Environment and Ecology: Journal Rankings

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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Applied Catalysis B-Environmental	54
2	Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews	44
3	Annual Review of Public Health	43
4	Environmental Chemistry Letters	38
5	Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics	36
-	MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report	36
7	Nature Sustainability	32
8	Sustainable Production and Consumption	29
-	Journal of Hazardous Materials	29
10	Resources Conservation and Recycling	27
-	Sustainable Cities and Society	27
12	Chemical Engineering Journal	26
-	Remote Sensing of Environment	26
-	Water Research	26
15	Green Energy & Environment	24
-	ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing	24
-	Journal of Cleaner Production	24
18	Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions	23
-	ISME Journal	23
-	Annual Review of Marine Science	23
21	Landscape and Urban Planning	22
22	Renewable Energy	21
-	Global Change Biology	21
-	Environmental Science & Technology	21
-	IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy	21
-	Lancet Public Health	21
27	Trends in Ecology & Evolution	20
-	Current Environmental Health Reports	20
-	Desalination	20
30	Waste Management	19
-	Lancet Planetary Health	19
-	Ecosystem Services	19
33	Environmental Research	18
-	Computers Environment and Urban Systems	18
35	ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering	17
-	Building and Environment	17
-	Nature Ecology & Evolution	17
-	Environmental Technology & Innovation	17
39	Urban Forestry & Urban Greening	16
-	Accident Analysis and Prevention	16
-	Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability	16
-	International Soil and Water Conservation Research	16
-	Environment Development and Sustainability	16
-	Current Pollution Reports	16
45	Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry	15
-	Postharvest Biology and Technology	15
-	Process Safety and Environmental Protection	15
-	npj Clean Water	15
-	Current Forestry Reports	15
-	Agricultural Water Management	15

-	Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment	15
-	Agronomy for Sustainable Development	15
-	Annual Review of Animal Biosciences	15
-	One Earth	15
-	Ecology Letters	15
-	Water Resources and Industry	15
57	Crop Journal	14
-	Green Chemistry	14
-	Journal of Hydrology	14
-	GIScience & Remote Sensing	14
-	Environmental Science & Technology Letters	14
-	Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews	14
-	Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering	14
-	Field Crops Research	14
65	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	13
-	CATENA	13
-	Economic Geography	13
-	Ecological Monographs	13
-	International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control	13
-	Water Research X	13
-	International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology	13
-	Environmental Health	13
-	Progress in Human Geography	13
-	Ecological Economics	13
-	Ecological Informatics	13
-	Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews	13
-	Hydrology and Earth System Sciences	13
-	European Journal of Epidemiology	13
-	Journal of Rural Studies	13
-	Journal of Sustainable Tourism	13
81	Applied Water Science	12
-	Marine Pollution Bulletin	12
-	Rice	12
-	Sustainability Science	12
-	Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering	12
-	Global Ecology and Biogeography	12
-	Globalization and Health	12
-	Environmental Health Perspectives	12
-	Journal of Transport Geography	12
-	Ocean & Coastal Management	12
-	Journal of Occupational Health Psychology	12
-	Indoor Air	12
-	Industrial Crops and Products	12
94	Molecular Ecology Resources	11
-	One Health	11
-	International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health	11
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water	11
-	BMJ Global Health	11
-	International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment	11
-	Energy for Sustainable Development	11
-	Water Resources Research	11
-	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	11
-	Lancet Global Health	11
104	Methods in Ecology and Evolution	10
-	Ecological Engineering	10
-	Journal of Industrial Ecology	10
-	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health	10
-	Water Resources Management	10
-	Harmful Algae	10
-	Journal of Applied Ecology	10
-	Current Opinion in Insect Science	10
-	Aquaculture	10
-	Biological Conservation	10
-	Ambio	10
-	Annals of Forest Science	10
-	Molecular Ecology	10
-	Ecological Applications	10
-	Journal of Polymers and the Environment	10
-	JMIR Serious Games	10
-	European Journal of Agronomy	10
-	Journal of Water Process Engineering	10
-	Applied Geography	10
-	Landscape Ecology	10
-	Theoretical and Applied Genetics	10
125	Conflict and Health	9
-	Current Epidemiology Reports	9
-	Advances in Water Resources	9
-	ChemSusChem	9
-	Remote Sensing	9
-	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	9
-	Social Science & Medicine	9
-	Palliative Medicine	9
-	Sustainable Environment Research	9
-	Plant Phenomics	9
-	Ecography	9
-	Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space	9
-	International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology	9
-	Energy Sustainability and Society	9
-	Forest Ecosystems	9
-	Forest Policy and Economics	9
-	Sustainable Development	9
-	Aquatic Toxicology	9
-	Basic and Applied Ecology	9
-	Biogeosciences	9
-	Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment	9
-	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control	9
-	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	9
-	Microbial Ecology	9
-	Functional Ecology	9
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	9
-	Health & Place	9
-	Environmental Modelling & Software	9
-	Journal of Health and Social Behavior	9
-	Journal of Clinical Epidemiology	9
-	Journal of Ecology	9
-	Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering	9
-	Fish & Shellfish Immunology	9
-	Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology	9
-	Forest Ecology and Management	9
-	Diversity and Distributions	9
161	Conservation Letters	8
-	American Journal of Preventive Medicine	8
-	Preventive Medicine	8
-	Movement Ecology	8
-	Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries	8
-	Limnology and Oceanography Letters	8
-	Drug Safety	8
-	Geoforum	8
-	Ecology	8
-	International Journal for Equity in Health	8
-	ICES Journal of Marine Science	8
-	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters	8
-	Journal of Safety Research	8
-	Journal of Contaminant Hydrology	8
-	Journal of Epidemiology	8

-	Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine	8
-	Regional Studies	8
-	Cold Regions Science and Technology	8
-	Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation	8
-	Reproductive Health	8
-	Reviews on Environmental Health	8
-	Sustainability	8
-	Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments	8
-	Limnology and Oceanography	8
-	Frontiers in Zoology	8
-	Ecological Processes	8
-	Journal of Infection and Public Health	8
-	Geocarto International	8
-	Waste Management & Research	8
-	GPS Solutions	8
-	Journal of Terramechanics	8
-	Journal of Wood Science	8
-	Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society	8
194	Agriculture-Basel	7
-	Agronomy-Basel	7
-	Neobiota	7
-	Oikos	7
-	People and Nature	7
-	Plant and Soil	7
-	Integrative and Comparative Biology	7

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