Environment and Urbanization4
- Human Ecology4
- Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal4
- Journal of Environment & Development4
- Annals of Regional Science4
- Transnational Environmental Law4
- Climate Change Economics4
- Weather Climate and Society4
- Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions4
- Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science4
99 International Journal of Housing Policy3
- Land Economics3
- Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space3
- International Journal of Urban Sciences3
- Journal of Environmental Law3
- Australasian Journal of Environmental Management3
- Coastal Management3
- Conservation & Society3
107 GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society2
- Human Ecology Review2
- Landscape Research2
- Review of European Comparative & International Environmental Law2
- Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy2
- Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography2
113 Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law1
- Urban Policy and Research1
- Environmental History1
- Water Economics and Policy1
- Cultural Geographies1
- Environment1
119 Environmental Ethics0
- Environment and History0
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