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Environment and Ecology

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 Chemical Engineering Journal168
2 Journal of Hazardous Materials150
3 Applied Catalysis B-Environmental147
4 Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews143
5 Journal of Cleaner Production141
6 Renewable Energy120
7 Environmental Science & Technology117
8 Water Research113
9 MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report109
10 Environmental Research104
11 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing102
12 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health99
13 Resources Conservation and Recycling90
14 Remote Sensing of Environment82
- Global Change Biology82
16 Building and Environment73
17 Process Safety and Environmental Protection72
- Journal of Hydrology72
- Green Chemistry72
20 Environmental Chemistry Letters71
21 Desalination69
22 Industrial Crops and Products68
23 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing65
24 BMC Public Health64
25 Marine Pollution Bulletin62
26 Waste Management58
- CATENA58
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution58
29 ChemSusChem57
30 Landscape and Urban Planning54
- ISME Journal54
32 IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy53
33 Sustainable Development52
- Agricultural Water Management52
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters52
- Environment Development and Sustainability52
37 Social Science & Medicine51
- Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions51
39 Urban Forestry & Urban Greening50
- Ecological Informatics50
- Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment50
42 Aquaculture49
43 Ecological Economics48
- Journal of Clinical Epidemiology48
- Methods in Ecology and Evolution48
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology48
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing48
- Environmental Health Perspectives48
49 Accident Analysis and Prevention47
50 Ecology Letters46
- Ocean & Coastal Management46
52 Water Resources Research45
- Fish & Shellfish Immunology45
54 Postharvest Biology and Technology44
- Field Crops Research44
56 Journal of Rural Studies43
- Forests43
58 American Journal of Public Health41
59 Environmental Modelling & Software40
- Forest Ecology and Management40
- Journal of Adolescent Health40
- Hydrology and Earth System Sciences40
- Natural Hazards40
64 Molecular Ecology39
- Journal of Infection and Public Health39
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine39
- Journal of Polymers and the Environment39
- Journal of Transport Geography39
- Global Ecology and Biogeography39
70 Preventive Medicine38
- International Journal of Epidemiology38
72 Computers Environment and Urban Systems37
- International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control37
- Biological Conservation37
75 Water Air and Soil Pollution36
- Plant and Soil36
- Journal of Sustainable Tourism36
- International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation36
79 Water Resources Management35
- Ecological Engineering35
- Aquatic Toxicology35
82 Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability34
- Public Health34
- Molecular Ecology Resources34
- Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment34
- Energy for Sustainable Development34
87 Applied Geography33
- Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences33
- Pest Management Science33
- European Journal of Agronomy33
- Journal of Applied Ecology33
- GIScience & Remote Sensing33
- Journal of Ecology33
- Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease33
- Patient Education and Counseling33
- Conservation Biology33
- Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment33
- Functional Ecology33
99 Sustainability Science32
- American Journal of Epidemiology32
- Environmental Earth Sciences32
- European Journal of Epidemiology32
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences32
- Ecography32
- Journal of Hospital Infection32
106 Theoretical and Applied Genetics31
- Ecological Applications31
- Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics31
- Annual Review of Public Health31
- Diversity-Basel31
- Tobacco Control31
- Water Science and Technology31
- Journal of Industrial Ecology31
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development31
- Ambio31
- Journal of Safety Research31
117 Indoor Air30
- Ecology30
- International Journal for Equity in Health30
- Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy30
- Regional Studies30
- Environmental Health30
- International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment30
- International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology30
- Geocarto International30
- Health & Place30
127 Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment29
- AIDS and Behavior29
- Biogeosciences29
- American Journal of Infection Control29
- Environmental Geochemistry and Health29
- Harmful Algae29
- Geoforum29
- Waste Management & Research29
- Physics and Chemistry of the Earth29
- Globalization and Health29
137 BMC Womens Health28
- Limnology and Oceanography28
- International Journal of Digital Earth28
- Forest Policy and Economics28
- Psychiatric Services28
- Reproductive Health28
- Advances in Water Resources28
- Cold Regions Science and Technology28
- Landscape Ecology28
- Political Geography28
- Diversity and Distributions28
148 Quality of Life Research27
- Ecological Modelling27
- Journal of Thermal Biology27
- Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health27
- Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology27
- Environmental Toxicology27
- International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health27
- Journal of Applied Phycology27
- Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk27
- GPS Solutions27
- Journal of Water and Climate Change27
- Journal of Contaminant Hydrology27
- Health Expectations27
161 International Journal of Geographical Information Science26
- IET Renewable Power Generation26
- Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology26
- Statistics in Medicine26
- Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space26
- Marine Environmental Research26
- Annual Review of Marine Science26
- Conservation Letters26
- Progress in Human Geography26
- Drug Safety26
- International Journal of Remote Sensing26
172 Public Health Nutrition25
- Microbial Ecology25
- Clinical Epidemiology25
- Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy25
- ICES Journal of Marine Science25
- Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science25
- Global Change Biology Bioenergy25
- Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews25
- Hydrological Processes25
- Bulletin of the World Health Organization25
- International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education25
- Journal of Travel Medicine25
- Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology25
- Disability and Health Journal25
- Journal of Animal Ecology25
187 Preventing Chronic Disease24
- Risk Analysis24
- Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention24
- Palliative Medicine24
- Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology24
- Evolution24
- Restoration Ecology24
- Journal of Great Lakes Research24
- Ecological Monographs24
196 Rice23
- Basic and Applied Ecology23
- Biological Invasions23
- Agronomy Journal23
- Health & Social Care in the Community23
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