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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Environmental Chemistry Letters43.066
2 Applied Catalysis B-Environmental40.136
3 Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews35.559
4 Annual Review of Public Health35.409
5 MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report32.916
6 Nature Sustainability32.275
7 Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics28.136
8 Lancet Public Health25.834
9 Annual Review of Marine Science25.243
10 Lancet Planetary Health25.206
11 Resources Conservation and Recycling22.772
12 Sustainable Cities and Society22.203
13 Remote Sensing of Environment21.837
14 Water Research21.568
15 Journal of Cleaner Production20.906
16 Sustainable Production and Consumption20.698
17 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing20.302
18 Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions20.193
19 Green Energy & Environment19.739
20 Journal of Hazardous Materials19.681
21 Landscape and Urban Planning19.555
22 Chemical Engineering Journal19.492
23 Renewable Energy19.263
24 Environmental Science & Technology18.459
25 Global Change Biology18.109
26 Trends in Ecology & Evolution17.982
27 Current Environmental Health Reports17.398
28 Current Forestry Reports16.912
29 Desalination16.443
30 Computers Environment and Urban Systems16.414
31 Annual Review of Animal Biosciences15.934
32 Environment Development and Sustainability15.700
33 Environmental Research15.679
34 ISME Journal15.566
35 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine15.473
36 npj Clean Water15.371
37 Lancet Global Health14.963
38 One Earth14.919
39 Water Resources and Industry14.857
40 Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews14.795
41 Nature Ecology & Evolution14.624
42 Ecosystem Services14.508
43 Building and Environment14.367
44 IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy14.358
45 Waste Management14.186
46 Agronomy for Sustainable Development14.185
47 Green Chemistry14.123
48 Ecological Monographs13.952
49 International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology13.637
50 Current Pollution Reports13.476
51 International Soil and Water Conservation Research13.431
52 Environmental Technology & Innovation13.363
53 Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability13.076
54 Process Safety and Environmental Protection12.866
55 Ecology Letters12.808
56 Ecological Economics12.774
57 Progress in Human Geography12.618
58 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment12.589
59 Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry12.522
60 Ecological Informatics12.336
61 Postharvest Biology and Technology12.271
62 Journal of Hydrology12.238
63 ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering12.103
64 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing12.064
65 Environmental Science & Technology Letters12.052
66 Journal of Sustainable Tourism11.938
67 Environmental Health Perspectives11.853
68 Agricultural Water Management11.821
69 Accident Analysis and Prevention11.772
70 International Journal of Epidemiology11.616
71 GIScience & Remote Sensing11.588
72 Field Crops Research11.533
73 Journal of Rural Studies11.481
74 CATENA11.409
75 Applied Water Science11.139
76 Economic Geography11.110
77 Crop Journal11.024
78 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water11.007
79 Urban Forestry & Urban Greening10.931
80 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology10.879
81 Environmental Health10.815
82 Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews10.571
83 Industrial Crops and Products10.523
84 International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control10.513
85 Methods in Ecology and Evolution10.427
86 Global Ecology and Biogeography10.339
87 Sustainable Environment Research10.287
88 Sustainable Development10.279
89 Plant Phenomics10.161
90 Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering10.155
91 Hydrology and Earth System Sciences10.052
92 BMJ Global Health9.957
93 Energy for Sustainable Development9.926
94 Ocean & Coastal Management9.918
95 Marine Pollution Bulletin9.912
96 Journal of Transport Geography9.873
97 Landscape Ecology9.652
98 European Journal of Epidemiology9.448
99 Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering9.405
100 Applied Geography9.376
101 Globalization and Health9.283
102 European Journal of Agronomy9.260
103 Ecological Engineering9.254
104 Water Resources Research9.177
105 Energy Sustainability and Society9.070
106 JMIR Serious Games9.041
107 Journal of Water Process Engineering9.026
108 Journal of Polymers and the Environment8.951
109 Annals of Forest Science8.864
110 Water Research X8.862
111 International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment8.861
112 Ambio8.858
113 Molecular Ecology Resources8.823
114 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health8.775
115 Aquaculture8.767
116 Conservation Letters8.762
117 International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction8.724
118 Sustainability Science8.685
119 Journal of Occupational Health Psychology8.624
120 Microbial Ecology8.615
121 Current Epidemiology Reports8.573
122 Remote Sensing8.566
123 Water Resources Management8.507
124 Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology8.490
125 One Health8.333
126 Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control8.320
127 Social Science & Medicine8.305
128 Drones8.304
129 Sustainability8.293
130 Journal of Forestry Research8.287
131 Journal of Clinical Epidemiology8.263
132 Ecological Applications8.259
133 Ecography8.246
134 Rice8.205
135 Fish & Shellfish Immunology8.199
136 Journal of Infection and Public Health8.190
137 Journal of Safety Research8.189
138 Current Opinion in Insect Science8.162
139 Gesunde Pflanzen8.159
140 Palliative Medicine8.121
141 Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society8.101
142 Harmful Algae8.074
143 Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space8.027
144 Journal of Industrial Ecology8.025
145 International Journal of Disaster Risk Science7.990
- International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology7.990
147 Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences7.981
148 Geocarto International7.942
149 International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health7.902
150 Fire Ecology7.886
- Exposure and Health7.886
152 Environmental Modelling & Software7.874
153 Rice Science7.869
154 Journal of Ecology7.863
155 Biological Conservation7.840
156 Preventive Medicine7.816
157 Reviews on Environmental Health7.813
158 Functional Ecology7.790
159 Aquatic Toxicology7.781
160 ChemSusChem7.778
161 Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences7.725
162 Indoor Air7.633
163 Health & Place7.601
164 Forest Ecosystems7.598
165 Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk7.587
166 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters7.580
167 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology7.547
168 International Journal of Geographical Information Science7.509
169 Conflict and Health7.478
170 Cold Regions Science and Technology7.463
171 Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation7.443
172 Basic and Applied Ecology7.429
173 Journal of Applied Ecology7.424
174 GPS Solutions7.418
175 Journal of Wood Science7.410
176 Drug Safety7.390
177 Waste Management & Research7.385
178 Forest Ecology and Management7.379
179 Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease7.340
180 Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine7.317
181 Molecular Ecology7.281
182 Political Geography7.246
183 International Journal for Equity in Health7.232
184 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing7.222
185 American Journal of Preventive Medicine7.179
186 SSM-Population Health7.171
187 JMIR Public Health and Surveillance7.170
188 Forest Policy and Economics7.145
189 Limnology and Oceanography Letters7.086
190 Advances in Water Resources7.072
191 Regional Studies7.006
192 Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy7.004
193 Cladistics7.000
194 Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment6.972
195 LGBT Health6.960
196 Preventing Chronic Disease6.953
197 Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment6.950
198 People and Nature6.947
199 Theoretical and Applied Genetics6.945
200 Conservation Biology6.904
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