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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Environmental Chemistry Letters52.722
2 Applied Catalysis B-Environmental35.930
3 Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews34.904
4 Nature Sustainability32.280
5 Annual Review of Marine Science31.418
6 MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report30.766
7 Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics28.000
8 Annual Review of Public Health25.360
9 Sustainable Cities and Society22.971
10 Lancet Public Health22.780
11 Journal of Cleaner Production22.724
12 Water Research22.514
13 Remote Sensing of Environment21.905
14 Green Energy & Environment21.876
15 Landscape and Urban Planning21.505
16 Sustainable Production and Consumption21.501
17 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing21.033
18 Resources Conservation and Recycling20.885
19 Lancet Planetary Health19.090
20 npj Clean Water18.995
21 Global Change Biology18.919
22 Chemical Engineering Journal18.779
23 Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions18.588
24 Environment Development and Sustainability18.530
25 Environmental Science & Technology18.377
26 Journal of Hazardous Materials18.354
27 Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews18.238
28 Computers Environment and Urban Systems18.176
29 Current Forestry Reports17.781
30 Lancet Global Health17.443
31 Current Pollution Reports17.119
32 Trends in Ecology & Evolution17.114
33 Desalination16.929
34 Renewable Energy16.894
35 Annual Review of Animal Biosciences16.524
36 One Earth16.471
37 ISME Journal16.446
38 Nature Ecology & Evolution16.380
39 Environmental Research15.960
40 Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability14.773
41 Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry14.763
42 IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy14.742
43 Ecological Monographs14.371
44 Building and Environment14.357
45 Environmental Health Perspectives13.869
46 Current Environmental Health Reports13.763
47 Agronomy for Sustainable Development13.687
48 Waste Management13.617
49 Process Safety and Environmental Protection13.536
50 International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology13.483
51 Green Chemistry13.474
- Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water13.474
53 Ecosystem Services13.404
54 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment13.372
55 Accident Analysis and Prevention13.341
56 Journal of Sustainable Tourism13.012
57 Environmental Technology & Innovation12.952
58 Water Resources and Industry12.881
59 Field Crops Research12.723
60 Progress in Human Geography12.694
61 International Soil and Water Conservation Research12.509
62 Ecological Informatics12.501
63 Ecological Economics12.496
64 Journal of Hydrology12.421
65 ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering12.335
66 Plant Phenomics12.232
67 Landscape Ecology12.225
68 Postharvest Biology and Technology12.176
69 Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering12.084
70 Ecology Letters11.897
71 Agricultural Water Management11.742
72 Environmental Health11.661
73 Urban Forestry & Urban Greening11.485
74 CATENA11.464
75 Crop Journal11.341
76 Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews11.267
77 Applied Geography11.109
78 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology11.079
79 International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control11.035
80 Microbial Ecology11.029
81 Industrial Crops and Products11.020
82 European Journal of Agronomy11.005
83 GIScience & Remote Sensing10.930
84 Hydrology and Earth System Sciences10.841
85 Environmental Science & Technology Letters10.818
86 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine10.694
87 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health10.585
88 Energy for Sustainable Development10.494
89 Journal of Forestry Research10.454
90 Journal of Transport Geography10.424
91 Journal of Water Process Engineering10.421
92 Preventing Chronic Disease10.377
93 Ocean & Coastal Management10.361
94 Drones10.209
95 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing10.175
96 International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction10.060
97 Sustainable Development10.045
98 Water Resources Research10.018
99 Journal of Polymers and the Environment9.987
100 Applied Water Science9.840
101 International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability9.828
102 Journal of Rural Studies9.722
103 Global Ecology and Biogeography9.651
104 Marine Pollution Bulletin9.544
105 Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences9.524
106 International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment9.505
107 Reviews on Environmental Health9.396
108 Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering9.395
109 Sustainability Science9.373
110 European Journal of Epidemiology9.348
111 Gesunde Pflanzen9.306
112 Globalization and Health9.239
113 Economic Geography9.200
114 Sustainability9.162
115 Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology9.131
116 Journal of Evolutionary Biology9.059
117 Energy Sustainability and Society9.030
118 International Journal of Digital Earth9.021
119 Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences9.013
120 Remote Sensing9.012
121 Animal Cognition8.914
122 Methods in Ecology and Evolution8.912
- Journal of Clinical Epidemiology8.912
124 JMIR Serious Games8.871
125 Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society8.850
126 Palliative Medicine8.827
127 Journal of Industrial Ecology8.803
128 GPS Solutions8.743
129 Journal of Safety Research8.736
130 International Journal of Epidemiology8.683
131 Molecular Ecology Resources8.665
132 BMJ Global Health8.619
133 Ambio8.602
134 Biological Conservation8.587
135 Fire Ecology8.582
136 Political Geography8.564
137 International Journal of Disaster Risk Science8.537
138 Regional Studies8.518
139 Water Resources Management8.507
140 Current Epidemiology Reports8.495
141 Environmental Modelling & Software8.466
142 Sustainable Environment Research8.446
143 Aquatic Toxicology8.384
144 International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology8.378
145 International Journal for Equity in Health8.222
146 International Journal of Geographical Information Science8.199
147 Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control8.193
148 Journal of Ecology8.168
149 Cladistics8.089
- Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space8.089
151 Current Opinion in Insect Science8.079
152 Drug Safety8.072
153 Rice8.071
154 Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease8.062
155 JMIR Public Health and Surveillance8.040
156 Materials Today Sustainability8.039
157 Ecography8.008
158 Agriculture-Basel7.999
159 Functional Ecology7.990
160 Aquaculture7.983
161 Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine7.981
162 Ecological Engineering7.977
163 Agronomy-Basel7.948
164 Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy7.909
165 Waste Management & Research7.880
166 Journal of Infection and Public Health7.864
167 Conflict and Health7.812
168 One Health7.800
169 Health & Place7.718
170 ChemSusChem7.687
171 Forest Policy and Economics7.673
172 Journal of Global Health7.644
173 Rice Science7.516
174 Journal of Occupational Health Psychology7.491
175 Ecological Applications7.481
176 Physics and Chemistry of the Earth7.474
177 Journal of Water and Climate Change7.461
178 Conservation Biology7.383
179 Cold Regions Science and Technology7.351
- Journal of Contaminant Hydrology7.351
181 Fish & Shellfish Immunology7.324
182 Ecological Processes7.319
183 Forest Ecology and Management7.306
184 Geocarto International7.286
185 Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy7.285
186 International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health7.279
187 Limnology and Oceanography Letters7.272
188 Frontiers in Forests and Global Change7.258
189 SSM-Population Health7.251
190 People and Nature7.250
191 Journal of Geodesy7.236
192 Clinical Epidemiology7.180
193 Annals of Global Health7.172
194 Translational Behavioral Medicine7.161
195 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing7.152
196 Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk7.128
197 Harmful Algae7.091
198 American Journal of Preventive Medicine7.089
199 Journal of Terramechanics7.058
200 Molecular Ecology7.057
(This list is limited to max. 200 journals; click here to see the full list)
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