New: Think Tank Rankings 2026

Environment and Ecology

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)
Rank Journal TQCC
1 Environmental Chemistry Letters58
2 Applied Catalysis B-Environmental48
3 Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews42
4 Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics38
- Nature Sustainability38
6 Annual Review of Public Health35
7 MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report33
8 Annual Review of Marine Science31
9 Sustainable Cities and Society30
- Landscape and Urban Planning30
11 Journal of Cleaner Production29
- Water Research29
- Green Energy & Environment29
- Remote Sensing of Environment29
15 Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions26
- Sustainable Production and Consumption26
- Current Forestry Reports26
18 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing25
- Chemical Engineering Journal25
- Resources Conservation and Recycling25
21 Journal of Hazardous Materials24
- npj Clean Water24
23 Lancet Public Health23
- Global Change Biology23
- Environmental Science & Technology23
- Lancet Planetary Health23
27 Desalination22
- Computers Environment and Urban Systems22
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution22
30 ISME Journal21
- Current Pollution Reports21
- Renewable Energy21
- Environment Development and Sustainability21
34 Environmental Research20
- IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy20
- Nature Ecology & Evolution20
- One Earth20
38 Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews19
- Annual Review of Animal Biosciences19
- Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry19
- Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water19
- Building and Environment19
- Waste Management19
44 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment18
- Accident Analysis and Prevention18
- Process Safety and Environmental Protection18
- Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability18
- Ecosystem Services18
- Field Crops Research18
50 Agricultural Water Management17
- Environmental Health Perspectives17
- Postharvest Biology and Technology17
- Journal of Hydrology17
- ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering17
55 Agronomy for Sustainable Development16
- Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering16
- Green Chemistry16
- Plant Phenomics16
- Progress in Human Geography16
- Current Environmental Health Reports16
- Ecological Informatics16
- Journal of Sustainable Tourism16
- Ecological Economics16
64 International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control15
- Lancet Global Health15
- Landscape Ecology15
- Crop Journal15
- Water Resources and Industry15
- Industrial Crops and Products15
- International Soil and Water Conservation Research15
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology15
- CATENA15
- Urban Forestry & Urban Greening15
- Ecology Letters15
- Energy for Sustainable Development15
- Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews15
- Environmental Technology & Innovation15
- European Journal of Agronomy15
- Applied Geography15
80 International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology14
- Ecological Monographs14
- Environmental Health14
83 International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability13
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health13
- Journal of Water Process Engineering13
- Water Resources Research13
- Hydrology and Earth System Sciences13
- Journal of Transport Geography13
- Sustainable Environment Research13
- International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction13
- GIScience & Remote Sensing13
- Environmental Science & Technology Letters13
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences13
- Microbial Ecology13
- Ocean & Coastal Management13
96 International Journal of Disaster Risk Science12
- Journal of Industrial Ecology12
- Journal of Polymers and the Environment12
- Animal Cognition12
- Global Ecology and Biogeography12
- Globalization and Health12
- Energy Sustainability and Society12
- Sustainability Science12
- Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences12
- Journal of Forestry Research12
- International Journal of Epidemiology12
- International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment12
- JMIR Serious Games12
- Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering12
- Applied Water Science12
- GPS Solutions12
- Water Resources Management12
- Journal of Rural Studies12
- Drones12
- Marine Pollution Bulletin12
116 International Journal of Digital Earth11
- International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology11
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology11
- Biological Conservation11
- Ambio11
- Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control11
- Aquaculture11
- Aquatic Toxicology11
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing11
- Journal of Safety Research11
- Remote Sensing11
- Rice11
- Journal of Ecology11
- Sustainable Development11
- Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society11
- Sustainability11
132 International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health10
- JMIR Public Health and Surveillance10
- Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine10
- BMJ Global Health10
- Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment10
- Cold Regions Science and Technology10
- Conservation Biology10
- Gesunde Pflanzen10
- International Journal for Equity in Health10
- Harmful Algae10
- Fire Ecology10
- Forest Policy and Economics10
- Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space10
- Frontiers in Forests and Global Change10
- Ecological Engineering10
- Methods in Ecology and Evolution10
- Molecular Ecology Resources10
- One Health10
- Palliative Medicine10
- Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology10
- Political Geography10
- Regional Studies10
- ChemSusChem10
- Conflict and Health10
- Current Opinion in Insect Science10
- Functional Ecology10
- Ecological Processes10
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science10
- Health & Place10
- Environmental Modelling & Software10
- European Journal of Epidemiology10
- European Journal of Soil Biology10
- Fish & Shellfish Immunology10
- Forest Ecology and Management10
- Ecological Applications10
- SSM-Population Health10
- Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy10
- Preventing Chronic Disease10
- Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation10
- Reviews on Environmental Health10
172 Journal of Occupational Health9
- Journal of Applied Ecology9
- Journal of Terramechanics9
- Journal of Contaminant Hydrology9
- Biogeosciences9
- Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy9
- Conservation Letters9
- Basic and Applied Ecology9
- Geoforum9
- Ecology9
- IET Renewable Power Generation9
- Forest Ecosystems9
- Drug Safety9
- Ecography9
- Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution9
- Theoretical and Applied Genetics9
- Preventive Medicine9
- Materials Today Sustainability9
- Movement Ecology9
- Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries9
- Social Science & Medicine9
- People and Nature9
- Limnology and Oceanography Letters9
- Journal of Geodesy9
- International Journal of Sediment Research9
- Journal of Water and Climate Change9
- Advances in Water Resources9
- Agriculture-Basel9
- Agronomy-Basel9
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