Top Peer Reviewed Journals – Environmental & Ecology

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Environmental & Ecology

The subject discipline for Environmental & Ecology is made of 9 narrow subject categories from the Web of Science. The 9 categories that make up Environmental & Ecology are:

1. Agriculture, Soil Science 6. Environmental Studies 2. Biodiversity Conservation 7. Geography, Physical 3. Ecology 8. Limnology 4. Engineering, Environmental 9. Water Resources 5. Environmental Sciences

The chart below provides an ordered view of the top peer reviewed journals within the 1st quartile for Environmental & Ecology based on Impact Factors (IF), three year averages and their quartile ranking.

Journal 2009 IF 2010 IF 2011 IF Average IF ECOLOGY LETTERS 10.31 15.25 17.55 14.37 TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 11.56 14.44 15.74 13.91 ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY 8.19 10.69 14.37 11.08 EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY 8.48 9.53 10.22 9.41 Energy & Environmental Science 8.5 9.48 9.61 9.20 FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE 6.92 8.82 9.11 8.28 ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 6.19 6.08 7.03 6.43 PERSPECTIVES GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 5.56 6.34 6.86 6.25 ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS 4.86 5.93 7.43 6.07 MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 5.96 6.45 5.52 5.98 GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY 5.91 5.27 5.14 5.44 ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY 4.9 5.53 5.84 5.42 CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL 7.09 4 4.84 5.31 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY 4.84 4.59 6.01 5.15 REVIEWS

Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5.09 5.09

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE- 3.34 4.91 6.86 5.04 HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 4.69 5.26 5.04 5.00

ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 4.78 4.69 5.29 4.92 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & 4.63 4.82 5.22 4.89 TECHNOLOGY ECOLOGY 4.41 5.07 4.84 4.77 CONSERVATION BIOLOGY 4.66 4.89 4.69 4.75 AMERICAN NATURALIST 4.79 4.73 4.72 4.75 JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY 4.19 4.97 5.04 4.73 ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT 3.65 3.73 6.41 4.60 AND RESOURCES WATER RESEARCH 4.35 4.54 4.86 4.58 FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY 4.54 4.64 4.56 4.58 DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS 4.22 4.24 4.83 4.43 JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART C-ENVIRONMENTAL 3.22 4.84 5.16 4.41 CARCINOGENESIS & ECOTOXICOLOGY REVIEWS Conservation Letters 4.69 4.08 4.39 ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 3.67 4.27 5.1 4.35 ECOGRAPHY 4.38 4.41 4.18 4.32 JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY 4.08 4.27 4.54 4.30 International Journal of Greenhouse Gas 3.64 4.08 5.11 4.28 Control Advances in Ecological Research 3.07 5.33 4.20 PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY 4.68 4.48 3.2 4.12 EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS BioEnergy Research 4.01 3.56 3.79 BIOMASS & BIOENERGY 3.32 3.84 3.64 3.60 BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 3.16 3.49 4.11 3.59 ECOSYSTEMS 3.58 3.67 3.49 3.58 Biogeosciences 3.24 3.58 3.85 3.56 ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION 3.42 3.39 3.74 3.52 Cryosphere 3.64 3.27 3.46 ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 3.23 3.5 3.39 3.37 OECOLOGIA 3.12 3.51 3.41 3.35 Environmental Research Letters 3.34 3.04 3.63 3.34

ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY 3.31 3.31

ECOTOXICOLOGY 3.5 3.05 3.28 SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY 2.97 3.24 3.5 3.24 CHEMOSPHERE 3.25 3.15 3.2 3.20 OIKOS 3.14 3.39 3.06 3.20 EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY 3.19 3.19

LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY 3.29 3.2 3.06 3.18

Environmental Microbiology Reports 3.07 3.23 3.15 SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2.9 3.19 3.28 3.12 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYGIENE 2.64 2.88 3.8 3.11 AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH International Journal of Environmental Science 3.15 3.05 3.10 and Technology Molecular Ecology Resources 3.06 3.06 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY 3.02 3.02 MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 3.25 2.87 2.91 3.01 Global Change Biology Bioenergy 2.41 3.61 3.01 Regional Environmental Change 3 3.00 AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & 3.13 2.79 3 2.97 ENVIRONMENT Journal of Exposure Science and 2.71 3.13 2.93 2.92 Environmental Epidemiology ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING 2.74 3.1 2.92 ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS 3.1 2.96 2.69 2.92 ANIMAL CONSERVATION 2.9 2.93 2.92 JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL 2.59 3.24 2.92 MANAGEMENT Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate 2.91 2.91 Change BIOGEOCHEMISTRY 2.77 2.67 3.06 2.83 Aerosol and Air Quality Research 2.82 2.82 ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND 2.56 3.02 2.8 2.79 CHEMISTRY ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND 2.87 2.65 2.76 POLLUTION RESEARCH

WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH 2.44 2.73 2.95 2.71

JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY 2.67 2.67 PLANT AND SOIL 2.51 2.77 2.73 2.67 MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2.63 2.63 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT 2.59 2.59 REVIEW MARINE ECOLOGY-PROGRESS SERIES 2.51 2.48 2.71 2.57 JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY 2.48 2.65 2.57 BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY 2.42 2.66 2.54 Environmental Health 2.48 2.45 2.64 2.52 ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS 2.52 2.52 AMBIO 2.48 2.48 JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY 2.44 2.44

Year – 2009

Journal Impact Factor Ranking TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 11.56 1/254 ECOLOGY LETTERS 10.31 2/254 Energy & Environmental Science 8.5 3/254 SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY 8.48 4/254 ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND 8.19 5/254 SYSTEMATICS CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND 7.09 6/254 TECHNOLOGY FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 6.92 7/254 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES 6.19 8/254 MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 5.96 9/254 GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY 5.91 10/254 GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 5.56 11/254 ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY 4.9 12/254 ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS 4.86 13/254 RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS 4.84 14/254 AMERICAN NATURALIST 4.79 15/254 ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 4.78 16/254 JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 4.69 17/254 PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND 4.68 18/254 SYSTEMATICS CONSERVATION BIOLOGY 4.66 19/254 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 4.63 20/254 FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY 4.54 21/254 ECOLOGY 4.41 22/254 ECOGRAPHY 4.38 23/254 WATER RESEARCH 4.35 24/254 DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS 4.22 25/254 JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY 4.19 26/254 JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY 4.08 27/254 ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 3.67 28/254 ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES 3.65 29/254 International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 3.64 30/254 ECOSYSTEMS 3.58 31/254 ECOTOXICOLOGY 3.5 32/254 ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION 3.42 33/254 GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND 3.34 34/254 POLICY DIMENSIONS Environmental Research Letters 3.34 34/254 BIOMASS & BIOENERGY 3.32 36/254 LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY 3.29 37/254 MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 3.25 38/254 CHEMOSPHERE 3.25 38/254 Biogeosciences 3.24 40/254 ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 3.23 41/254 JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART C-ENVIRONMENTAL CARCINOGENESIS & 3.22 42/254 ECOTOXICOLOGY REVIEWS EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY 3.19 43/254 BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 3.16 44/254 OIKOS 3.14 45/254 AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT 3.13 46/254 OECOLOGIA 3.12 47/254 ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS 3.1 48/254 SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY 2.97 49/254 SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2.9 50/254 BIOGEOCHEMISTRY 2.77 51/254 ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING 2.74 52/254 Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology 2.71 53/254 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYGIENE AND 2.64 54/254 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2.63 55/254 ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY 2.56 56/254 ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS 2.52 57/254 MARINE ECOLOGY-PROGRESS SERIES 2.51 58/254 PLANT AND SOIL 2.51 58/254 AMBIO 2.48 60/254 Environmental Health 2.48 60/254 WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH 2.44 62/254 BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY 2.42 63/254

Year – 2010

Journal Impact Factor Ranking ECOLOGY LETTERS 15.25 1/285 TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 14.44 2/285 Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics 10.69 3/285 SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY 9.53 4/285 Energy & Environmental Science 9.48 5/285 FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 8.82 6/285 MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 6.45 7/285 GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 6.34 8/285 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES 6.08 9/285 ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS 5.93 10/285 ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY 5.53 11/285 GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY 5.27 12/285 JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 5.26 13/285 ECOLOGY 5.07 14/285 JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY 4.97 15/285 GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND 4.91 16/285 POLICY DIMENSIONS CONSERVATION BIOLOGY 4.89 17/285 JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART C-ENVIRONMENTAL CARCINOGENESIS & 4.84 18/285 ECOTOXICOLOGY REVIEWS ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 4.82 19/285 AMERICAN NATURALIST 4.73 20/285 Conservation Letters 4.69 21/285 ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 4.69 21/285 FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY 4.64 23/285 RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS 4.59 24/285 WATER RESEARCH 4.54 25/285 PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND 4.48 26/285 SYSTEMATICS ECOGRAPHY 4.41 27/285 ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 4.27 28/285 JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY 4.27 28/285 DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS 4.24 30/285 International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 4.08 31/285 BioEnergy Research 4.01 32/285 CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND 4 33/285 TECHNOLOGY BIOMASS & BIOENERGY 3.84 34/285 Annual Review of Environment and Resources 3.73 35/285 ECOSYSTEMS 3.67 36/285 Cryosphere 3.64 37/285 Biogeosciences 3.58 38/285 OECOLOGIA 3.51 39/285 ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 3.5 40/285 BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 3.49 41/285 ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION 3.39 42/285 OIKOS 3.39 42/285 ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY 3.31 44/285 SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY 3.24 45/285 LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY 3.2 46/285 SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 3.19 47/285 CHEMOSPHERE 3.15 48/285 International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 3.15 48/285 Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology 3.13 50/285 Environmental Microbiology Reports 3.07 51/285 Advances in Ecological Research 3.07 51/285 ECOTOXICOLOGY 3.05 53/285 Environmental Research Letters 3.04 54/285 ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY 3.02 55/285 ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS 2.96 56/285 ANIMAL CONSERVATION 2.9 57/285 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYGIENE AND 2.88 58/285 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH 2.87 59/285 MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2.87 59/285 AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT 2.79 61/285 PLANT AND SOIL 2.77 62/285 WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH 2.73 63/285 BIOGEOCHEMISTRY 2.67 64/285 JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY 2.67 64/285 JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2.59 66/285 MARINE ECOLOGY-PROGRESS SERIES 2.48 67/285 JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY 2.48 67/285 Environmental Health 2.45 69/285 JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY 2.44 70/285 Global Change Biology Bioenergy 2.41 71/285

Year – 2011

Journal Impact Factor Ranking ECOLOGY LETTERS 17.55 1/306 TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 15.74 2/306 Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics 14.37 3/306 SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY 10.22 4/306 Energy & Environmental Science 9.61 5/306 FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 9.11 6/306 ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS 7.43 7/306 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES 7.03 8/306 GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND 6.86 9/306 POLICY DIMENSIONS GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 6.86 9/306 Annual Review of Environment and Resources 6.41 11/306 RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS 6.01 12/306 ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY 5.84 13/306 MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 5.52 14/306 Advances in Ecological Research 5.33 15/306 ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 5.29 16/306 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 5.22 17/306 JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART C-ENVIRONMENTAL CARCINOGENESIS & 5.16 18/306 ECOTOXICOLOGY REVIEWS GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY 5.14 19/306 International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 5.11 20/306 ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 5.1 21/306 Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5.09 22/306 JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 5.04 23/306 JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY 5.04 23/306 WATER RESEARCH 4.86 25/306 CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND 4.84 26/306 TECHNOLOGY ECOLOGY 4.84 26/306 DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS 4.83 28/306 AMERICAN NATURALIST 4.72 29/306 CONSERVATION BIOLOGY 4.69 30/306 FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY 4.56 31/306 JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY 4.54 32/306 ECOGRAPHY 4.18 33/306 BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 4.11 34/306 Conservation Letters 4.08 35/306 Biogeosciences 3.85 36/306 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYGIENE AND 3.8 37/306 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION 3.74 38/306 BIOMASS & BIOENERGY 3.64 39/306 Environmental Research Letters 3.63 40/306 Global Change Biology Bioenergy 3.61 41/306 BioEnergy Research 3.56 42/306 SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY 3.5 43/306 ECOSYSTEMS 3.49 44/306 OECOLOGIA 3.41 45/306 ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 3.39 46/306 SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 3.28 47/306 Cryosphere 3.27 48/306 JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 3.24 49/306 Environmental Microbiology Reports 3.23 50/306 CHEMOSPHERE 3.2 51/306 PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND 3.2 51/306 SYSTEMATICS ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING 3.1 53/306 BIOGEOCHEMISTRY 3.06 54/306 OIKOS 3.06 54/306 LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY 3.06 54/306 Molecular Ecology Resources 3.06 54/306 International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 3.05 58/306 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY 3.02 59/306 AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT 3 60/306 Regional Environmental Change 3 60/306 WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH 2.95 62/306 ANIMAL CONSERVATION 2.93 63/306 Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology 2.93 63/306 MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2.91 65/306 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change 2.91 65/306 Aerosol and Air Quality Research 2.82 67/306 ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY 2.8 68/306 PLANT AND SOIL 2.73 69/306 MARINE ECOLOGY-PROGRESS SERIES 2.71 70/306 ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS 2.69 71/306 BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY 2.66 72/306 JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY 2.65 73/306 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH 2.65 73/306 Environmental Health 2.64 75/306 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW 2.59 76/306