New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Applied Catalysis B-Environmental39.603
2 Environmental Chemistry Letters39.106
3 Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews35.128
4 MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report34.122
5 Annual Review of Public Health28.955
6 Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics27.667
7 Annual Review of Marine Science23.510
8 Journal of Hazardous Materials22.367
9 Remote Sensing of Environment21.927
10 Resources Conservation and Recycling21.548
11 Water Research21.372
12 Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions20.629
13 Journal of Cleaner Production20.474
14 Chemical Engineering Journal20.278
15 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing20.045
16 Landscape and Urban Planning18.590
17 Renewable Energy18.189
18 Trends in Ecology & Evolution18.095
19 Global Change Biology18.069
20 Environmental Science & Technology17.752
21 ISME Journal16.617
22 Desalination15.630
23 IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy15.408
24 Computers Environment and Urban Systems15.254
25 Environmental Research15.165
26 Environment Development and Sustainability14.567
27 Building and Environment13.927
28 International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology13.889
29 Waste Management13.802
30 Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews13.486
31 Agronomy for Sustainable Development13.445
32 Ecological Monographs12.968
33 Green Chemistry12.772
34 Ecology Letters12.598
35 Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability12.564
36 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment12.416
37 Accident Analysis and Prevention12.367
38 Process Safety and Environmental Protection12.358
39 Ecological Economics12.279
40 Journal of Hydrology12.189
41 Urban Forestry & Urban Greening12.183
42 Journal of Sustainable Tourism12.015
43 GIScience & Remote Sensing11.616
44 Agricultural Water Management11.559
- Postharvest Biology and Technology11.559
46 Ecological Informatics11.390
47 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing11.366
48 Progress in Human Geography11.246
49 Journal of Rural Studies11.244
50 Methods in Ecology and Evolution11.221
51 CATENA10.972
52 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology10.666
53 Industrial Crops and Products10.642
54 Field Crops Research10.594
55 International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control10.573
56 Global Ecology and Biogeography10.507
57 Environmental Health Perspectives10.481
58 Sustainable Development10.434
59 Ocean & Coastal Management10.244
60 Environmental Health10.170
61 European Journal of Epidemiology10.089
62 Hydrology and Earth System Sciences9.953
63 Economic Geography9.869
64 Marine Pollution Bulletin9.828
65 Conservation Letters9.535
66 Journal of Transport Geography9.334
67 Energy for Sustainable Development9.221
68 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health9.177
69 Molecular Ecology Resources9.168
70 Ecological Applications9.158
71 Globalization and Health9.155
72 Journal of Health and Social Behavior9.147
73 Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews9.094
74 Landscape Ecology9.010
75 Water Resources Research8.874
76 Indoor Air8.813
77 Global Change Biology Bioenergy8.746
78 Journal of Industrial Ecology8.732
79 International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment8.719
80 Journal of Clinical Epidemiology8.633
81 Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society8.608
82 Ambio8.593
83 European Journal of Agronomy8.585
84 Ecography8.583
85 Environmental Modelling & Software8.553
86 Applied Geography8.533
87 Social Science & Medicine8.518
88 International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health8.398
89 Sustainability Science8.383
90 Journal of Occupational Health Psychology8.341
91 Journal of Infection and Public Health8.296
92 Harmful Algae8.243
93 Ecological Engineering8.206
94 Rice8.162
95 Preventive Medicine8.157
96 Journal of Polymers and the Environment8.151
97 Aquaculture8.072
98 Water Resources Management8.023
99 Fish & Shellfish Immunology7.975
100 Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology7.947
101 ChemSusChem7.929
102 Biological Conservation7.906
103 Functional Ecology7.893
104 Molecular Ecology7.882
105 Journal of Applied Ecology7.834
106 Journal of Ecology7.783
107 Aquatic Toxicology7.695
108 Waste Management & Research7.682
109 Health & Place7.677
110 Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space7.619
111 Microbial Ecology7.617
112 Annals of Forest Science7.602
113 Journal of Safety Research7.570
114 Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences7.533
115 Forest Ecology and Management7.498
116 Geocarto International7.482
117 Palliative Medicine7.399
118 Advances in Water Resources7.397
119 Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences7.383
120 Forest Policy and Economics7.309
121 Neobiota7.258
122 American Journal of Preventive Medicine7.227
123 Drug Safety7.194
- Rice Science7.194
125 Theoretical and Applied Genetics7.123
126 Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment7.115
127 Clinical Epidemiology7.099
128 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology7.090
129 Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease7.073
130 Regional Studies7.065
131 Cold Regions Science and Technology7.059
132 Gesunde Pflanzen7.040
133 Journal of Travel Medicine7.008
134 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters6.982
135 International Journal of Geographical Information Science6.966
136 Reviews on Environmental Health6.964
137 Cladistics6.955
138 Journal of Forestry Research6.946
139 International Journal for Equity in Health6.929
140 Basic and Applied Ecology6.919
141 Geo-Spatial Information Science6.903
142 Journal of Wood Science6.883
143 Physics and Chemistry of the Earth6.872
144 Fire Ecology6.867
145 Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine6.846
146 GPS Solutions6.832
147 Reproductive Health6.802
148 Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries6.753
149 Geoforum6.707
150 Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk6.663
151 Conflict and Health6.643
152 Heredity6.625
153 Biogeosciences6.617
154 Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment6.541
155 Diversity and Distributions6.537
156 Political Geography6.474
157 Ecology6.406
158 Preventing Chronic Disease6.381
159 Conservation Biology6.365
160 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing6.310
161 Journal of Epidemiology6.295
162 International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation6.294
163 Ecological Complexity6.208
164 Tobacco Control6.185
165 International Journal of Sediment Research6.135
166 International Journal of Digital Earth6.120
167 Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment6.050
168 Journal of Terramechanics6.047
169 Energy Efficiency6.043
- Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology6.043
171 International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education6.028
172 Natural Hazards6.018
173 Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health5.959
174 Environmental Toxicology5.954
175 Pest Management Science5.939
176 AIDS Patient Care and Stds5.919
177 Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers5.908
178 Journal of Urban Health-Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine5.905
179 BMC Public Health5.891
180 International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability5.889
181 Journal of Evolutionary Biology5.873
182 Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health5.791
183 Ecological Modelling5.784
184 Mammal Review5.783
185 Ecosystems5.770
186 Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences5.769
187 Disability and Health Journal5.762
188 Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy5.738
189 Journal of Economic Geography5.718
190 Plant and Soil5.715
191 Journal of Geodesy5.658
192 Frontiers in Zoology5.653
193 International Journal of Health Geographics5.647
194 Translational Behavioral Medicine5.637
195 International Journal of Epidemiology5.634
196 ICES Journal of Marine Science5.623
197 Water Science and Technology5.583
198 Journal of Thermal Biology5.554
199 Journal of Invertebrate Pathology5.547
200 Journal of Water and Climate Change5.546
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